Aaron, Yr 13 What is progress in Philosophy? My essay touches on ideas relating to how progress should be measured, how progress may not be self-contained within a subject and what ‘worth’ constitutes in academia.
Jierui, Yr 13 Weighing Time
This essay concerns a specific problem regarding the change of the mass shown on a balance while an operating hourglass is placed on the balance. My essay builds a mathematical model to explain the phenomenon. Freddie, Yr 13 What makes Kevlar Bulletproof? An insight into the chemistry, structure and properties of Kevlar, specifically focusing on the intermolecular bonding within the fibre to show why it is bulletproof. Toby, Yr 13 From Chueca to Chechnya: Why are Spanish and Russian attitudes to homosexuality so different? This essay analyses why Spain and Russia, having held similar attitudes to homosexuality during their respective autocracies, now have very different outlooks. In the first section, I discuss the persecution of homosexuals both in Spain and in the Soviet Union, from legal discrimination to the use of electroshock and emetic aversion therapy in specialised centres. The second section – concentrating on the transition – emphasises Spanish queer activists’ education of the public and their targeting of political parties while contrasting this with Russian groups’ inability to work with each other. The third section juxtaposes Spain’s reputation as the country most accepting of homosexuality with Russia’s introduction of the “anti-propaganda law” in 2013, as well as the prevalent violence against homosexuals. The essay concludes that the difference in attitudes to homosexuality stems from Spain’s success at getting people involved in the queer cause, seeing as it was experiencing democracy for the first time in four decades, compared to Russians who were exhausted from the disingenuous politics of the Soviet Union.
Boris, Yr 13 The Art of Indifference
This essay explains the principle of indifference, the principle of maximum ignorance and the principle of transformation groups. I attempt this through an exploration of some proposed solutions with particular focus on the work of E.T. Jaynes using Bertrand’s Paradox and other similar problems to enunciate some of the central issues in probability theory. Christopher, Yr 13 “Thou sallow picture of my poisoned love”: an examination of sex and gender in Jacobean revenge tragedy This essay is an examination of 16th/17th-century attitudes towards sex and gender through the lens of Jacobean revenge tragedy. Sam, Yr 13 How did the 2005 Clichy-Sous-Bois Riots affect the French treatment and of the Banlieues défavorisées? This essay addresses the real outcomes of the Paris riots and how the treatment of the banlieues actually worsened over time after the 2005 uprising. Patrick, Yr 13 A new age of pandemics: how have human behavioural changes affected our future pandemic risk? This essay explores the reasons behind pandemic risk. Many of these reasons were caused by changes in human behaviour which brought us into more intimate relationships with deadly microbes. Despite this we continue to increase our pandemic risk through e.g. the domestication of animals, and increased air travel.
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