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GRE Argument: Should Educators Incorporate Student Interests into Course Planning?
A qualified argument for using student interests as evidence about how to teach and apply essential material, without letting preference replace educational aims.
A Failure That Changed How I Practice
An illustrative reflection on a disappointing piano performance and the deliberate changes that made practice more useful.
Do Digital Tools Distract from Learning in Schools? GRE Issue Essay
A qualified argument that digital tools can distract when they fragment attention or substitute for thought, but can support learning when they are deliberately matched to instructional goals and used with clear boundaries.
Macbeth and the Choice to Embrace Evil
An analysis of how Macbeth’s growing awareness and deliberate choices both support and complicate the idea that evil requires conscious acceptance.
Why Buying Less and Buying Better Are Different Environmental Choices
An explanatory essay distinguishing consumption avoidance from longer product use, using the waste-prevention hierarchy and evidence about household budgets and consumer decisions.
Mary Church Terrell and Black Women’s Organizing, 1865–1945
Terrell’s 1897 address called Black women to combine equality advocacy, racial pride, and organized service. Reconstruction-era institution building helped make that call possible, and its principles find a clear later expression in Black women’s participation in the 1913 suffrage procession.
Personal Discipline and Student Motivation
An argument that student effort matters, but educational conditions can either obstruct that effort or help turn it into sustained motivation.
Learning a Skill Without Being the Best
An illustrative reflection on learning to draw from observation and finding meaning in steady practice without prizes or rankings.
AI in Public Services: Why Context Matters Before Adoption
An explanatory essay arguing that public agencies should assess AI according to the stakes, explainability, and oversight needs of each use rather than adopting it simply because it is available.
Alice’s Curiosity and Unfulfilled Need in Wonderland
A literary analysis of how Alice’s pursuit of understanding leads to discovery but cannot give her stable footing in Wonderland.
Understanding Society: What Major Cities Reveal—and Miss
An argumentative essay explaining why major cities are powerful but incomplete windows into society, using the Morrill Act and the Second New Deal to show how national policies connect urban and rural life while obscuring some communities and histories.
Competing Interpretations of the American Revolution
A comparison of Gordon-Reed’s and Breen’s interpretations, using the election of 1800 and the Great Compromise to examine both the Revolution’s unequal promise of liberty and its transformation of political institutions.