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#1 Way to Make Scholarship Hunting More Bearable
TLDR; Look for scholarships that make you learn about something you didn't already know about. The best part (other than being awarded the money you need to pay for college, obviously), is when the scholarship in question requires you to research an interesting subject you wouldn't otherwise look into. Earlier this year, I discovered a scholarship from an American company that specialized in managing gold assets. The question was open-ended, and in order to answer it meaningf

Elijah Jeffery
4 days ago2 min read
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Civil rights can only be advanced in public spaces; in the dark, they wither and die, and cruelty thrives. This is why racists and other hate groups have historically put so much effort into controlling those public spaces, such as by restricting the rights of blacks and women to vote, or busting unions, or using rioters and even armed forces to break up peaceful protests on campuses and at the capital (see the Hardhat Riots of 1970 for the former, or the Haymarket Riots of 1

Elijah Jeffery
Nov 194 min read


Captrust Scholarship Essay
The following is a scholarship essay I submitted to CapTrust. It's more of a memoir than an academic paper. Hopefully this is a good example scholarship essay for you. It helped me solidify my personal identity and I wanted to share. I will start with one word: Communicator. I sincerely believe that communication is the antibiotic of human society. You could solve virtually every Shakespeare play's plot by improving a few, maybe even only one character's communication capabil

Elijah Jeffery
Nov 173 min read
What Are The Benefits of Gold In An Investment Portfolio?
The following is a scholarship essay I submitted to American Bullion. Hopefully this is a good example scholarship essay for you, or you find the topic interesting. Either way, I enjoyed writing it more than I expected and wanted to share. In the 1911 edition of Miami Metropolis, Thomas Edison is quoted: “Gold has even now but a few years to live. The day is near when bars of it will be as common and as cheap as bars of iron or blocks of steel.” In 1915, only a few years afte

Elijah Jeffery
Nov 94 min read


"The Instructions" art by Axetic
Emura is not lost in a shifting, recursive, anomalous mansion. She has instructions. (Art by Axetic. Seriously, this guy is becoming my Kevin McLeod of art.) Every year for Halloween, my family gets together and shares spooky stories. Since I'm an author, I make a whole thing out of it and write a short story. I did my first one last year, and when this year came around, I decided to make a continuation for the same tale. You can read both parts so far here. The keyhole effec

Elijah Jeffery
Oct 261 min read


The Anatomy of Genres Review
I'm writing what is very nearly the finished draft of Bondage of Magics right now, while at the same time reading "The Anatomy of Genres"...

Elijah Jeffery
Aug 152 min read


Recently re-read the Watch books by Terry Pratchett
I don't know if any of y'all have read "Thud!" by Terry Pratchett, but it's a masterpiece. Basically, it's about "angry policeman dad vs....

Elijah Jeffery
Jun 73 min read
Some Advice on Diversity
Some of the best writing advice I ever got, as a straight white man, was from a friend in high school. They said to write people...

Elijah Jeffery
Mar 231 min read
Morals in Fantasy
One of my favorite aspects of writing fiction, particularly fantasy, has got to be the ability to explore very real questions and...

Elijah Jeffery
Feb 41 min read
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