Weston I was born in Weston, Florida and lived there until I moved to Boston for college. In a lot of ways, Weston is the epitome of suburban America, with planned developments and landscaping throughout. As a hometown, Weston was great; I got to go to good schools, enjoy the stability provided from two parents […]

Ableism in Ethical Philosophy What is Ethics? Some of the earliest known philosophical musings, at least in Western Europe, involved asking what it meant to be a good person, what it meant to do good. In attempting to answer these questions over the centuries, many major figures have written a litany of books and essays […]

How do the specific details of “Inkle and Yarico” retellings shift the message of the story? The “spark notes” version I chose to analyze a version of the “Inkle and Yarico” story published in the New York Telescope on November 4th, 1826. This version of “Inkle and Yarico” is particularly short at only 221 words […]