Wealth inequality has been rising at unprecedented rates in the United States. The Federal Reserve recently reports that the top 1% possess nearly one-third of all United States household wealth, compared to the 1.9%...
In 2019, presidential candidate Andrew Yang boldly introduced his Freedom Dividend Act, a proposal that would provide every American over the age of 18 unconditional payments of $1,000 each month, totaling $12,000 per year...
Abstract In Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1998) and Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother (1995), cooking and eating are acts that describe for us the conflicts and confusions of forming a national,...
Abstract Some works call out to readers with an invitation to play an active role in the construction of the text’s meaning. Following the insights of Roland Barthes, who deems such texts “writerly,”...
Abstract This paper explores the concept of altruism and connects it to game theory models. The analysis considers the theory of gene-culture co-evolution and concludes that altruistic behavior might be both conditioned through...
Abstract There is no doubt that the defining religious, political, and economic framework of seventeenth-century England had its influences on the Angler. Walton’s character Piscator alludes to this social framework directly when he...
Abstract The frame of Kipling’s short story “To Be Filed For Reference” is a question of belonging, of homeland, and of cultural identity. Emphasizing parallels between Kipling and Jellaludin, the Anglo-Indian protagonist, this...
Abstract Pablo Neruda began his career as an apolitical love poet and ended it as an outspoken advocate for engaged art and the Communist cause. With an analysis of crucial points in his...
Abstract The current debate over same-sex marriage has brought into question how exactly the government should interact with the institution of marriage, if at all. In America, marriage and government have coalesced for...
Abstract Benedict Anderson, a prominent twentieth century political theorist, saw the nation as more than a certain form of government acting sovereignly within geographic constrains. For Anderson, it is the common ideas and...
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