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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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Self-Regulation Issues in Children and Adolescents With ADHD, ODD, and OCD
This paper focuses on Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in children. It offers a literature review of peer reviewed articles from 5 years or later and also research on techniques and methods to help identify and observe self-regulating within children, a key way to control these kinds of behavioral disorders.
Essay Doctorate
Consumer culture and capitalism in Western societies
It can be hard to pinpoint a definition for consumerism. However, generally the term is used to describe people that conflate wants and needs. For example, some people might identify the new iPhone as a want that would be nice to have. While others actually would describe this as something "need" in order to be happy; to the extent that they will actually wait in line for hours on end to be the first to purchase the new iContraption. Consumerism can also include the concept of fashionable consumption. Fashionable consumption goes beyond what an individual actually needs in terms of their physical well-being.
Paper Undergraduate
Violence against teachers in schools
Violence in schools has been at the forefront of media attention for some time now. One of the main reasons for this is the apparently increasing incidents of violence against and among children.
Essay Doctorate
Leadership Styles Theory X And Theory Y
Theory X and Theory Y represents a dichotomous view of leadership-worker relations. Theory X "assumes that employees are naturally motivated and dislike working" (MindTools.com 2013).
Paper Doctorate
Reframing Pilgrimage Cultures in Motion
This paper focuses on the books : "The pilgrim church in Vienna: mobile memories at the 1912 International Eucharistic Congress" in Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity and the books: Intersecting Journeys the Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism and Travel and Modernist Literature Sacred and Ethical Journeys and Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion in order to understand what pilgrimage means in an ever existing and expanding theoretical framework.
Research Paper Undergraduate
European cultural studies: concepts and research approaches
This paper examines the European Security Strategy, which is driven by neoliberal ideals of international cooperation as a means to achieve peace. The ESS is evaluated in the context of the United States versus Europe, using the lenses of cultural, ethnicity, national identity and geography to inform the different perspectives on the idea of ESS.
Paper Undergraduate
Educational Leadership Comprehensive Exam - Educational Leadership
This paper focuses on educational leadership and presents the theories that have been brought forth for different leadership styles. This is then followed by a discussion of how one theory has been applied. This discussion focuses on how the theory was applied, problems and challenges encountered in application and ways in which the theory was changed when applying it.
Paper Doctorate
Saudi Arabia\'s International Business Law
Introduction Saudi Arabia and Socio Economics Oil wealth, which led to dramatic standard of living increases in the Gulf for much of the second half of the twentieth century, no longer is enough to ensure the prosperity of several states. Living standards in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman have remained at a standstill in recent years. For example, from 1980 to 1998, the Saudi economy grew at an average of 0.2 percent a year—a stagnation that ended only when oil prices soared in 1999 and 2000.
Thesis Undergraduate
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain contributed in American literature and left some master pieces that are still researched and interpreted, despite Twain's advice ‘not to interpret' because the lovers of American literature have that taste of understanding twain's work and they ignore the warning of ‘to be shot'. It is not only a lesson that the story communicates but the novel offers a whole entertaining, adventure and romance experience that can be imagined along the Mississippi.Mark Twain contributed in American literature and left some master pieces that are still researched and interpreted, despite Twain's advice ‘not to interpret' because the lovers of American literature have that taste of understanding twain's work and they ignore the warning of ‘to be shot'. It is not only a lesson that the story communicates but the novel offers a whole entertaining, adventure and romance experience that can be imagined along the Mississippi.
Essay Doctorate
Testing a Hypothesis Is to Establish One.
¶ … testing a hypothesis is to establish one. There should be a null hypothesis that the data can be used to test. Data acquisition is therefore the next step in testing the hypothesis.