Old Webpage Archives

So I was googling myself, and I found a website I had created five years ago on Tripod, then promptly forgotten about.  I ended up deleteing that website, so it would be easier to control my online identity (which apparently is next to impossible). On it I wrote out one old article, and put up an archive of some of my undergrad essays.

It is almost quaint to look at these old essays. They are of much lower quality now, as these were made in my first two years of University, before I began any honours courses. Still to deny them would be to deny what I was and how I became what I am today.

I thought for the sake of posterity (and the fact I hate to throw anything away) I would leave it here. So.. for you all here is an idea of what my old website had on it, with the orginal descriptions and everything.

The UWSA and My Lack of Choice This was the first and only article I put up on the website. I had just become pro-life at that moment, but was angry at the idea that my student union, that represented all students was pro-choice and almost anti-pro-life. This article was my response to that. History and its teaching This essay I wrote during a class of academic writing. I was assigned to write an argument for or against the teaching of history, particularly Canadian History. The perfectly just political regime . . . and why it is not possible This was an assignment for Intro Philosophy. I had been studying Plato’s Republic, and in it he discussed his reasoning as to why the perfectly just political system was not only impossible, but not undesirable as well. Summary of Genesis This was an assignment for Medieval Latin. There was much debate in my mind as to whether or not I should post this (as it was a simple summary), however when I had found such a different interpretation of the first book of the bible, I had to include it on this site. A Comparison of Republics: Roman Republic vs. American Republic This was an essay I had been dying to do for a while. Unfortunately I found myself ill prepared in many respects. While I had been a very keen student of the American Republic (especially due to the works of Tocqueville s Democracy in America), I was not so well read in the Roman Republic. The class I wrote this essay for helped me to fill in the Roman side of the comparison, and it is the Roman side that is the focus of this essay. Needless to say that I fell cut short on this essay, and I could have written for much longer. Platos Curriculum In my History of Education class, I went back to Plato’s Republic look at the educational thought within it. Plato also outline an education curriculum in it, and this was it. Scepticisms Modes, and the faults within This is the most serious essay I have written to date (three years before my thesis, and the last year before I took honours courses). In it I looked that the modes of Scepticisms and outline them, then show the faults one will find within them. It is the most difficult essay to date, in that I had to describe each mode as best I could, making it true to its nature and true to the original argument, writing it as though it was and could be true. You’ll have to tell me if I succeeded.