College Papers: Analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my English Literature class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper is an analysis of a profound short story by the author Le Guin. The story is about some crucial aspect of the human condition.

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College Papers: On The Existence of God

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my Introduction to Philosophy class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper exploring the question of the existence of the God, compares and contrasts the opinions of the philosophers David Hume and Rene Descarte.

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College Papers: On The Existence of Soul

Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my Introduction to Philosophy class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper exploring the question of the existence of the soul, compares and contrasts Aristotle and Plato's take on it.

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The Blinding Effect of Structural Privilege

Social structure propped up, supported and perpetuated by Nepal's very highly patriarchal caste system has given rise to a bureaucractic and political--and other--systems that's characterized by deplorable structural inequality, which many of those responsible aren't able to understand or, if they do, will not acknowledge.

But there is a solution!

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