Essay Undergraduate 1,732 words

Is the World Ordered by Superhuman Intelligence? A Bostrom Analysis

This essay argues the world is not the result of superhuman intelligent ordering, drawing on Nick Bostrom's superintelligence timeline and Heisenberg's epistemological limits.

Philosophy

~9 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,679 words

William James' The Will to Believe: Faith, Reason, and Religion

An essay exploring William James' "The Will to Believe," examining his defense of faith, belief, rationality, and the balance between passion and intellect.

Philosophy

~9 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,189 words

Capital Punishment in North Carolina: The Case Against

This essay argues that North Carolina should abolish capital punishment because it fails to deter crime, costs more than life sentences, and conflicts with modern justice values.

Law

~6 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,553 words

Sexual Assault and Bullying: Power Dynamics Compared

This essay compares sexual assault and bullying through the lens of power, examining definitions, causes, and the role of coercion and pleasure in each behavior.

Social Issues

~8 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 2,184 words

Illusion vs. Reality: Fitzgerald and Miller on the American Dream

A comparative essay analyzing The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman reveals how Fitzgerald diagnoses the American Dream as a structural illusion while

Literature

~11 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,857 words

Earned Belonging: The Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

This essay argues for comprehensive U.S. immigration reform combining humane border enforcement, expanded legal pathways

Government

~10 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,939 words

Paralysis as Power: Agency and Revenge in Hamlet

An undergraduate essay arguing that Hamlet's delay is principled moral resistance, not tragic weakness, anchored to close readings of soliloquies, Laertes

Literature

~10 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,169 words

Why Public Transit Should Be Funded by General Revenue

This essay argues that public transit funding should come from general revenues, not referenda or special taxes, using Nashville's 2018 failed transit vote as a case study.

Government

~6 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,707 words

Ambition vs. Fate: The Competing Forces in Macbeth

Comparative essay analyzing ambition vs. fate in Shakespeare's Macbeth, arguing ambition drives the tragedy while guilt reveals the limits of fatalist readings.

Literature

~9 min read

View paper →

Essay Undergraduate 1,367 words

Life and Ethics: Singer, Plato, and Moral Philosophy

An essay exploring self-interest, the Ring of Gyges, the Rashomon effect, and constructive moral dialogue through Singer, Hobbes, and Weston.

Philosophy

~7 min read

View paper →