I would love to find a few topics, thanks.
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MergeSort is a fantastic/easy one to start with. You could also go with generating word counts for all words in a file. A good source of data is the Project Gutenberg library of public domain books (you could always concatenate a few of them together).
If you want something more advanced but in the same vein as word count, you could write a very simple distributed spell checker. Peter Norvig as an awesome simple demonstration of a spell checker written in Python. A good exercise would be extending this algorithm to operate on a file in a distributed fashion.