Counterintuitive Spring 2023

1. Psychological impact.
2. Importance of psychological aspect in athletes.
3. Psychological handicaps in athletes and their negative repercussions.
4. Anxiety in athletes will tear down their confidence.
5. Anxiety can destroy an athlete’s ability to perform at their peak level.
6. The psychological aspect in sports is just as prevalent as physical; stress and anxiety can tear down an athlete’s psyche and destroy their performance.

1.CBD is better a better option to treat pain rather than prescription medications

2. Why CBD has many benefits for treating pain and mental health.

3. Why athletes are switching to CBD products instead of pain medications to improve their health.

4. Different types of CBD products to help treat pain.

5. CBD products can save people more money rather than buying medications.

6. CBD is reducing drug cravings and can save more people from overdose.

1. Abortion
2. Decreasing abortion rates
3. Reducing unsafe abortions would decrease abortion rates
4. Teaching about safe sex would reduce abortions
5. Making abortion legal would decrease abortion rates
6. Legalizing abortion and educating people on abortion would reduce the deaths of infants and their mothers
7. Working Hypothesis- Preventing unwanted pregnancies would require more access to contraceptives and more safe sexual education which will result in less abortions.

1. underage drinking
2. Minimum drinking ages aren’t effective
3. Minimum drinking ages don’t stop underage drinking
4. Teens find ways to drink underage
5. Teens still find ways to drink underage even with the minimum drinking age.
6. All minimum drinking ages do is make it more difficult for teens to drink, it does not completely discourage them.

1. The government handles societal problems poorly.
2. Government intervention can be detrimental to civilian safety.
3. Government interventions risk public safety and often lie on the cusp of the law.
4. When the government intervenes with societal issues they use unethical and, at times, illegal tactics.
5. the governments solutions to violent crimes and societal problems are ethically unjust and often preformed on an illegal bases.
6. The governments solution to societal issues are unethical and at times illegal, from the FBI’s irresponsible negligence on the Stoneman Douglas school shooting incident to the AFT’s gun walking scandal and many others.

1. Puppetry achievements
2. Communication achieved through puppetry 
3. The effect that puppetry has on an audience to communicate intense themes
4. Puppets act as reflections on human life and therefore cause humans to sympathize and/or connect with them, which allows intense or difficult themes to be communicated
5. Humans discover life and truth through puppets in a way that no other art form offers
6. Allowing humans to observe life challenges through the lens of puppets would offer more sympathy, understanding, and rationality their into hearts and minds

1. Money and school
2. Money being taught in school
3. Financial literacy should be taught to every student in America
4. Financial literacy should be an essential core subject to all students in America
5. Financial literacy should be included in school curriculum so students can avoid money mistake early
6. By including financial literacy into our normal school curriculum, we can help students develop good money habits at a young age and prevent many of the mistakes that lead to a lifetime of financial difficulties.

1.) Climate change in American Regions

2.) Climate change in the midwest

3.) Climate change in Iowa

4.) Climate change affecting farmers in Iowa

5.) Climate change affecting winter in Iowa

6.) How the dropping temperatures in winter in Iowa have been affected by climate change

1. Environment
2. Negative impacts to the environment.
3. Pollution is a leading cause to the negative impacts of the environment.
4. A healthy vegetarian can damage the environment.
5. The choice to convert to a vegetarian diet can negatively impact the environment because mass production of popular healthy foods, contributing overall pollution.
6. The choice to convert to a vegetarian diet negatively impact the environment because of the mass production of popular healthy foods as a result of pollution, contributing to the death of millions.

1. Spotted lanternfly eggs should return to China permanently before future generations are born.
2.  Spotted Lanternflies must be prevented from coming into contact with firewood, hardwood, or grapes by restricting the shipping trade in China and letting their traders check out for any lanternflies.
3. The Lanternflies’ eggs and larvae must be taken out from the firewood or any hatching area it has propagated onto and sent to a separated province where no lanternfly is near the docks or any wood. 
4. Only through the actions of the local citizens must prevent lanternflies’ population of lanternflies from spreading in their country by either elimination of the species from other countries or by taking them off through the trading examination. 
5. Government officials should enact a trading policy to check any invasive species such as the spotted Lanternfly from spreading over the world and creating an imbalance to the ecosystem.
6. The destruction of the spotted lanternfly would help with the aid of the policy for invasive species to not only kill them, but send them off to labs where the species can be studied under federal supervision.