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The assignment was to read a book of your choosing, i chose The Setting Sun, and then basically write anything about it. English isnt my first language
My first idea was to write abt how Kazuko is definitely an enneagram type 2, but idk if it came across well enough and would love to have some advice/help with this. Should I just leave it like this anyway or is it complete nothingburger... It's due Friday iirc

Hi there I received an email last week to pick a time to be interviewed for my essay I submitted, but by the time I was able to open the link which was one hour later all the spots were taken. Then today I received another email which is says the same thing so I pressed the link again and the spots were all full again. I was just wondering if others received this email today as well and what I should do about it.

Hey everyone hope you are well :)
I have been given this essay - the question is what are the purposes of education.
We have been given Harry Brighouse as framework but we have been told we can use other things.
Me being me I am now exploring the idea of using someone else.
But who…?
I want to definitely use personal flourishing, but I don’t know what others I could use with that, not Harry brighouse.
My problem is I am only first year, I’ve had health issues restricting me and I really wanna do my best!!!!
I can’t find a purpose that connects and has all the criteria needed 😩
I have copied and pasted some key information from it I think it’s the fact it’s using big words I’m not used to 🥲and the very end bit of ensuring it aligns ☹️

Key Guidance:
• Choose two to four purposes of education to focus your discussion (e.g., educating for autonomy, economic participation, citizenship, personal flourishing).
• Contrast your chosen purposes to highlight their differing priorities and implications.
• Structure:
• Introduction:
• Define "purpose of education" and outline the purposes you will examine.
• Main Body:
• Explore each purpose in depth, drawing on academic theories and historical or contemporary examples.
• Discuss the strengths and limitations of each purpose, drawing on relevant examples and perspectives.
• Conclusion:
• Summarise your findings and evaluate the competing claims of the different purposes.

The Brief's Wording:
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Students have flexibility in selecting purposes of education.
* Choices must be supported by historical, sociological, and philosophical perspectives.
* Brighouse's Aims as a Starting Point:
Brighouse's framework Work, Citizenship, Autonomy, and Flourishing) provides a strong foundation.
* However, this is not restrictive-students may explore other educational purposes.
• Alternative choices must be. theoretically justified and critically analysed.
Tip: If selecting an alternative purpose, ensure
it aligns with the assignment's analytical approach and is supported by academic literature.

TIA🤍

I’m sorry if this has been asked before, but im genuinely just really lost when revising for my biomed essay exams. The fact that they’re essays is what stresses me, because I feel like I need to ‘blurt’ all of my topic revision into a document, but then apply it to the question and showcase extra reading (ugh I also don’t get how to show case extra reading) to get a first, which is my usual aim for every assignment. Anyone who’s does biomed or (any course honestly) and have essay exams have any advice on how I can revise efficiency and effectively for these exams? Thank you so much xx

My IELTS is due in 2 weeks and I can’t seem to put my hand on what I should do. I already did some mock test on it and get an average of 6 to 6.5 while I get around 7.5-9 for other parts. I already completed the course in IELTS premium and I still can’t figure it out. Please help

I’m working on my Common App essay this summer and trying to finalize my hook and topic before I start writing next week. I’d really appreciate feedback on clarity, flow, and whether the hook is engaging or if I should change direction. I’m still in the early stages, so any honest feedback helps a lot.

Draft Hook:

Beep. Beep. The sound of my cochlear implant batteries right before they gave out in the middle of a loud classroom. Instantly, the classroom went silent but only from my point of view. For a second, I just sat there, no sense of panic but instead a strange calm. I began to read everyone’s faces, examining each body movement and figuring out what they were saying. As I got older, I learned to use that same habit to read the room and understand happening around me.

I just finished my intro to philosophy class and received an overall B due to an essay grade being a 70. It was a short essay assignment with unclear minimum word count and given the assignment had the word “short” in it, I only wrote about 400-600 words. After receiving the grade and reading the comments, it basically said I lacked details and stronger evidence but how was I supposed to do that fully and get all points on the rubric in 400-600 words. I then emailed my professor explaining my concern as the grade I got was extremely unlike me and was given the green light to re-do the essay and he even said “yes you may redo and submit it and I would be happy to regrade it”. After emailing my new essay, I gave him about a week or so to grade it but no updates so I did a follow up email replying to my resubmission and all he said was “Thank you!” to it. Still no changes in my grade. Following the week’s short essay assignment 2 was due and I ended up scoring a 94 on it. I emailed again expressing my concerns as I’m a 4.0 student and I needed to keep that GPA for transfer scholarships and no reply. As the last week was coming up, I did follow up emails spreaded out throughout the week and still no reply. I just send my appeal form and I was wondering is this valid enough to get it approved? I ended with a 88.3 but I went through the grade book and calculated if I had gotten a 80 and that would’ve nudged me into getting an A.

Sorry but first, I am not a native english speaker however I did do an entire bachelors of science fully using english language. The problem is that there was little academic writing, barely anything worth mentioning. It was more of applied science.

I have this side interest in politics, culture, and some philosophy. Nothing big, jut my thoughts. I want to put them into formal essays that are well written and put them on a blog or something.

