Essay Undergraduate 750 words

Poverty and School Performance: How High-Performing Schools Succeed

Explores how high-performing schools mitigate the effects of poverty through collaboration, evidence-based decisions, and a belief that every student can succeed.

Education

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,897 words

Battle of Bosworth Field 1485: Causes and Consequences

Explores the causes, course, and consequences of the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485), including what might have happened had Richard III defeated Henry Tudor.

History

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,656 words

Teaching Anne Frank's Diary in a College History Course

A college-level history unit plan using Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl to explore anti-Semitism, Jewish identity, oppression, and the Holocaust through a multidisciplinary lens.

Education

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,703 words

Feminist Themes in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801)

Analyzes the feminist implications of Maria Edgeworth's Belinda, examining women's independence, violence, marriage, and societal constraints in 19th-century fiction.

Literature

~14 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,240 words

Taiwan's Two-Party Split: KMT vs. DPP on Independence

A comparative analysis of the Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party websites, revealing how each party frames Taiwanese identity, history, and independence.

Politics

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 633 words

Cultural Sensitivity and the Racial Politics of Speaking Well

Explores linguistic ethnocentrism and racial bias in language, drawing on Three Rivers' "Cultural Etiquette" and Clemetson's "Racial Politics of Speaking Well."

Social Issues

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 632 words

Pay-Offs and Risks of Capital Investments: Exxon Case

Explores capital investment decision-making, using ExxonMobil's $41B XTO acquisition to illustrate pay-offs, financial risks, and risk-management strategies.

Finance

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,695 words

Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Racism in Himes and Paredes

A comparative analysis of Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go and Americo Paredes's With His Pistol in His Hand, examining structural racism in America.

Literature

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,415 words

Gwartney vs. Schumacher on Globalization and Trade

A comparative analysis of James Gwartney's supply-side economics and E.F. Schumacher's Buddhist economics on globalization, trade, and labor.

Economics

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 882 words

Martineau, Addams, and Du Bois: Sociology as Social Action

Explore how Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams, and W.E.B. Du Bois united sociological theory with lived activism to champion the poor, women, and racial equality.

Sociology

~5 min read

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