Works
Dogfood: A Spoonful of Lust and Pain
November 2021, From Class WRIT 105G
Language is a living being that is constantly reshaped by the lastest generation. This is mostly done by newly created slangs that redefine conventions. To give an example, this paper examines the origin, definition, grammatical function, rhetorical context, demographics, and longevity of the recent internet slang "dogfood".
Game of Thrones
July 2021, From Course HIST 4B
The whole Medieval European history was a brawling for power between popes and kings, both trying to claim authority over one another. This paper depicts the techniques popes utilized and the radicalizing measures kings and emperors implemented to establish their power. Most of the time, religion was degraded to a mere political apparatus.
Morceau Collection: Medieval Europe
July 2021, From Class HIST 4B
"Power Storm" portrayed the intertwined and mingled power struggle between the secular and religious realms in Medieval Europe, including their heydays of supremacy. "Advanced Visions" focused on three pioneers of theology, colonialism, and science during Medival Europe and how they have offered a new way to view the world.
During the late 19th century in the United States, physics was viewed as a mere means of engineering. It was not until Henry Rowland urged fellow physicists to delve into science for the sake of science that the call for "pure" science was responded. Through his speech The Highest Aim of the Physicist, this paper outlined how Rowland had raised the physics field to a higher professional level.
New Page in Physics
July 2021, From Class HIST 20
Dreamt the Undreamt
July 2021, From Class HIST 20
The history of science consists of countless revisions of basic knowledge. It is only through questioning and scrutinizing rudimentary postulations that new perspectives can be found. This piece of writing exemplifies major changes in psychology, biology, and physics that widened our perception of the natural world.
An Entangled System
July 2021, From Course HIST 20
Scientific knowledge represents objective reality, and science itself should be an inherently non-political activity. However, in the past century, science had been distorted by social, political, and economic factors to an extent where it served not the objective reality, but the authority's will. This piece of writing examined how science had intertwined with the world.
From Free, Feeble, to Functional
July 2021, From Class HIST 20
There exists not one standard way, place, or purpose in which science should be done; however, while scientists were freed from laboratories, they can be blinded by impure motives and deviate from validity and reliability. Focused in particular on the physics and biology field, this piece of writing discusses why, where, and how science was done changed over the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Antidote To Racism - Excellence
April 2021, From Course WRIT 2 (WP 1)
Surrounding the issue of whether machine scoring can substitute human scoring in essay grading, a debate was taken place between 5 selected academic articles. This piece of writing translated the debate into a play taking place in a college admissions boardroom, where the 5 admission officers had a conversation about whether the TOEFL minimum score requirement should be abolished after machine scoring was used.
Inside the Decision Room
May 2021, From Course WRIT 2 (WP 2)
Drawing points from Interconnecting Race and Gender Relations: Racism, Sexism and the Attribution of Sexism to the Racialized Other, this speech addresses the stereotypes of ethnicity in society that people have conformed to. It similarly associated racism with sexism under the theme of domination and prejudice. The focus of the speech shifted in the end to the idea of excellence being the only way out of racism.
Is "serious game" an oxymoron? By drawing the examples of the ancient Greek Olympic Games and the Roman Gladiator Games, this paper argues that these are examples of empires utilizing publicized games as a political apparatus to reify Androcentrism and Chauvinism and to stabilize its imperial control. Serious games are therefore plausible and not an oxymoron.
Serious Game
April 2021, From Class ARTHI 6L
Representation of Games
May 2021, From Class ARTHI 6L
To what extent is abstraction having a poorer representational value than realism in games? By examining the transformation from an abstract game -- chess -- to a realistic game -- war game -- this paper argues it is not true to regard abstraction as having a poorer representational value than figural realism; it is, rather, the distinct form and type of representation that brought them to opposite ends of the representational spectrum.
An Ideal World: Confucius, Laozi, and Mozi
February 2021, From Course EACS 80
Three great thinkers in Chinese history -- Confucius, Laozi, and Mozi -- each with unique visions of an ideal world, were born near the end of the Spring and Autumn period. Their battle of ideas had continued through their successors until today. This paper zoomed in on their individual views of what the world should be like and further argued that an ideal world that seems plausible is constituted by a blend of Confucius' and Mozi's philosophy.
Morceau Collection: Ancient China
March 2021, From Class EACS 80
"Recurring Renovation of Principles" discusses the relationship between China and the West over the course of modern history since 18th century. "Shifting Roles of Ancient Chinese Women" discusses the social status of Chinese women in four dynasties -- Han, Tang, Song, Ming -- under Confucian values.
Waves of Agonies
October 2020, From Course AS AM 2
As a result of the presence of the United States in major regional warfares in Asia, a huge amount of Filipino, Korean, and Southeast Asian (Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian) migrants came to the United States after 1953. This piece of writing addresses the underlying reasons behind the arrival of these "Amerasians".
A Selective Border
November 2020, From Class AS AM 2
Structural and demographic shifts of the global economy after 1965 had led the United States to begin hand-picking highly skilled and affluent migrants and filter out the poor ones every since 1980. This piece of writing focuses on major immigration policies that gave birth to a selective border and the intentions of Congress and specific Presidents behind these policies.
Awakening to a Nightmare
December 2020, From Class AS AM 2
Some poorer immigrant children have experienced conditions that seem like they're "awakening to a nightmare," where they and their parents are subject to sudden "removal" from the United States. After 1990, more people have been "removed" than ever before, year after year. This paper explains how immigration rules and policies have structured these circumstances for millions of migrants living in the United States.
