The Senior Thesis

List of 7 frequently asked questions.

• Class of 2015

  Giorgi A., Bernini: Visual Crafter of Virgil’s Aeneas and the Roman Virtues
  
  

  Theresa A., Dignity in Work and the Problem of Economic Inequality: Socialism versus Catholic Social Teaching 
  
  

  Carolyn B., Balancing Progress and Morality: An Analysis of the Ethics of DNA Research 
  
  

  Camille C., Understanding the Journey of Life: Huckleberry Finn  and Odysseus 
  
  

  Da’jah C., Freeing the Caged Bird: The Voice of African American Poetry
  
  

  Laura C., The Right to Privacy: Relativism’s Judicial Henchman
  
  

  Mary Cate D., Chemical Madness: Depictions of Schizophrenia in the Works of the Fitzgeralds
  
  

  Antonia F., Zamperini’s Hope: Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken
  
  

  Jennifer J., Polygamy: When Three or More Become One Flesh 
  
  

  Julie K., Creating a Crisis: Native Leadership versus Belgian Colonization in the Congo 
  
  

  Samantha K., The Role of Women’s Leadership and their Important Influence on Society
  
  

  Emilie K., The Impossible Dream: A Reflection on the Gift of Imagination in Fantasy, Fairytales, and Fables
  
  

  Maria K., Women in Literature: Feminine Virtue as the Leaven for Society 
  
  

  Maggie L., The Change in Progressivism from Roosevelt to the Moderns 
  
  

  Madeleine L., We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident: Natural Law, Pluralism, and the Functioning of the American System
  
  

  Nicole M., Roads to Redemption and Criticism: The World War II Atrocities of Germany and Japan 
  
  

  Clare N., School Choice: Government’s Education Failure and the Case for Educational Liberty
  
  

  Sarah O., The Wings of Poesy Lift the Soul: Keats and Dickinson
  
  

  Grace P., Music and Nationalism: A Study of Music’s Pragmatic Purpose in the Nationalistic Era
  
  

  Maeve P., A Conservative Philosopher’s Theories on Revolution: Hegel and the History of Revolution in Ireland
  
  

  Caitlin R., The Death of Federalism: How the 17th Amendment Undermined American Government and Severed State Sovereignty 
  
  

  Tess S., When Does Knowledge Become Dangerous? An Examination of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 
  
  

  Catherine W., The Television Sitcom’s Influence on American Culture
  
  

  Natasha W., A Nation of the Homeless

• Class of 2016

  Rosemary A., Remembering the Child: Reconstructed Memory in the Coming of Age in Bradbury and Lee 
  
  

  Annie B., Time in Dystopia: Is Ignorance Truly Bliss?
  
  

  Caroline B., Salinger’s War Novel: Holden’s PTSD in The Catcher in the Rye
  
  

  Audrey C., Anna Karenina’s Radical Individualism: The Crippling Effect of Feminism on Marriage 
  
  

  Juliana D., The Pursuit of Happiness: Freedom and the Philosophy of the American Dream 
  
  

  Stephanie D., The Influence of Dante’s Contrapasso in Art and Film
  
  

  Mary Angela G., Lewis and Love: Transformation Through Suffering in Till We Have Faces
  
  

  Katie H., The Path to Redemption: Finding Truth through Suffering in The Giver and The Divine Comedy 
  
  

  Grace H., Women’s Enduring Search for Happiness: Lessons from Literary Heroines 
  
  

  Sheila H., Alienation and Hopelessness in the House of Mirth and The Catcher in the Rye
  
  

  Anne K., Transforming Modern Education through Classical Tradition 
  
  

  Marianne K., Extermination of Ethics: A Study of the Psychology Behind 20th century Genocides  
  
  

  Christina K., It takes a Father: The Lost Treasure of the American Family
  
  

  Mary L., The Relationship Between Man and Animal: The Beauty in God’s Creation
  
  

  Sofia L., Poetry as the Voice of Truth: World War I and the Descent into Psychological Hell 
  
  

