Essay Undergraduate 1,916 words

Grounded in Reality: Why Aristotle Outpaces Plato Today

This argumentative essay examines whether Aristotle's empirically grounded philosophy proves more useful for contemporary inquiry than Plato's rationalist idealism by analyzing their fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical differences.

Philosophy

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,750 words

Broken Ladder: Why the American Dream Is No Longer Earned

A rigorous undergraduate essay arguing that structural inequality—not lack of effort—has dismantled American upward mobility, drawing on Chetty, Lareau, and education research.

Sociology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,630 words

Stress Test and Survival: How Three Elections Tested Democracy

Analytical essay arguing that the 2016, 2020, and 2024 U.S. elections have durably weakened American democracy through norm erosion, legitimacy crisis, and democratic deconsolidation.

Government

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,662 words

Earned Belonging: The Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

This argumentative essay examines whether the United States should enact comprehensive immigration reform combining border management with legal status pathways, arguing economic benefits, rule of law, and moral consistency support reform over restrictionism.

Government

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,810 words

Illusion as Architecture: Gatsby's Dream and Its Ruins

An analytical essay examining how Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby critiques the American Dream through symbolism, narrative structure, and Gatsby's self-invention as a structurally doomed pursuit.

Literature

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,547 words

Earned Belonging: The Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

This essay argues for comprehensive U.S. immigration reform combining targeted border security with a citizenship pathway, backed by economic evidence and policy analysis.

Government

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,879 words

Liberty and Equality: Balancing Democracy's Competing Ideals

A comparative essay examining freedom and equality as foundational American values, arguing that equality must set the floor while liberty governs above it.

Government

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,610 words

Beyond the Melting Pot: Why America Needs the Salad Bowl

Analyze the melting pot, multiculturalism, and salad bowl models of immigration to understand which best describes how immigrant communities relate to American society today.

Sociology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,018 words

Rules of Statutory Interpretation in English Law

Explore the literal, golden, and mischief rules of statutory interpretation used by English courts to apply laws to unanticipated situations.

Law

~6 min read

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Term Paper Undergraduate 2,231 words

Gustavus Adolphus and the Military Revolution Debate

Examines whether Gustavus Adolphus truly revolutionized warfare and whether the "Military Revolution" theory accurately describes Early Modern military change.

History

~12 min read

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