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The Crucible: Critical Essays on Miller's Drama Explored

A student explores three critical essays on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, examining history, McCarthyism, and feminist readings of the play's characters.

Literature

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Literature Review Undergraduate 1,775 words

The Bible's Role in the Church: A Review of Four Essays

A critical review of four scholarly essays examining the Bible's role in Christian churches, covering canon formation, tradition, exegesis, and scripture as literature.

Religion

~9 min read

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1,651 words

Thomas Goetz's argument about technology's paradoxical role in healthcare costs

According to Thomas Goetz, the executive editor at Wired Magazine, the current national debate over healthcare reform is missing a critical point that is driving up costs: technology.

~9 min read

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2,171 words

Gary Nash's argument about race in the American Revolution

Nash, Gary. (1990). Race and the Revolution. New York: Madison House Publishers, Inc.

~11 min read

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351 words

Challenges and benefits of peer group collaboration on essay writing

Working with a group of my peers has proved challenging in a number of ways. While we all got along, it was nearly impossible to agree on meeting times because everyone's schedule is erratic and different from everyone else's.

~2 min read

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945 words

Granatstein and Morton's argument that the Second World War benefited Canada

War Changed Everything," authors J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton argue that the Second World War benefited Canada and Canadian society.

~5 min read

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893 words

Carl Schramm's argument that entrepreneurship, not social entrepreneurship, improves lives

Entrepreneurship is Social by Carl Schramm argues the point that the idea of "social entrepreneurship" is a distraction from the great work that normal entrepreneurs do. Stripped from the straw man framing, his point is that business does good things, and we should not lose sight of that.

~5 min read

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1,016 words

Peter Singer's moral argument for charitable obligation to the poor

Peter Singer's principle goal of "Famine, Affluence and Morality" is to get members of society to alter their contemporary conceptions of morality. His primary means of achieving this goal is to get people to rethink the notion of giving charity to those in need.

~6 min read

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1,174 words

Marie Winn's argument on television's negative impact on families

According to some researchers, this is exactly the case. Marie Winn's article "Television: the Plug-In Drug" was published originally in 1977 and updated in 2002. At that time, televisions had been in homes for about three decades and the color television was taking hold.

~6 min read

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2,038 words

Kant's refutation of the ontological argument for God's existence

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant set out a framework intended to refute the ontological argument. It is said that the critique was directed at Descartes and Leibniz.

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