The Senior Thesis

List of 10 frequently asked questions.

• Class of 2024

  Zelie A., The Good in the Encircling Fire: The Beauty of Gratitude in Hannah Coulter and My Antonia

   

  Monica B. ,The Root of Fruitful Relationships in Hannah Coulter and My Ántonia 

   

  Elizabeth B., Finding Light in Darkness in Hannah Coulter and All the Light We Cannot Not See

   

  Lucia B., Frankenstein and Scarlet Letter:The Importance of the Relationship Between Community and God 

   

  Heidi B., When Gifts Become Gods: Hubris in Crime and Punishment and Frankenstein

   

  Lulu C., It Takes a Village: The Necessity of Place in Berry's Hannah Coulter and Jayber Crow 

   

  Amelia C., Mutual Respect Fosters Good Relationships in The Chosen and Merchant of Venice

   

  Amelia C., Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Exploring Ideas of Femininity and Fulfillment in My Antonia and In This House of Brede

   

  Victoria C., Devotional Work: The Food for the Soul in The House of Mirth and Hannah Coulter

   

  Eleanor D., The Power of Motherhood: How Female Role Models Affect a Women's Sense of Self

   

  Francesca D., The Transcendental Power of Music: Bringing Classic Literature to Life

   

  Catherine D., The Formation of Community Through Work and Land in My Ántonia and Hannah Coulter.

   

  Catherine E., A Severe Mercy and The Scarlet Letter: The Necessity of Truth and Beauty in Relationships 

   

  Elaine-Rebecca E., The Great Gatsby and Hannah Coulter: The Foundation for a Strong Marriage

   

  Emily G., “A Bullet to the Head or the Road to Siberia”: Exploring the Path to Redemption in Poe and Dostoevsky

   

  Anna G., Longevity in a Culture of Eternal Youth: Hannah Coulter and Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

   

  Louise G., Hannah Coulter and The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Accompany the Dying 

   

  Tyler Reese H., From Death to Life: Hope for the Human Person in Crime and Punishment and The Death of Ivan Ilyich

   

  Deirdre K., The Fall and Redemption in Anna Karenina and The Scarlet Letter

   

  Katherine K., All You Need is Love: Selfless Love as a Remedy to Suffering in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The House of Mirth

   

  Norah K., The Power of a Formation in Virtue: Overcoming Materialism in Pride and Prejudice and the House of Mirth 

   

  Annie K., Unfulfillment: A Product of Wharton and Tolstoy's High Societies

   

  Evelyn L., Silence is Golden: The Impact of Silence on the Moral Growth of the Human in The Chosen and In This House of Brede

   

  Claudia M., Fate, Free-will, and Fulfillment in House of Mirth and My Antonia

   

  Ana M., Defiance, Denial, and Duels in The Iliad and Crime and Punishment

   

  Myriam M., Essentials to a Thriving Life: Aspects of Community as portrayed in Hannah Coulter and Jayber Crow

   

  Erin M., Beauty or The Beast: Youth and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth

   

  Neilly M., Raskolnikov and Frankenstein: Masters of Life or Slaves of Pride

   

  Caroline M., The Heroic Journey as Transformative in The Hobbit and The Odyssey

   

  Maddy M., Conversion as a Daily Encounter: On the Threefold Power of Humility, Freedom, and Judgement in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

   

  Helen N., The Search for Redemption in The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby 

   

  Charlotte O., When the Truth In Not Beautiful: Grotesque Messengers of Grace in Conversion

   

  Edith P., Friendship as the Cure to the Soul in House of Mirth and My Antonia 

   

  Lucy R., Crime and Punishment and Fahrenheit 451: Montag's Guide From Hell to Redemption

   

  Marina S., Meeting Motherhood: The Maternal Journey of Anna Karenina and Hester Prynne

   

  Kathryn S., Pride and Prejudice and The House of Mirth: What Makes a Strong Romantic Relationship?

