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A Belief Is What We Accept as Truth
Essay Grade: 89%   (1,367 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay is about the fact that what we believe is truth, if there is any, and what is it.
A Biography of Senator Barack Obama
Essay Grade: 96%   (4,564 words, approx. 15 pages)
A biography of Illinois Senate Democrat Barack Obama, including his childhood, political career, famous speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and opinions of the author.
A Brilliant Disguise
Essay Grade: 86%   (484 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses society and the media.

Thesis: Every human being has within them benevolence towards others, yet this morality is often clouded by our fickle and evil side, brought forth by scientific knowledge and the media.

A Case Study of Adam, a Dyslexic Child
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,241 words, approx. 8 pages)
Provides a comprehensive case study of a dyslexic 4-year-old boy. Describes his social relationships and general development. Provides treatment recommendations.
A Closer Look Into the "Banality of Evil"
Essay Grade: 83%   (362 words, approx. 1 pages)
A brief analysis of Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem, including further exploration of the meaning behind the concept of the "banality of evil."
A Comparison of Australia's and China's Political Systems
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,089 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares Australia's and China's political systems, including form of government, form of parliament, the head of state and the Constitution of the country.
A Conspiracy Phenomenon: Alien Abductions in the U.S.
Essay Grade: 88%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
An examination of the belief in aliens and reports of alien abductions and their place in American culture, particularly the conspiracy culture. Attention is also given to the links between alien abductions and popular literature and films, as alien abduction stories appeal to large movie-going audiences.
A Correlation Between the Corpus Callosum and "developmental Language Disorders"
Essay Grade: 96%   (3,705 words, approx. 12 pages)
Various types of language disorders affect a considerable amount of children academically and socially worldwide. A major disorder is developmental language disorders (DLD) caused by central auditory processing disorders (CAPD). A CAPD is defined as showing "difficulties discriminating, identifying and retaining sounds after the ears have "heard" the sounds." Both language and auditory are processed in an infinite number of nuclei throughout both hemispheres of the brain. Thus it has been hypothesized that abnormalities of the corpus callosum (CC) are correlated with deficiencies in auditory and language processes. This article reviews studies that have tried to prove this hypothesis. Due to the homogenous nature of either process, it is too complicated to try to identify a single cause of a single structure of the brain. Studies have yet to be found of having strong evidence that the CC correlates (or does not correlate) with DLDs and CAPDs.
A Discussion of Psychological Research
Essay Grade: 83%   (675 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses theories and studies into causes of interpersonal attraction. Examines research in this area, focusing on the Halo Effect.
A Discussion of Freud's Theory of Religion
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,231 words, approx. 4 pages)
A discussion of Freud's theory of religion.
A Just War?
Essay Grade: 94%   (690 words, approx. 2 pages)
An intellectual factual look at the Iraq War
A Look at Popular Culture
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,093 words, approx. 4 pages)
Popular culture exists today through many different things, but not just material things such as radio's and TV's ect But also through emotional and spiritual feelings, everyone feels fear, hate, lust, envy, joy, happiness, and even love.
A Modest Proposal
Essay Grade: 90%   (690 words, approx. 2 pages)
A satirical essay about Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".
A New Country
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,053 words, approx. 4 pages)
In our new nation, we are aiming to create an economic system that mimics the United State's: a capital system with government regulations. Instead of an entirely capitalist system, ours will regulate the growth and actions of business while allowing them enough freedom to make decisions for themselves. One of the most important restrictions is one on big business monopolies.
A New Political System
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,649 words, approx. 6 pages)
This is an essay about how our goverment should be run.
A Paradox Truth
Essay Grade: 86%   (385 words, approx. 1 pages)
What is truth and how can it really be defined? By contradicting truth, we contradict one self because it is how we interpret truth that defines it.
A Personal Understanding of the Roles of Sociologists and Intellectuals
Essay Grade: 86%   (803 words, approx. 3 pages)
An informative essay about the general understanding of the sociology of knowledge. The essay also examines the roles which intellectuals play in the advancement of theory and scientific social knowledge.
