Essays?

[NintendoGal55]

How about essays? They're a form of writing, too!

So if it's allowed (I've been looking at the rules around here, doesn't seem to be against rules), how about we discuss essays we made? For school or work or just for fun? About anything, really. Movies, TV shows, games, books, pairing essays, conspiracy theories, political campaigns, anything. An excerpt, a link?

I write essays for the fun of it, mostly fandom-related. I did write one for my college English class a little over a year ago. It was a comparison essay on the futuristic worlds between the film Blade Runner and Bruce Sterling's short stories Spider Rose and also Sunken Gardens. I have written others over the years, obviously. XD

What about you? Have any essays you made that you want to share?

[Deleted]

Writing scholarly papers and other essays about my obsessions is one of my favorite hobbies. I'll provide a few links to some of my writings on Scribd, most of them having an anthropological theme:

The Democratic Manifesto---Actually a short book, this is my treatise on why American society is not really democratic and what a true democracy would look like.

The African Origin of the Ancient Egyptians---I was actually going to submit this to a peer-reviewed African Studies journal, but I decided that, as a mere student, I didn't have the academic gravitas to publish anything yet. This paper relates archaeology and anthropological evidence for a strong bio-cultural relationship between the ancient Egyptian civilization and sub-Saharan Africa.

Who Were the Carthaginians---Another anthropological paper, this one discusses whether or not the Carthaginians (the ancient North African people from whom the famous general Hannibal Barca came) were "black". My thesis is that they were a phenotypically diverse people, a mixture of both black and Mediterranean types.

In Defense of the Existence of Human Races---An argument over whether "race" (i.e. subspecies) is a biologically meaningful classification system for the modern human species. In this paper, I claim that, despite what most anthropologists these days think, human beings can be classified into distinct races.

The Myth of the Lost Cause---Unlike the others, this paper on the US Civil War was written for college. It argues that, despite what certain historical revisionists claim, the Confederacy did secede from the Union to preserve the institution of slavery.

[Tim Willard]

The essay I wrote that I'm the most proud of I can't exactly link here.

It was a culmination of 6 months of research and examining the results of research and interviewing experts in various fields.

"The Utilization of Persistent Chemical Weapons in an Urban Environment to Maximize Damage to Enemy Manufacturing Infrastructure and War Fighting Capabilities."

It got a lot of notice.