  Victoria M., The Power of Effective Leadership: Churchill’s Machiavellian Triumph 
  
  

  Katie M., Catholicism in Japan: The Religious Symbols in Anime
  
  

  Sarah M., Keeping it Real: Reality as the Necessary Foundation for the Imagination 
  
  

  Alexis M., What is Happiness? The Transgender’s Flawed View of Human Nature
  
  

  Lucia M., Crime and Punishment: The Dangerous Influence of Western Philosophy 
  
  

  Kelly M., Health Inequity: How and Why Society Must Improve the Inevitable 
  
  

  Sofia N., Permitting versus Participating: Making the Most of the Injustice of Human Law
  
  

  Annie P., Dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan: A Lifesaving Decision or a Grievous Error? 
  
  

  Erin P., The Secretes of Happiness Uncovered: Positive Psychology, The Beatitudes, and Aristotle
  
  

  Natasha P., Can DNA Evidence Solve Every Case? The Limits of Scientific Testing
  
  

  Catherine R., “Bye, Bye miss American Pie”: The Loss of Piety in the Roman Empire and America
  
  

  Emily S., Should America Keep the Draft? The History of the Draft in America’s Wars
  
  

  Ruth T., ABC’s and Good Night Z’s: The Picture Book and its Effect on the Word Gap
  
  

  Kate W., The Problem of Evil: Is There Really a Problem? 
  
  

  Anna W., How the Brain Changes Itself: Hope for Adopted Children
  
  

  Emma W., Poets and Mental Illness
  
  

  Maria W., The Doubting Disease: The Danger of Scrupulosity versus the Power of Holiness
  
  

  Mariah Z., Where to Draw the Line: The Science and Ethics of Gene Therapy

• Class of 2017

  Maria A., Unstringing the Violinist: The Concept of Personhood and the Principle of Double Effect in Bioethics
  
  

  Catherine B., Raising American Workaholics: Capitalism, Homework, and the Individual
  
  

  Juliana B., The Importance of Fairy-Stories in Forming the Imagination Through Moral Virtues
  
  

  Anna C., From Coffee Spoons to Ashes: The Reconciliation of Modernism and Christianity in T.S. Eliot's Poetry
  
  

  Tess C., Otello Unmoored: The Power of Eight Bars
  
  

  Jill C., The Impossibility of a Love Song: The Break Between Romanticism and Modernism
  
  

  Etta D., The War of Words: Defining and Explaining the Impact of 9/11 on Terrorism
  
  

  Alexandra D., The Hero from Hell: The Rise and Fall of the Hero from Aeneas to the Avengers
  
  

  Leonie Duarte Defago., Magical Realism: A Mirror for Political Corruption

  in Latin America
  
  

  Anna D., The Lost Generations of American Culture
  
  

  Chinenye E., Confronting Black Inferiority in American Society: Healing the Wound of Racism
  
  

  Isabella F., A Living Tradition: The Key to Authenticity in Musical Interpretation
  
  

  Kate G., The Reawakening of Arab Salafiyya in the 20th Century: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
  
  

  Brigid K., Music as a Universal Necessity of Human Culture
  
  

  Clare K., The Dangers of Toxicity: Saving America's Health
  
  

  Jessica K., The Industrial Revolution's Influence on the Drug Industry: The American Perversion of Eating
  
  

  Annette L., The Voice of Law: The Inconsistency of Neutral Jurisprudence
  
  

  Mackenzie M., Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: Cultural Influences on Ceramics in the Decorative Arts
  
  

  Jenny M., The Comic vs. Tragic Vision of Heroic Sacrifice: Huckleberry Finn and Jay Gatsby
  
  

  Nicki M., A Prosperous Economy: The Harmony of a Free Market and Limited Government
  
  

  Claire M., Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter: The Role of The Family and The Necessity of Sacrificial Love
  
  

  Sarah N., Escaping from Adulthood into Childhood: Learning Values from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield
  
  

  Caroline O., In the Eye of the Beholder: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Man's Need for Beauty
  
  

