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    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as Existential Antiheroes and de Beauvoir’s Subman
    • La Frontera, Language, and Freedom
    • Clanking Heels Yet No Good Meals
    • Cogito Ergo Sum: The Responsibility of Self-Liberation
    • Defining Martin Luther King, Jr. as an Existentialist Hero
    • Depression and Existentialism… Where to Sartre?
    • In The Context of War, Do The Ends Ever Justify The Means?
    • Heading into Battle: Addiction, the Will, and the Fight for Autonomy
    • Free to Feel. Free to Share. Free to be Human.
    • Examining Unequal Sacrifices in American Democracy
    • Why Freedom is Bad
    • Mrs. Dalloway and “The Yellow Wallpaper”: Public Freedom Denied
    • The “Terrible Simplifiers” of Totalitarianism: How Certainty Can Ruin a Population
    • The Monkey Scopes Trial and its Impact on Intellectual Freedom
    • Mass Incarceration, Democracy and Freedom
    • Music During the Holocaust: A Double-Edged Sword
    • Reconciling Attempts to Monitor Racial Microaggressions and Preserve Freedoms of Speech
    • Reflections on Arendt’s Reflections
    • Sartre and Camus in Contrast: Divergent Conceptions of Freedom in Existentialist and Absurdist Literature
    • The Balance of Freedom
    • When ‘Give Me Liberty’ Means ‘Give Me Death’: in Support of Death with Dignity

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What is Freedom? New Essays Fall 2015

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