The Top 10 Most Controversial Topics for 2014 (Infographic)

Here some of the most controversial topics for 2014. If you need an idea or inspiration for an essay, have a look at our infographic and (please) share it with your fellow students or colleagues! Thank you.

Agatha Raisin and the Witch of WyckhaddenAgatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden by M.C. Beaton. In order to recuperate from her last escapade and re-grow some hair, Agatha Raisin goes on holiday to the seaside town of Wyckhadden. However, the holiday is not what Agatha hoped for. The weather is crummy, all five of her fellow hotel guests are elderly, and time hangs heavy. A chance discussion with a fellow guest leads her to the door of Francie Juddle, a local woman who claims to have the power of witchcraft. Agatha is not impressed with Francie, but does buy a hair potion and a love potion.

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Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in January 2006.
The plot concerns a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell-phone network turns masses of his fellow humans into telekinetic hive-mind zombies.
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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws. who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.

In the spring of 1978 I gave a lecture at Columbia University, New York, to primarily West Indian students, on the manner in which resistance fashioned Caribbean literature. One of the students asked how V. S. Naipaul's work fitted into that pattern. I answered that although the work of some novelists may have been fashioned by the positive dimensions of that tradition (for example, George Lamming), others, such as V. S. Naipaul, had responded to its negative aspects. A fellow panelist commented that Naipaul was "just reactionary." This remark sent me in search of a fuller account of his work, convinced that a writer as important as V. S. Naipaul