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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
The role of Catholic schools in building faith communities
While secularism may be at times undermining the core values of a Catholic school, the school remains the hub of a faith community. One role of the school is to create a community of faith within its grounds, by…
Paper Doctorate
Deliberative democracy's strengths, weaknesses, and effectiveness
Over the decades, the most appropriate forms of government have been hotly debated. Part of the reason for this, is because of the different benefits and drawbacks that it is providing.
Research Paper Undergraduate
Dynamic pricing and online price discrimination in e-commerce
According to Rincon, dynamic pricing refers to fluid pricing between the buyer and seller to better reflect the real-time supply and demand dynamics of products, rather than the more traditional fixed pricing.
Paper Undergraduate
Healthcare spending growth and its economic effects in the United States
The growth rate in health care spending in the U.S. has been faster than the growth rate in the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, and population for several years. Between 1940 and 1990, the yearly rate of growth…
Case Study Undergraduate
Lifelong learning and ecological thinking as complementary educational paradigms
Two profound fields of human opportunity are evolving of their natural accord toward what each believes to be more viable understandings of what it means to learn and to care about our enviroment. This piece reviews the trends in lifelong learning and those in the emergence of an ecological mindset to demonstrate their commonalities and how their similaries (along with the technological communication revolution) may make it more likely that both efforts will achieve their goals with a much happier outcome for us all.
Essay Doctorate
Reproductive trauma and female powerlessness in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the Consideration of Psychological Traumas Women Face in the Lack of Control Over Their Reproductive Organs
Essay Doctorate
Job opportunities at Half Time Sports Bar & Grill
Job fair brochure: Half Time Sports Bar & Grill
Essay Doctorate
The SERVQUAL methodology and knowledge-based theory of firms
The ability to stay on in step with customers' rapidly changing needs is only possible when a company completely commits itself to transforming data into information, while also capturing and using tacit and implicit knowledge. As this analysis will illustrate, data, information and knowledge are multifaceted and have many implications across the lifecycle of a business in general and customers specifically. Concentrating on how the data pertaining to customers can be optimized, this analysis concentrates on the Service Quality (SERVQUAL) methodology and metrics. SERVQUAL measures five dimensions of the customer experience including reliability, assurance, tangibles, empathy and responsiveness (Parasuraman, Zeithaml, Berry, 1985). While the scope of this analysis concentrates on SERVQUAL from the standpoint of capturing data, information and knowledge from a customer standpoint, there are many ancillary implications that also apply to the knowledge-based theory of firms as well. The use of SERVQUAL-based intelligence in a company can fuel even greater strides in the effectiveness of the entire value chain. From this standpoint, SERVQUAL can fuel significant change that is predicated on the knowledge-based theory of firms. Leadership in 21rst century needs to be dictated by the effective use of knowledge-based assets over physical ones, as growth is predicated on how well a company interprets its environments and reacts to it (Singh, 2008).
Paper Doctorate
Sustainable tourism development in rural and urban contexts
Ecotourism can help promote sustainable development, especially in developing regions, just as long as its practices do not endanger the livelihood of the local people. Creating a set of benefits directly linked to sustainable tourism within the community, like poverty alleviation and increased economic stability, will also help increase a community's devotion to sustainable and eco-friendly practices. This, in turn, will help increase the power and potential of conservation in such regions, when they otherwise may have been exploited to the point of possible depletion, leaving the people of these communities unable to make a living entirely.
Research Paper Doctorate
Plato's theory of Forms in the Phaedo
¶ … Evolution of Plato's Ideas on Metaphysics and Epistemology