  Anna Rita O., Raskolnikov's Movement from Pride to Humility: A Reunification of Mind and Body
  
  

  Clare P., Frankenstein and the Effects of Abuse on Child Development
  
  

  Abigail P., Bursting the Bubble: The Battle for Free Speech in the Age of Safe Spaces
  
  

  Maggie R., The Second Bill of Rights: FDR and Socialism in America
  
  

  Cecilia S., The Horror Genre: The Child of Failed Enlightenment Thought and the Sexual Liberation of the French Revolution
  
  

  Maddie S., Minorities in Baseball: How African Americans, Immigrants, and Women Sought 
  
  

  Christina S., The Circle of Life: The Role of Animals in Ancient Egyptian and Christian Religion and Art Equality through the Sport of Baseball
  
  

  Grace T., Rhetoric, Word Play, and Irony: The Ambiguity of Language
  
  

  Julia W., Is the United States Prepared to Survive an Ebola Outbreak?
  
  

  Regan W., The Cambodian Genocide and Its Impact on Modern Sex Tourism
  
  

  Anne W., Recovering Rome: Faithful Literary Translation of the Aeneid

• Class of 2018

  Daniela A., The Qualities of Motherhood: Strength, Dignity, and Selfless Love as seen in Hester Prynne and Clara Peggotty
  
  

  Grace A., Man's Disconnection from Nature in Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us
  
  

  Maria B., The Importance of the Family Meal
  
  

  Colleen B., Always Listening and Always Watching: The Encroachment and Incorporation of AI
  
  

  Anna B., The Tragedy of Stalin's Communism in the Soviet Union
  
  

  Martina B., Leaving Paradise: Narcissism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Protagonists, Amory Blaine and Jay Gatsby
  
  

  Lauren C., The Relationship Between The Meaning of Suffering and Suicide in Literature and Present Day
  
  

  Sophia D., Pride Goeth Before: Transgression of the Natural Law in That Hideous Strength
  
  

  Sophia D., Re-forming the Reform: The U.S Transition to Universal Healthcare
  
  

  Clare E., Feminism’s Destructive View of Children in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
  
  

  Grace F., The Driving Forces of Humanity: Traditional Marriage and Authentic Womanhood
  
  

  Claire G., The Shieldmaiden's Sorrow: Eowyn's Vain Search for Happiness in Battle
  
  

  Therese G., "The Stuttering Rifles' Rapid Rattle:" The Evolution of Warfare in Literature
  
  

  Kathryn H., Designing Your Interior
  
  

  Meg H., Islamic and Christian Just War Theories and the Rise of Terrorism in the Late 20th Century
  
  

  Clare K., Beyond All Praising: The Power of Music to Reveal the Spiritual
  
  

  Emaan K., Family Matters
  
  

  Michelle K., Transgressing the Natural Law: The Destruction of Man
  
  

  Makena K., A Colonized Mindset: The Psychology behind Post-colonial Zimbabwean Literature
  
  

  Daniela L., Redefining the Defined: an Analysis of the Manifestations of PTSD in Literature
  
  

  Sadie L., The Definition of True Beauty
  
  

  Jihyeon L., My Name is Dokdo: Korea's Battle for Justice
  
  

  Sydney M., "History Has Its Eyes on You": Does Hamilton Portray the Truth of History?
  
  

  Theresa M., Freedom and the Future's Happiness
  
  

  Margaret M., What is Progress? St. Augustine and Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov as True Progressives
  
  

  Grace M., I Don't Get It, Mansplain it to Me: The Sociolinguistics of Women in the Workplace
  
  

  Katherine N., Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in Modern Day America
  
  

  Anna N., The Reign of the Medici: Patronage, Self-Expression, and Fine Art in Florence during the Italian Renaissance
  
  

  Jackie P., An Analysis of Anna Karenina through the Lens of C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves
  
  

  Mary P., “What do you mean you don’t speak Spanish, aren’t you from Spain?”: An Analysis of Sociolinguistic Diversity in Spain
  
  

  Julia R., "Mechanics as Metaphor" Video Games as seen through J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories"
  
