Stressing really bad, i totally forgot about it and now i need to write a 400 word essay in 15 hrs about how companies price gouge
400 words isn't all that much. Break it down into parts, make a structure. Think about what do you want to say, in what order you want say it. Make bullet points right now, ASAP.
Once you have a structure, make sure you have enough points for 400 words. 400 words, that's like 40 sentences, depending on your style of writing. Per bullet point, you can write like 3-5 sentences, depending on the point. If you have an introduction of 3 sentences and a conclusion of like 5, that's only 32 sentences left, which is like 8 bullet points.
Go try that, make 8 bullet points now, try to imagine what the essay could look like, then take a break. After the break, come back to it and just type everything out. You can do this.
Yea 400 words is not a lot write a ton of concise bullets taking notes for yourself and then combine those into sentences and paragraphs. You could define price gouging. Explain how inflation made prices change from 2004 to 2024 for example. (A dollar in 2024 is worth ~ $1.60 today). Talk about how some companies prices have increased way more than that during that time. That conveys the point but it isn't necessarily price gouging. Then you could find specific examples of companies who are monopolies or duopolies that are indeed price gouging. Martin Shkreli is a famous example of doing it to prescription drugs to take advantage of the insurance system. Pick 2 examples that interest you, and explain the research indicating that those are indeed price gouging. Have they been sued? Why did they do it? What was the price increase relative to inflation? What was the price increase relative to their competitors? Do they even have competitors? Give some background, give some specific examples. 400 words EZ. This is a chat gpt link with examples. https://chat.openai.com/share/f0097d41-3cc4-4508-a9af-b9c4e3e24e6b