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 A School Debate Team Was Her Claim to Fame- Judge Jackson Standpoint Aryan Mukherjee When you debate, you are physically in your role and position, and contending for what you truly want to believe is right . You assimilate the tools of the trade to convince and how not to be convinced, and you see as a result that the most logical conclusion is not derived, but the one that can be backed up with the most vivacity and credibility. With this, in a position such as Supreme Court justice, someone like the esteemed Judge Jackson, who’s knowledge of debate was the quintessential factor in her success as the first African American woman of that role, would be easily able to stand her ground and only yield to the truth and the convincement of actuality to prevail. This particularly applies in a situation like prejudice, where the odds will almost always be against you.  Resilience is key in pursuing a career in law, and to stand up against bigotry and still make it in life to the extent of m

 End of the world? My last thoughts. Aryan Mukherjee       Life as is known through the spectrum of this nanoscopic planet Earth can be whittled down through the pen and paper of a simple fairy tale pertaining to children's literature, except in reverse. What seems unfathomably large through the lens of us mere humans is but a microcosm of what the universe truly holds, and thus, through the nothingness it always once was, we begin at The End. Slowly, gradually, prophetically, the rollercoaster of life, of plot, of elements creaks its way up the rusty iron filings to its peak, as the world grows emphatically into its highest point yet, with humanity thriving ever more. And yet, as this world has left me to assimilate one thing, all ebullience, triumph, glory, and delusory surges of dopamine all at once must cease. So on the railroad track back home through the books of a narrated fairy tale, there is all but one element left in the story of how we, as people, cease to prevail. The

 Is Meritocracy Tyrannous? Aryan Mukherjee      A principle of ideology that has been ingrained in the minds of millions of students worldwide is to let each man merit his own prize. Meritocracy, thus, is the paragon of accomplishment in which, to simply put it, hard work and plentiful studying to go places is the only way to go places, and those who do strive to earn their own merit truly deserve it. Is this common ideal infringed with tyranny? Or is meritocracy truly something every lay man should go out to achieve? Meritocracy is tyrannous, and for a plethora of reasons. For one, it is corrosive of solidarity, separating the hubristic elites from the grounded misfortunate. It travels under the fundamental belief that all people are given equal opportunities, and thus the aristocratic people who make it places believe they deserve it, looking down upon the humiliated lower half of people who couldn’t endeavor to such leaps and bounds. Luck is a massive factor in play here, but