890 words

Kasia Lipska's argument about the global diabetes epidemic's impact

According to Kasia Lipska's editorial in The New York Times entitled "The global diabetes epidemic," type II diabetes is no longer a 'first world' problem but rather is penetrating the developing world as well.

~5 min read

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946 words

Jean Twenge's argument that Net Generation displays narcissistic traits

A relatively modest amount of controversy exists around what some people refer to as Generation Y, Generation Me, or Net Geners.

~5 min read

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789 words

Teaching persuasive writing to high school students with ADHD using STOP, AIMS, and DARE

The article by authors Kiuhara, O'Neill, Hawken, & Graham discuss ways to improve persuasive writing in high school students. They stress the importance of persuasive writing because students with ADHD had difficulty planning and drafting text.

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,013 words

Conformity, Beauty, and Identity in Three Cultural Essays

A comparative analysis of Gates, Bordo, and Appleton exploring how societal beauty standards pressure individuals to conform at the cost of personal identity.

Social Issues

~6 min read

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2,740 words

Thomas Sowell's argument about cultural origins of southern redneck identity

Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell. Specifically it will contain and analysis and discussion of the book and its thesis. Author Sowell states his thesis early on in the Prologue of his book.

~14 min read

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681 words

Gary Nash's argument about northern states and slavery abolition

Race and revolution by Gary B. Nash. Specifically, it will contain a review of the book. The author's thesis for this short history of slavery and revolt during the American Revolution is why the founding fathers failed to abolish slavery when they had the chance.

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,848 words

Why I Cannot Leave My Mother: A Personal Essay on Family

A personal essay comparing a student's complicated relationship with her Korean mother to John Cheever's "Reunion," using social learning theory to explain behavior.

Personal Issues

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 938 words

The Sanctuary of School: Lynda Barry's Essay on Education

An analysis of Lynda Barry's "The Sanctuary of School," exploring how education served as refuge, identity, and salvation during her troubled childhood.

Literature

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,133 words

Montaigne's Essay on Death: Themes and Rhetorical Analysis

An analysis of Montaigne's essay on death, exploring themes of destiny, freedom, suicide, the soul, and Renaissance humanism through traditional and rhetorical criticism.

Literature

~11 min read

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1,036 words

Logical fallacies in an argument for dog restraint laws

appeal for a law to be passed that would necessitate some sort of restraint to tie dogs (or other animals) in the back of moving trucks so that animals would not be accidentally, or deliberately, thrown onto the highways during the journey thus hit by a passing truck or in other ways injured.

~6 min read

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