Essay Undergraduate 1,144 words

Locke vs. Hume on Personal Identity: A Comparative Study

Compare Locke and Hume's theories of personal identity, exploring consciousness, memory, perception, and the self in British empiricist philosophy.

Philosophy

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,716 words

Brand as Bulwark: General Mills and the Limits of Scale

A strategic case-study analysis of General Mills arguing that brand equity — not portfolio breadth or operational scale — is the company's true competitive

Business

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,146 words

Memory as Wound: Trauma and Haunting in Toni Morrison's Beloved

A close reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved arguing the novel is a phenomenology of traumatic memory, analyzing Sethe, Beloved, Schoolteacher

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,284 words

Ending WWII Without Nuclear Weapons: Mahan and Sun Tzu

Analyzes a strategic recommendation to President Truman using Mahan's sea power theory and Sun Tzu's principles to end the Pacific War without nuclear weapons.

History

~7 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,181 words

Gilded Illusions: Gatsby's American Dream as Self-Destruction

A close reading of The Great Gatsby analyzing Fitzgerald's plot, symbolism, and characterization to argue that the American Dream destroys Gatsby through

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,125 words

Haunted by History: Memory and Motherhood in Beloved

An undergraduate analysis of Toni Morrison's Beloved examining how rememory, motherhood, and the supernatural collectively argue that trauma requires communal

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,053 words

Burning Thought: Censorship and Memory in Fahrenheit 451

Analyze Fahrenheit 451's themes of censorship, conformity, and literature through a close reading of Montag, Beatty, and the Book People in Bradbury's 1953

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,118 words

Scarlet and Shadow: Sin, Shame, and Defiance in Hawthorne

Analyze sin, shame, and redemption in The Scarlet Letter through Hester's defiance, Dimmesdale's concealment, and Hawthorne's critique of Puritan theocracy.

Literature

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,241 words

Darkness Beneath the Surface: David Lynch as Auteur

Auteur theory analysis of David Lynch examining Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead as a unified vision of hidden darkness beneath American domestic

Arts

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,703 words

Is Lying Always Wrong? Business Ethics and Dishonesty

Explores whether lying is always wrong through business ethics cases: James Frey's memoir fraud and resume misrepresentation by corporate executives.

Ethics

~9 min read

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