These are some of the many essays and short stories I wrote during my three years at Columbia. They cover a broad range of academic topics and most of them are probably too specific to be of any interest to anyone. But I spent many hours writing them so I figured I might as well share.

Literature

• Erotic Poetry in Sappho and the Song of Solomon
• Sin As That Which Hurts Others (Dante)
• A Bridge to Madness (Cervantes)
• Two Paradises Lost (Milton)
• Gods and Monsters (Shelley)
• Realistic Dialogue in Twain and Crane

Philosophy

• The Nature of the Tao
• A Dialectic Method of Teaching (Plato/Confucius)
• The Characteristics of Kings (Plato/Hinduism)
• Jesus Christ and Krishna
• The Move Towards Devotional Religions
  
• Aquinas's Types of Laws
• A Bad Rap (Machiavelli)
• Travels to Utopia (Thomas More)
• Authority
• Machiavelli Meets Faustus
• A New Emphasis (Protestant Reformation)
• Science From The Ground Up (Descartes)
• The Unenlightened Federalists
• Beyond The Will To Power (Nietzsche)
• Postmodernism and Pluralism

Shakespeare

• Hamlet's Foils
• Artistic License: Stretching Reality in The Winter’s Tale
• The Subplot in King Lear
• The Winner's Jail (Winter's Tale Review)
• All Is But Toys (Macbeth Review)

Film Theory

• The Problem With Auteurism
• Montage
• Sound
• Narrative Evolution
• Analyzing Classical Structure
• Les Enfants du Paradis
• La Grande Illusion - A Film by Jean Renoir

Drama Theory

• Censorship and Ratings in Theater
• Language & Theatre

Music Criticism

• Die Forelle
• Mefistofele at the Met (Review)

Art Criticism

• Two Very Different French Portraits
• Formal Comparison of Two Museums

Criminology

• Three Strikes & You're Out

Psychology

• Examples of Nervous System Localization
• The Evolution of Two Visual Systems
• Three False Assumptions
• Emotion

Composition

• Measuring Truth and Error
• Lunch Time Trauma
• Auto-Focused Art
• The New Economics
• The World of the Simpsons
• Milk Phat
• The Subway Savior

Creative Writing Labs

• Felony
• Princeton Dreams
• Mary
• Europa
• The Jump
• Millenium Day
• Q's Big Adventure