school work
my second run through school occurred in two spurts. i studied computer science from the fall of 2008 to the summer of 2010 and ended up a credit short of a degree but decided i wasn't interested enough in the topic to bother completing it; i didn't want to work as a computer scientist. law, however, was becoming interesting to me. i went through a mental breakdown in the fall of 2010 and, as a consequence, withdrew myself from school until the summer of 2012, when i took a year of law courses. in the end, i decided i was too ideologically opposed to the philosophical basis underlying our legal system; working in the field would be like walking into a kafka novel. if i decide to go back to school, and this is not likely in the short term, it will be here in windsor and may be at the graduate level in a mathematically related topic. right now, i want to focus on my own goals rather than be directed by academia.
Legal Rights for Natural Objects: Deregulation by Stealth (LAWS 2201, carleton)
Should Justice be Based on Rules or Circumstances? (LAWS 2302, carleton)
Some Brief Arguments Against Property (LAWS 2201, carleton)
Limited Liability as Class Privilege (LAWS 2201, carleton)
Natural Law Theory in the Context of Christian Patriarchy (LAWS 2201, carleton)
Socializing Corporate Responsibility (LAWS 2201, carleton)
On The Impossibility of Compromise/Synthesis in Abortion Legislation (LAWS 2201, carleton)
For the Courts to Decide: Why Bill C-323 Is neither Unconstitutional nor Substantial Legislation (LAWS 2501, carleton)
The Future of Aboriginal Self-Governance: What to do with the Indian Act? (LAWS 3504, carleton)
Interdependence v Sovereignty (LAWS 3504, carleton)
Misapplying Gladue (LAWS 3504, carleton)
Denying The Antecedent: The Supreme Court of Canada Fails First-Year Logic (LAWS 2502, carleton)
Relating Classical Conservatism to Socialism, in Dual Opposition to Liberalism (LAWS 2202, carleton)
Secularizing The Foundations of Tort Law in 250 Words or Less (LAWS 2202, carleton)
R v. Pauchay: Contrasting Traditional Court Practices to Restorative Methods of Justice (LAWS 1000, carleton)
Starson v. Swayze: An Exploration of Canada’s Orwellian Mental Health Laws (LAWS 1000, carleton)
Pulling a Swift One: Confusing Philosophy with Science (ENGL 2107, carleton)
my first spurt through university was 2000-2006, with a few breaks. however, i'm not able to find much of anything worth "publishing" in this space. my focus at the time was mathematics and the hard sciences, which don't really allow for useful essay writing at the undergraduate level. the few essays that i did write either did not contain worthwhile independent thought or were tangential messes written solely to fulfill breadth requirements. to an extent, i wish i would have been able to find more writing courses that i was actually interested in. i did do a lot of writing in this period, but it was really focused inside of the family tree. in time, documents and ideas will be pulled out of that archive but they will not be posted here. further, i did have some unusual mathematical ideas that will slowly be posted to the math section as i slowly work myself back into that world.
i've pulled out this high school essay because i think the analysis is relatively unique:
Christian Allegory in George Orwell's 1984 (grade 12 english class)