Writing : Writing a twenty-page paper on, of all things, the movie Spanglish

I think pretty much any movie where a man and woman try to have a conversation would be just fine for your topic.  You didn't have to throw an actual second (or for the sake of this post, third) language into the mix. 

I think I'm a little bit scared people at university would choose Spanglish for an essay on communication. Ah, what is the world coming to?

@ Jess - I count that as a sign of improvement American colleges. I took a communication class in college, that involved grammar castes. I can't make this up. We showed up and this is several weeks in so we all sort of know each other and the format of the class. Typical American general ed stuff; show up, take notes, maybe ask a few questions, go home, take a test every once in a while. Not this day. We show up and the professor has us break up into groups which is okay I guess whatever. She hands us out obscure questions on grammar, and I mean obscure. Stuff like is 'ye' singular or plural, and if plural of which word? So I'm not really into this because I'm not planing on doing a report on middle English, so I'm just sort of  doodling and not saying much. Most times you can just wait them out and it won't get to crazy, even if this is boring as can be. So after few minutes to show us groups communicate with leaders we have to elect a leader dude of the little 6 or so person we broke up into. So this one girl was all into it so I suggested her which got her all pumped and more into it and we are doing stuff for a minute and the professor hands badges cut out of paper, like out of a old western except way sadder. So she leads us for a few minutes, and right about the time it looks like we might finish whatever the silly assignment the grammar sheriffs all get promoted to the grammar parliament, and the professor she gave everyone in the parliament some little cut out and made them give their badges to the person taking their spot. To show how different groups start communicating different once they get a new name. I'm a little older then all these guys, I'm like 23 and they are mostly 19 and 20, and they are all getting into it and I'm just trying to coast my last year in school. So we don't have a grammar sheriffs, and we have to according to the professor so we have to the 2nd election in like 15 minutes. So we do and low and behold the grammar parliament gets promoted to grammar nobility, the 2nd round of sheriffs get promoted to the new grammar parliament, and we have to elect a new round of sheriffs. I'm hoping that class is almost over, but she has us for a hour and wow it is going slow because she ends up having time to do this like 3 more time with grammar princes and grammar royalty to the point in was just two of us each in the original groups when the last round goes in. And don't be confused she is giving cut outs to each person who reaches the highest level. And I am there with Miss Desperate For External Validation because she is all into getting the last sheriff so she can get the badge that has been through so man people it looks like bit of paper that was left in pocket through a washing machine cycle. So I said, "Sure, you be the sheriff." She all but screamed with delight, which was so odd. And then the class ended and we never brought it up again.

Dwayne, I think that seems like a really interesting social experiment.