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

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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: Adaptations of Amazon Rainforest Mundurucu Culture to External Influences

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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 Anthropology class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper describe how an ancient culture in the Amazon Rainforest, Munduruc culture, evolved in response to external forces.

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College Papers: On The Existence of God

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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

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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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College Papers: Are foot length and lower arm length equal?

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Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This one is a report for a simple project I carried out with a classmate as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. It was a math project conducted for the Statistics class I was taking at the time.

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Data: Nepal’s Education System Fails and Punishes Most Students

In 2009-10, when data for 2011 Census Report was collected, children in the last year of kindergarten, five-year olds, numbered 661K. The group completed their schooling -- grade 12 -- in 2022. Less than 10% made it through!

This blog looks how the totally corrupt and flawed education system does that and the consequence of that for a vast majority of the population.

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How screwed up is the education system in Nepal?

Nepali education system is so screwed up, schooling does NOT prepare you adequately for externally assessed terminal examinations. Furthermore, each stage of schooling does NOT prepare you for the stage that follow either. Instead, it requires that you get outside help to prepare yourself and continue your academic career!

What's the point of such an education system?!

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