Every. Single. Source on the internet is...basic and trash. Youtube videos...bad. Articles? at this point i dont know why we use search engines. And i am strictly against asking AI for help. I want something human, i want to learn to write my own essays that are at least acceptable, for the interest in putting my thoughts out there.

Is there any comprehensive resource that you would recommend?

hiiii it is my first time doing an essay comp like this and im genuinely so lost because i dont understand what exactly they are looking for. i cant tell if my essay is creativ enough for the markers especially since it is the first question (should we fear a cashless society). at first was considering going the no we should not but rrealised it would not be as convincing if we were to look at the counter arguments. hence, any advice to know if your essay is "unique" enough. In addition, how much do they expect you to talk about your counter arguments? is it like a 4-5 liner or do they expect a long paragraph where you explore why the counter argyment cannot hold true? THANK YOU SO MUCH

Does anyone know someone who writes good personal statements for dental school? Please I’m struggling so so bad I’m willing to pay.

If you can deliver high quality job you can DM me

I really need to get an A in this course, and there's four essays I have to submit. I submitted the first one but was wondering if anyone could help look over my second one. Thanks

Hello,

I am looking for a writer to edit my application essays to medical school. Unfortunately, my original application round did not result in an acceptance.

So, I am a re-applicant and I will have to give you previous application materials and personal stories.

Please DM or comment, willing to work over Gmail or discord. I would appreciate if you could share any accepted application materials as well.

Thank you!

I am applying to college in the fall, and need to get my essay done in under a month. Originally I finished it with help from an english teacher in my school, yet when I sent it for review to college advisors, they said my topic was overdone (I talked about childhood anxiety and my grandmother).

Now I am writing, and I want to somehow incorporate the struggle between OCD and I, and have found a way to merge it by talking about how I hate hugs yet always wanted the comfort “being normal” brings. Im a little nervous to talk about deeper subjects and im worried I’ll just end up yapping nonsense for a page straight lol.

I am wondering: Is this a good topic? Should I continue or start over? Is there a way to make it more unique without making it absurd? Thank you and feel free to respond or DM me if anyone has any advice. :)

I am attempting the 2026 John Locke Global Essay prize. I just finished my essay, it is kind of long, has repeating words and has fancy language. My language and usage of words is decently good. I read lots of books. So, i have picked words and word usage across the reading of many books. Many words in my essay like "Transactional bluntness" repeat like 5-6 times in my essay, because i dont wanna use a new term each time i try to imply it (also, there arent many ways i can frame that intent). Will my essay be flagged as AI? Please help.

I have a story to tell.
So Once upon a time.
“Beep”
Sorry one second.
“Your cab has arrived.”
Right.
I forgot to tell you, I have a date tonight and for which I’m getting late. Fourth date maybe. Fifth. Somewhere dangerous enough to start imagining futures but still early enough to pretend you’re “just seeing where things go.”
Which is modern dating language for: “I have already imagined us breaking up twice
And now I’m sitting inside the cab 
The driver checks the mirror once.
Normal.
Twice?
Interesting.
Thrice?
Okay so now apparently I’m the main suspect in a psychological thriller.
Have you ever sat in a cab and suddenly become aware of your entire existence? Like the moment the door shuts, your brain starts behaving like it’s under investigation.
Okay I need to calm down, this is happening again, buy why? It’s just a date. Not a hostage exchange. Nobody’s dying. Nobody’s proposing.
And yet the universe had quietly dimmed the lights and whispered,
“Alright everyone, observe him carefully.”

Outside the window everything starts looking strangely cinematic.
Even traffic lights feel personal.
Red light:
“Sit with your thoughts.”
Green light:
“Run from them.”
Suddenly I’m remembering embarrassing things nobody else remembers.
A conversation from class 8. A joke that didn’t land.
The exact way someone once said,  “Take care.”
Why does “take care” sound threatening in retrospect?
The cab slows near a traffic signal.
Outside, a little kid is pulling at his mother’s hand near a toy shop window.
Pointing at something excitedly.
Asking without fear.
At what age do we stop asking for things normally?
Because I remember there was a point in my childhood where I stopped asking before anyone could even say no.I used to rehearse conversations in my head and reject myself on behalf of everyone else.  School trips. Video games. New shoes. It felt less painful that way.
Like if I closed the door myself, at least I wouldn’t hear the lock click from the other side.
“I’m on my way,” I texted.
And immediately my brain responded:
Too eager.
Too available.
Very desperate
Which is interesting because what exactly is wrong with sounding desperate? Isn’t dating just two people quietly trying to prove they care less than they actually do?
Now I just needed to wait for a reply.
Which honestly might be one of the most psychologically damaging modern activities
What if she doesn’t text back what if she has moved on. My head starts to take a toll and now I’m giving myself reasons to calm down
I told myself she was stuck in traffic or probably got caught in work. Then I told myself she was slowly realizing I was too intense and was currently sitting in an Uber wondering if she should turn around.
People suffer more in imagination than reality.
I know this because I practically live in mine. Someone says one small thing and my brain starts building entire futures around it. 
During our second date she asked if I wanted sparkling water.
Sparkling water.
That’s it.
A completely normal question.
But my brain translated it into:
“She grew up rich.”
Which somehow became:
“She’ll eventually leave you for a man who probably drinks glacier water imported from Norway while my water purifier sounds like it’s fighting for its life every evening.
I laughed at myself after that thought.
She once caught me staring at a watch store after dinner.
“You look at expensive things the way people look at old lovers,” she laughed.
I laughed too.
But expensive things made sense to me.
Watches. Cars. Shoes.
At least they tell you exactly what they cost upfront.
People don’t.
When I was a kid my father used to stop outside fancy hotels and say things like,
“One day.” He said it the way religious people say heaven. I think that’s when it started. This quiet belief that maybe money could solve the humiliation of wanting things too badly. 
Not just objects. People too. Especially people.
By our third date I had already imagined introducing her to my friends. By the fourth I had imagined accidentally meeting her parents and pretending to be calmer than I actually was.
The funny thing is she never promised me anything. That was all me. She would just say normal things. “I like talking to you.”
And I would hear wedding music in the background. She would touch my arm while laughing and suddenly I’d start mentally naming our future dog(Fun fact I’m scared of dogs) anyways Love in your twenties is honestly just unpaid fantasy labor (I should start a podcast)

