E is for Essay

The following are titles of particularly interesting papers I have written in the past eight semesters.  Of course, “interesting” is relative.  And, as you can see, I frequently follow the blah-colon-blah-blah model for essay titles.

1. GOVT 304 Political Philosophy (Fall 2006)- Bad Conscience and Guilt: Private and Public Peril

2. HISP 207 Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Fall 2006)- Lo Que Hemos Perdido

3. INTR 150W Supreme Court and the Constitution (Fall 2006)- Behind the Bars and the Bench

4. ARAB 310 Arabic Literature in Translation (Spring 2007)- Tradition Versus Modernity in the Arab World: Analyzing Scholarship Versus Literature

5. HISP 305 Spanish Grammar and Composition (Spring 2007)- Dinosaurios y cambiando el mundo

6. GOVT 391 Intelligence and Policy Process (Fall 2007)- Intelligence Estimate: Future of Gang Activity in Northern Virginia

7. HISP 281 Introduction to Hispanic Studies (Fall 2007)- La conexión entre el poder interpretativo y la comunidad imaginada para los moriscos, los zapatistas, y los latinos en los Estados Unidos

8. GOVT 301 Research Methods (Fall 2007)- “Mindless Vandalism Can Take a Bit of Thought”: A Content Analysis of Politics in Banksy’s Indoor and Outdoor Graffiti

9. GOVT 203 Introduction to Comparative Politics (Spring 2008)- Democratization of Belarus: a Monochrome Prospect

10. HIST 112 History of Europe (Spring 2008)- “Indoctrination of Hate”: Rudolf Höss on the Oppressor and the Oppressed in Auschwitz

11. ARAB 302 Advanced Arabic II (Spring 2008)- مسجد الحسن الثاني

12. ANTH 350 Middle Eastern Anthropology (Fall 2008)- The Autocracy of Modernization: Varied Legacies of Leadership in Turkey and Iran

13. GOVT 339 Middle Eastern Political Systems (Fall 2008)- The Rhythm of Morocco: Monarchical Obstacles to Democratization

14. RUSN 201 Intermediate Russian I (Fall 2008)- Президент Республики Беларусь

15. Sharpe Independent Study (Fall 2008)- Islam and the Potential for Deliberative Democracy in the Middle East

16. GOVT 405 Memory, Democracy, and Theology (Spring 2009) – Seventy Times Seven: On the Pursuit of Unconditional Forgiveness

17. RUSN 202 Intermediate Russian II (Spring 2009)- Кем Я Хочу Стать

18. GOVT 491 Arab Foreign Policy in the Gulf Wars (Fall 2009)- A Comparison of Moroccan and Algerian Foreign Policy in the Western Sahara War

19. ANTH 319 Middle Eastern Archaeology (Spring 2010)- The Significance of the Land of Punt to New Kingdom Egypt

20. RELG 358 Jesus and the Gospels (Spring 2010)- Dichotomies of Salvation: Dynamic Reversals and Dualities in the Lucan Story of the Sinful Woman [Luke 7: 36-50]

21. MUSC 372 Music Cultures of the Middle East (Spring 2010)- The Dynamic Voice, Evolution, and Legacy of Umm Kulthum

22. Honors Thesis in Government (Fall 2009- Spring 2010)- The Crux of the Matter: the Intersection of Deliberative Traditions in the Wren Cross Controversy

Go Tribe,

Bailey