| Illegal Immigration is Harming America |
Amy Reese |
2007 |
an essay describing the problems caused by illegal Mexican immigrants to the U.S. |
| Komödie und Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Matt Stoltz |
2007 |
en essay, in German |
| Berryman's Voice |
Matt Stoltz |
2006 |
Matt's thesis paper discussing the poetry of John Berryman |
| The Battle of the Greek Pool |
Robert Reese |
2005 |
an essay about David Bezmozgis' story |
| Cheese |
Robert Reese |
2005 |
an informal essay about the history of cheese, cheesemaking, and other random cheese related information |
| The Garden of Fetters |
Matt Stoltz |
2005 |
an essay |
| Imagination |
Matt Stoltz |
2005 |
a final essay for CHID 390 |
| Kuhn and the Nature of Normal Science |
Matt Stoltz |
2005 |
an essay |
| Misdirection & Excess in Ginsberg, Larkin, and Berryman |
Matt Stoltz |
2005 |
an essay discussing the misdirection and excess of the poets Ginsberg, Larkin, and Berryman |
| Relations Between Los Hermanos Penitentes and the Catholic Church |
Robert Reese |
2005 |
a research paper analyzing the way the Penitentes and the Catholic Church have interacted with each other over time |
| Rosa's Past, Present, and Future |
Robert Reese |
2005 |
an essay about Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl |
| Three Wives |
Robert Reese |
2005 |
an essay about Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel Enemies, A Love Story |
| The Use of Simile in Geertz |
Matt Stoltz |
2005 |
an essay |
| Why Fire? |
Robert Reese |
2005 |
a short essay about the short story |
| Wonder and Greenblatt |
Matt Stoltz |
2005 |
an essay |
| 1984 and Love |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
an essay describing the types of love displayed in George Orwell's 1984 |
| Bowen's "Demon Lover" |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's short story |
| Characteristics of the Heroic Slave |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
essay exploring the characteristics that all heroic slaves possessed |
| Chiasmus in Douglass' Narrative |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
essay documenting Frederick Douglass' use of the rhetorial device chiasmus in his autobiography |
| Chinua Achebe's Response to Conrad |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
essay suggesting that Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, was the antithesis to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
| Class Status in Jane Eyre |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
an essay describing the way Charolette Bronte uses Jane Eyre as an example of a character that is able to transcend class boundaries |
| The Creole Slave Rebellion: Fact and Fiction |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
comparison of the historial Creole slave ship rebellion and Frederick Douglass' retelling of it in The Heroic Slave |
| Dream Songs and Freud |
Matt Stoltz |
2004 |
an essay |
| Flannery O'Connor's Support of the Devil |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
an essay arguing that O'Connor is truly on the devil's side while writing Wise Blood |
| Hemingway's Masculinity |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
an essay that shows how Hemingway's ideal of masculinity shows up in The Sun Also Rises |
| The Irony of Racism |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
analysis of Wole Soyinka's use of irony in his poem Telephone Conversation |
| Marxist Theory in The Metamorphosis |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
essay exploring the link between Franz Kafka's novella and the communist theories of Karl Marx |
| Orientalism in Jane Eyre |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
an essay examining the use of race in Jane Eyre |
| Overcoming Divisions in A Passage to India |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
an essay about E. M. Forster's classic novel |
| The Power of the Duke in "My Last Duchess" |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
analysis of Robert Browning's poem |
| Waitress |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
analysis of Jan Beatty's A Waitress's Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time |
| Walter Mitty's Reality |
Robert Reese |
2004 |
analysis of James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| The Ambivalence of the Colonized |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
essay explaining the way in which colonized people are forced to become like their colonizers, but are prevented from every successfully doing so |
| Different Yet the Same: Kami and Shen |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
an essay exploring the relationship between Chinese shen and Japanese kami |
| Election Reforms |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
essay calling for reforms to the American presidential elections |
| Ezeulu's Tragic Encounter with Colonialism |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
essay describing the way in which colonialism destroyed the life of Ezeulu in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God |
| Filial Piety in Chinese Religion |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
short essay describing the relation of filial piety with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism |
| Gravity |
Matt Stoltz |
2003 |
essay criticizing David Henry Hwangs play, M Butterfly |
| Legs as a Building Block |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
essay describing how the novel Legs serves as the foundation for the novel Billy Bathgate |
| Literary Descendants of the Colonial Native |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
comparison of colonial literature's native characters and post-colonial literature's European characters |
| Utopian School |
Robert Reese |
2003 |
essay describing what I see as the perfect school system |
| Abrigos de Piel Son un Asesinato |
Robert Reese |
2002 |
short essay about the ethical problems associated with the fur industry (en español) |
| Bernadette Peters: Star of the Many Avenues of Show Business |
Vinod Suresh |
2002 |
research paper describing the life and carreer of actress Burnadette Peters |
| Everyone is a Hindu |
Vinod Suresh |
2002 |
essay exploring the universality of Hinduism |
| Freire the Depositor |
Robert Reese |
2002 |
essay explaining how Freires own writing fails to be in the spirit of his problem-posing education ideals |
| A History of Poseidon |
Robert Reese |
2002 |
a research paper about the portrayal of the god Poseidon in Greek literature (especially in Homers epics) |
| Narratives in Western Religions |
Vinod Suresh |
2002 |
religion final essay describing the way society identifies religions through stories and naratives |
| The Relation of a Reader and Writer: Rodriguez and Hoggart |
Robert Reese |
2002 |
essay discussing how Richard Rodriguez incorporates the work of Richard Hoggart into his own |
| Cafeteria |
Robert Reese |
2001 |
essay documenting the social interaction that takes place in the cafeteria |
| A Call For the Emancipation of Marijuana |
Robert Reese |
2001 |
research paper proving that marijuana and hemp should be fully legalized |
| Views of Columbine |
Robert Reese |
2001 |
essay looking at the Columbine High School shootings from different points of view |
| The Characters of Hard Times |
Robert Reese |
2000 |
essay explaining how the characters in Charles Dickens Hard Times represented the English social castes |
| On Candide |
Robert Reese |
2000 |
essay documenting Voltaires attacks on religion in Candide |
| The Hundred Years War |
Robert Reese |
1999 |
essay about The Hundred Years War fought by England and France |
| Machiavellis Prince |
Robert Reese |
1999 |
essay outlining Niccolò Machiavellis political views reflected in The Prince |
| Mean God or Nice God? |
Robert Reese |
1998 |
essay describing how The Scarlet Letter depicted God as an angry and vengeful being |
| Should Huck be on the Shelf? |
Robert Reese |
1998 |
essay defending The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a book that should be allowed in public schools |