A Pleasurable Chemistry
Essay Grade: 85%   (533 words, approx. 2 pages)
The role of endorphins in the body
A Pluralistic Balance
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,748 words, approx. 6 pages)
Pluralism in Canadian politics offers homosexuals the right to marry. However, the rights of the religious must also be considered to be truly pluralistic. This essay examines the imbalances and makes recommendations to restore a pluralistic balance.
A Political Analysis of the United States Supreme Court
Essay Grade: 88%   (504 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides a political perspective on the United States Supreme Court. Describes the makeup of the court and its purpose. Explores how the court receives cases and what the future may bring to it.
A Process Essay for Males: How to Approch a Girl and Get a Date
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,976 words, approx. 7 pages)
Advises how a man should think and talk to a girl when trying ask her out on a date. Provides a five-step method for dating from a male perspective.
A Report on Questionnaire "does It Pay to Combine Work with Studies?"
Essay Grade: 78%   (806 words, approx. 3 pages)
Students are able to study and work at the same time. Most of the working students have a part time job, and only some - a full time. And those who do not work are, for the most part, willing to.
A Review of Britian's "Education Maintenance Allowance."
Essay Grade: 83%   (661 words, approx. 2 pages)
Analysis and opinions abou the education maintenance allowance, a new government program in Britian designed to help low-income families.
A Revised Economic Perspective,
Essay Grade: 98%   (416 words, approx. 1 pages)
Revisions to GDP were not huge measured by magnitude, but they were significant, when judged by their implications for policy. Since the end of the recession in 2001, real economic growth has been a bit slower, implying that productivity and economic growth potential have been weaker than previously thought, while labor costs and the economic risk of higher inflation are greater. One direct consequence of these changes is that the Fed will need a weaker economic growth rate to keep inflation under control. Hopes for an end to the Fed's rate hikes are predicated on weaker growth containing inflation pressures. These revisions suggest that the margin for error is lower and the risks of higher inflation are greater.
A Search for Meaning
Essay Grade: 88%   (574 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses how unity within the human race is impossible.
A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil
Essay Grade: 86%   (680 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides an in-depth analysis of a situational perspective on the psychology of evil and understanding how good people are transformed into perpetrators. Uses literary texts as references.
A Study of Behavioral Impulsivity
Essay Grade: 78%   (586 words, approx. 2 pages)
Details about a psychological research study of adolescents and tests they took for Attention Deficit Disorder.
A Summary of "The Perils of Obedience"
Essay Grade: 88%   (665 words, approx. 2 pages)
Stanley Milgram's article "The Perils of Obedience" tells of his experiments to test the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. In those experiments, Milgram found that the majority of people will fulfill the request of an authoritative figure even at the expense of their own moral judgment and sense of what is right and wrong.
A Tough Call, July 10, 2006
Essay Grade: 98%   (433 words, approx. 1 pages)
The outcome of the Fed's next decision is too tough to call, as yet. The need for higher interest rates to slow down growth is fast becoming urgent, since inflation pressures are now rising visibly and strongly. However, job growth may be slowing, which could contain inflation pressures within a reasonable period of time. If the Fed were confident that a slower pace of job growth would be sustained, then the Fed could pause. But the slower pace of employment growth may be temporary. The Fed's next move is a very tough call right now based on the information at hand. So, the Fed will welcome the new data that will become available before its next meeting.
A True Canadian Citizen
Essay Grade: 87%   (949 words, approx. 3 pages)
The responsibilities of being an informed, active and global citizen.
A Utopic Society
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,629 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay describes what steps need to taken to have a Utopic society as well as the advantages one would provide.
A View on Cross-Cutural Communication
Essay Grade: 78%   (784 words, approx. 3 pages)
Cross-cultural communication can be divided into two parts: win-win communication, which is a positive effect, and culture invasion, which is a negative effect. How can we repel culture invasion without holding back the win-win cross-cultural communication? The following examination of the pros and cons of cross-cultural communication in today's world includes consideration of how to overcome the defects and make progress.
