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What Should Schools Teach About Online Privacy?
An evidence-based argument for teaching practical, age-appropriate online privacy skills while recognizing the distinct duties of families and technology platforms.
Personal Circumstances and Social Influence on Attitudes
An argument that attitudes grow out of interaction between immediate experience and wider institutions, shared norms, and historical conditions. Local experience matters, but society often shapes the choices people encounter and the meanings they assign to them.
The Digital Divide Is Also a Divide in How Tools Are Used
A developed explanation of how digital access, patterns of use, and information-evaluation skills differ—and what a national survey of U.S. teens can and cannot show.
Jay Gatsby’s Reinvention and the American Dream
A literary-analysis essay examining how Gatsby’s self-fashioning makes his pursuit of Daisy possible while revealing the limits of wealth and personal reinvention in The Great Gatsby.
Should Leaders Face a Five-Year Term Limit?
A qualified argument against imposing one five-year limit on leaders across business, politics, education, and government. The essay distinguishes continuity from entrenchment and argues for role-specific accountability.
Transatlantic Trade and Colonial Society, 1607–1776
Expanding Atlantic commerce reshaped colonial consumption, economies, and relationships with Britain, while reinforcing older inequalities and leaving regional differences and local political institutions intact. After the Seven Years’ War, imperial efforts to regulate trade helped turn commercial ties into a source of conflict.
Free University Tuition for Students Who Cannot Afford It
An argument for publicly funded tuition support for admitted students who cannot pay, with attention to access, fiscal limits, and the history of public higher education.
Heroes and Social Values: What Role Models Reveal About Society
An argument that celebrated figures offer meaningful but incomplete evidence about a society’s values: their public image reveals what a society chooses to praise, while their limits and the institutions behind their prominence complicate the picture.
GRE Practice: Can Living People Still Be Heroes in the Media Age?
An argumentative essay arguing that media scrutiny complicates judgments of heroism without making them impossible. It uses supplied National Archives evidence to examine Eisenhower’s invasion decision and Kennedy’s public-service appeal, while distinguishing scrutiny of documented choices from unsupported claims about personal flaws.
Imagination Versus Experience: GRE Issue Essay
An argumentative essay evaluating whether imagination is more valuable than experience, and when each provides an advantage.
What Counts as a Housing Shortage?
A housing shortage cannot be measured by counting empty homes alone. Vacancy, affordability, and suitability answer different questions, so a useful assessment must consider all three.
Political Debates and Government Power in the United States, 1910–1970
A historical comparison of the 1912 debate over federal regulation, the New Deal’s economic intervention, and the NAACP’s pursuit of federal action for civil rights.