What's an interesting aspect of Iranian society/ Shi'i Islam that would lend itself well to a 10 page expository essay? Nothing too controversial - my professor is Iranian. Just something interesting to write/ learn about.
It has to be pretty specific. Thanks for suggestions!
posted by howgenerica
on Dec 9, 2009 -
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About eight years ago, I read this article on some radical-leaning progressive website, about how the author had come to love Thanksgiving, despite originally viewing it as a celebration of mass murder.
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posted by Ash3000
on Nov 26, 2009 -
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I'm going crazy trying to come up with a topic for a paper on St. Augustine on Memory (ie, book X of the Confessions). I've been trying for days and I just am such a blank. Help brainstorming? I need to be arguing something.
Thanks!
posted by howgenerica
on Nov 17, 2009 -
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Where can I publish some old literary crit essays that are burning a hole in my pocket?
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posted by duncecap
on Nov 1, 2009 -
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Is there a distance at which a satellite will orbit a body indefinitely? Is this distance a universal constant?
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posted by doublehappy
on Oct 16, 2009 -
28 answers
How would you approach this college admissions essay prompt?
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posted by caroljean63
on Jun 9, 2009 -
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I'm reapplying to college six years after dropping out. I left, in part, because I had developed a drug problem. My application needs to include an essay which explains why I want to return, why my grades were below a 2.0 at the time I left, and why I will not repeat the same mistakes. Just how honest should I be?
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 30, 2009 -
21 answers
TAs, profs, teachers, markers: give me your best stock phrases for essay comments.
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posted by pised
on Mar 30, 2009 -
22 answers
College application essay about the challenges overcome in relation to one's sexuality: good or bad idea?
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posted by Gotham
on Mar 29, 2009 -
13 answers
Help me find an article/essay/blog entry I read 2 or 3 years ago about how obvious flirting is and always will be.
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posted by ictow
on Jan 25, 2009 -
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I am writing a paper on photographic representations of the city or urban spaces, in particular photography that attempts to 'capture' the ubiquitous "non-places" as described by Marc Augé. But I am having trouble finding photographers that seem to fit! Can you help?
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posted by valmonster
on Dec 4, 2008 -
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Can you help me find essay communities? I would like to find a place to read other people's essays and share my own for possible feedback.
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posted by Knigel
on Jul 20, 2008 -
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I'm seeking writing or creative work related to the idea of "
Bread and Circuses." Essays related to this theme, art/media projects creatively interpreting this theme, or your thoughts (as abstract/creative as you like) about this theme.
posted by kalapierson
on Jul 2, 2008 -
8 answers
Can anyone direct me toward an essay [preferably vetted] on the use of language in advertising/media?
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posted by 913
on May 30, 2008 -
7 answers
If you were writing a book/essay about the motivations of over-ambitious young people, where would you look for research?
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posted by divabat
on Apr 4, 2008 -
7 answers
What tips can you give me when writing my personal statement for a graduate social work program?
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 16, 2008 -
6 answers
I am interested in the mimetic and narrative capacities of
artefacts, how cultural remnants transmit information through time and how meaning is translated once an artefact is re-appropriated or examined from a new perspective. I have several avenues of study at the moment (a list in extended explanation), but would like some more ideas. Areas of critical theory, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and poetics are all relevant.
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posted by 0bvious
on Jan 27, 2008 -
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I am looking for a magazine that would be interested in a story I've written about being in love without sexual attraction. Nerve is the only magazine that I can think of, but from the looks of things, I doubt they accept anything from writers outside of sunny California.
My story isn't sexual explicit, but I don't think a mainstream/family-friendly publication would be interested in this.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a Nerve-esque magazine (or zine) that accepts non-fiction that isn't supposed to make you horny?
posted by haasim
on Jan 10, 2008 -
13 answers
My 8th grader wants to attend a very progressive local private high school next year. Are there some general guidelines for how long, or how deep, these non-college application essays should be?
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posted by ick
on Dec 25, 2007 -
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In high school (the late 1990s) I read an essay on marriage -- the writer's main contention was that it's unrealistic to think that a single person can ever be at the exact same life stages as yourself, e.g. Young & Passionate (teens), Ready to Have Children (30's), Wanting Intellectual Companionship (60's), and thusly, that having just one partner over the course of a lifetime is a near impossibility.
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posted by acorn1515
on Dec 18, 2007 -
3 answers
College essay filter: help me find this (probably satirical) college entrance essay.
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posted by griseus
on Jul 27, 2007 -
7 answers
I'm currently applying to medical school. Will my essay choice blackball me from consideration?
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posted by wuzandfuzz
on Jul 21, 2007 -
17 answers
Fair Use Filter -- I want to take clips from movies and embed them in an online essay as quotation-style references.
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posted by Quarter Pincher
on Jul 2, 2007 -
6 answers
Favorite exercises/ materials for Freshman Composition classes? Help me engage young minds in order to
brainwash educate them!
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posted by exlotuseater
on May 20, 2007 -
5 answers
Can anyone recommend some good research/study/outlining software that assists your writing? Either freeware or paid. Basically I mean software that alows you to collate ideas and notes as you read, as well as lets you do outlining - all this in preparation for writing a report or paper or essay.
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posted by vizsla
on Apr 25, 2007 -
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I'm writing an essay on interns and internships and I need suggestions for books, films, songs (?), quotations, etc., about or that reference, surprise, interns and internships in some way.
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posted by Cochise
on Feb 27, 2007 -
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I am looking for well regarded books/scholarly papers about writing. Most specifically in the areas of Nonfiction (the essay style of article writing) and Children's Fiction (for a young adult audience).
Any tips? Go as far and broad as you can. I'll be off to the British library tomorrow, so the sky is the limit.
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posted by 0bvious
on Jan 9, 2007 -
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Who are the most insightful essayists of our time--not necessarily brilliant academics, but razor-sharp, profound, generalist thinkers and writers on society? Who are our present-day Toquevilles and Twains, our Bacons and Emersons?
posted by shivohum
on Nov 16, 2006 -
46 answers
Long shot, but I heard a story/essay on WBEZ Chicago four years ago that I've not been able to track down since. It was a quite eerie hypothetical about a gathering of "everybody you've ever known."
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posted by granted
on Nov 4, 2006 -
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As a tutor, how do I come up with a critical writing essay prompt that is accessible to students from third to eighth grade?
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posted by mikelly
on Sep 18, 2006 -
5 answers
It's a myth that the primary purpose of higher education institutions is to teach. I read this in an essay online around the beginning of 2005 and would like to find it again.
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posted by Pigpen
on Sep 4, 2006 -
11 answers
What are the most frank, telling criticisms of issues like RIAA/DRM/Music Industry that you've read before?
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posted by Lockeownzj00
on Apr 3, 2006 -
13 answers
I've been asked to provide a writing sample as part of an application to a PhD program. What should I provide?
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posted by MrC
on Nov 17, 2005 -
8 answers
I'm trying to write an essay on the current nostalgia for guilt-free (and information-free!) smoking, boozing and drug-taking and desperately need sources, whether web-based or bibliographical. [
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posted by MiguelCardoso
on May 5, 2004 -
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This month, I'm applying to Pharmacy school at UGA. The one "essay" goes: "In the space provided below, please provide a personal statement as to what skills, talents, or abilities you posses that will be helpful to you in our program."
Not looking for anyone to write my mini-essay, but anyone in the field of Pharmacy or admissions got any suggestions as to anything I could put on there to seperate my application from everyone else, or just pointers as to what kind of key words/phrases admissions poeple might be looking for?
posted by jmd82
on Jan 14, 2004 -
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