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Fiction as Historical Document: Swift, Erasmus, and Zola

Analyzes how Swift's "A Modest Proposal," Erasmus's "The Shipwreck," and Zola's Germinal function as historical documents revealing their eras.

Literature

~4 min read

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Affirmative Action: Law, Evidence, and Policy Debate

Explores Supreme Court rulings, justifications, statistical evidence of discrimination, and key criticisms of affirmative action in the United States.

Social Issues

~6 min read

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Augustine on God, Evil, and Astrology in the Confessions

Explores Augustine's Confessions: his struggle to conceive God's spiritual nature, Nebridius' refutation of Manichaeism, astrology's failure, and the origin of evil.

Philosophy

~7 min read

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Descartes' Radical Skepticism and the Sensory Bar Critique

Explores how Descartes' First Meditation radical skepticism renders empirical tools like a hypothetical "sensory bar" philosophically insufficient.

Philosophy

~6 min read

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Swift's "A Modest Proposal": Satire, Logic, and Moral Philosophy

An analysis of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," examining its satirical logic, persuasive structure, and moral-philosophical critique of poverty and cannibalism.

Literature

~5 min read

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Phantom Limbs, the Self, and God: Ramachandran's Philosophy

Explores how V.S. Ramachandran's research on phantom limbs challenges Descartes, Berkeley, and Hume on the nature of self, knowledge, and God's existence.

Philosophy

~22 min read

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Abortion Ethics: Moral Status, Personhood, and Key Arguments

Explores abortion ethics through Harman's Actual Future Principle, philosophical definitions of personhood, Thomson and Marquis, and pro-life vs. pro-choice arguments.

Ethics

~8 min read

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Wallace and Twitchell: Style, Tone, and Consumerism

A comparative analysis of David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" and James Twitchell's "Two Cheers for Materialism," examining shared style, tone, and critiques of consumerism.

Literature

~5 min read

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Shakespeare's Political Criticism in Hamlet: Rule of One

Explores how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to critique monarchical fragility, one-man rule, and the dangers of ambition, treachery, and unchecked emotion in governance.

Literature

~10 min read

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Rhetoric Analysis: Native American Sports Team Names Debate

An analysis of Richard Estrada's rhetorical strategies—pathos, ethos, logos, and fallacies—in arguing against Native American sports team names.

Communications

~5 min read

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