Old Documents

The following are selected writings that I composed during middle school, high school, and college -- usually as academic assignments but sometimes just for fun. I don't now endorse all, or even most, of the views expressed herein; for example, none but the latest pieces mention animal suffering, which I now think is the most important issue in the world. However, I'm making these documents available out of historical interest.

2009

• Prawn pain (pdf).

2008

• Wendy's eggs (pdf).
• Applying EM to probit regression (pdf).

2007

• Making money and making change (html).
• Expected value of information (pdf).

2006

• Illness Narratives discussion (pdf).
• Spectroscopic analysis (pdf).

2005

• Minor parties (pdf).
• Hegemony or Survival review (pdf).
• Connecticut Yankee review (pdf).
• Georg Cantor bio (pdf).
• Logicism, intuitionism, and formalism (pdf).
• Bioassay stats report (pdf).
• Foie-gras letter (pdf).
• Rat-traps letter (pdf).
• Journal entries, 2001-2005 (pdf).
• Letter to Peter Singer (pdf).
• Carbon taxes (pdf).

2004

• Pi film (pdf).
• Great Depression and exports (pdf).
• Civil-disobedience debate (pdf).
• Scene-by-scene summary of Antigone (pdf).
• Antigone characters analysis (pdf).
• Inspirational-teacher speech (pdf).
• Mister Rogers speech (pdf).
• Contacting Congress (pdf).
• Handout on how to write legislative advocacy letters (pdf).
• Marlene Dietrich bio in German (pdf).
• Chapter-by-chapter notes on the first half of 1984 (pdf).
• 1984 comments, part 1 (pdf).
• 1984 comments, part 2 (pdf).
• Charles Steinmetz (pdf).
• Terrorism vs. international health (pdf).
• Precaution on climate change (pdf).
• Discuss a Cyrano de Bergerac quote (pdf).
• Children's book in German (pdf).
• Omar Khayyam analysis (pdf).
• Derivative of a monomial (pdf).
• Review of Citizen Kane and Mr. Smith (pdf).
• Silas Marner review (pdf).
• Comments on Bartleby the Scrivener (pdf).
• Owen Meany essay (pdf).
• College essay (pdf).

2003

• Tic-tac-toe strategy (pdf).
• Born on the Fourth of July review (pdf).
• Shift from religion to psychology (pdf).
• Romanticism (pdf).
• Children's book about self-identity (pdf).
• Bingo problem (pdf).
• Aceh letter to Congress (pdf).
• Fictional Jackson impeachment speech (pdf).
• Civil-war debate (pdf).
• Intuitive attempt to derive area and volume formulas before I knew calculus... (pdf).

2002

• Benjamin Banneker (pdf).
• East Timor (pdf).
• Bt corn (pdf).
• Australopithecus anamensis (pdf).
• The Jungle book review (pdf).
• Ways to arrange clock digits into equations (pdf).
• 2002 Farm Bill (pdf).

2001

• Animal poem (pdf).
• Hitler's rise to power (pdf).
• Nixon and Vietnam (pdf).
• Fictional immigrant letter (pdf).
• Kaffir Boy review (pdf).
• The Incas Remembered discussion (pdf).