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What is Legacy?

Legacy refers to what individuals, institutions, cultures, and civilizations leave behind — the lasting impact of their actions, creations, and ideas on future generations. It appears across disciplines including history, political science, literature, music, architecture, and education, making it a genuinely cross-curricular subject. Students engage with it because it asks a fundamental question: how do the choices made in one era shape society today? The topic invites analysis of figures and institutions as varied as Roman civilization, Aristotle's philosophy of education, the Negro Baseball League, and architect I. M. Pei, grounding abstract ideas about influence in concrete historical and cultural cases.

The papers collected here approach legacy from several distinct angles. Historical analyses trace how past events and institutions — such as the Nineteenth Century's influence on the Great War or the enduring structures of Roman civilization — continue to resonate in contemporary life. Other essays take a biographical or cultural focus, examining how figures like John Coltrane or Sundiata shaped music and storytelling traditions. Some papers use case studies of specific organizations, such as the Girl Scouts or Smith and Wesson, to explore how institutional identity evolves over time. Reflective and policy-oriented approaches also appear, connecting personal development to broader historical and social legacies.

A strong essay on legacy stakes out a clear, arguable claim about why a particular inheritance matters and to whom. Evidence drawn from historical context, cultural impact, or documented outcomes carries the most weight. Writers should resist simply cataloguing achievements; instead, the analysis should explain the mechanisms by which influence transfers across time. The most common pitfall is treating legacy as uniformly positive — the strongest essays acknowledge tension, unintended consequences, or contested interpretations.

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Bell hooks' critique of institutionalized racism in Killing Rage

The scholar bell hooks Killing Rage: Ending Racism begins with the shocking defense of a severely psychologically disturbed black man who unleashed a killing spree on the New York subway.

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Separating myth from reality: comparing scholarly approaches to Leonardo da Vinci

This paper compares four different articles about Leonardo da Vinci. Comparisons range from their theses, to their approach of the subject. Post comparison deals with which author would I want to meet, as well as which of da Vinci's works of art would I want to see the most. The conclusion talks about what other questions could be asked or answered about da Vinci.

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Deconstruction of "Paris is Burning": race, sexuality and drag ball culture

A Deconstruct of the movie "Paris is Burning" as it relates to 6 Chapters in our textbook

Paper Doctorate

Emotional appeals and symbolism in Shakespeare and Bob Marley

¶ … incongruous to try to compare the artists William Shakespeare and Bob Marley. These two men, separated by centuries and embodying two very different forms of art, both make up part of the history of popular culture.

Thesis Undergraduate

Structural racism and inequality in Detroit's public education system

Massive institutional racism and structural inequalities still exist in the United States, especially in housing, public education and the criminal justice system in inner city areas. In every urban area, the quality of education available to poor and minority students is demonstrably worse by any measure than that of their white peers in the suburbs. This type of institutional discrimination is not caused by genetic or cultural deprivation but by the fact that the U.S. has always been and remains a highly segregated and unequal society based on race and social class. Of course, this violates the liberal, egalitarian and meritocratic ideals on which the nation was (supposedly), but after all, the U.S. managed to survive with slavery for almost a hundred years after its founding, and with legal segregation and disenfranchisement of blacks for a hundred years after that. Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, Camden, New Jersey all have crumbling public school systems serving mostly black and Hispanic students funded at levels far below those of white suburban districts.

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U.S.-Canada border security changes after September 11th

¶ … September 11th shocked and enraged many people, in the United States and around the world. With that shock came a cry for change, a tightening of the open and free society in which we live.

Thesis Undergraduate

Social stratification barriers for African Americans and Native Americans in the United States

Minority Groups: Why They Have Failed to Make Significant

Thesis Undergraduate

Walmart's failed SAP system implementation and financial consequences

The advent of technology has enabled some organizations to adopt and implement some IT systems which are often expected to foster service to clients. Some of these systems may however fail during the implementation stages or may fail to enable the company realize its vision and goals as planned. This study focuses on how the implementation of SAP System at Wal-Mart has not been successful. The circumstances leading to its failure are also identified.

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Walter Lippmann's critique of Wilsonian democracy and expertise

This paper offers a reading of Walter Lippmann's political proposals in his seminal 1914 text Drift and Mastery. The paper approaches Lippmann's stance by attempting to extrapolate what Lippmann's view of subsequent developments in twentieth century American politics would be. Starting from Lippmann's generally supportive stance toward the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and toward Woodrow Wilson, the paper examines Lippmann's potential response to the emergence of civil rights for blacks, women's suffrage, and the New Deal, among other large-scale social trends.

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Cameron International Corporation's market entry strategy into Myanmar

The objective of this study is to examine whether Cameron International Corporation with revenues of $6,134.8 million (FY 2010), net profit of $562.9 million (FY 2010) and an operating profit of $858.5 (FY 2010), provides flow equipment and pressure control equipment for both land and sea oil rigs should make an entry into the Myanmar, formerly the Burma market. The pros and cons of entry into this market will be examined.

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