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Essays This is a repository for a haphazard selection of my essays from high school and college. Oddly enough, putting them online turns out to be the best way to ensure I don't lose them. Are You Decent? High school. Long, formal. Was assigned as a project for an entire quarter, but had some scheduling issues -- researched and wrote the whole damned thing in six days. Plato's Republic Another high school paper. Robert Heinlein once called Plato's republic a state of "antlike communism." Angels in America My first college paper. By an odd coincidence, my professor for that first humanities course was very interested in gender identity issues. The works we went over included Angels in America, M. Butterfly, and Paris Is Burning. M. Butterfly (informal paper) Semi-formally written "response" to Hwang's M. Butterfly.. Butchering Shakespeare A classmate and I collaborated on this for our college humanities course. Our job was to rewrite a scene or two from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One in some daring and "meaningful" way. About died laughing before we were done... I have a feeling it was more daring than it was meaningful. Identity issues represented in a selection of 3 plays Humanities assignment from college. M. Butterfly is by Hwang and not the same as Puccini's Madame Butterfly; Paris is Burning is a documentary on the African-American transgendered community; and Fires in the Mirror is a "reality-based performance piece" on the Crown Heights riots. Domestic Abuse in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Final research paper for HSS4, the last of the core humanities sequence at Cooper. The class I took focused on the writings of the Bronte sisters and covered Wuthering Heights (Emily), Jane Eyre(Charlotte), and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(Anne). I'd never read The Tenant before, and found it compelling. Political Thoughts of de Tocqueville, Marx and Engels One of several papers for HSS3 in the Cooper humanities core. I chose Fred Siegel's section. The Feminine Mystique of the Aneid and the Courtier On the perceptions of feminine roles conveyed by two works highly popular in Renaissance Italy. A Mere Handful, They Would Overcome the World Final research paper for Eros in Antiquity with Mary Stieber. Bizarrely, I'd first heard of the Sacred Band from a Murphy Brown episode many years before. I found it a compelling image and it stuck with me until this course and this paper. Organophosphates and the Link to Mad Cow Disease Less formal paper. In my Public Policy class, a writing assignment was for each student to choose a public policy aspect of mad cow disease and author a webpage discussing it. These web pages were to be united into a class website. My choice was alternative explanations. [ Frames Version | Main | Books | Book Reviews | Bent Stuff | Me | Noise | Team Dresch | Catie Curtis | K's Choice | Links | Essays | Survey | Write to me! ] This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page

	`Are You Decent? High school. Long, formal. Was assigned as a project for an entire quarter, but had some scheduling issues -- researched and wrote the whole damned thing in six days.`
	`Plato's Republic Another high school paper. Robert Heinlein once called Plato's republic a state of "antlike communism."`
	`Angels in America My first college paper. By an odd coincidence, my professor for that first humanities course was very interested in gender identity issues. The works we went over included Angels in America, M. Butterfly, and Paris Is Burning.`
	`M. Butterfly (informal paper)` `Semi-formally written "response" to Hwang's M. Butterfly..`
	`Butchering Shakespeare A classmate and I collaborated on this for our college humanities course. Our job was to rewrite a scene or two from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One in some daring and "meaningful" way. About died laughing before we were done... I have a feeling it was more daring than it was meaningful.`
	`Identity issues represented in a selection of 3 plays Humanities assignment from college. M. Butterfly is by Hwang and not the same as Puccini's Madame Butterfly; Paris is Burning is a documentary on the African-American transgendered community; and Fires in the Mirror is a "reality-based performance piece" on the Crown Heights riots.`
	`Domestic Abuse in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Final research paper for HSS4, the last of the core humanities sequence at Cooper. The class I took focused on the writings of the Bronte sisters and covered Wuthering Heights (Emily), Jane Eyre(Charlotte), and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(Anne). I'd never read The Tenant before, and found it compelling.`
	`Political Thoughts of de Tocqueville, Marx and Engels One of several papers for HSS3 in the Cooper humanities core. I chose Fred Siegel's section.`
	`The Feminine Mystique of the Aneid and the Courtier On the perceptions of feminine roles conveyed by two works highly popular in Renaissance Italy.`
	`A Mere Handful, They Would Overcome the World Final research paper for Eros in Antiquity with Mary Stieber. Bizarrely, I'd first heard of the Sacred Band from a Murphy Brown episode many years before. I found it a compelling image and it stuck with me until this course and this paper.`
	`Organophosphates and the Link to Mad Cow Disease Less formal paper. In my Public Policy class, a writing assignment was for each student to choose a public policy aspect of mad cow disease and author a webpage discussing it. These web pages were to be united into a class website. My choice was alternative explanations.`