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Systemic Failure: The Case for Comprehensive School Shooting Policy

This essay argues that school shootings demand coordinated policy responses—gun regulation, mental health investment, and threat assessment—not single-issue

Social Issues

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Poverty, Family, and Health: The Roots of Juvenile Delinquency

An analytical essay examining poverty, family dysfunction, and health disparities as the interlocking structural causes of juvenile delinquency

Social Issues

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Silence Broken: Recovery as Authorship in The Quiet Room

An analytical essay arguing that Lori Schiller's memoir The Quiet Room stages recovery from schizophrenia as a progressive reclamation of narrative authorship

Literature

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Earned Belonging: The Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

A policy argument for comprehensive US immigration reform, examining economic contributions, enforcement failures, legal system flaws

Social Issues

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Robinson and Golding on the nature of human thinking

James Harvey Robinson's essay entitled "On various kinds of thinking" begins with the author expressing his mistrust of the history of abstract philosophy: "The truest and most profound observations on Intelligence have in the past been made by the poets and, in recent times, by story-writers," he…

~6 min read

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1,231 words

German electoral law as a social choice outcome

Bawn's (1993) essay dealt with German electoral law as a social choice outcome. Her hypothesis was that individuals choose electoral institutions that maximize their future policy influence.

~7 min read

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1,176 words

Empirical evidence for implicit racial bias in psychological research

This essay is aimed at exploring whether unconscious racism exists through analyzing both sides of the arguments.

~6 min read

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1,321 words

Marriott Hotels' financial statement measurement bases and fair value accounting

The essay also surveys the literature for current thinking on fair value measurement.

~7 min read

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1,735 words

Gender discrimination in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

This essay underscores the discriminative attitude towards women in the 19th century. The essay predominately assesses gender representation in Kate Chopin Story Of an Hour, and the tale is paired to Schumaker, Conrad.

~9 min read

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Decentralizing state arts funding: rural and urban equity

This is an essay discussing the decentralization of cultural arts funding. Essay is written as: I am the Executive Director of a state arts agency. The state has two large urban areas with surrounding suburbs, the rest is rural.

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