Scholarly Essays

  

This is basically a list of the essays I have written for my undergraduate classes. This is definitely not all inclusive. These are just the ones I personally liked.

Ancient & Medieval Cultures

• The Disproportionate Contributions, Importance and Impact of Jewish Culture on Western Civilization
• Is the Early History of Islam a Predictor of Islamic Behavior in the World Today?
• Theodora: From Circus Folk to Her Place in History
• The Greco-Roman Legacy on Western Civilization

The Bible as Literature

• Cain & Abel
• The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Business 101

• News Flash: ‘The nation of Effra has announced that they will now be using pigs as money’

Comparative Literature

• Survival of the One-Track Mind: “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” and “The Secret Miracle” vs. “Rashomon”
• Life and Death in the Land of Young Women: Sputnik Sweetheart vs. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fundamentals of Business Writing

• Angela’s Ashes

History of Japan

• Japanese Culture in the Philippines
• The Sound of the Mountain (book review)
• Let Me Show You The Way… The Japanese Tea Ceremony

History of Women in the United States

• The Voices of a Generation: Women in 1970s and 1980s Rock Music

Linguistics

• I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That: The History of Machine Translations

Literature of the American West

• Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am, or Gender in the West
• Violence in the Day of the Locust

Medieval English Lit

• Maybe He Was Born With It: The Birth of Evil: Grendel and Darth Vader
• The Feminization of Suicide in Dante’s Inferno

Outlaw Genres

• Shades of Gray: The Complications of Arab-American Identity
• Seven Sins of the Sisters

Popular Culture in 20th Century United States

• The Villains of Class Conflict Silent Films
• Jillian’s on Fremont Street
• Representations of Filipino Culture in American Media

Principles of Macroeconomics

• The Economic Connection Between Households and Business
• John Maynard Keynes
• Robert Malthus
• The Life of Adam Smith

Senior Seminar in History

• Article Review of Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites’ “Dissent and Emotional Management in a Liberal-Democratic Society: The Kent State Iconic Photograph”
• We Gotta Get out of This Place: Definitive Photography in the Vietnam Conflict

U.S. Foreign Relations I

• Benedict Arnold
• Reasons for a Revolution: The Revolutionary War in America
• Alliance of Two: The American Colonists and France
• Seward’s Folly
• Manifest Destiny
• 19th Century America
• The Annexation of the Philippines
• Alfred Mahan and the Spanish-American War
• The Roots of World War II in World War I

Writing About Multi-cultural Literature

• Love in the Time of Mango Street