Essay Undergraduate 1,871 words

Capital Punishment in America: Arguments For and Against

An essay examining the history, opponents' concerns, and pro-deterrence arguments surrounding capital punishment in the United States.

Law

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,600 words

Selling the Body: How Media Constructs Impossible Ideals

An analytical essay examining how media functions as a technology of normalization, constructing impossible body ideals and monetizing the resulting insecurity across generations.

Psychology

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,496 words

Conscience, Deontology, and the Ethics of Honesty

An essay arguing that obeying one's conscience is key to ethical living, using deontology, a workplace dilemma, and the abortion debate to illustrate moral principles.

Ethics

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,317 words

Defining Love: Philosophy, Literature, and Human Experience

An essay exploring how literature, philosophy, and social trends inform a broader, more accurate definition of love beyond idealized or moralized conceptions.

Philosophy

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,555 words

Government Changes After the Revolutionary War vs. Civil War

A comparative essay examining how the Revolutionary War produced more radical government change than the Civil War, analyzing causes, purposes, and outcomes of both.

History

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,540 words

Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Regulating Deepfakes

Deepfake regulation essay arguing AI-generated misinformation threatens democratic discourse and requires disclosure laws, platform accountability, and detection funding.

Technology

~8 min read

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Essay High School 1,453 words

Symbolism and Irony in Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"

An essay analyzing George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," exploring themes of inner conflict, imperialism, symbolism, and irony through the narrator's moral struggle.

Literature

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,115 words

Callicott's Critique of Animal Liberation vs. Land Ethics

An analysis of J. Baird Callicott's essay arguing that animal liberation falls short of Leopold's land ethic by limiting moral value to domesticated animals.

Philosophy

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,071 words

Software Piracy, Copyright Law, and Consumer Ethics

An essay examining why consumers ignore copyright law, challenging "piracy" rhetoric, and exploring the ethical gap between software companies and users.

Ethics

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,569 words

Willed Into Ruin: Agency and Fate in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Analytical essay arguing Shakespeare's tragic heroes in Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello are destroyed by their own choices, not fate — with close reading and scholarly citations.

Literature

~8 min read

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