TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

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1. Make a list of some of your beliefs and opinions concerning the recent World War, and try in each case to trace the origin of each belief or opinion.

2. Toward which political party are you inclined? To what extent is this inclination due to

(a) the influence of your parents;

(b) what you have read in the newspapers;

3. Make a list of the opinions which you originally acquired in your home, and which have since been modified by what you have studied in school.

4. To what extent are your personal standards of conduct traceable to what you have seen at the theatre?

5. List the private organizations in your community which exist for the purpose of advocating reforms of various kinds.

6. Make a study of the forms of propaganda utilized in a single copy of any metropolitan newspaper.

7. To what extent does your local press give both sides of debatable questions?