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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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Essay Undergraduate

Social and economic impacts of poker machine gambling on stakeholders

The society continues to endeavor to promote human flourishing and the common good. People have principles that govern their dignity as they prosper in life. However, gambling is an issue that affects the society and its efforts to flourish. This paper evaluates the issue from the perspectives of the stakeholders, and the recommends procedures to ensure the human flourishing and their common good.

Paper Undergraduate

Applying learning theories to change unhealthy dietary and exercise behaviors in healthcare patients

There is a number of learning theories that can and should be applied to the clinical setting. These theories can be used to increase OR decrease a behavior. Examples of these theories are social learning theory, psycho-dynamic theory, and so forth. The methods used on a given patient or learner will vary based on the problems that exist and the best solutions to the same.

Paper Undergraduate

Healthcare system models and global disparities in nursing workforce

Global Health / Nursing Trends Wealthy Nations

Paper Doctorate

Philosophical analysis of Witkacy's "The shoemakers"

¶ … Shoemakers -- a Philosophical Approach

Paper High School

Television complexity and cognitive engagement in modern programming

On May 9th 1961, Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission blasted the television industry and called much of it's programming "a vast wasteland." (O'Connor 1986) Twenty-five years later, in…

Paper Undergraduate

Victor Frankenstein's creature: identity shaped by society and rejection

Frankenstein: An Identity Born or Created?

Essay Undergraduate

Building personal resilience through creative problem-solving during challenging times

Challenges can either be something that makes one more resilient or challenging times can bring one down to the literal and proverbial bottom. There is a saying that what does not kill one, makes one stronger.

Essay Doctorate

Loyalty through disobedience: Kent and Edgar in King Lear

Both of the women servants in the Decameron experienced better results than the characters in King Lear, since most of the latter ended up dead by the end of the play. No one died in the two Boccaccio stories, which were intended to be humorous, although one of the servant women received a very bad beating. Unlike these servants, who were members of the lower classes and quite literally nameless nobodies, the Earl of Kent was an aristocrat who has always served King Lear totally and without reservations. He was definitely not a hired man, but bound be feudal oaths of loyalty to his sovereign. Kent did trick the mad king into believing he is simply a servant named Caius, but with the noblest of intentions and he received no rewards or incentives like the housemaids in Boccaccio's stories. When the king banished him from the palace and sent him into exile, Kent owed no more allegiance to him at all since their bonds were formally broken, yet him stayed with him until the end of the play and died almost immediately after him. Kent is literally loyal to the death, displaying far more virtue and friendship than the king.

Essay Doctorate

Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and Beat Generation critique of American conformity

Allen Ginseng was a popular poet of the Beat Generation, a non-conformist free thinker who belonged to a group of people who dared to think outside the conventional themes of the time. The post-World War II period was characterized by unreasonable, blind faith in the institutions of America, a faith that accepted everything without questioning. This was because after having been on part of the allies during the war and having won it lent America many economic benefits on the back of which America increased its might in world. At the outcome of the war, America was in a much stronger position even among the other countries which had really won the war, such as Russia; however the European allies were in a weaker position, as they had spent beyond their capacity during the war. Therefore America was at its peak as a superpower after the War and people had faith in their country and were patriotic to the extent of not being able to accept that their country or their leaders could be at fault. (McChesney)

Paper Doctorate

Tax policy and economic recovery during the Great Recession

This document is for an assignment involving some crisis with the United States during the present moment or within the past two years. The focus is on the potential legislation regarding tax cuts and the current economic crisis of the United States. It examines the failings of the government and how the crisis could potentially be solved.

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