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Ironically, the definition of the term “definition essay” is not very specific.  Definition essays are short pieces of writing on a particular topic.  However, not every essay on a topic can be properly labeled a definition essay.  Instead, a definition essay is an attempt to describe the topic thoroughly enough for the reader to understand it very well and might be compared to an encyclopedia entry for the topic.  Any of our example essays could provide a good start on a definition essay about the topic.  However, we have collected a sample of our best definition essays and included them below to help you explore the genre.  

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Paper Undergraduate
Demand for luxury goods during the 2007-2009 economic recession
macroeconomics 'It's an ill wind that blows no one good' -- sustained or increased demand during an economic downturn. Who is unaffected by or benefits from an economic recession?
Paper High School
Testing the law of conservation of matter through physical and chemical changes
Physical and Chemical Changes; Law of Conservation of Matter (Mass)
Essay Doctorate
Healthcare information technology project failures and recovery strategies
¶ … healthcare information technology project failures and best practices recovery. It highlights factors that are responsible for such failures including lack of direction, clarity of goals, consistent system and…
Essay Doctorate
Vegetation and crime prevention in urban neighborhoods: examining environmental design effects
It seems as though people have a fear of rural/ vegetation filled environments associating their privacy and wild confinement with the possibility that crime may more likely occur in these habitats. park authorities, universities, and municipalities, for instance, across North America actively remove shrubbery and vegetation that is thought to conceal and facilitate crime, whilst people fear densely vegetates areas for the same reason. At least two empirical studies, however, indicate that not only does vegetative areas not engender crime but they may also facilitate decrease of crime. The researchers proposed that certain regions of vegetation do not generate crime and may in fact even hinder it. The environment that the researchers had in mind were widely spaced, high-canopied trees and other visibility-preserving forms of vegetation. These not only do not promote crime but also hinder it.
Paper Doctorate
Debating the importance of car efficiency in modern business
The following pages focus on debating whether cars should be more efficient or not. The Introduction presents certain points of view that will be used in the sections of the paper. The Efficiency section intends to provide a definition and explanation of efficiency. The Efficiency of Cars section presents a discussion that compares different types of cars and their efficiency. The Conclusions section presents some of the most important issues discussed in the paper.
Research Paper Doctorate
Chaucer's female characters and medieval English society
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, like the works of Homer, stand as a piece of literary history and also as an indication of actual history. For nearly a millennium Europe was absent of any significant works of literature;…
Essay Doctorate
Price elasticity of demand and Starbucks' pricing strategy
For a firm looking to boost its profits, it must consider how a change in price might affect the total profits. The most important concept to this analysis is price elasticity of demand.
Paper Undergraduate
Measurement tools for evaluating service user change in social work
¶ … net or from social work evaluation textbooks six examples of measurement tools used to evaluate service user change in a range of areas. i.e. self-esteem; caregiver stress; risk taking behaviour.
Research Paper Undergraduate
Incendiary fires: firefighter hazards and investigation challenges
Incendiary Fires: Impact Upon Firefighters
Research Paper Undergraduate
The ethics and morality of child labor in global contexts
Child labor is considered to be one of the most important problems the world faces today. It is not only a human problem, but also an ethical one. It raises questions both in terms of the human exploitation of the…