Writing at C2 level (Proficient User) on English language examinations is the same no matter the awarding body when it comes to writing essays. If you are a candidate giving an exam in English, make sure you read my earlier post What do I do with the sample writing found on this blog? to get the most out of the sample essays provided on this blog.  If you are not taking an exam but need ideas on the causes that have led to the change in women's sta tus over the years , then read on and note down what you deem useful. If you intend to use this essay as part of an assignment, remember to paraphrase so as not to plagiarize.

The following are topics teachers and students can use to practice writing for exams, as homework assignments, longer research projects, even as discussion topics or debates.

You hear "Joyce" and something in you cringes or ruptures or you sense retroperistalsis in its inception. You've had a hor rendous e xperience reading Ul ysses and would rather not pick up another Joyce novel in your life.  Well, "Eveline", thank God, is not U lysses. It is a short story, to begin with, meaning that whatever torture Joyce would have us experience, it wa s intended to be a short one. It is a 'normal' short story , to continue, meani ng that it follows in the vein of the other outstanding stories found in Dubliners .  Cr itics have demoted th is collection of short stories in that the y have chara cterized it as simplistic , ignoring the fact that simplicity is not always as simple as it seems. Spelling the wo rd "cat" for instance is simple if we are to comp are it to the word "gneissoid", but the cognitive processes involved in spelling "cat" are no less complicated than those employed by the bra...