Essay Undergraduate 1,051 words

Race, Ethnicity, and Social Stratification in America

Explores social stratification theories, white racism evasion strategies, race as social construction, Black civil rights progress, and racial social injustice in America.

Social Issues

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,390 words

Auteur Theory in French New Wave and Italian Neorealist Film

Explores auteur theory in Godard's Week End, Truffaut's The 400 Blows, and de Sica's Bicycle Thieves as examples of realism and art cinema.

Arts

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,428 words

Market Structures, Pricing Strategies, and Toyota Case Study

Explores four market structures—perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly—with pricing strategies and a Toyota case study.

Economics

~13 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,554 words

Phillis Wheatley's Whitefield Poems: A Comparative Analysis

A close comparison of Phillis Wheatley's two Whitefield elegies, examining typography, ornamentation, paratexts, and audience in early African-American literature.

Literature

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,285 words

WTO, Trade Liberalization, and the Developing World

An overview of the WTO's role in international trade, the benefits and costs of trade liberalization, and its mixed effects on developing economies.

Economics

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,224 words

Māori Art, Carving Traditions, and Cultural Identity

Explores Māori artistic traditions including wood carving and tā moko skin carving, their sacred significance, and how Western museums strip them of cultural meaning.

Arts

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,664 words

Sandel, Locke, and Rawls on Justice and the Common Good

Analyzes Sandel's four principles of the common good and compares them with Locke's property-rights libertarianism and Rawls's theory of social justice.

Philosophy

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,249 words

Black Rain (1989): Memory, Denial, and Hiroshima's Legacy

Analyzes Imamura's Black Rain (1989) as a film confronting collective denial of Hiroshima, radiation sickness, and postwar Japanese memory during the Cold War.

Arts

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,199 words

Cruelty and Innocence in the Opening Scene of Of Mice and Men

Explores how Steinbeck uses nature imagery, symbolism, and characterization in the opening scene of Of Mice and Men to establish his theme of cruelty.

Literature

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,635 words

The Hajj: Islamic Pilgrimage to Mecca Explained

Explore the Hajj pilgrimage: its rituals, historical importance, Sunni-Shia divisions, and the politics of Mecca and Saudi Arabia today.

Religion

~9 min read

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