Essay Undergraduate 910 words

The Business Model of Education and Its Cost to Quality Teaching

An analysis of Lynne Drury Lerych's critique of the "edu-preneurship" trend, arguing that monetary incentives in American higher education undermine quality teaching.

Education

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Essay Undergraduate 995 words

Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa: Who Won the First Round?

Analysis of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate in Ottawa, Illinois (1858), arguing that Stephen Douglas outperformed Lincoln through pragmatic, concrete argumentation.

History

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Essay Undergraduate 991 words

Greed in Dante's Inferno: The Insatiable Fourth Circle

Explores Dante's fourth circle of hell as a portrait of greed's insatiable nature, examining hoarders, spenders, and the clergy condemned for materialism.

Literature

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Book Review Undergraduate 633 words

Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression: A Review

A critical review of Wayne Flynt's article on white evangelical religion among poor Southern whites during the Great Depression, examining faith, suffering, and identity.

Religion

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332 words

Legal barriers to same-sex adoption in the United States

I used evidence from the research I did, including data, anecdotes, expert testimony, and observations. I also used my own personal views that gays and lesbians should be allowed to adopt, because I believe it is wrong to keep them from parenting just because of their sexual preferences.

~2 min read

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811 words

Do God's attributes enhance or inhibit understanding of God?

Many have attempted to study the philosophy of religion throughout the ages. For as much as most individuals try, a clear understanding can be extremely difficult to grasp and obtain.

~5 min read

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946 words

Evil and morality in Merwin, Blake, and Emerson

Questions of morality -- specifically the question of morality; namely whether morality can truly be said to exist in an objective way -- have increasingly been a matter of importance in literature and thought as religion has faded in importance.

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690 words

Gender as a category of historical analysis and interpretation

Are there differences between social historians and feminist historians? Do gendered readings of the past necessarily focus on women and women's issues?

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734 words

Pojman's principle of desert and the challenges of justice

Louis Pojman basically sends a strong moral signal, and it would be hard to disagree that virtue should be rewarded, and vicious behaviors should be punished in some way. If a rational person disagreed with that idea, it would be news.

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967 words

Is Google making us stupid? Technology and human cognition

'it wasn't like that back in MY day." Almost every generation has had to hear some version of these words, as parents or grandparents rue the fact that life has altered, irrevocably, from the days when the elderly individual was young.

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