Category: Essays
A look back at homecoming traditions at SU With Homecoming weekend of 2024 coming to a close, the Southwestern community is still buzzing with excitement from football, tailgating, alumni visits, and various special events on ...
If you’re like me, perhaps on your way back from a workout in the Robertson Gym, or leaving a class in Olin, you may have noticed a pristine stone obelisk surrounded by flowers. Perhaps you’ve ...
Balance is a fundamental aspect of life, but it can become stifling when taken to an extreme. Yeats explores this idea in his poem “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” through form, language, and figurative ...
Geoffrey Chaucer’s definition of love that is explored in his work is based on courtly love. This type of love is heterosexual in nature and involves a passive woman and aggressive man. The man “courts” ...
Part of studying Texas history, is studying the impact that different cultures had on the growth of the state. One of the most influential agents in the development of the Anglo-Texas society were the Spanish, ...
As many societies become increasingly progressive, people frequently choose to embrace elements of their identity that make them unique. Nevertheless, in many parts of the world people are forced to hide crucial elements of their ...
It has long been recognized that one of the most regulated groups throughout history is women. In order to thrive in society, women are oftentimes expected to follow explicit rules or standards. How women choose ...
Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money” (BBHMM) music video has been labeled as explicit due to its language, nudity and violence incorporated in almost every scene throughout the seven minute visual story. Viewers themselves are ...
Introduction Peremptory challenges, which allow attorneys to remove jurors without explanation or cause during the voir dire process, have been limited by two Supreme Court cases, Batson v. Kentucky (476 U.S. 79 [1986]) and J.E.B. ...
Men! Drenched in testosterone, booze, and angst! They hang onto the laws of old to preserve that sweet and toxic masculinity! Real men are the Paps and the Ahabs, not the boys of Hucks and ...