By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
The class I wrote this for was a unique colloquium in the honors college. It was called “Re-Vision of Earth” and was about the process of scientific revolutions. I continued my exploration of metaphors, trying to pin down what metaphors we use to describe humanity’s process of scientific advancement. Is it a matter of increasing [...]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
The class I wrote this paper for was called “Causes of War,” and it was highly theoretical. In this paper, I analyzed and rejected realist explanations for the outbreak of World War I in favor of an understanding that individuals who desired war acted to bring it about. Causes of War Final Paper-Elite-led violence and [...]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
In my International Relations class, Spring 2006, I wrote a paper on “Applying Theories of Nationalism to Ethnic Violence: Can we explain, predict and stop Ethnic violence before it starts?” Theories of Ethnic Violence [.DOC]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
My Winter 2006 ConLaw class was fascinating, particularly because of the focus on contemporary Supreme Court cases. Our final assignment was to propose a ruling on a “War on Terror” detainee case pending before the court, Mahdi v. Rumsfeld. Ahmad Mahdi (For some reason our teacher called him that instead of “Ahmad Hamdan”) is currently [...]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
In the beginning of my third year, I took a political economy course and wrote an analysis of the problem of American companies outsourcing labor to lower-cost foreign workers. I felt that the domestic economy had to meet to this pressure by developing skilled workers who could move the state-of-the-art ahead, because of the weaknesses [...]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
In a tedious class on environmental politics, I wrote this paper exploring what the present generation’s moral responsibility to posterity requires it to do about energy use. This paper is interesting to me now, looking back on it, because I hadn’t yet taken John Davidson’s class on Intergenerational Politics, so my ideas about the moral [...]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
In one of my first honors college “colloquium” classes, taught by Mark Johnson, I was introduced to his and George Lakoff’s theory of cognitive metaphor. This paper explores a metaphor of moral strength to evaluate its role in President Bush’s 2004 reelection victory, which was often publicly attributed to high turnout of “values voters.” Since [...]
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By ottonomy on September 24, 2009
A blast from the past! My first political science papers from my second year at the UO. The class was comparative politics. The final project is interesting to read back on now, as my understanding of these issues has grown in ways I didn’t predict then. The assignment: You will design a developing country in [...]
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