Essay Undergraduate 1,067 words

Public School Education: Who the System Fails and Why

Examines how high-stakes testing, teacher quality, and cultural bias in U.S. public schools leave disadvantaged students behind, fueling dropout rates.

Education

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,350 words

Language as a Mask: Identity and Linguistic Performance

Explores how language functions as a social mask shaping identity, cultural affiliation, and community boundaries in multicultural and multilingual contexts.

Sociology

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,390 words

Celtic to Norman: Key Influences That Shaped Britain

Explore how the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans each shaped British language, culture, religion, and political institutions over centuries.

History

~7 min read

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Case Study Undergraduate 1,518 words

Parental Involvement at a Miami-Dade High School

Explores parental involvement at Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High in Miami-Dade, using interviews and research to assess what works and for whom.

Education

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,073 words

Xu Zhimo: Love, Freedom, and Modernity in Chinese Poetry

Analyzes Xu Zhimo's poetry—Chance, This Is a Coward World, Goodbye Cambridge, and Sea Rhyme—exploring themes of love, exile, and Chinese modernism.

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,991 words

Why the Dutch Lost New Netherland to England

Examines why the Dutch failed to maintain New Netherland, tracing fur trade origins, colonial mismanagement, and English conquest from 1609 to 1674.

History

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 851 words

Blake's Holy Thursday: Innocence, Experience, and Social Critique

Explores how William Blake's two Holy Thursday poems contrast innocence and experience to critique poverty, religion, and eighteenth-century English society.

Literature

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 487 words

Swift's "A Modest Proposal": Satire and Social Criticism

An analysis of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," examining how Swift uses satire, hyperbole, and irony to critique English exploitation of the Irish poor.

Literature

~3 min read

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 683 words

TESOL Fieldwork: Building Trust With ELL Families

A TESOL fieldwork report on using a family trust-building strategy with a Spanish-speaking ELL student, including SOLOM assessment and home visit results.

Education

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 415 words

Swift's "A Modest Proposal": Satire, Irony, and Politics

An analysis of Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay "A Modest Proposal," exploring its irony, political commentary, and critique of English exploitation of the Irish.

Literature

~3 min read

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