  

  Julia W., The Creation of a Monster: The Unbalanced Ethos in Frankenstein and The Great Gatsby
  
  

  Therese W., More than Blood and Gore: The Scientific Merit Behind Horror Films

• Class of 2019

  Edith B., Livin’ the Dream: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream as Seen Through Characters in History and Literature
  
  

  Julia C., The Effect of Isolation: Immoral Actions and Dissociation as seen in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Stanford Prison Experiment
  
  

  Caroline D., From Art to Anorexia: Beauty’s Progression throughout the Ages
  
  

  Grace F., The Return of the King: Monarchy’s Effect on the Rights of Man
  
  

  Maura F., Hope Amidst the Holocaust: An Analysis of Night, Man’s Search for Meaning, and Life is Beautiful
  
  

  Natalia G., All Talk, All Bite: Societies Spellbound by Charismatic Leaders
  
  

  Catherine G., The Cure for Unhappiness: Resolving the Disconnect Between Body and Soul
  
  

  Angela G., Justice for the Nazis and ISIS: Countering the ‘Unprecedented Threat of International Crime’
  
  

  Cora H., More Than Crazy: The Connection Between Creativity and Mental Disorder
  
  

  Anna H., The Perversion of Human Dignity and Rights as Seen Through Nazi Occupation and the “Cure” of Downs Syndrome in Iceland
  
  

  Kiley H., Comedy and Tragedy on the Dance Floor: The Role of Dance in Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby
  
  

  Ruth H., Divinely Inspired: The Transformative Power of Dreams in the Bible and Classic Literature
  
  

  Elizabeth J., The American Coin: The Values that Created an American Identity
  
  

  Julie K., Home Away from Home: Overcoming the Psychological Effects of Adoption
  
  

  Serena K., Education in Korea: Good Education and a Successful Human Life
  
  

  Kara K., True Feminism
  
  

  Mengzhen L., The Interaction Between Asian and European Art
  
  

  Mary L., The Revenge of the Conscience: Dimmesdale and Raskolnikov’s Search for Harmony between the Mind, Body and Soul
  
  

  Sofia L., Suffering with Grace: The Redemptive Power of God’s Love in the Face of Tragedy
  
  

  Caroline M., Disobeying the Law of Hospitality: Cultivating Community Through the Meal
  
  

  Eileen M., My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn: How a Lack of Virtue and Freedom Leads to Tragic Heroes
  
  

  Emelia M., The Silent are Heard: the Danger of Semantics and the Truth of Abortion
  
  

  Helen M., From Fascism to Communism: the Common Roots of Tyranny
  
  

  Alexandra M., Friendship is Forever: True Friendship in Maud Hart
  Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy Series and C.S. Lewis’s Four Loves
  
  

  Mary N., “I Must Have You!”: An Analysis of the American Dream and Its Effects on Human Relationships
  
  

  Shannon O., “Northern Ireland’s Brexit Border Crisis“
  
  

  Josephina O., Love and Suffering: Orual’s Transformation from Ugliness to Beauty
  
  

  Emma P., The Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation; and the Importance of Love and Community
  
  

  Savini P., True Femininity and Motherhood: The Defense of a Woman’s Integrity
  
  

  Ana S., Making the Perfect Machine: How Ender’s Isolation Leads to Loss of Purpose
  
  

  Bridget S., The Plunge Into Darkness and the Climb Back Out: Suffering and Its Provocation for Human Greatness
  
  

  Sofia S., Words and Their Power to Dehumanize: The Divisive Colloquialisms in American Culture
  
  

  Katherine S., The Power of the Powerless: Poznan, Prague, and the Problem with Communism
  
  

  Julianna S., 123 Years: An Argument for Constructive Nationalism During Poland’s Third Partition
  
  

  Grace T., Courage and Wisdom: Through the Eyes of Cinderella
  
  

  Helena T., More than Man’s Best Friend
  
  

  Mary W.,  The Honey Boo Boo Effect: How Society’s Addiction to Reality Television is Altering Our Perception of Happiness
  
