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Literary Perspectives on Prejudice: Four Essays Examined

An analysis of four essays on prejudice by Brent Staples, Zora Hurston, Maya Angelou, and Jamaica Kincaid, exploring how literature conveys racial bias.

Literature

~12 min read

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The Way We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson: Essay Analysis

An analysis of Stephanie Ericsson's essay "The Way We Lie," examining ten categories of lying and the ethical questions surrounding everyday deception.

Ethics

~6 min read

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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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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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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.

~11 min read

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1,156 words

The 1936 Ging Hawk Club essay contest and Chinese-American identity

The series of essays pertaining to the winning essays in the Ging Hawk Club Essay Contest in 1936 illustrate different arguments and perspectives regarding the question, "Does my future lie in China or America?" The winners, Robert Dunn from Harvard University (winning essay) and Kaye Hong from…

~6 min read

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Herbert Gans's argument about poverty's positive functions in society

One is by Herbert J. Gans, and the other by Peter L. Berger. While the readings are interesting, they are also relevant, even though, in the case of Gans, the narrative goes back to 1971,

~8 min read

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