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Homeward Bound: Nostalgia and Heroism in The Odyssey

Analyze The Odyssey's central themes — hubris, loyalty, nostos, and heroism — through close reading of Homer's epic, arguing that Odysseus earns home through

Literature

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Light, Ice, and Fire: Frankenstein's Symbolic Architecture

Analyze the symbolism of fire, light and darkness, the creature, and the Arctic in Frankenstein and how they build Shelley's critique of Enlightenment reason.

Literature

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Civilization's Wreckage: Symbolism in Lord of the Flies

Analyze how William Golding's Lord of the Flies uses the conch, Piggy's glasses, the signal fire, and the beast as a dialectical symbolic system exposing

Literature

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Tolkien's interpretation of Beowulf's literary structure and significance

Beowulf is one of the most representative written poems in the history of the English literature. At this moment in time there is little doubt of the grandeur of this poem and it is a literary requirement in high school and university curricula.

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Intersecting oppressions: Collins, Katz, and liberation

The intersection of race, class and gender determine social, political, and economic power. Our readings solidify my awareness of the multiple methods and modes of oppression.

~8 min read

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1,004 words

Law and economics in early 19th century Chinese trade conflicts

Were the conflicts that occurred during the Chinese trade activities in the early 19th Century more about law and the perception of law -- or were they more about economics?

~6 min read

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2,297 words

Integrating alternative and conventional medicine in holistic health care

Gig Harbor, WA: Harbor Press.

~12 min read

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Rethinking power and freedom in Nikolas Rose's advanced liberalism

The modern world is constantly changing, and so are the theoretical assumptions we use to understand it. As modernity continues to increase in its complexity, the traditional theoretical models for understanding power and implementations of social movements simply are not working.

~9 min read

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Dehumanization and oppression in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The process of dehumanization is one that is repeated quite often in literature. Unfortunately, if we look at the history of mankind, we find that it is part of human behavior that regularly appears -- typically as some type of process in which one group asserts their superiority, whether moral,…

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1,316 words

David James Duncan's environmental advocacy in "My Story as Told by Water"

Water" by David James Duncan which commends the author in his elaboration of the importance of the ecological system in lieu of our human needs.

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