The following are all the academic/research papers written during my educational career on different topics: (listed from most recent)
GRADUATE:
Aviation and Cyber Security: Privatization of Air Traffic Control
California Single-Payer Health Plan: A Case Analysis
The (Non?) Proliferation of Chemical Weapons: An Overview
Trade Liberalization in Pinochet's Chile, 1974-1979
Foreign Aid in Moldova--Towards Western Integration
Effective Anti-Corruption Reforms in Guatemala
Weak State Capacity and FGM's Collective Action Problem in Ethiopia
Energy Policy and Security in Guatemala
UNDERGRADUATE:
The Problem of Evil and Soul-Making Theodicy
Hadrian’s Wall and Its Archaeology at the Frontier: Its Beginnings
A Sociological Response and Analysis to “Productive Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime—But Not Drug Use"
Death in Venice: Unbalanced Nature
The Role and Meaning of the Satyric Chorus in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy
The Theory of Social Membership and Its Limits
Virtue, Stoicism, and Republican Sentiments in Montesquieu’s Tale of the Troglodytes
Syria's Human Rights Crisis: Civil War, the United Nations, and the Responsibility to Protect
The Soul, the Cosmos, and Living Well: the Epicureans and the Stoics
Syria’s Democratic Movement: Demanding Equality and a Representative Government
The Moral Amoralist and the Motivation to Care
Aristotle on the Soul
Balancing Competence and Participation in Democracies: Mill’s Plural Voting
The Immortal Soul’s Afterlife in Plato’s Myth of Er
Soft Despotism and Free Associations in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Parmenides’ Challenge
Myth and Martyrdom in Nazi Propaganda: Hitlerjunge Quex
The Imagery of Laocoön in Virgil’s Aeneid
Montesquieu’s ‘State of Nature’ in the Spirit of the Laws: A Comparison to Hobbes and Locke
“The horror! The horror!”: Civilization Unmasked in the works of Conrad, Freud, and Borowski
Mill’s ‘Proof’ of Utilitarianism
Mill’s Higher and Lower Pleasures
Genocide in Iraq—The Anfal Campaign
The Intellectual Freedom in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
The Social Security Dilemma & A Reform of the System
Dikē and Atē in Homer and Aeschylus
Justice, Power, and the Moral Decline in Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue
To Be or Not to Be: Consent, Membership, and Obligation in Locke’s Commonwealth
Rousseau’s Theory of the Natural Man and A Criticism of Locke’s “Social” Man
The Obligation of the Irrevocable Social Contract of Burke
Marx’s Conceptualization of Man
Mill’s ‘Harm Principle’
“God is Dead”: Nietzsche’s Analysis of the Post-Modern Man
Post-War Radicalization and Protests: The Gay Rights Movement & the Women’s Movement—Strategies, Struggles, and Successes
Radicalism and Violence in the 1960s-70s: Bringing the War Home—“the Origins, Purpose, and Effects of Political Violence”
Radicalization after the Civil War: Uprisings, Rebellions, and Unionization
From Nimrod to Dante: The Legitimacy and Use of Language in Hell
Montaigne’s Transformative Philosophy: An Analysis on the Self and Judgment of Man
The Marriage State in Pride and Prejudice
Looking for Home: A Journey of Identity, Labels, and Experiences
The Confrontation and Evaluation of the Self in Ironweed, Pride and Prejudice, and the Essays
Gill and Chippindale: The Material and Intellectual Consequences of Cycladic Figures
The Aesthetics of the Oresteia in Classical Athens
The Nature of the Ancient Greek Hero in the works of Homer, Virgil, and Philostratus
Aeschylus' Agamemnon & Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis in Cacoyannis’ IPHIGENIA
Didion: A Song of Innocence and Experience
Not So Immaculate: An Analysis on Composition
The Case for a Second Term
The Rhetoric of Marriage Equality in the Court
Justice Roberts on Proposition 8
Income Inequality
The Politics of Poverty in America
De-Fund NPR?!