Essay Undergraduate 1,801 words

Don Quixote: Daydreamer or Madman in Cervantes' Novel

Analyzes whether Don Quixote's delusions reflect true madness or willful fantasy, drawing on text, form, and historical context in Cervantes' novel.

Literature

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,356 words

Shattered Innocence: Trauma, Awakening, and the Literary Rite of Passage

Analyze loss of innocence as a literary theme through To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Kite Runner

Literature

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,348 words

Authority's Rot: Power and Corruption in Literary Imagination

Analyzes power and corruption in Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and Macbeth, arguing that moral decay is structural to authority itself

Literature

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,915 words

Biblical Genres: Epistle and Apocalyptic in the New Testament

Explores the epistle and apocalyptic genres in the New Testament, examining Pauline letters, the book of Revelation, and their hermeneutical significance.

Religion

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,036 words

Rebel Without a Cause: Julia's Pragmatic Defiance in 1984

A character analysis of Julia in Orwell's 1984 arguing her bodily, pragmatic resistance is Orwell's most honest portrait of rebellion under totalitarianism

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,170 words

The 19th Amendment and the Fight for Women's Equal Rights

Explores how the 19th Amendment empowered American women politically, economically, and socially, and whether it advanced or stalled the suffrage movement.

History

~11 min read

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2,437 words

Fear and courage in obedience: Asch, Fromm, and Zimbardo

It has been suggested that fear and courage are directly related to whether or not a person is obedient. Some believe that it takes courage to be disobedient, since disobedience will normally result in punishment of some kind, and choosing to face punishment takes courage.

~13 min read

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2,234 words

Spiegelman's Maus and the graphic novel canon

Upon examination of the evolution of the Graphic Novel, one discovers that amusing drawings have been around forever. But the rise of the newspaper industry in the late nineteenth century was the force that brought comics into everyday American households.

~12 min read

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1,456 words

Global warming, pollution, and the Medieval Warm Period Project

Rapid growth of the global economy profoundly effects modern economic development and stability, labor, and, most especially, the environment.

~8 min read

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1,521 words

Learning English through parental encouragement and formal education

It was a sunny week-end during my high school days in Saudi Arabia but the conversation we were having in our humid living room was even more intense than the desert heat.

~8 min read

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