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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

~11 min read

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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

~11 min read

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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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Essay Undergraduate 1,964 words

Fate Over Choice: Tragic Design in Romeo and Juliet

Analyze Romeo and Juliet's plot, characters, and themes — this essay argues Shakespeare designs the tragedy as structurally inevitable

Literature

~10 min read

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925 words

Freud's theory of civilization and personal desire sacrifice

Freud's Civilization and its Discontents is the father of psychoanalysis' most broadly philosophical work. Over the course of Freud's extended essay, he asks why human beings agree to give up some of their liberties in the service of civilization.

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825 words

William Zinsser and Mary Sherry on educational success and failure

In The Right to Fail, William Zinsser makes the argument that the word "dropout" has exclusively negative connotations that may not be entirely deserved.

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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.

~9 min read

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479 words

Religious identity and individual positions on abortion

Person's Religious Identity Shape Their View on Abortion? Abortion is one of the most passionately argued debates in America, and both sides of the argument have strong political lobbies, and strong social support.

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