Category: Essay

The Academic Moves that Matter? Not Templates. Writing is a process that balances ideas and structure. In their book They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein try to make this balance in writing easier through the use of templates. They argue that…

Mass Incarceration and the War on Poverty: the Economic Roots While scholars agree that mass incarceration is a problem in the US today, they debate its origins. Civil Rights lawyer Michelle Alexander points to the civil rights movement as one possible time. She characterizes tough-on-crime legislation as a reaction to…

The Economics of Incarceration There is no question that America has an incarceration problem, with over 2 million people imprisoned by the end of 2006 (Forman 47). One sticking point in the overarching debate is when the policy that leads to the issue actually begins. Lawyer Michelle Alexander points to…

Exit West – An Imperfect Defense In Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West, traveling is of no difficulty for the main characters, Nadia and Saeed. Hamid gives his characters the ability to travel through magic doors in order to escape their nameless war-torn country. Upon their arrival to Mykonos, Marin,…

Exit West – An Imperfect Defense In Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West, migration is a central theme. Travelling is of no difficulty for the main characters, Nadia and Saeed. They can step through magical doors and end up somewhere else. However, this is not the real world. As Yogita…

AI in Writing: Striking a Balance In our study of AI, one idea we’ve heard many times surrounds the need to dive into AI research as AI is the future of our society and will eventually replace a lot of the menial tasks that people have to do now. In…

AI in Writing: Striking a Balance In our study of AI, one idea we’ve heard many times surrounds the need to dive into AI research because AI is the future of our society and will eventually replace a lot of the menial tasks that people have to do now. However,…