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How Humans Should Behave Toward Other Species: An Analysis

An analysis of David Quammen's essay exploring morality, animal rights, and how humans should behave toward members of other species.

Literature

~8 min read

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Disrupting ISIS Financial Networks in Iraq: A RAND Analysis

A review of Patrick Johnston's RAND essay on defeating ISIS by targeting its oil revenue and financial operations in Iraq rather than through ground warfare.

Politics

~4 min read

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Bell Hooks on Representing the Poor in American Culture

An analysis of bell hooks' essay "Seeing and Making Culture," examining her rhetorical appeals about poverty, media stereotypes, and representation in America.

Social Issues

~7 min read

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Dulce et Decorum Est vs. The Open Boat: Setting Analysis

A compare-and-contrast essay examining how Wilfred Owen and Stephen Crane use setting to explore human insignificance, fate, and survival.

Literature

~5 min read

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Anthropology, Culture, and Identity in MacCannell and Boas

An analysis of MacCannell's Cannibal Tours essay, Boas's Primitive Mind, and the relationship between anthropology and art across cultures.

Anthropology

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,574 words

George Orwell's "Why I Write": Motives and Meaning

An analysis of George Orwell's essay "Why I Write," examining his four motives for writing: egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

Literature

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,843 words

Liberty and Equality: Balancing Democracy's Twin Imperatives

An undergraduate comparative essay on freedom vs. equality in American democracy, arguing equality must take structural policy priority to make liberty genuinely universal.

Government

~10 min read

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Luck, Will, and Blame: Rethinking Moral Responsibility

An undergraduate analytical essay examining moral luck, free will, and compatibilism to defend a neo-Strawsonian account of moral responsibility under determinism.

Philosophy

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 761 words

Family Planning, Genetic Technology, and Disability Rights

An analysis of Nancy Mairs's essay "Freeing Choices," exploring personal choices in family planning, genetic technology, and the rights of differently abled people.

Ethics

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 733 words

Dorothy Parker's Critique of Emily Post's Etiquette Manual

Analyzes Dorothy Parker's satirical 1927 essay critiquing Emily Post's etiquette manual, exploring arguments about manners, spontaneity, and social class.

Literature

~4 min read

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