Sample Essays

Back in the Sixties, all young electrical engineers habitually walked around with one hand placed in their pocket This was not because they were slovenly or making an anti-establishment statement, but because of a warning they were always given in the first practice labs they attended: “If you get an electric shock across your chest, […]

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of India from 2002-2007, and also popularly known as “the missile man” is renowned the world over for his contribution to science and aerospace. In India, he was also known as a great teacher, who would always encourage students to excel and work towards making a powerful India. […]

Essay Topics for Students from Class 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Topic: Impact of Advertisements on Consumers Advertisements play a significant role in our daily lives, influencing our choices and shaping our perceptions of products and services. In today’s fast-paced world, we are bombarded with advertisements through various mediums, such as television, radio, social media, […]

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is seen as a turning point when it comes to the use of UAVs in warfare and the consequences seen will have a large effect on the perception of combat drones as a combat system in years to come. In recent years, militaries around the world have been using drones for its […]

In his influential essay “Religion as a Cultural System” Clifford Geertz tries to define religion through a cultural lens so that it can be studies from a different perspective. Geertz says that religion is a symbolic system where believers interpret the world they live in and live their lives through these symbols. In “Religion as […]

Essays on Mental Illness for Students and Children. Mental Illness: We should not be ashamed to talk about it (625 words) Mental illness does not plague only one percent of the population, it’s everywhere and we should not be ashamed to talk about it. The stigma around mental health makes it so much harder for […]

Decision Making: Who’s making your choices for you? (1502 Words) The unquestionable aphorism in classical economic theory is summed up in the statement “all humans are rational’ but the very opposite of that behaviour is what describes its as humans. In reality, it is foolish to expect humans to behave rationally. Hence, while this assumption […]

Know India through its Music (604 Words) Music tells us everything about the soul of the music-maker, said an ancient guru once. Learning Indian music helps one learn more about the people, their temperament and also about the Indian culture. Indian music is as old as its civilization and culture, and goes back thousands of […]

Long and short essays on Knowledge / Knowledge is power for students. Essay on Knowledge (541 words) Knowledge, as the proverb ‘scientia potentia est’ contends, is indeed power, but it is only wisdom or discriminating intelligence that enables one to exercise it judiciously. In the past, our great leaders chose, with their wisdom, to exercise […]

Women Empowerment Essays for students. Who needs to be empowered (910 words) ‘Women Empowerment is the cry of the day! But, do we need to empower men first, so they can help us in empowering women? Very often we state that we need everyone on board in order to be able to achieve gender equality. […]

Doing Business In China: What factors have made some companies successful when it comes to doing business in this country. Why some foreign-funded enterprise became successful, when entering the China market while others fail, and why some grow relatively faster than the rest? Reasons to explain all these are complex and varied. The following factors […]

Various Essays on Bitcoin (cryptocurrency). Bitcoin: Currency of the Internet (362 words) Many feel that Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet, and will provide complete freedom from government & banks rule (all over the world). While the world is not there yet, here’s more on ‘What Bitcoin is’. You can hear about Bitcoin in […]

Since a long time, some people have been immoral and self-gratifying. Even today, the media reports several horrific things (called sins) happening in our society. Sins are actions that are considered wrong/unacceptable and are also viewed as going against God’s will. The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, are […]

Movies and theatre productions, both are entertaining in their own way. Here, I compare and contrast between the two. In the busy life of the city, people often lack time for fun and relaxation but when they do find time, they often spend it on entertaining themselves. One form of entertainment is by watching productions, […]

How the urban form is reflective of transportation structure? Explain with example (Architecture subject) • Urban form and transport, these two are related; the transportation system shapes metropolitan form, and the form of the metropolis shapes the transportation system. • Transportation mode shares are highly dependent on density. Below certain levels of density, many kinds […]

Introduction to classical sociological theory Select any two thinkers from amongst those covered across this semester – Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and W.E.B. Dubois. Write either an argumentative essay or a short debate-style dialogue between the two thinkers of your choice evoking certain core ideas from their body of work which are appropriately […]

We already know that the use of electricity, gas and coal are all resources that we may eventually run out of. These are the non-renewable resources that we rely heavily on today. We use these non-renewable resources to do many things, including supplying us with power, heating our homes, businesses and schools and more. When […]

Climate Change is a big threat to biodiversity, humans and business. Climate change is the current focus of business community globally and businesses worldwide are including climate change related considerations in their strategic business decisions as well as long term plans. Here we take a look at how companies are implementing climate change policies /actions to […]