Student Essay: Does Power Corrupt?
We are taught Lord Acton’s proverb throughout our lives, but Orwell’s novella “Animal Farm,” surprisingly enough, tells a quite different tale about power.
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Student Essay: The Virtue of Patriotism
Love of one’s country is more than an idle preference. It sustains societies through all kinds of catastrophes and urges people to great accomplishments.
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Student Essay: The Black Hole Information Paradox
The black hole information paradox is a celebrated problem in modern astrophysics. Miss Mila Patrick outlines the issue, along with some proposed solutions.
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Student Essay: A Comparison of Plato’s and Aristotle’s Views of Eudaimonia
Plato and Aristotle, though agreeing on many points, have radically dissimilar understandings of “eudaimonia” (happiness). How do they inform one another?
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Student Essay: The Power of Music
The study of music is not merely a pleasant pastime; it merits its status as one of the seven liberal arts, and belongs in all students’ education.
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Herodotus: An Author Profile
Herodotus does not give us merely a drily “objective” outlook on the history he relates, but examines the rational and moral character of his subjects.
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Student Essay: The Importance of History
Those who refuse to learn history, as the saying goes, are bound to repeat it. What can we glean from the past to improve our own time and guide our future?
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Student Essay: Aristotelian and Biblical Friendship
Is Aristotle’s idea of friendship and its virtues in harmony with Biblical depictions of friendship, or in conflict with them? Tabitha Jacobs explains.
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Student Essay: The Value of Foreign Languages
Is it useful to learn languages for any reason other than being able to communicate, or is their value strictly utilitarian? Miss Sophia Theis explains.
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