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Speech Debate

  • Controversial Issues Resources

    SIRS Issues Researcher

    Contains information on current events and controversial issues.  Ask a library staff member for the login & password. 

     ProCon.org

    A professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy. 

     Allsides.com

    If you want to see all sides of an issue - left, right & center - Allsides provides you with links to articles from all perspectives and alerts you to their bias.  Includes links to articles in a vareity of popular newspapers, websites, etc.

    General Information Databases

    eLibrary 

     General database with a large variety of topics.  Includes newspaper & magazine articles, articles from scholarly journals, exepts from books and more. 

    Proquest 

     Proquest has links to a variety of databases, including literature, business, health & medicine, science & technology and newspapers.

    To log in from home, click on the link above.  When the "Find Your Library" box appears, click on More Access Options.  In the Proquest Account section, use the district login and password provided by the library staff or your teacher.