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Academic Writing

Most people probably aren't that interested in my homework, but I thought I'd put up a few things that might have some general appeal.

Fall 2008:

• Political Institutions Seminar: Critique of Hacker's "Privatizing Risk Without Privatizing the Welfare State"
  • Political Institutions Seminar: Critique of Sapat's "Devolution and Innovation"

• Political Economy: Something Old, Something New (Marxist vs. 4th century Christian theories of property)
• Poli Sci Senior Seminar: Revising the Constitution
• Political Economy: In Search of the Soul of Socialism (Socialism-from-Above vs. Socialism-from-Below)
• Political Economy: Self-motivated Decentralization as a Solution to Overpopulated Cities
• Poli Sci Senior Seminar: Developing a Theory of Justice
• Political Economy: For love or Money: Left and Right Agree on Something (Agrarians v. Marxists)
• Political Economy: The Value of Beauty: Art and Culture as a Commodity
  Political Science Senior Thesis: The Clash of Civilizations and the Rise of Fundamentalism
• Political Economy: Creative Destruction
• Political Economy: The Elimination of Social Class through Decomposition
• Spirit of the Sixties: The Brown Power Movement (bullet notes for a roundtable discussion)
• Spirit of the Sixties: The History of the Pill (bullet notes for a roundtable discussion)
• Spirit of the Sixties: Hippie Manquée (Class Journal maintained in the Spirit of the Sixties)
• Spirit of the Sixties: Storming Heaven: A Book Review
• Spirit of the Sixties: The Ruling Class: A Movie Review

• Developing Nations: Algeria: Chances for Growth Depend on Human Rights
• Econometrics: Examining Potential Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic

  Spring 2006:

  • University Essay Contest: Saturday's Child: A Critique of Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Art of Gender Academic Conference: Divine Secrets of the Firearms Sisterhood
  • International Economics: Migrant Labor

• Math Club: Solving Rubik's Cube
• Symmetry in Math and Society: Rubik's Cube and Group Theory

• Introduction to Political Science: Great Political Philosophers
  Comparative Politics: Nigeria's Difficulties with Transitioning to Democracy

• Macroeconomics: Interesting Facts about Money (warning: this was a stupid assignment that made me feel like I was back in high school)
  Weight Training: End of semester progress report (see how strong I got)
  Macroeconomics: Where Did My Clothes Come From? (another stupid assignment that I didn't put nearly as much into as I could have)
• Math Study Strategies: My Math Autobiography (a long essay exploring my academic and psychological experiences that shaped the math abilities I have today.)

Fall 2003:

• Speech outline and articles: Informative Speech. Topic: Prosopagnosia.
• Speech outline and bibliography: Argumentative Speech. Topic: Second Amendment.
• Speech outline and audience evaluation: Persuasive Speech. Topic: Stress and Journaling.
• American Government Policy Paper. Topic: The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.

Fall 1995:

English 105. Topic: Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang: Examining Radical Environmentalism's Contradictions

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