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The Devil's Dictionary: Enthusiasm

by Ambrose Bierce ENTERTAINMENTENVELOPEENTHUSIASM -n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered…

G - K

gigabyte (GB)1024 megabytes. Also called gig.glitchThe cause of an unexpected malfunction.GopherAn Internet search tool that allows users to access textual information through a series of…

Sample Essays: Future Goals

  Please select from the following sample application essays: Essay 1: Georgetown | Essay 2: Johns Hopkins Note: The following essays were not edited by…

Social Security Numbers

The Question: What do social security numbers mean? What do the numbers tell you about someone? The Answer: A social security number has three…

Social Security Card Replacement

The Question: I lost my social security card back in the 1960s. Is it possible to order a replacement card online? The Answer: You can't order…

Should We Play God?

Because the same procedure used to make a carbon copy of the sheep is also theoretically applicable to cloning human beings, many ethical and philosophical questions have been raised. The…

Article V

[Ways in which the Constitution can be amended.] The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the…

Sample Essays: Influential Person

  Please select from the following sample application essays: Essay 1: Wellesley | Essay 2: Harvard | Essay 3: Harvard Note: The following essays were not…

Sample Essays: Narrative

Note: The following essays were not edited by EssayEdge Editors. They appear as they were initially reviewed by admissions officers. SAMPLE ESSAY: Brown, Achievement: Martial arts competition…

Daniel Nathans Biography

Daniel NathansAge: 71 geneticist and a pioneer in biotechnology who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of…