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A very good topic would be to write about the laws governing landlord and tenants. These vary from state to state and some of them are really surprising. I found this a while ago: In Texas it is actually legal for the landlord to come into a tenants apartment and take belongings if the tenant owes him money. This law however does restrict what may be taken!!!

It is very common for landlord to require an application form be filled out if you wan to rent their apartment. Even if you come with money in hand, the lawyers for the landlord will support this application process.

Landlords can evict tenants whenever the feel like it. Most states require some sort of notice that this is going to happen, but it can be as short as a few days, with a moth-to-month tenancy. Even with a lease agreement the landlord can choose to terminate it and even if it goes to full term of the lease there is no obligation of the landlord to renew the lease of the present tenant. There are provisions that protect the tenant in these laws but most of the tenants do not know about it or can they afford to have someone defend their legal rights.

There are all kind of conditions that the landlord can impose. One such condition is the prohibition of pets in an apartment. Pets promote health as well as stimulate communication skills and intellectual development in children. It is ironic that laws against animal cruelty exist, but the prohibition of a pet by the landlord is condoned by law even if the pet is already owned by the tenant.

Laws also vary as to what appliances need to be provided in an apartment, as well as how big it needs to be to be legal.

The whim of the landlord is what governs here in this area of law. This can and does play havoc with the ability of the tenant to participate in public issues, and stifles the democratic process for many tenants.

It is not uncommon for landlord to work with the employer of a tenant he doesn't like to cut the hours of work so he can evict the tenant for not paying all the rent. There needs to be new laws made to prevent this type of contrived inability to pay rent.

The landlord according to many state laws may also charge a security deposit and a last-months rent deposit to be paid in addition to the first month rent before the tenant can move in. These added charges limit the availabilty of the apartment to those who can come up with an amount 3 times the amount of the monthlyy rent. There needs to be new banking laws and regulations to provide loans for tenants to pay the required security deposit and the last months rent to the landlord.

There needs also to be a provision that limits the amount that needs to be paid to a landlord if a tenant has a cut in hours of work for the following 3 months. This would not absolve the tenant of the remaining rent but would prevent evictions precipitated by loss of work.

Many landlords require the tenants to pay for utilities and heating cost even when state laws states that these charges are the landlord's responsibility ( unless the tenant agrees to pay them for the landlord). The fuel assistance programs that are designed to help tenants pay heating cost in the winter are really subsidies for the landlord. Nonprofits that do fuel assistance are very often donated to by landlord who tenants get the benefit, and are therefore able to pay higher rents.

Whatever issue you choose be sure to incorporate ideals which you know the profs love, including:

-Columbus killed Native Americans

-Washington was a hypocrite who owned slaves

-White people are evil

-American white people are really evil

-Capitalsim sucks

-I love Democrats

-American used nukes first

-Israel stole Palestine

And don't forget this one: Obama is the greatest president in Amercan history.

Not only will you get an internship, you'll be granted a free ride to your PHD.

On the other hand, this may tweek your interest:

-1/31/07 UK Policy Exchange poll of what young Muslims want: Sharia law, 40%; execute apostates, 36%; women to be veiled, 75%

-07/09 Denmark: 55% of Muslims think criticizing religion should be forbidden; 64% support curtailing freedom of speech.

-7/27/08 Timesonline, 33% of UK Muslim students support killing for islam

-1/30/09 Timesonline: In the UK Muslim growth rate between 2004 and 2008 was 10 times faster than the rest of society

-2/09 The Finnish Ministry of Defense published a position paper saying: In 1991 there were 300 mosques in Russia. Today there are 8,000, financed by Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia

05/22/07: Pew Research poll said 40% of US Muslims don’t believe Muslims did 9/11; only 58% had a very unfavorable opinion of Al Qaeda; Muslims blame us for Muslim violence against us twice as often as we do; 26% think suicide bombings are justified

-7/6/06 Pew Global UK poll: 71% muslims are pro-Iran with 60% supporting Iran possessing nukes

-5/09: Gallup poll said only 33% of US Muslims believe Islam encourages violence against us.

-5/07 Pew poll: 22% of EU muslims support suicide bombings; Germany 22%, Spain 29%, Britain 35%, France 42%; 86% of EU muslims see increasing pride in Islam as a good thing

-7/09 U of Maryland poll: Only 3% of world’s Muslims believe Muslims did 9/11

-8/8/09 Telegraph: Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015

-9/15/09 Telegraph: #1 newborn boy’s name in London is Mohamed

-10/28/10 Mailonline: Mohamed is now #1 boy’s name in Britain, double what it was 11 years ago

Is there a pattern?

-In 8/09 Bosnia’s Muslim spiritual leader Mustafa Ceric called for Sharia law and declared Christian Serbian Muslim-majority territory boarding Montenegro as Muslim homelands. Yes, the same Muslims we saved from ethnic cleansing when we bombed Christian Serbs are claiming more Serbian land.

-8/19/10 AndKronos Int’l: Muslims claim land INSIDE Montenegro as Muslim homelands.

-8/20/10 AsiaNews, Kashmir: Extremist Muslims are demanding Sikhs convert or leave.

However, if you're Canadian or European, such information may be deemed hate speech, for which you can do jail time.

So, I'd just kiss up to the prof's and get on with your life -- at least until you need to study how Sharia law works.