Science & technology
Discovery, digital life and the questions raised by new knowledge.
Scientific Images: Beautiful Pictures or Evidence?
An argumentative essay explaining how Hubble images engage viewers while also serving as evidence that scientists interpret through careful analysis.
Wilderness Protection Laws: Should Remaining Areas Stay Undisturbed?
An argument that nations should legally protect remaining wilderness from permanent development while allowing carefully limited exceptions for urgent public needs and Indigenous rights.
Should Social Media Challenges Be Banned? Balancing Safety and Choice
An argument for restricting challenge posts that promote credible risks while preserving harmless participation and combining clear rules with education.
GRE Practice: Should Society Save Every Endangered Species?
A qualified argument for serious efforts to protect endangered species, with priorities based on urgency, effectiveness, uncertainty, and cost. It distinguishes conservation reasoning from what the supplied historical evidence can establish.
Artificial Intelligence in Everyday American Life: Benefits and Risks
An explanatory essay distinguishing AI’s useful assistance from reliable judgment, using U.S. teen chatbot adoption, NIST’s voluntary risk-management framework, and NHTSA’s driver-assistance examples to examine benefits, risks, and limits.
Why Scientific Curiosity Needs Room for Unexpected Results
An argument that scientific inquiry should leave room for discoveries researchers cannot predict, while using evidence, peer review, and responsible choices to guide investment.
GRE Issue Essay on When Society Should Save Endangered Species
An argument that conservation should respond to the seriousness of extinction risk and the public interest, not only to whether people caused the threat.
Digital Connection and Real-World Belonging Can Support Each Other
An evidence-based explanation of how online contact can strengthen relationships while remaining an incomplete substitute for meaningful social connection.
Can Unpredictable Research Outcomes Justify Limiting Research?
An argumentative essay evaluating whether uncertainty about research outcomes justifies restricting research, with attention to potential benefits, foreseeable risks, and public oversight.
Who Should Be Responsible for AI Mistakes?
An evidence-based argument that responsibility for AI mistakes should be shared but assigned according to each party’s control, knowledge, and ability to reduce risk.
Wilderness Preservation or Economic Development?
An argument that governments should generally preserve wilderness, allowing development only when it respects existing land rights, has a strong public justification, and avoids unacceptable lasting damage.
How Should Families Discuss Teenagers' Use of AI Chatbots?
An explanatory essay arguing that families should make practical agreements about chatbot verification, privacy, schoolwork and well-being, while distinguishing reported adoption from evidence about individual experiences.