<p>i wrote about the inequity in the globilization of today
and how a more pwerful world state could ensure that all the ppl in the world would be given an equal opportunity to achieve...
i guess it was a hook that it was pretty much socialist....
didnt you think it was hard to keep it to one page</p>
<p>I wrote about sustainable development? It's not so much a "political issue" as the rest of y'all's though.</p>
<p>Wrote mine on the administration cutting funding for programs conserving the Congo Forest Basin after promising to increase and how deforestation destroys native culture, causes instability, etc.</p>
<p>Mine was specific, about guinea worm in africa and community directed intervention, where instead of having ngo's administer all of the treatment, the actual villagers do...</p>
<p>Overall for the essay, it seemed like if you picked a huge issue (ie Israel/Palestine), it would be difficult to come up with a concise, clear argument...it's hard to tackle an enormous issue in just a page and by attempting to do so, it might seem like you are not understanding its complexity. So I first thought of an enormous issue (disease in the developing world), and then narrowed it down to a manageable chunk.</p>
<p>To get the ideas going I looked through an issue of the Economist, saw an article about CDI for river blindness, and went from there.</p>
<p>ECapp: Unless you wrote your application essay pretty early in the summer, I somehow doubt that :-p</p>
<p>I, too, wrote about Russia. I originally had a more factual but probably more simplistic essay, actually molded from an article I wrote for the student newspaper, but after talking to my Mock Trial coach (who lived in Russia, speaks, the language, etc.), I ended up writing more about how we need to NOT judge what's happening in Russia (or any nascent democracy) too harshly, and we need to look at it from multiple perspectives - nearly the opposite conclusion from my original essay. I thought it was written fairly crappily, though (style-wise), and could have been more nuanced, but who knows... maybe they liked it!</p>
<p>So, yeah: specific topic --> general thesis.</p>