General admission essay prompts and strategies
Thomas Jefferson believed that universal education would have to precede universal suffrage. The ignorant, he argued, were incapable of self-government. But he had profound faith in the reasonableness and ability of the masses and in their collective wisdom when educated. As one of the founding fathers, Jefferson in fact set the precedent for American education: reading, writing, mathematics, the Classics, and European and American History. That his beliefs were focused on all male citizens receiving a free education, and a sign of his times for, in 1789, the first law was passed in Massachusetts to reaffirm the colonial laws by which town were obligated to support a school. Jefferson would not have recognized the drastic changes that the 21st century has brought – but clearly, his ideas of valuing the educational process are even more valid in this global world as they were during the 18th century.
Etiology Questions; Christianity and Judaism
The idea of etiology is the study of causation -- usually used to refer to the study of why things occur or the reasons behind certain stories, etc. Tracing the origin of stories, myth, parables, and legends is often…