A World Without Wars: Is It a Utopia?
Essay Grade: 92%   (575 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay considers if a world without wars would be a Utopia.
A.D.D.
Essay Grade: 88%   (748 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay provides information about attention deficit disorder also known as A.D.D.
A.J. Ayer: The Elimination of Metaphysics
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,621 words, approx. 5 pages)
In A.J. Ayer's book "Language, Truth, and Logic," the author argues that metaphysics should be abandoned as a form of philosophy. Much of Ayer's critique of metaphysical philosophy stems from the idea that insight beyond the world of reality cannot be gained because it cannot be empirically observed and understood.
Abnormalities
Essay Grade: 92%   (934 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay describes living life with "abnormalities."
Abortion: The Right to Choose
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,158 words, approx. 4 pages)
It's possible that the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade could be overturned with the appointment of new Supreme Court justices by President Bush. The reasons why abortion rights should be the law of the land are defended.
About Child Abuse
Essay Grade: 84%   (349 words, approx. 1 pages)
It's about child abuse.
Abraham Maslow
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,348 words, approx. 5 pages)
Explores the life and works of the psychologist Abraham Maslow. Examines how his Hierarchy of Need is the theory that brought him recognition as a significant theorist. Describes the lasting contributions of his theories to the world today.
Accountability of Political Parties
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,244 words, approx. 4 pages)
Competition among political parties is essential in forming a government. However, such competition should be based on the fairness and true accountability of the elected party's platform, and political parties should be held to high standards of accountability.
Acquiring Political Power under a Principality
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,638 words, approx. 6 pages)
Machiavelli and Thucydides both demonstrate how a ruler can use many aspects of human nature to their advantage when ruling a state. Although both authors wrote their books two thousand years apart, the similarities in their views, and references to those book that continue to the present day, reflect the lack of change in human nature through the centuries.
Active Citizenship
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,039 words, approx. 4 pages)
Defines active citizenship. Questions if active citizenship is a waste of time. Explores ways in which citizens can take an active role in the society we live in.
Adam Smith and His Works with Economics
Essay Grade: 88%   (688 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay talks about the econimist Adam Smith.
Addison's Use of The Spectator to Influence Opinions
Essay Grade: 96%   (361 words, approx. 1 pages)
The Spectator was a british paper that was mass produced during the idustrial revolution. This new form of print was widely spread to not only the rich but afforded by the poor. This was a means to influence the great masses of lower class individuals in a society that was about make a drastic change.

   

Adhd, Ritalin, Families, and Pharmaceutical Companies
Essay Grade: 86%   (3,471 words, approx. 12 pages)
It seems that prescription drugs are a more reasonable and reliable solution for children and adults than diet and exercise for the "disease" known as ADHD. Rather than take the time to play with their children, or institute a proper diet, it seems that increasing numbers of parents would rather treat their children's unexplained zest for life with pills and doctors.
Admendment 6
Essay Grade: 87%   (323 words, approx. 1 pages)
Amendment 6 of the US constitution
Adolescent Violence
Essay Grade: 86%   (2,030 words, approx. 7 pages)
More violent crimes are being committed by adolescents, and violence in schools has become an increasing problem throughout the nation in the last few years. A combination of factors may lead to violence, but there may be important assets that may be preventive factors to violence in schools, homes, and communities.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Public Private Partnerships
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,207 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of public private partnerships. Examines the advantages of private corporations investing in public infrastructure and the risks involved when government invests in the private sector.
Advantages of a Two Party System
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,297 words, approx. 4 pages)
A essay disscusing the advantages of a two party political system.
Advantages of Globalization
Essay Grade: 92%   (350 words, approx. 1 pages)
While technology is advancing, global village is founded due to its benefits towards nations and individual citizens.
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