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This paper was written for “Science in Society,” a History course given by Dr. Timothy Alborn that was part of Mark’s customized curriculum in the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. It subsequently formed the basis for much of Mark’s masters thesis, The Unsustainability and Origins of [...]

This paper was written for “Population Ecology,” a Biology course given by Dr. Robert Rockwell and Dr. John Oppenheimer that was part of Mark’s customized curriculum in the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. Short though it may be, it subsequently formed the basis for crucial material [...]

This paper was written for “Science in Society,” a History course given by Dr. Timothy Alborn that was part of Mark’s customized curriculum in the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program.
Read the Scopes, Galileo and the Dramatization of Conflict .pdf.

This paper was written for “Environmental Sociology,” a Sociology course given by Dr. Sharon Zukin that was part of Mark’s customized curriculum in the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. It explores the various meanings of the film Titanic from an ecological perspective.
Dr. Zukin called it “totally [...]

This paper was written for “The Rise of Civilization,” an Anthropology course given by Dr. Gregory Johnson that was part of Mark’s customized curriculum in the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. It subsequently formed the basis for much of Mark’s masters thesis, The Unsustainability and Origins [...]

This paper was written for “Bioethics: Issues in Death and Dying,” an Ethics course given by Dr. Rosamond Rhodes that was part of Mark’s customized curriculum in the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. Turned in on December 21, 1998, Mark completed a revision on August 17, [...]

This paper on the film Trading Places, exploring its many comic layers as well as its nature vs. nurture themes, was written for a course in comic theatre at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
Read the The Many Faces of Trading Places .pdf.

This paper on three of Paul Simon’s songs was written for a course in poetry at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
Read the Where the Heart Is .pdf.

This paper on David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly was written for a course in contemporary theatre at Cornell University during Mark’s undergraduate studies.
Read the Gallimard’s Quest for Power .pdf.