Essay Undergraduate 1,449 words

John Keats's "To Autumn": Melancholy, Nature, and Delight

An analysis of Keats's "To Autumn" exploring how the poem balances melancholy and delight, individual growth, and the Romantic rejection of industrial society.

Literature

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 910 words

The Business Model of Education and Its Cost to Quality Teaching

An analysis of Lynne Drury Lerych's critique of the "edu-preneurship" trend, arguing that monetary incentives in American higher education undermine quality teaching.

Education

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,445 words

The United Nations and Its Role in U.S. Foreign Policy

Explores the UN's diminishing influence on U.S. foreign policy, covering the body's history, interests, and America's unilateral actions post-9/11.

Politics

~13 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,923 words

Mediation vs. Litigation in the Oil and Gas Industry

Explores how mediation serves as a cost-effective alternative to litigation for oil and gas lease disputes, covering process, limitations, and other ADR options.

Law

~15 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,390 words

Strength as Ruin: Okonkwo's Tragic Fall in Things Fall Apart

A character analysis of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart arguing his fear of weakness — not colonialism alone — drives his tragic fall in Achebe's 1958 novel.

Literature

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,573 words

Work, Progress, and Empire: Roosevelt vs. Bourne

Compares Theodore Roosevelt's "The Strenuous Life" with Randolph Bourne's "The Experimental Life" to explore conflicting Progressive Era attitudes toward work and empire.

History

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,972 words

Freedom on the Water: Symbols of Morality in Huck Finn

Analyzes how the Mississippi River, the raft, and Jim in Huckleberry Finn work as symbols of freedom's instability, exposing antebellum America's moral

Literature

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,593 words

Marriage, Property, and Women in 19th-Century English Literature

Explores how Austen, Eliot, Browning, and Besant critique marriage in Victorian England as a system of property and female objectification.

Literature

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 995 words

Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Ottawa: Who Won the First Round?

Analysis of the first Lincoln-Douglas debate in Ottawa, Illinois (1858), arguing that Stephen Douglas outperformed Lincoln through pragmatic, concrete argumentation.

History

~5 min read

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Research Paper Undergraduate 2,163 words

African Diaspora: Survival of Culture and Tradition

Explores how African culture, folklore, music, and religion survived the transatlantic slave trade through resilience, syncretism, and creative adaptation.

History

~11 min read

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