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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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Alcohol prohibition in Canada's 1920s peak and origins
Alcohol Prohibition in Canada in the 1920s
Paper Doctorate
The scientific method in social science research and methodology
¶ … Social Science and Why Is it Important?
Essay Doctorate
Secularism in Western and Eastern religions: an ethnographic comparison
¶ … ethnological investigation and analysis, is centered on cultural and religious activity in a contemporary community situation. Essentially, the aim of this research was to observe various cultural and social…
Essay Doctorate
Motivational balance theory in small business and corporate settings
Organizations include many different types of people and personalities that in turn create a need for different types of motivational strategies. In organizations we can have three types of setting that we work in:…
Paper Undergraduate
Second language oral production in high school CLIL contexts
1 Introduction This study is motivated by theoretical and pedagogical interests: to inform instructional design intended to integrate language and content and to explore how form and meaning intersect in SLA. Both interests draw on an extensive body of research that encompasses theory and practice underlying three different yet related frameworks and lines of inquiry: content-based language teaching, form-focused instruction and attention and awareness in SLA. All three of these areas are linked by a concern with the intersection of form and meaning in second language classrooms. Content-based language instruction was originally inspired as an alternative to traditional approaches to language teaching that favored form over meaning. Form-focused instruction brought language form to the foreground when meaning-focused, content-based approaches relegated the learning of language form to an incidental role. Research in attention and awareness has explored a focus on form and meaning as internal learner processes. The research questions guiding the present study were motivated by an interest in these areas.
Paper Doctorate
MS-13 and street gangs in American counterterrorism strategy
Federal law enforcement officials such as the FBI in states around the country are targeting ferocious gangs and the criminal organization known as MS-13, a hostile street gang with origins in Central American countries. Their goal is to find ways to counteract against this growing terror that is becoming a scary force in our country.
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Group dynamics and teamwork in project management at FEL
In this essay, the author has shown typical results in consonance with the learning outcomes and sub-outcomes outcomes of the course as 0stated in the syllabus in terms of working with others, teamwork, groups and group dynamics. Also, the essay has described the nature of groups and group behavior within organizations and investigate the factors that lead to effective teamwork and the influences that threaten success. In the essay, we have also identified the most appropriate organizational structures, roles and responsibilities of participants in a project and plan and specify the human resources and requirements for that project. We have explored conflict resolution extensively so that key personnel can be taught to live and work together and thereby prevent delays that could hinder the fulfillment of the project on time and on budget for Project Abu Dhabi.
Research Paper Undergraduate
Female friendships in Jane Austen's *Sense and Sensibility*
Literature written by and about women lends itself very well to feminist interpretative approaches of various kinds. Such approaches often examine the literature of earlier centuries for signs of discontent with or subversive suggestions against aspects of a society in which men have exclusive control of power. Such an approach is especially fruitful to use when examining Jane Austen's novels since she was writing in a cultural climate that did not accept direct opposition to the status quo. Only through an indirect critique could she publish views critical of the prevailing laws and conditions under which women of her time were forced to live.
Paper Undergraduate
Types and characteristics of corporate bonds
¶ … bonds that corporations can issue to borrow capital. These instruments take various forms depending on who holds the certificate, how the debt is collateralized if at all, the amount and method of paying interest if…
Paper High School
U.S. Indian boarding schools and forced cultural assimilation policy
What was the Indian "problem" [latter half of the 19th C.], and how did the U.S. government go about solving it? Successful? Not successful? Explain