  

  Abigail W., Literature Tells a Story: Moral Change In the Last Century Observed Through Some of Man’s Greatest Works
  
  

  Elizabeth W., Lust at First Sight: The Culture of Instant Gratification and Its Effect on Human Trafficking in the United States
  
  

  Isabela W., From Corsets to Crop Tops: World Events, Women’s Place in Society, and the Human Quest for Freedom and Their Impact on the American Women’s Fashion Industry

• Class of 2020

  Arthi A., The Age of Jazz, Parties, and Degradation
  
  

  Christina A., Love in the Stars: The Importance of Literature seen in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy
  
  

  Caroline B., Dignity, Liberty, and Society
  
  

  Marialuisa B., The Language and Culture Interrelation in Literature
  
  

  Isabel B., The Tragic Hero in Ancient and Contemporary Times
  
  

  Hannah B., A Woman’s Worth is not Weighted by Society’s Wants
  
  

  Alexis C., What is True Feminism? A Comparison of Hester Prynne and Lily Bart
  
  

  Hannah C., The Theology of Mercy and Mental Health
  
  

  Kristelle C., Raskolnikov’s Criminality: The Idea of the Superman, The Consequences of Murder, and the Road to Redemption in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment
  
  

  Elizabeth C., The Bard in Broadway: How Shakespeare’s Works Influence Modern Musicals
  
  

  Daniela D., The Distortion of the Romantic-What is True Love?
  
  

  Angela D., “Just Friends”: On Platonic Relationships Between Men and Women
  
  

  Claire F., A Fatal Love: The Unchangeable Tragic Ending to a Selfish Love in Anna Karenina
  
  

  Emily F., The Education of the Whole Person: An Analysis of Frankenstein and To Kill A Mockingbird
  
  

  Emma F., Society, the Individual, and Identity in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Wharton’s The House of Mirth
  
  

  Julia F., “True Freedom and Human Fulfillment: American Literature’s Portrayal of the American Dream”
  
  

  Theresa G., A Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s View of Communism in the USSR Versus the Modern Day Perspective
  
  

  Claire H., Lewis’ Ladder of Love
  
  

  Elizabeth H., The Effect of Isolation and Importance of Love in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
  
  

  Natalia I., The Noble and Corrupt Pursuits of the American Dream in The Outsiders and The Great Gatsby
  
  

  Falan K., How to Respond to Suffering
  
  

  Mackenzie M., Life’s Symphony: Music as Fundamental to the Human Journey
  
  

  Eva M., What’s the Point? The Path to Purpose from Auschwitz to the American Frontier
  
  

  Megan M., A Return to Beauty: Poetry as the Salve of the Divine
  
  

  Adriana M., Different not Disposable: Examining the Effects of Disability Discrimination and the Road to Recovery
  
  

  Rebecca M., Marital Union: A Path to God and Reflection of the Divine Love
  
  

  Madelyn M., How Beauty Will Save the World: The Way of Flourishing and the Radiance of a Good Life
  
  

  Alice M., What is Happiness?: Lily Bart’s Tragic Fall, the Modern Opioid Epidemic, and Man’s Search for Meaning
  
  

  Emma M., The Christian Answer to Suffering: From the Cross to the Modern Man
  
  

  Rachel N., Divine Providence, Vocations, and the Imperative Journey of Man
  
  

  Grace N., False Family Foundations: A Warning From Dystopian Literature

  Frances N., A Harmony of Opposites: Liberty and Order in the U.S. Constitution (1789) and the Polish Constitution of 1791
  
  

  Hope P., What are Friends For? Why Both the Anthropomorphic and Real Relationships Between Horse and Man Lead to His Betterment
  
  

  Kyla P., “War... What is it good for?”: A Comparison of the Justifications and Purposes of War from Ancient Greek and Christian Perspectives
  
  

  Catherine S., POWs, Trauma, and PTSD: The Path to Resilience
  
  

  Alydia U., Who Is the Happy Warrior?: How Courage and Adventure Cultivate Truth and a Fulfilled Life
  