   

  Lianor S., Happiness Hindered: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Portrayal of the Pitfalls of Prosperity  

   

  Aria U., We Are Only Half Hnau: Sin's Impact on a Flourishing Life

• Class of 2023

  Rima A., Maker and Product: The Failsure of Basil's Portrait and Frankenstein's Creature in Accomplishing the Good
  
  Mariana A., Love's Labyrinth: The Maze of Lies and the Path to Truth in Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment 
  
  Regina B., What is Happiness?: Materialism and the Tragic Downfall of Gatsby and Lily Bart
  
  Natalie B., The Poetic Imagination: Symbolism and Imagery in Cather's My Ántonia and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
  
  Mariana B., Heart and Head: A Comparison of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Brontë's Jane Eyre 
  
  Maria B., The Danger of the Unnatural: Rejection of Human Nature in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein
  
  Zoe B., The Paradox of the Land: How Intimacy with the Earth Leads to Fulfillment in the Lives of Hannah Coulter and Antonia Shimerda
  
  Gabriella C., Understanding Tragic Heroines: Anna Karenina and Lily Bart's Illumination of Moral Truth
  
  Gianna C., From Homer to Remarque: Great War Literature and Human Fulfillment
  
  Sofia C., “The Unconscious Man:” The Repercussions of Resisting Reality in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
  
  Madelyn C., The Art of Expression: Religion, Suffering, and Love in the Work of Leo Tolstoy and Vincent Van Gogh
  
  Teresa C., Antonia, the Modern Aeneas: The Value of Pagan Virtues in Our Christian Lives
  
  Sophie E., Reason and Beauty: The Essential Concoction for True Living Manifested in Russian Literature
  
  Rachel J., The Price of Glory: Through the Prideful Eyes of Raskolnikov and Frankenstein
  
  Faven K., The Paradox of Suffering: Finding Meaning in Pain
  
  Erin K., Where is My Chivalrous Scientist? The Quest for a Moral Code in Scientific Research
  
  Meghan K., Selflessness, Receptivity and Sensitivity: Finding Authentic Joy in Embracing Femininity
  
  Eva K., Sisterhood in Alcott's Little Women and Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  
  Elizabeth L., Finding Strength in Weakness: How Vulnerability Transforms and Resurrects the Heart in The Scarlet Letter and Crime and Punishment
  
  Natalie M., Hannah Coulter's Agrarian Lifestyle: An Antidote to Gatsby's Restlessness
  
  Cecelia M., A Warning to Contemporary Scientists: The Danger of Pursuing Knowledge Through the Transgression of Natural Law
  
  Sophia M., Fighting the Good Fight: The Honor of Combatant Brotherhood in The Iliad, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Things They Carried 
  
  Sally M., Persevering Through Suffering: The Path to Joy Found in Unbroken and My Antonia
  
  Bianca N., The Feminine Genius: the Women’s Progressive Movement in Little Women and My Ántonia
  
  Teresa R., The Art of Dying Well: Man's Journey Towards Salvation in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Everyman, and Tuesdays with Morrie
  
  Patricia R., Compassionate and Loving Relationships: A Path to Truth in Suffering
  
  Lilly R., From Revolutionary Sparks to Smoldering Ashes: Dostoyevsky's Warning to Russia
  
  Lucy S., What's Love Got to Do With It?: Understanding Suffering in the Lives of Anna Karenina and Philippa Talbot
  
  Josefina T., The Relationship Between Home and Character: A Comparison of Willa Cather's My Antonia and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
  
  Olivia V., Healing the Whole Person: The Necessity of Love in Crime and Punishment and The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  
  Kate V., Examining Happiness Through the Eyes of the Upper Class in The Great Gatsby
  
  Laura Elizabeth W., Why are Moral Values Crucial for Happiness?: An Analysis of Tolstoy and Wharton's Heroes and Heroines
  
  Teddie Y., The False Promises of Time: Temporal Illusions in The Great Gatsby and A Rose for Emily 

• Class of 2022

  Abigail A., Attaining Human Fulfillment: Solzhenitsyn and Wharton’s Depiction of the Paradoxical Pursuit

  
  

  Dima A., Society’s Role on the Fates of Lily and Elizabeth in The House of Mirth and Pride and Prejudice

  
  

  Margaret B., Virtue as the Champion of Democracy and Humanity in American Literature

