Class:	Religion and Science
Professor:	Langdon Gilkey, Visiting Professor, Georgetown U. Theology Dept.
Term:	Spring 1996
Date Paper Presented:	April 23, 1996
Grade Received on Paper:	A

I think this is the best paper I have written so far. The subject matter boggles my mind, and I only scratched the surface in the paper. Read this if you are into really deep thoughts.

Class:	Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Professor:	Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown U. Government Dept.
Term:	Summer 1997
Date Paper Presented:	July 15, 1997
Grade Received on Paper:	A-

Tocqueville wrote one of the best books ever on American society. He was an incredibly insightful philosopher, and most of what he wrote about human nature in general and American in particular is still valid today. Click above for a paper I wrote on the subject, but please note that I have since changed some of my views on the happiness of citizens in a capitalist state.
Interested in the endnotes?
Interested in the bibliography?

Class:	Media and American Politics
Professor:	Diana Owen, Georgetown U. Government Dept.
Term:	Fall 1996
Date Paper Presented:	December 9, 1996
Grade Received on Paper:	A

The Internet will undoubtedly have, and indeed is having an incredible impact on how information, including what we used to consider "general news," is delivered. This paper attempts to determine what will happen to newspapers, and the radio and TV news that I am sure you remember.

Class:	New York Stories
Professor:	Maureen Corrigan, Georgetown U. English Dept.
Term:	Spring 1998
Date Paper Presented:	March 23, 1998
Grade Received on Paper:	A+

Ode to New York, Part I. This was part of a take-home midterm exam. In this paper I try to define the top five characteristics of a story that can only be found in New York City.

Class:	New York Stories
Professor:	Maureen Corrigan, Georgetown U. English Dept.
Term:	Spring 1998
Date Paper Presented:	March 23, 1998
Grade Received on Paper:	A

Ode to New York, Part II. Part of the same take-home exam. In this paper I trash the "city" of Los Angeles for not being a real city, and praise New York for being everything the United States should strive for, ecologically and economically. The argument mostly hinges on the fact that the sprawling mass of Los Angeles requires cars on which to travel, while access to all parts of New York can be easily obtained via numerous popular methods, like the subway and busses.

Class:	New York Stories
Professor:	Maureen Corrigan, Georgetown U. English Dept.
Term:	Spring 1998
Date Paper Presented:	May 4, 1998
Grade Received on Paper:	A-

Ode to New York, Part III. This paper addresses the effect of immigration on New York. It's all good.

Class:	European Civilization: 1789-Present
Professor:	Sandra Horvath-Peterson, Georgetown U. History Dept.
Term:	Spring 1995
Date Paper Presented:	May 3, 1995
Grade Received on Paper:	A-

The title may be a little harsh, but this paper documents the rampant corruption (and blatantly uncommunist activities) that pervaded life in the later years of the Soviet Union's communist regime.

Class:	Reading the Newspaper
Professors:	Ben Bradlee & Barbara Feinman, Georgetown U. English Dept.
Term:	Spring 1997
Date Paper Presented:	May 7, 1997
Grade Received on Paper:	B+

I thought it was weird, at first, that polls say that when presented with conflicting information from a newspaper and a TV news broadcast people tend to believe their televisions. How can people believe their TVs when TV broadcast journalism has so many credibility problems? This paper attempts to find out how this is possible.

Class:	Elements of Political Theory
Professor:	Michael R. James, Georgetown U. Government Dept.
Term:	Spring 1997
Date Paper Presented:	May 2, 1997
Grade Received on Paper:	B+

This brief paper is about the thoughts that three great thinkers had on the concept of justice. Thomas Hobbes, of course, of Leviathan fame, and the other two people are interlocutors in a conversation with Socrates, as related by Plato in the Republic.

Class:	History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Professor:	John Ruedy, Georgetown U. History Dept.
Term:	Spring 1997
Date Paper Presented:	April 15, 1997
Grade Received on Paper:	90 [A-]

Shortly after the State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, Arabs in Palestine left the country while Jews in Arab countrys came to Israel (voluntarily and otherwise). This paper looks at some of the scholarship that has been written about this latter phenominon.

Class:	History of the Roman Empire
Professor:	Catherine Keesling, Georgetown U. Classics Dept.
Term:	Fall 1996
Date Paper Presented:	October 28, 1996
Grade Received on Paper:	92, A-

This is a paper on Tacitus' The Histories. It attempts to discover why the Roman warrior Vespasian was successful in his bid for the throne while three others before him failed. It is useful today to determine who is successful in politics.

Class:	History of the Roman Empire
Professor:	Catherine Keesling, Georgetown U. Classics Dept.
Term:	Fall 1996
Date Paper Presented:	November 22, 1996
Grade Received on Paper:	94, A/A-

Here's a paper I wrote about the importance of the Roman Emperor in ancient Rome. My professor didn't get the title, but I was trying to point out how this one man kept the empire together from the highest position in the government. It's kind of a weak title, I guess, but the paper is better.

Class:	History of the Middle Ages I
Professor:	Bennett Hill, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown U. History Dept.
Term:	Fall 1997
Date Paper Presented:	November 18, 1997
Grade Received on Paper:	B

This paper compares Einhard's Life of Charlemagne with two works about Augustus, the Roman Emperor: The chapter Suetonius devotes to him, and his own official version of his life, The Res Gestae.

Class:	Presidential Electoral Politics
Professor:	Russell Riley, Visiting Professor, Georgetown U. Government Dept.
Term:	Spring 1996
Date Paper Presented:	May 3, 1996
Grade Received on Paper:	B+/A-

This paper is about the incredible election of 1948, in which two major third-party candidates ran. It provides a good look at some of the political divisions that used to exist in our country and have since been modified to an extent.

Class:	Introduction to Ancient Ethics
Professor:	Harrison Keller, Georgetown U. Philosophy Dept.
Term:	Spring 1998
Date Paper Presented:	February 10, 1998
Grade Received on Paper:	A-

Socrates noted that there are four types of people, along two axis: those who have a skill, and those who don't, and those who think they do, and those who think they don't. Each of the four resulting types of people have various levels utility to humanity, as described by this paper.

Class:	Introduction to Ancient Ethics
Professor:	Harrison Keller, Georgetown U. Philosophy Dept.
Term:	Spring 1998
Date Paper Presented:	February 26, 1998
Grade Received on Paper:	B+

Socrates thought that moderation was better than all-out hedonism. Here's why. . . .

Class:	Shakespeare
Professor:	Mary Jane Barnett, Georgetown U. English Dept.
Term:	Fall 1997
Date Paper Presented:	November 25, 1997
Grade Received on Paper:	B

This is the perfect topic for a government major like me. I looked at the figures of authority in four Shakespeare plays: All's Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello.

This is a straightforward look at the events surrounding the writing and ratification of the Bill of Rights. It also attempts to show how the process was driven by public opinion.

Class:	International Relations
Professor:	Patricia Wrightson, Georgetown U. Government Dept.
Term:	Fall 1995
Date Paper Presented:	November 21, 1995
Grade Received on Paper:	82 [B-]

This unorthodox paper used a work of science fiction, The Disposessed, by Ursula K. Le Guine, to study the theory of war.