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A Hole in Heaven – Chapter 1 Essay Sample, Example
A gray-tailed hawk had been swiveling in a circle around an encampment of cows, gliding on the colder winds of an oncoming monsoon. Ishan watched its feather tips keenly as they swayed in and out of air currents, curious at…
Insomnia Essay Sample, Example
How often in your life have you been in a condition when you are deadly tired and dream only about getting in your warm bed—to find yourself completely unable to fall asleep? An hour, two hours, three hours in a…
Muslim Cinema: An Introduction Essay Sample, Example
By Javed Mohammed The Muslim World and Cinema Every culture promotes its history, beliefs, heroes, values, norms, and attitude. The African-American director Spike Lee said about his films, ‘I’m just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining…
Why is Euthanasia So Debated? Essay Sample, Example
Although medicine has reached the level when many diseases can be cured or at least effectively stopped, there are cases when nothing can help a patient survive. Terminal diseases such as cancer or AIDS, if not attended in time, can…
How Glossy Magazines Affect the Minds of Youth Essay Sample, Example
Youth—especially the teenage years—is a period of life when an individual is especially vulnerable in terms of his or her personality being affected by the environment: peers, media, culture in general, certain events social or political events, romance, and so…
Will All the Trees Disappear? Essay Sample, Example
Major deforestation is a known issue today, but not many think about it as more than just a statistic. Though forests still cover roughly 30% of Earth’s surface, forests as large as half of England are being cut down each…
Mean Streets, Directed by Martin Scorsese Essay Sample, Example
By Dan Schneider There is a scene in Martin Scorsese’s seminal 1973 film, Mean Streets, that is key to understanding not only the characters that inhabit that film, but also many of the characters that populated his later films, including…
Better Schools for All? Essay Sample, Example
By Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng Introduction In the midst of the government’s ‘reform’ agenda in which the NHS, higher education, welfare, and schools are to be radically remodelled, it would appear the government is in a hurry to change the way we…
Smoking Ban Essay Sample, Example
By Nick Thorne The recent Privacy International report, Civil Liberties: Up in Smoke contains some excellent arguments against the smoking ban. Nevertheless, the persistent hyperbole and exaggeration reflect a condescending approach towards the reader, and undermine the author’s own agenda.…
Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction Essay Sample, Example
By Maahwish Mirza The emergence of the English Defence League, attacks motivated by a far-right ideology in Norway, and a controversial denunciation by Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this year have kept debates on multiculturalism alive and raging. In a…
Should Marijuana Be Legal for Medicinal Purposes? Essay Sample, Example
Drug addiction is something societies all over the world rarely tolerate. Although almost every culture has a tradition of consuming narcotic substances—alcohol, in the first turn—not all of them are seen as acceptable. A person saying, “A glass of beer…
Slaughterhouse-5 Essay Sample, Example
By Miguel Fernandes Ceia Even before Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel has begun, the reader is already confronted on the back cover with a wide variety of themes and possibilities, the bombing of Dresden, alien abductions, and public displays of sex…
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk Essay Sample, Example
By Jake Hollis Heard of Chuck Palahniuk? He wrote the novel Fight Club, more popularly known through the film it inspired, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. On page and on screen, Fight Club compelled with its darkly witty imaginings…
Why Freelance Work is Better than Full-Time Work Essay Sample, Example
Since the time freelancing became an option, wide discussions about what is better—full-time jobs or freelancing—have continued. The advocates of working full time believe that it is a more stable and secure source of income. Indeed, an employee working in…
A Defence of Private Schools Essay Sample, Example
By Angus Kennedy Kevin Rooney wants to start a fight to ban private schools (1)(2). To give every child an Eton. To storm the Bastilles of private education and appropriate them in the name of social justice. To abolish them,…
Undertow Essay Sample, Example
By Valentine Rossetti It is very rare to find a film where the sentiment stays with you for days after, but Undertow, the first feature-length film of Peruvian director Javier Fuentes-León, who also wrote, co-produced, and co-edited it, is such…
Stop Bashing Christians! Britain is Becoming an Anti-Christian Country Essay Sample, Example
By Temi Ogunye It is interesting that many Christians no longer call upon the moral authority of their faith as their defence against criticisms made by non-believers. They now, instead, tend to resort to the lowly, everyday language of anti-discrimination…
Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, by Frank Furedi Essay Sample, Example
By Michele Ledda Asked about the persistence of historical determinism in the 20th century in an interview given two years before her death, Hannah Arendt replies that the main reason is the overwhelming attraction of reality. We act into the…
Hamlet Essay Sample, Example
By Matt Trueman Rory Kinnear’s Hamlet is a marked man; most definitely ‘the observed of all observers’. The Elsinore he inhabits is a surveillance state. Where once there might have been gargoyles, CCTV cameras peer down. Courtiers have been replaced…
The Education of a British-Protected Child, by Chinua Achebe Essay Sample, Example
By Jo Caird 2008 was the 50-year anniversary of the publication of Things Fall Apart, the book that is widely regarded as the first African novel. Its Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, turns 80 this year. His output has been spectacular,…