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Gornick's principles in Benjamin and Didion's personal essays

This fulfills what she calls the obligation "to use the narrating self only to shape those associations that will provide drive and lead on to inner resolution" (Gornick 30). It shows sympathy with the subject so that the reader is not turned off.

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Logical flaws in Delahunty and Yoo's immigration enforcement argument

Logical Flaws Analysis: Immigration Laws and Policies As has been seen in the recent debate regarding the issue of the separation of children of immigrants from their parents at the border, immigration is a fraught issue in America. America is a nation built, in part, upon immigration.

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Essay Undergraduate 2,117 words

Self-Possession and Survival: Jane Eyre's Feminist Argument

A close-reading analysis of Jane Eyre arguing Brontë's Gothic, class critique, and spiritual rhetoric form a unified feminist case for non-negotiable female

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,036 words

Workplace Themes in Poetry, Fiction, and Essay Writing

Analyzes workplace and class themes in Countee Cullen's "Saturday's Child," Philip Ross's short story, and an essay on corporate culture.

Literature

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Essay Undergraduate 1,339 words

Paul Fussell's "The Real War": War, Myth, and Media

An essay analyzing Paul Fussell's argument that sanitized media portrayals of WWII prevent Americans from understanding the true horror and cost of war.

Literature

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,747 words

Weighing Both Sides: The Case for Structured Pro-Con Analysis

A rigorous pro-con essay examines both sides of a debatable question before reaching a defensible conclusion — here's why this format trains better thinkers.

English

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,497 words

Gun Control Debate: Concealed Weapons and the Second Amendment

An essay comparing two opposing views on gun control—Thompson's pro-concealed carry argument and Desuka's case for outlawing handguns—with critical analysis of both.

Social Issues

~8 min read

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1,313 words

Rhetorical analysis of alcoholism's effects on children

The essay entitled "Who are the real victims of alcoholism?" uses the pathos of the family dynamic as a persuasive strategy to encourage readers to view alcoholism, and drinking to excess, not simply as a minor vice, but as a serious social issue.

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Merchant and Warren on ecofeminism and nature's domination

This essay will provide a critical summary and response of the books "The Death of Nature" by Caroline Merchant and "The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism" by Karen Warren. The summary will summarize the main argument of each ecofeminism author.

~7 min read

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1,325 words

Starbucks' response to public breastfeeding incidents and activist demands

In this essay, the author will a summary of the Starbucks breast feeding case and a description of the most important themes of the case and an argument for why those themes are important.

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