[Mathew Stage]

Well my professor has given us our semester project, and it's a Argumentative research paper on our choice of topic. I wanted to do something steamboat related but don't know where to start, and I'm far from an english scholar when it comes to papers.

What do you think would be some good argumentative topics to do that I could pull off revolving around steamboats and such?

(and I read a funny comic the other day "why do they call a boat/ship a she?" "because her rigging costs more then her hull.")