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What is Claims?

In legal studies and across many academic disciplines, the concept of claims sits at the center of how arguments are constructed, tested, and resolved. A claim is a formal assertion—whether in a courtroom, a policy debate, or an analytical essay—that demands support and invites scrutiny. Law courses treat claims as the foundational unit of legal reasoning, asking students to examine how assertions are made, what standards govern their validity, and what consequences follow when they succeed or fail. Because the skill of forming and defending a claim transfers across subjects, writing assignments built around this concept appear in courses ranging from ethics and political philosophy to health policy and media law.

The papers archived under this topic reflect a wide range of approaches. Some take a comparative angle, weighing competing positions on contested issues such as disease classification, digital copyright, or system security. Others use case-study methods to ground abstract claims in concrete situations, including organizational discrimination, ethical decision-making by managers, and law enforcement subculture. Literary and philosophical analysis also appears, with writers working through argumentative frameworks drawn from texts like Plato's Republic or Dante's Inferno to examine how claims about justice, morality, or human nature are built and challenged.

A strong essay on claims begins with a thesis that is specific and genuinely contestable—not simply a statement of fact but a position that requires evidence to support. The most persuasive papers anticipate counterarguments and address them directly, using concrete examples, legal precedent, or textual evidence rather than broad generalizations. The most common pitfall is confusing a topic with a claim; identifying an issue like chronic illness or racial profiling is only the starting point, and the essay must go further by committing to a clear, defensible view on that issue.

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Contraceptive access policy at King Middle School in Portland, Maine
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Security and First Amendment concerns at the Democratic-Republican National Convention
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Media coverage, money, and ideology in the 2012 presidential election
Media Coverage of the 2012 Presidential Election ONE: Introduction The diverse and sometimes ugly stories, attacks and sundry reports that have been published in print and broadcast in the media (including electronic media) thus far in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election campaign reflect just how divided the nation is. These stories and ads in fact say as much about the sorry moral state of America – and about how out-of-control the issue of politically motivated money is – as they do about the campaign or the candidates. It is the opinion of this writer that there has rarely been a time in recent American history when conservatives and progressives have been so bitterly divided, and have attacked one another with such meanness and fierce antipathy – in particular the reference is to the conservative attacks against progressives – and never has their been an election where millions of dollars flow into campaign coffers from corporations and individuals with zero accountability as to the source. Some suggest that because President Barack Obama is an African American, those opposed to him have been particularly virulent in their attacks. Others suggest this election is really about two competing ideologies – those who are conservative (they are anti-abortion and anti-gay rights and doubt the science of global warming and evolution) versus those who are progressive (they tend to be pro-choice, support same-sex marriage and accept science as reported by bona fide empirically-driven researchers). These issues have been simmering for years and are just now coming to a head with Obama, the Black president, symbolizing for the right wing, the Tea Party, the GOP and conservative Christians (including evangelicals) all that is wrong with America. This election process is bringing bitterly opposing social and ideological divisions into the public view through the media, which itself is taking sides, as expected, but in ways far more potentially harmful to democratic ideals. This paper reviews and provides critical analysis of the media's role – and the role of money interests in the contest between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
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Female characters and social constraints in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Many of the female characters in literature were written by women so that the characters can be considered reflections of their creators. This may be because they are also attempting to express themselves as artists in…