Essay Undergraduate 1,702 words

Parent-Child Relationships in The Merchant of Venice

Analyzes parent-child dynamics in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, examining Launcelot, Jessica, Portia, and Northrop Frye's New Comedy framework.

Literature

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,404 words

Robert Merton: Sociologist Who Shaped Modern Theory

Explore Robert Merton's life and key contributions to sociology: middle range theory, strain theory, manifest and latent functions, and the sociology of science.

Sociology

~13 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 3,840 words

Color Semiotics and Power: Red, Yellow, and the Spectrum

Explores how semiotic theory, from Saussure to Eco, reveals which colors—especially red and yellow—convey power in communication and design.

Communications

~20 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 2,861 words

Christ-Centered Preaching by Chapell: A Book Review

A review of Bryan Chapell's Christ-Centered Preaching, examining expository sermon structure, the Fallen Condition Focus, and redemptive biblical theology.

Religion

~15 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,094 words

Factory Farming: Ethics, Animal Welfare, and Alternatives

Explores the moral, environmental, and animal welfare issues of factory farming, applying virtue ethics and examining arguments for reform or veganism.

Ethics

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,826 words

Perdue Farms: Ethics, Animal Welfare, and Utilitarianism

Analyzes Perdue Farms' farming practices through utilitarianism and virtue ethics, arguing that inhumane conditions violate corporate and ethical responsibility.

Ethics

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,442 words

Thirteen Days: Crisis, Decision, and Cold War Order

Analyze the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962: its causes, key players, nuclear tensions, and why its resolution was a negotiated draw

History

~13 min read

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5,950 words

Western hegemony and the universality of human rights standards

In Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus edited by Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim (1992), the articles are mostly concerned with reworking the notion of human rights in an effort to achieve consensus on a 'new,' 'more universal' (or cosmopolitan) view of human rights, as "the…

~30 min read

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1,465 words

Language and alienation in Fanon's Black Skin White Masks

Grove, 1967. Fanon examines language's role in the black man's alienation from the other, the European (17). In his words, "a man who has language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language" (18). Simply put, language acts as a route into the colonizer's culture.

~8 min read

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3,272 words

Climate change trends in the Wabash Watershed, 1961-1990

The Wabash Watershed -- For this analysis, we will be focusing on a specific geographic area, the Wabash Watershed. Chronologically, we will use 1961-1990 as our basal reference, including raw, 5-year average, and 10-year average data.

~17 min read

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