  
  

  Delina B., Gatsby and Atticus’ Pursuit of the American Dream

  
  

  Laura B., The Journey, Knowledge, and Mentorship in Relation to One’s End as Exemplified by Dante, Odysseus, Dr. Frankenstein, and The Monster

  
  

  Ilayda B., “Do what you will, the heart hardens and the soul shrinks in upon itself”: How Disillusionment Leads to a Loss of Morality in Crime in Punishment and A Hero of Our Time

  
  

  Anne Marie B., “Either our hope cometh or all hopes end:” The Battle Between Hope and Despair in Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings

  
  

  Emilia B., Willa Cather’s My A´ntonia and the Debate on Assimilation: Preserving Immigrant Identity and Cultural Heritage to Enrich the American Nation

  
  

  Gabrielle B., C.S Lewis’ Depiction of the Fight Between Good and Evil: God as Goodness Himself Prevails

  
  

  Sarah C., The New Normal: Female Familial Relationships Affected by Mental Illness in the Modern and Postmodern Era of American Theatre

  
  

  Natalya C., The Effect of Superficial and Complete Friendships on the Quality of Life in My Antonia and The Great Gatsby

  
  

  Grace C., Illuminating the True Path to Happiness: Freedom in The Scarlet Letter and The House of Mirth

  
  

  Katrina D., Raskolnikov’s “Renewal, Rebirth, and New Reality” through Love in Crime and Punishment

  
  

  Elisabeth D., Frankenstein and Brave New World: the Dangers of Technology in the Pursuit of Happiness

  
  

  Anabela E., The Impact of Societal Pressures on the Heroines of The Scarlet Letter and The House of Mirth

  
  

  Rachel F., Full Table, Fulfilled Soul: Food as Central to Community and a Flourishing Life in My Antonia and Anna Karenina

  
  

  Jacqueline F., Perverted Passion as the Distortion of Love in Anna Karenina

  
  

  Reilan G., Another Paradise Lost?: Jim, Hannah, and Willy’s longing for an Agrarian Past as Central to their American Identity

  
  

  Meredith K., Women as a Source of Grace for Men in The Merchant of Venice and Crime and Punishment

  
  

  Abigail K., The Truth Will Set You Free: Dimmesdale and Raskolnikov’s Guilt as a Catalyst for Redemption

  
  

  Kelsey K., Nostalgia: Downfall or Salvation in The Great Gatsby and My Antonia

  
  

  Katherine L., The Transcendence of Beauty and the Good Life: A Grasping Hand versus a Wondering Heart

  
  

  Simonne L., The Parasitical Roles of Consumerism and Despair in The House of Mirth, The Great Gatsby, and My Antonia.

  
  

  Madeline M., The Presence of the Four Loves of C.S. Lewis in Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby

  
  

  Grace M., The Significance of Meaningful Relationships in Overcoming Addiction in The House of Mirth, Unbroken, and Fahrenheit 451

  
  

  Thérèse M., Intimacy and Personality: The Temperaments of Austen’s Heroines and the Impact on Their Relationships

  
  

  Caroline N., The Lost Generation: Cultural Disillusionment and Societal Disintegration Following The First World War

  
  

  Helen P., Wonder as the Luminary Aspect of an Education through the Lens of Homer and Plato

  
  

  Adair R., Nostalgia for Heaven and the Journey Home in My Antonia and The House of Mirth

  
  

  Ashley S., The Power of Suffering to Transform Mankind into Heroes and Saints

  
  

  Cassielle S., Feminine Virtue in Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice: A Canon for Timeless Heroes

  
  

  Eliana T., Renewal of the Soul: Raskolnikov’s Moral and Spiritual Turn to God in Crime and Punishment

  
  

  Ana U., The Power of Imagination and its Impact on Reality through the Minds of Anne Shirley and Jay Gatsby

  
  

  Adele W., True Happiness as the Fruit of a Homeland in My Antonia and Hannah Coulter

  
  Sarah W., Monsters of Pride: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein
  
  Suzanna Z., Society's Effects on the Quest for Truth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the House of Mirth

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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