Index of Papers
Fall 2018–Spring 2021
Write Now! A compilation of outstanding essays from University Writing Seminars.
Sam Ackerman
"A Living Document with Dead Ideals"
Lens Paper | Fall 2019
UWS 8b: The American Dream
Leeza Barstein
"Suffering Redefined: The Animal Liberation Front’s Subversion of Utilitarianism"
Research Paper | Fall 2019
UWS 34b: Undermining Power: Subversion and Resistance
Rotem Arie
"Academic Dishonesty and COVID-19: A Biological Explanation"
Research Paper | Spring 2021
UWS 37a Biology of Morality
Sydney Carim
"The Relative Truth"
Lens Paper | Fall 2019
UWS 42b: Images of Africa
Liam Carpenter-Shulman
"The Scoundrel's Journey: Visions of American Individualism in Star Wars"
Research Proposal | Spring 2021
UWS 22b: The Cosmos
Alexander J. Dragunoff
"Putin’s Propaganda: The Effect of Russian Propaganda on Masculinity"
Research Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising
Ada de la Fuente-Akersveen
"Gene Editing: How Advancements in this Technology Highlight the Need to Redefine Disability"
Research Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 4a: Medical Ethics
Kang Hankyul
"Code Black: Public Hospitals and Inequality in American Healthcare"
Research Proposal | Spring 2020
UWS 4a: Medical Ethics
Zoe Hermer-Cisek
"Transgender People in Advertisements, Transnormativity, and Corporate Wokeness"
Research Paper | Spring 2020
UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising
Jacob Knauer
"Soldiers on the Street: How Insecurity Can Justify Authoritarianism"
Lens Paper | Spring 2019
UWS 15b: Utopias/Dystopias
Carina J. Luo
"Condemnation of Female Hunger"
Lens Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 16a: Sex and Advertising
Markia Neufville
"What Is a Nation?"
Lens Paper | Fall 2018
UWS 41b: Huddled Masses: Immigrants in America
Alexandra Pan
"Egalitarian Dating Initiation: Men’s View on Passive and Assertive Women"
Research Paper | Spring 2021
UWS 2B: Darwinian Dating
Roshni Ray
"Women’s Friendships and Feminism"
Research Paper | Fall 2020
UWS 24a: Conceptions of Friendship
Jacob Silverman
"'The Most Dangerous Negro': Martin Luther King Jr. and the FBI"
Research Paper | Fall 2018
UWS 5b: From the 13th Amendment to Mass Incarceration
Harrison Sugarman
Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry”: Rap’s Ability to Influence Social and Political Activism
Research Paper | Spring 2021 | UWS 22a Black Voices in the 20th Century
Sam Timbers
"Working at Play in Dark Souls"
Research Paper | Spring 2019
UWS 31a: Fans, Culture, and Society