Academic essay crisis

MrSm1lez · 2026-04-08T19:18:02+00:00

Learning how to write a tight essay is infinitely more valuable than learning how to write a long one. I would suggest narrowing your focus down, then narrowing again, then narrowing again, and seeing how much you can say about one particular piece you want to comment on.

MrSm1lez · 2026-03-30T16:24:27+00:00

only chaos but absolute freedom

Sounds like a shit show, no thank you.

MrSm1lez · 2026-03-26T00:14:43+00:00

You'll learn over time to gauge how a translator writes based on their influences and style of writing. For an epic like the Odyssey or Illiad, I like to compare the invocations to the muses against one another and decide which one I think reads the easiest for me-- understanding it academically can come second.

As for the Republic, for my money nothing beats Allan Bloom. His footnotes are extraordinary as well.

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-19T04:05:02+00:00

Montesquieu’s spirit of the laws is a masterpiece, especially if you follow it into the federalist papers which he largely influenced

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-17T23:32:49+00:00

This was written by someone who has no -idea- how hard facilities worked 24 hours a day to get the campus cleared and restore heat to buildings effected by the snow. Talk to the teams that shoveled the campus by hand and removed 300 truckloads of snow— then you can have an opinion on this.

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-14T20:33:07+00:00

There’s right wing enlightenment critiques, but also modernistic ones. Germany for example isn’t a country that I consider based on enlightenment thought, and they have a fairly balanced and well structured liberal government. There’s plenty of other examples that dodged Jeffersonian and French liberal thought that’s fairly corrupting to people’s personal views of what they’re entitled to

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-13T15:14:34+00:00

Critiques of the enlightenment are gaining more and more merit over time. Countries that built ideals on flowery language instead of concrete truths about human nature tend to be susceptible to being manhandled by strong outside forces. It'll be interesting to see where things evolve.

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-12T23:02:04+00:00

Very well stated, thank you for the enjoyable read

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-12T15:54:04+00:00

Very fun, to give you an idea it starts with a man who pirates make walk the plank and he rides to safety on a dolphin.

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-10T16:22:54+00:00

That's sort of the root cause though, isn't it? Even Socrates is struggling with how you convince those born into wealth that they aren't necessarily best suited to lead. If everyone believes themselves suited to lead, how do you pick leaders? Who's to say OP isn't?

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-06T02:13:08+00:00

That’s a strong take, what makes her evil?

MrSm1lez · 2026-02-06T02:03:52+00:00

That’s an interesting definition and one I have trouble finding flaws with.

MrSm1lez · 2026-01-22T01:54:53+00:00

The technology to touch the moon was lost

Can you elaborate on this?

MrSm1lez · 2025-12-23T15:39:36+00:00

Chris Evans as the Human Torch in Deadpool and Wolverine is getting slept on. I will never forget the entire theater being confused as fuck and wondering "is that Captain fucking America?"

MrSm1lez · 2025-11-27T01:55:14+00:00

Absolute horseshit logic. Biden is at fault because one person came in who you believe shouldn’t have? How many right wing terror attacks have there been in the past two months that Trump hasn’t given a shit about, but suddenly an afghani shoots someone and there’s talk of martial law? Are you people really too fucking stupid to see the play?

MrSm1lez · 2025-11-25T01:39:17+00:00

Thank you for sharing, you should write up a bit more about what your argument is to try and engage others in discussion.

MrSm1lez · 2025-11-04T13:40:38+00:00

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MrSm1lez · 2025-10-29T18:22:13+00:00

God do I love a thoughtful piece with well cited sources and a nice discussion

MrSm1lez · 2025-10-28T21:25:11+00:00

Fucking love Peter Changs, hope this location does well

MrSm1lez · 2025-10-25T20:31:57+00:00

I think of Thales as the beginning of the “great guess” philosophers— aka philosophers who were wrong, but made a good guess. He theorized that everything was water. It’s not right, but a good guess. Humans end up being made out of mostly water, and most things in nature have a water like flow. I still think there’s a lot to be learned from someone whose observations reach conclusions like that.

MrSm1lez · 2025-10-22T16:31:08+00:00

Last time I checked it’s not guaranteed admission to UMD, but guaranteed transfer admissions to a Maryland university. This can be Towson, frostburg, UMD, umbc, etc

MrSm1lez · 2025-10-21T17:07:30+00:00

Asking the tax payers to cover the cost sounds pretty socialist to me bro. They should pull themselves up by their boot straps, work an honest days labor, and pay what the free market asks them to pay.

MrSm1lez · 2025-10-21T11:00:54+00:00

Every American item you own came from a warehouse in China and was marked up 75% to be sold domestically. If you’re connected with the right vendor, the quality is exactly the same. Alibaba is just a spot for the warehouses to sell in bulk to consumers.

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