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Stress Test and Survival: How Three Elections Tested Democracy

Analytical essay examining how the 2016, 2020, and 2024 U.S. elections produced a bifurcated democracy: higher turnout alongside collapsing institutional trust and eroded norms.

Government

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,630 words

Stress Test and Survival: How Three Elections Tested Democracy

Analytical essay arguing that the 2016, 2020, and 2024 U.S. elections have durably weakened American democracy through norm erosion, legitimacy crisis, and democratic deconsolidation.

Government

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 942 words

Competing Ethical Claims: Need, Egoism, and Moral Worth

An essay examining ethical hiring dilemmas, divine command theory, moral worth vs. self-actualization, philosophical egoism, and marital fidelity obligations.

Ethics

~5 min read

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Why Animal Testing Is No Longer a Viable Scientific Option

This essay examines whether animal testing provides real scientific benefits and explores the ethical arguments for using it sparingly or not at all.

Ethics

~4 min read

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Automation's Reckoning: Why Society Must Act Before Jobs Vanish

This essay argues AI and automation will displace jobs at a scale demanding universal basic income, retraining mandates, and work-time reduction — backed by economic data and history.

Technology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,770 words

Contested Inheritance: How American Values Shift Under Pressure

Analytical essay examining how individualism, equality, freedom, and opportunity have been repeatedly reweighted across American history from the founding era to today.

Sociology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,715 words

Rawls Over Procedure: Fairness as the Best Fix for Inequality

Analytical essay arguing Rawls's difference principle encodes a structural reciprocity that neither procedural nor distributive justice frameworks can match in addressing inequality.

Philosophy

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,725 words

Freedom Within Limits: Why Society Must Sometimes Come First

This essay argues societal responsibility should override individual freedom in cases of clear collective harm, using vaccine mandates and communitarian philosophy to make the case.

Philosophy

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 949 words

Capital Punishment in the US: Arguments Against the Death Penalty

An essay opposing capital punishment in the U.S., examining costs, wrongful convictions, racial bias, and the lack of deterrent effect on crime.

Crimes

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,226 words

Why School Matters: Education, Skills, and Society

An essay exploring why school is important for economic success, critical thinking, racial equity, wealth creation, and society — including two educator interviews.

Education

~12 min read

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