So much of what's on the Web is so frivolous (much of my own contribution to Web culture is included in this) that a casual observer might be led to believe that the Web had no functions except entertainment and commerce.

While I am the last one to decry these endeavours, the Web is crying out for some substantive content. Herein, I am doing my small part to add to the presently diminutive total of same.

Below are a small collection of papers I have written on various subjects - whatever "absurd directions" (to quote a friend of mine) I get pulled in while attempting to secure my degree (I have a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and am now a law student) will be presented here. Be advised that I have been archiving these papers here since 1995 - in other words, some of the older ones may need updating. In any case, feel free to email me your thoughts if you are so inspired. I welcome commentary and debate on any subject addressed here (or elsewhere on my site).

• An Overview Of Objectivist Ethics - for Philosophy: Ethics.
• The Function Of Settings In Jane Eyre - for Majour British Writers II.
• Prodigality, Part I - for Advanced Creative Writing.
• The Unanticipated Consequences of Human Action: Structure-Functionalist Theory of Robert K. Merton - for Social Theory.
• Social Interactionism as Defined by Herbert Blumer - for Social Theory.
• Wired - for Advanced Creative Writing.
• And Now For Something Completely Different: The Truth About Tax Cuts - published in the University of Louisville Cardinal, 3 October 1996.
• Critique of Origins of the Civil Rights Movement by Aldon Morris - for Social Movements.
• Critique of Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism In America, 1967-75 by Alice Echols - for Social Movements.
• Rape In Prison - for Criminology.
• On Identity After a Supposed Exchange of Bodily Molecules - for Philosophy: Personal Identity.
• Aristotle: Politics - for Elements of Political Philosophy.
• John Stuart Mill: On Liberty - for Elements of Political Philosophy.
• Karl Marx's Conception of History in the Communist Manifesto - for Elements of Political Philosophy.
• Shephard Case Illustrates Dangers of Hate Crimes Legislation - published in the web journal Enter Stage Right, 22 November 1999.
• Natsios v. Foreign Trade Council - for Constitutional Law - Fed/State.
• Bush Supports Social Security Privatization.
• Part I of my review of the Dune mini-series on Sci-Fi Channel (Parts II & II can be reached by the internal links).