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What is People?

The study of people sits at the center of nearly every academic discipline, from sociology and psychology to literature, public health, and political science. Essays grouped under this broad topic examine human behavior, identity, social roles, and the systems that shape individual lives. Because the subject touches so many fields, students encounter it in introductory composition courses, upper-division humanities seminars, and professional programs alike. Works like Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Langston Hughes' "Night Funeral in Harlem" appear alongside nursing research and immigration policy, reflecting how questions about what it means to be human cross disciplinary boundaries and resist simple answers.

The papers archived here take a wide range of approaches. Literary analysis appears in close readings of Hughes and Sophocles, while social and policy perspectives drive essays on immigration, reintegration after incarceration, and technology dependence. Applied professional angles emerge in work on nursing evidence-based practice, physical education teacher burnout, and strategic staffing. Personal narrative and descriptive writing feature in essays about historical figures and memorable life events, while research-oriented pieces examine extracurricular activity, premarital factors, and quality improvement initiatives. This variety shows that writing about people can mean analyzing a character, evaluating a workplace policy, or reflecting on lived experience.

A strong essay on any aspect of this topic needs a focused, arguable thesis rather than a general statement about humanity. Evidence that carries weight includes specific examples, credible research, or close textual detail depending on the assignment type. The most common pitfall is scope creep — trying to address all of society when the essay should examine one clear issue, case, or idea in meaningful depth.

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Gender oppression and self-identity in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman

Atwood illustrates the importance of adaptation and acquiescence to the dominant culture with regard to the decomposition of self-identity and the ability to retain personal choice. There is never goodness-of-fit between Marian's self-identity and the cultural and social roles that she is are required of her. Marian first loses her struggle and in the process loses her voice, her identity, and her direction—only by making an effigy of herself and consuming it is she able to bridge to a new composition of her old identity. She knows who she is even if she doesn't know quite where she wants to go. Marian figures out how to coexist in a world that will never let her be the person she is. The primary difference is that she has experienced the full thrust of the cultural violence that is the milieu in which she exists—and she knows the danger she creates for herself when she struggles against the current. The cost of not conforming is real and salient. The conscientization that Marian developed before her engagement to Peter is clouded, but the nebulous shapes have discernable form. The tyranny of consumerism and cultural dominance are no longer strangers to Marian—she can play the game on their field, if she must.

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Family assessment of a post-divorce household adjustment

Identifying Information and Presenting Issues

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Federal programs for U.S. hazard mitigation and preparedness

Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness (U.S. Federal Programs: Advantages and Disadvantages)

Paper Undergraduate

Stock market speculation and valuation from the 1960s through 1990s

Malkiel notes that there were a number of speculative trends from the 1960s to 1990s, and that they all mended up in the same way. Every few years, the stock market has another bubble or speculative mania which soon crashes and levels off, such as overvalued food stocks in the 1980s or the Nifty Fifty blue chips in the 1970s, but in both cases the speculative phase ended and stocks returned to their normal values. By the 1990s, institutions accounted for more than 90% of the trading volume on the NYSE, and yet professional investors participated in several distinct speculative movements from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Paper Undergraduate

Victorian poetry's revision of Wordsworth's concept of childhood

The representation of childhood and youth in two Victorian poets--Matthew Arnold and A.E. Housman--is examined. The issue is framed in terms of the overall reaction of Victorian poetry to the earlier Romantic movement, here discussed in terms of Wordsworth's view of childhood and Matthew Arnold's disagreement with it, in his essay on Wordsworth's poetry. Childhood and youth are examined in Victorian poems including Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman" and "Youth's Agitations", and Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and "With Rue My Heart Is Laden".

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Crime and punishment in Baldwin, McPherson, and O'Connor

This paper discusses three short stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "The Story of a Scar," and "Sonny's Blues." In each, a crime has been committed and the perpetrator goes more or less punished. However, it becomes apparent that there are secondary crimes in each story which reveal a hidden culprit and a secondary criminal which has more meaning than the original.

Paper Doctorate

The purpose of life in Buddhism and Islam: ending suffering and ignorance

Islam and Buddhism are counted as the most widely spread and major religions of the world1. The origin of Islam was in Arabia, based on the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be upon Him) while the later is based on the teachings of Lord Buddha in Northern India. Researching these two major religions in detail helped me to formulate the following thesis statement.

Paper Undergraduate

The Armenian genocide and Ottoman denial of systematic mass murder

The Turkish treatment of the Armenian Genocide, an event acknowledged nearly all over the world outside of Turkey and its closest allies, is representative of how nationalistic attitudes rewrite actual historical events in favor of a ruling party. It is easy to criticize the Turks in this matter, but in actuality the Turkish attitude towards the Armenian question calls for a critical eye in every country regarding its presentation of international events and the need for objectivity in understanding truth.

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Antigone's defiance of Creon's law in Sophocles' tragedy

An analysis of how Antigone's views on what is right differ from Creon's. In the play, by Sophocles, Antigone believes that divine law should be upheld above all else and consistently defies Creon in order to make sure that these laws are not broken. Antigone believes that her actions are noble and that she will be rewarded in the afterlife, whereas Creon will be made to suffer in this life and in the next.

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Pierre Huyghe and Ai Weiwei's installation art and postmodern identity

After reviewing the artists from Art21, the artists chosen are Pierre Huyghe and Ai Weiwei as the subjects of this paper. The pieces the paper will be "This is not a time for dreaming" by Huyghe and "Forever" by Weiwei. Both pieces are installation pieces although the artists are not classified under the same grouping on the Art21 website. Weiwei is listed as "Featured in Change" and Huyghe is listed as "Featured in Romance." Though they are not featured or classified in the same group, their respective groups are related. There are several different kinds of people in the world for whom change is romantic. Weiwei is a renowned activist as well as renowned artists. Artists typically have a deep passion within that they express via their art. Therefore, Weiwei could see the connection between romance and change. For the native Parisian Huyghe, romance may very well be an expression of change. The paper will perform analyses and provide insight into the intention & meanings of their works. The installations of these very different artists are similar in that they communicate to the audience with subtlety and pluralism.

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