  

  Teresa W., From Honor To Humility: The Development of The Hero From The Pagan Achilles to The Christian Joan of Arc
  
  

  Xiaoyi Z., Mercy vs. Justice: The Merchant of Venice through the Lens of Aristotle and Confucius

• Class of 2021

  Annaliese A., Edifying or Simply Entertaining? The Power of Story to Transfer Wisdom to Humanity as Seen Through Dostoyevsky and Kreeft
  
  

  Devon B., Avoiding Dictatorship and Corruption: A Reflection on Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm
  
  

  Amelia B., Kristin Lavandatter’s Journey from Eros to Agape
  
  

  Katherine B., How Love in Childhood Leads to Success in Adulthood
  
  

  Elena B., What is True Love? The Struggle Between Agape and Eros in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karénina
  
  

  Kateri C., The Genius of Comic Books: Telling the Complex Story of WWII and the Holocaust
  
  

  Veronica C., Our Call to Love: The Importance of Community as Expressed Through Dante and Lewis
  
  

  Maria D., Our Only Certainty: Understanding Death, Suffering, Mortality, and the Purpose of Life in The Iliad and Anna Karenina
  
  

  Elizabeth D., Without Beauty, Man Will Die
  
  

  Elizabeth E., The Suicide of Russia: Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky’s Prophetic Vision
  
  

  Rose F., Charity as Divine Love: Orual’s Journey from Selfishness to Selflessness
  
  

  Brigid H., The Influence of Suffering on the Human Soul: An Invitation to Participate in the Divine Nature
  
  

  Nora H., Functionalism and Technology: In an Age of Constant Communication, Why is it so Hard to Connect?
  
  

  Giulia I., The Tragic Effects of Interior Slavery Revealed in the Lives of Fitzgerald and Wharton’s Protagonists
  
  

  Sofia J., The Impact of Music on the Soul in Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby
  
  

  Lili T., The Key to a Beautiful Home: How a Person’s Interiority Forms a Nourishing Home
  
  

  Alexandra L., Law from a Divine Source: A Female Embodiment of Justice in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice
  
  

  Hannah L., The Secret to a Happy Life: An Analysis of Virtuous Friendships in My Antonia and The House of Mirth
  
  

  Caitlin M., Personhood and Justice: The Importance of Being Color Blind
  
  

  Grace M., The Dystopian Distortion of Human Nature
  
  

  Claire M.,Daring to Hope in the Vale of Tears: What Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn Can Teach Us About Pain and Suffering
  
  

  Theresa M., How Works of Art Reveal Truth in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
  
  

  Maria M., A Wise Man Begins with Wonder: Education in Frankenstein and Hard Times
  
  

  Stephanie M., The Struggle for Independence Given Societal Pressures on Women
  
  

  Lourdes N., “Straight and Narrow” or “Gentle and Gradual”: Encountering Spiritual Sin in The Screwtape Letters and Inferno
  
  

  Ava Q., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Pleasure: The Tragedy of the American Dream According to Fitzgerald
  
  

  Katherine R., I Do: What Austen, Wharton, and Fitzgerald Reveal About a Good and Committed Marriage
  
  

  Catalina S., Being the Hero of One’s Own Life: An Investigation into the Nature of Heroism in David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, and My Antonia
  
  

  Magdalena S., Social Influence: The Conflict Between Conformity and Freedom
  
  

  Ellen S., The Versatility of Fashion as Portrayed through the Flapper Girls of the 1920s
  
  

  Elizabeth S., Philosophizing for Evil: The Rise of Modernism and Dostoyevsky’s Chilling Prophecy
  
  

  Maria T., True Marital Love: An Analysis of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina in light of CS Lewis’ Four Loves
  
  

  Celia T., An Examination of The Factors Leading To Dystopia And How To Prevent The Collapse of Society
  
  

  Marie T., Medea and Lily: Victors, not Villains
  
  

  Lily V., Isolation through Culture: Young Goodman Brown and The Picture of Dorian Gray leave no Room for Mercy or Mistakes