First-Year SeminarBard College

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Award-Winning Essays

2008-2009

Shelley; Or, the Modern Sphinx
Lilli Canright

Freedom: Rational or Mystical?
Sean Colonna

Well then! Once more!”: The Eternal Recurrence of Dancing

Vanessa Martini

Frankenstein’s Denial of Maternal Sexuality
or,
The Beauty of the Dream: Frankenstein Creates the Asexual Monster

William Vitale

2007–2008

Transitional Metaphors in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Coco Mellors

Go to Hell, Kant: William Blake and Eternal Delight
Nora Offen

The Real Bad, and How to Escape It (Dance!)
William Blake's
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Friedrich Nietzsche's
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Roland Schwartz

From Amour de Soi to Motiveless Manslaughter:
The Mysterious Disappearance of Rousseau's Natural Law

Johanna Warren

2006–2007

The Unstable Sentiment of Humanity:Finding the Connection Between Rousseau's and Sontag's Conceptions of Pity
Sheila Langan

Cosimo Boscaglia: The Most Serene Grand Duchess Mother
Engrida Mebrahtu

Thought and Politics in Plato's Republic
James Molloy

Frankenstein: Mary's Transformative Monster Medley
Wyatt Shell

2005–2006

Pity? NEIN
Willy Crichton

Theoretical Correlations Concerning The Psychological Evolution of Man and Civilization
David Flores

The Cripple and the Castle With accompanying comments
Sara Friert

Symposium - Word Games and Unexplained Logic
Jen Overstreet

2004–2005

Satire and True Character: Machiavelli'sThe Prince
Adrienne Johnson

God Faces Off Against Evil Genies in a Cartesian Universe
John Leslie

Variation, Darwin, Marx, and Weber
Jessica Loudis

Rousseau and Wollstonecraft: Possibilities for Political and Social Reform
Alex Simons

I see God in my calculator!
Elizabeth Snowden