Profitt Philosophy 100: MLA Format and Choosing a Topic

Assignment Requirements:

• Choose topic from approved list. 
• MLA Format
  • Times New Roman
  • 12 Point Font
  • 1 inch margins and double spacing
  • Give Credit to sources in the text of the paper (Parenthetical or in-text).
• 4-6 Pages of text
• The Paper will be graded on content (what you have to say worth saying), clarity, (how well you say what you have to say), and  construction (rules of standard English grammar and syntax...spelling, sentence construction, paragraph construction, format, etc)

For this assignment, students are to choose one of the following topics:

• Does God exist?

• What’s the meaning of life?

• Why do innocent people suffer?

• Is everything a matter of opinion?

• Are all people really equal, and if so, in what sense?

• What is the best form of government?

• Is it better to try to make the majority happy at the expense of a few or make a few happy at the expense of many?

• How are minds connected to bodies?

• Is there one standard of right and wrong for everyone, or are moral standards relative?

• Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?

• Does might make right?

• Is objectivity possible? Desirable?