I check my phone again. She’s typing. Stops typing. Typing again. My brain immediately opens eighteen tabs. Maybe she’s cancelling. Maybe she met someone calmer. Maybe she realized I speak like a man who learned emotional intimacy from a podcasts. 
The message finally comes.
“Sorryyyy. 
Oh God
“Running Late” 
Thank God
 I hate when people text one word at a time. Now a healthy person reads that and continues living normally. I read it and immediately started preparing emotionally for abandonment. The smiley face helped though. Or maybe it made it worse. Hard to tell with me.
I think that’s my actual problem. I have never lived in the present tense. Only in prediction. I remember when I was a kid, I was a Magician. The final school bell would ring and I’d disappear. Leave before anyone could ask,  “Are you coming with us?”
No after-school plans.
No birthday dinners.
No awkward moment where someone realizes you probably can’t afford to stay.
So I became great at leaving early .Professional level. Irish goodbye before I even knew what Ireland was. That’s the strange thing about fear as a child. It doesn’t make you dramatic.It makes you efficient. You learn to reject yourself before the world gets the chance to do it slower.
And suddenly it hit me. 
Every conversation.
Every date.
Every “almost-relationship”
Always one step away mentally. Always preparing the exit speech before the story even starts. Like if I closed the door myself, at least I wouldn’t hear the lock click from the other side. 
And maybe that’s what I still do now. Just emotionally. Always preparing for loss before anything even has the chance to stay.
My brain treats every happy situation like a fire drill. Always preparing evacuation routes. 
If someone says “we should talk”:
Instant Death
If someone says “haha sure”:
passive aggression.
Every overthinker wants honesty until honesty takes five minutes to reply.

The driver just braked suddenly and now I’m imagining my own death before a fourth date which honestly would be very on-brand for me. 
“Sorry sir, aa gaye”
You can always tell how someone grew up by what they apologize for.
Anyway.
I should go.
The cab driver just looked at me through the mirror, I think he’s scared, well in his defence It’s not every day you find someone who is talking to themselves. And also because if I keep writing this email I might accidentally realize something about myself. Which would honestly ruin the date before it even begins.
And yes the story I completely forgot about, but now I’m running out of time, so Shantanu will tell you the story. 

i was wondering if anybody could give me constructive critisicm and tell me what they think of my introduction since im stuck on it. also, do tell me if this sounds like AI because when i ran it through an AI checker it said 70 percent AI even though i wrote it myself

the question im doing is "is democracy in crisis" btw!!

In the Second Treatise of Government, John Locke conceptualizes political society as a "fiduciary trust" grounded in the ongoing consent of the governed. This trust is not a static agreement but a rather dynamic one; Locke argues that when institutions fail to protect natural rights or deviate from their mandate, power reverts to the community to be reconstituted in new forms. Built into the heart of Lockean theory, therefore, is a legitimate, if often turbulent, mechanism for systemic renewal.

Today, many observers fear this mechanism has stalled. In 2025, the United States suffered a 24% decline on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Liberal Democracy Index, mirroring a broader global trend of institutional erosion and collapsing public trust. To the contemporary critic, these fractures signal the terminal crisis of the democratic project. However, I believe that current instability is not a precursor to collapse, but a manifestation of democracy’s "antifragile" capacity for self-correction, whereby the very forces threatening to dismantle the system provide the friction necessary to reform it.

The present "crisis" stems from a structural mismatch between 18th-century "vertical" institutions, designed for slow deliberation, and a 21st-century "horizontal" information environment that demands instant contestation. Drawing on Locke’s theory of the dissolution of government and Schumpeterian "creative destruction," I contend that today’s friction is the necessary process by which democracy sheds fossilized forms to reclaim its legitimacy.Through an analysis of the epistemic challenges inherent in digital discourse and the enduring resilience of Lockean consent, it becomes evident that democracy is not in a state of failure, but is instead undergoing a fundamental recalibration for a networked age.