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Freedom and Gender in Shakespeare and Sor Juana

Explore how freedom and gender equality emerge as common themes in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Sor Juana's Loa to Divine Narcissus in this comparative essay.

Literature

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1,370 words

Swift's satirical rhetoric in A Modest Proposal and pseudo-scientific argumentation

Jonathan Swift's satirical work A Modest Proposal is particularly successful at lambasting careless attitudes towards the poor because Swift's proposal that poor children be sold as food for the upper classes is rendered in the language of pseudo-scientific argument and economics.

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Essay Undergraduate 2,143 words

Kennedy vs. Shy: America's Experience With War Compared

A comparative analysis of David M. Kennedy's and John Shy's essays on the American experience with war, examining geography, military attitudes, and Vietnam.

History

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Essay Undergraduate 2,166 words

Treating, Not Punishing: The Case for Health-Based Addiction Policy

Addiction is a chronic brain disorder, not a moral failure — this essay argues for health-centered policy over criminalization, drawing on neuroscience

Social Issues

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Essay Undergraduate 2,365 words

Depression Through a Biopsychosocial Lens: Beyond the Brain

Applying Engel's 1977 biopsychosocial model to major depression, this essay shows how biological, psychological, and social factors interweave as genuine

Science

~12 min read

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1,782 words

John Stuart Mill's harm principle and individual liberty

In what is perhaps his most famous work, the book-length essay on Liberty, nineteenth-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill attempts to define both the extent of human liberty and the ways in which society can ensure its survival.

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Language manipulation in Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Orwell's political critique

Language is more than words. Language is a tool that can be used in a variety of ways to achieve a variety of purposes. In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell focuses on the function of language, emphasizing that it is a tool by which we can wield much power.

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Identifying the enemy in the War on Terror

INTRO: Given recent events, it would be impossible to write this essay without first acknowledging the biggest victory in the War on Terror since its inception, the targeted assassination of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALS.

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Misogyny and passion in Jane Campion's The Piano

Love Got to Do With it? I'd like to start this essay out by saying that I agree with Bell Hook's critical examination of the Piano.

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1,057 words

A critique of Damon Beres' Common Application fallacy

App Fallacy," a columnist New York University's Washington Square News argues wisdom Common Application college application process. You read essay college newspaper; opportunity responds.

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