What does controversial mean ?

Hi,



I have sociology homework and i have no clue how to do it !!



This is what i have to do :



choose a controversial issue

state the different opinions which people have and why

why i choose that issue



Please help !!



Thank you x
Issues



Abortion

Death Penalty

War against terror

ObamaCare

Responsibility for economic crash

Energy Crisis

Is there really Global Warming?

Or choose a local topic of your own...



Main thing is to present BOTH sides and try to stay neutral.



Good Luck!
Controversial = has divided opinion (some will agree strongly, some will disagree strongly).
an issue that drew strong reactions from different groups of people. i guess you could talk about the vietnam war. an example of different opinions may be the patriots getting behind the troops but the hippies being against it, and expanding on the reasons behind their opinions.
some people are agree and some are disagree this situation is called controversial.

Synonyms

arguable, questionable.
Its like someone agreeing to one thing and another agreeing to another and have not the same opinion.

Eg in a discussion group some people will agree to a subject about say politics and another group may not accept for what they say. They dont agree with them on the same policy. Someone might agree that we would have to pay more taxes and others dont agree at all.