Essay Undergraduate 1,089 words

Rhetorical Techniques: Ideals, Norms, and Moral Appeals

Analyzes four rhetorical techniques—invoking ideals, cultural norms, transcendent appeal, and moral have/have-not—through essays by Cathcart, Beasly, and LBJ's speech.

Communications

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,372 words

Interpreting the Crusades: Holy War or Cynical Conquest?

Were the Crusades acts of sincere Christian love or cynical violence? This essay examines Riley-Smith and Crawford's revisionist arguments about crusading motives.

History

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,901 words

Ambition's Ruin: Frankenstein and the Ethics of Creation

Analyze Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through ambition, responsibility, isolation, and the ethics of scientific creation in this undergraduate analytical essay.

Literature

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,027 words

Structural Collapse: Causes and Legacy of the Great Depression

Analyze the Great Depression's causes, effects, and New Deal response through an argument that structural failures — not the 1929 crash alone — made the

History

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,388 words

Liberty's Double Edge: The French Revolution's Radical Transformation

Analyze the French Revolution's causes, key events, major figures, and legacy through the argument that its universalist ideals structurally enabled the Terror.

History

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,085 words

John Berger's "Ways of Seeing": Purpose, Claims, and Rhetoric

An rhetorical analysis of John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," examining its purpose, central claims, and persuasive strategies through ethos, pathos, and logos.

Arts

~6 min read

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 705 words

Reacting to Swift's "A Modest Proposal": Satire and Cruelty

A student reaction to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" examining the speaker's cruelty, satirical tone, and whether the essay makes readers sufficiently uncomfortable.

Literature

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,186 words

Liberty and Its Costs: The French Revolution Reassessed

Analyze the French Revolution's causes, key events, and consequences through the argument that its institutions of liberty systematically betrayed the freedoms

History

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,302 words

Accountability vs. Rehabilitation: Juveniles in Adult Courts

Examining the pros and cons of trying juveniles as adults, this essay argues that developmental science, recidivism data

Social Issues

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 676 words

Torture as Interrogation: The Ticking Time Bomb Debate

Examines whether torture can be justified as an interrogation technique, analyzing Krauthammer's ticking time bomb argument and the ethics of the Detainee Treatment Act.

Ethics

~4 min read

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