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What is Opinion?

Opinion writing asks students to take a clear, defensible position on a subject and support it with reasoning and evidence. It appears across disciplines — English composition, history, political science, business, and professional studies — precisely because the ability to form and articulate a considered judgment is a foundational academic skill. What makes opinion-driven writing intellectually demanding is the requirement to move beyond personal preference and engage seriously with competing perspectives, contextual facts, and the implications of one's own claims.

The papers archived under this topic reflect a wide range of approaches and subject matter. Some take an explicitly evaluative stance, such as ranking historical figures or assessing the significance of events like the Russian Civil War. Others embed opinion within analytical frameworks, examining organizational change, strategic implications of incidents like the BP Deepwater Horizon accident, or labor law cases such as International Union UAW v Johnson Controls Inc. Still others blend personal reflection with professional or civic argument, as in essays on the meaning of military service or responses to historical documents like Benjamin Banneker's letter to Thomas Jefferson.

A strong opinion essay begins with a thesis that is specific and arguable rather than broadly descriptive. Evidence carries the most weight when it is concrete — drawn from primary sources, documented cases, or credible data — and directly tied to the central claim. Writers should ensure their reasoning addresses counterarguments rather than ignoring them, since acknowledging opposing views strengthens rather than weakens a position. The most common pitfall is confusing a topic with a thesis: identifying an issue is only the starting point, and the essay must commit to a clear judgment about it.

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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, published by a.L. Bert, 1901

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Ovidian myths in classical literature

Antiquity has had numerous writers and poets, each of them having either similar or diverse styles of writing, depending on various intervening factors such as their location and the time that they had lived in.

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Technology adoption and implementation in school districts

The following is a set of questions that was asked of Joe Bloke, the Superintendant of Anytown, NJ schools, and Sue Schirmer, a high school teacher. Joe's responses are in blue, and Sue's in red.

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War on Terrorism Is One

Terrorism is one of the most foundational threats that the world has ever seen. Terrorism is also a difficult threat as it is rarely if ever linked directly to a source nation, that has an official role in terrorist…

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Thinking and intelligence in developmental psychology

How do we retrieve content into our awareness from long-term memory?

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Leadership Team Building and Communication

This paper answers five questions related to leadership, team building, and communication. The first question examines the traditional, contemporary, and emerging leadership theories and interpersonal forms of power; creates a profile of the ideal leader for Microsoft Corporation; and describes the most appropriate leadership characteristics in terms of leadership style and interpersonal forms of power. The second question analyzes the organizational stressors to determine their likely impact on organizational performance as well as how these stressors can be addressed. The next question analyzes the most critical elements for effective group and work team performance to determine the steps which can be taken to develop an effective team or work group. The fourth question identifies the most potential sources of conflict within the group or work team; evaluate the five conflict management styles, and explains which style of conflict management is most appropriate for the potential sources of conflicts. The final question determines potential barriers to communication, explains how these barriers may impact group and work team performance, and recommends strategies to address them in an effective way.

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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual harassment in the work place forms an atmosphere that degrades people and has a depressing influence on individual functioning and efficiency as well as organizational efficiency and unit morale.

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Revolutions in Romantic Literature

Bordieu's work is interesting in terms of analyzing contemporary media production. It is interesting that a person's profession defines and narrows is or her perspective. To wit: Bourdieu spoke about 'culture'. Now, even though his intention was culture in the conventional sense, fields including science (which in turn includes social science), law and religion, as well as expressive domains such as art, literature and music, when he spoke about culture he onerously focused on the expressive-aesthetic fields, namely literature and art. These were his occupations and this is what the man thought about. It is possible that another, perhaps a scientist, writing about culture, would extract th scientific aspect of it. Since Bourdeau was an author, he approached it form that tangent and, thereby, gave culture his own p-articular meaning. What I mean to point out over here is that there is almost no terms that is free from subjective interpretation and impulse of our experiences. Our personal experiences, tendencies, socialization, and so forth paint and warp the way we see things and Bourdieu, for instance, constructed 'culture' according to his particular perspective. For Bourdieu, for instance, ‘the principal obstacle to a rigorous science of the production of the value of cultural goods' is the ‘charismatic ideology of "creation" ' and this was to be found in art, literature,a nd similar cultural fields. Bourdieu was focusing on the aesthetic experiences alone. Similarly when he speaks of the producer of culture is is always the "painter, composer, writer" who has "the magic power of transubstantiation with which the "creator" is endowed' (Bourdieu, 1996/1992: 167).

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Business model comparison and analysis

Diversity as a management style in Fortune 500 companies:

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U.S. Foreign Policy Authors Lafeber,

Authors LaFeber, Offner, Gaddis present revisionist ideas about the outbreak of Cold War in their works which are not widely recognized in the U.S.A. And Europe. According to their opinion, based on historical documents…

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