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Sample Research Proposals and Essays
Proposals
- "Star Wars Mythology and American Individualism: The Archetype of Han Solo" (Liam Carpenter-Shulman | UWS 23b: The Cosmos)
- "Code Black: Public Hospitals and Inequality in American Healthcare" (Kang Hankyul | UWS 4a: Medical Ethics)
Essays
- "Academic Dishonesty and COVID-19: A Biological Explanation" (Rotem Arie | UWS 37a: Biology of Morality)
- "Suffering Redefined: The Animal Liberation Front’s Subversion of Utilitarianism" (Leeza Barstein | UWS 34b: Undermining Power: Subversion and Resistance)
- "Putin’s Propaganda: The Effect of Russian Propaganda on Masculinity" (Alexander J. Dragunoff | UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising)
- "Gene Editing: How Advancements in this Technology Highlight the Need to Redefine Disability" (Ada de la Fuente-Akersveen | UWS 4a: Medical Ethics)
- "Transgender People in Advertisements, Transnormativity, and Corporate Wokeness" (Zoe Hermer-Cisek | UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising)
- "Egalitarian Dating Initiation: Men’s View on Passive and Assertive Women" (Alexandra Pan | UWS 2B: Darwinian Dating: The Evolution of Human Attraction)
- "Women’s Friendships and Feminism" (Roshni Ray | UWS 24a: Conceptions of Friendship)
- "'The Most Dangerous Negro': Martin Luther King Jr. and the FBI" (Jacob Silverman | UWS 5b: From the 13th Amendment to Mass Incarceration)
- "Kendrick Lamar’s 'The Blacker the Berry': Rap’s Ability to Influence Social and Political Activism" (Harrison Sugarman | UWS 22a Black Voices in the 20th Century)
- "Working at Play in Dark Souls" (Sam Timbers | UWS 31a: Fans, Culture, and Society)
Misc. (to be sorted out)
UWS Exercise Book 2017-18 (External Link to Google Drive, may require document permission)