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What is Scholarship?

A scholarship essay is an essay written to a scholarship-granting agency, supporting why you should receive one of their scholarships.  However, scholarship essays are rarely straightforward explanations of why you are a deserving recipient, but, instead, usually allow you to choose from one of several prompts and write a compelling essay that addresses the prompt while demonstrating your worthiness for the scholarship.  These essay prompts are often similar to the college admission essay prompts employed by various colleges and universities.  You can find a good example of those topics on The Common Application’s admission essay page. 

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Apocalypse Now as Adaptation: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
This essay examines the connection between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, and particularly the way the latter strips the former of its anti-imperialist argument. Apocalypse Now frames Vietnam as a personal trauma, and in doing so allows the American Empire to avoid criticism. Ultimately, one can view Apocalypse Now as a direct inversion of Heart of Darkness' argument, because the film serves to support imperialism while the book argues against it.
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Innocence and Nature in Jewett's "A White Heron"
This is a story with several important themes, and one of them is pastoral innocence coming into contact and into conflict with the loss of innocence in a modern, industrial world. The tone, conflict and character…
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Music as Structure and Metaphor in Ellison's Invisible Man
Musically-Inspired or Inflected Narration, Description, Motif Use and Structural Arrangement within Invisible Man (1953) by Ralph Ellison
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Why Nursing Research Methodology Matters in Modern Care
There is a certain expectation within any academic field that there will be continuous research and development in order to keep the scholarship and acumen up-to-date within that discipline.
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Globalization and U.S. National Security: Threats and Vulnerabilities
This essay examines the United States' national security vulnerabilities as a result of globalization. These vulnerabilities can be broken down into roughly three categories: terrorism, the economy, and education. Upon examining these threats, it becomes clear that the economic benefits of globalization must be weighed against the serious threats that stem from a more interconnected world.
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Feminist Leadership: Practical and Interpersonal Challenges
When Professionalism Meets Patriarchy: Practical and Interpersonal Issues in Female Leadership
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New Public Management Reforms and the Democratic Deficit
The Implications of New Public Management for Democracy Today
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Hildegard Peplau's Theory of Psychodynamic Nursing
Hildegard E. Peplau was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1909. Peplau attended a diploma program in 1931 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, completed a BA in interpersonal psychology at Bennington College in 1943, and received…
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Origen's Metempsychosis and Its Condemnation as Heresy
This essay examines Origen's notion of reincarnation within the context of the 4th century Church. Beginning with Origen's condemnation of transmigration, it explicates his complex cosmological theory of reincarnation, before examining the reasons behind Origen's eventual condemnation as a heretic. In the end, Origen was condemned not so much for his beliefs, but rather because he was a useful scapegoat in the political machinations of Justinian I.
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October Sky: A Film Review of Values and Dreams
The movie "October Sky" tells the story of a high school boy in West Virginia who is inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Spudnik, and he is determined to build a rocket and to get involved in America's space program. But his father, a supervising coal miner is bound and determined that his son will follow father's footsteps and have a career in the mine. The drama is very intense, and this is a wonderful movie.
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