Brainless jocks rule the roost, while impoverished nerds are reduced to ghost-writing their essays for them.
However, there is less focus on addressing the issue of ghost writing or buying essays from paper mills (Molinari 2014).
The following excerpt given by one of the ghost writing consortia (Commercial Essay Provider 5) summarises the attitude of these writers and clearly shows they know students' weaknesses: 'Although the students from this (anonymised) country are highly focussed on knowledge, they lag far behind when it comes to execution.
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I enjoyed Yisrael Feuerman's essay ("Ghosts, and Specters," May 8).
Kevin Powell, writer, activist, public speaker, is the author or editor of 11 books, including "Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and The Ghost of Dr. King: Blogs and Essays" (www.lulu.com).
His 11th, "Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and The Ghost of Dr. King: And Other Blogs and Essays," will be published January 2012.
Mark Fisher's essay collection Ghosts of My Life (Zero Books) faces up to his own experience of depression and links it to wider cultural and political concerns.
Barring the exceptions of Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence and Amitav Ghosh's 1995 essay, The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi in The New Yorker, most Indian writers were reluctant to engage with that horrific past.
In her essay, "The Ghosts of Loiret", Shirley Jackson writes cheerfully about houses and poltergeists ("it is simply too much for a house to have poltergeists and children"), but as any fan of her novels knows, houses are containers of deadly evil.
