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(Dis)Attend – An Essay by Josh Baker
E Pluribus Unum In order to interact effectively with social reality, we must learn to focus our attention in specific socially-prescribed ways. This process “entails mentally disengaging [a given object]… Read more
Understanding Identity Depiction on Facebook – Grace Hong
Ground Level The category of “emerging adults” plays a significant role in understanding the behavior of a majority of the members of the Facebook population. The classification of “emerging adults”… Read more
The Role of America in the Development of Cuban-Soviet Relations – Michael Stuzynski
Since the time of its independence from Spain, the island nation of Cuba has shared a close relationship with the United States. Through much of the 20th Century, the United… Read more
Reconciling Religion and Science – An Essay by Dave Imbriaco
“God is an essence we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is gotten rid of, there will be no liberal science in this country.” –John Adams “We need to… Read more
Defining the Imperial Ethic in the Cold War Era: The United States and the Phillipines – Michael Stuzynski
This essay was submitted for a course on American Empires. It is reproduced here because of the striking similarity between the situation it describes and our current political engagement in… Read more
A Defense of the Sidgewick’s Original Equal Weight Principle – Ben Marino
In Section 2, I briefly outline the basics of Equal Weight View. In Section 3, I consider an attempt to alter the Equal Weight View in order to save it… Read more
Psychoanalysis and Feminism in 20th Century America: an Emerging Dialectic – an Essay by Michael Stuzynski
The relationship between psychoanalytic and feminist theories has been, from the beginning, multifaceted, nuanced, and opaque. In the interest of brevity, the focus of this paper will be to examine… Read more
Editing and Re-editing: The Perpetuation of Consistency in the American Biography – an Essay by Grace Hong
The expression of identity as persistent and coherent has long been a fundamental goal of the self and by extension, the nation. Because of this possibly inherent desire to promote… Read more
E. Pluribus Unum – an Essay by Josh Baker
In order to interact effectively with social reality, we must learn to focus our attention in specific socially-prescribed ways. This process “entails mentally disengaging [a given object] (as a ‘figure’)… Read more
Postmodern Representations of Hemingway’s Search for Meaning Within Memory in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Mike Stuzynski
William Adair contends in “The Sun Also Rises: The Source of A Farewell to Arms,” that both of Hemingway’s great novel’s share a common thread in terms of their structure. … Read more
