Brent Mowery

Oz as Allegory

Oz as Allegory [This is an undergraduate paper for a film studies class entitled American Classic Cinema.] L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), is a dazzling story of an adolescent who wishes to get away, far away, but soon...

Published Sun, May 02 2010 1:35 PM by Brent Mowery

Filed under: wizard of oz allegory l. frank baum 19th century william jennings bryan free silver bimetallism

Economic Intervention and the Fairness Doctrine

Economic Intervention and the Fairness Doctrine [This paper was an undergraduate paper for a course in broadcast media history.] The fairness doctrine, a policy first introduced by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1949 and...

Published Sat, May 01 2010 11:09 AM by Brent Mowery

Filed under: economic intervention fairness doctrine fcc frc radio act 1927

Universal Condition: Implications and Problems

This is a term paper I wrote for a freshman-level philosophy course entitled "Theories of Human Nature." I have since found this paper and added comments highlighting how the scholarly material available at mises.org has lifted me out of a dark relativist-positivist pit.

...

Published Sat, Apr 10 2010 12:15 AM by Brent Mowery

Filed under: relativism philosophy

A Sure Thing: Human Language and the Concept of Truth

An undergraduate paper for a film studies class entitled American Classic Cinema. I took a quote from A Sure Thing (1985) and used it to examine an academic establishment that largely ignores if not rejects the essential teachings of economics.

...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 4:36 PM by Brent Mowery

Filed under: a sure thing movie theory of knowledge epistemology relativism philosophy

Recent Posts

Archives

Oz as Allegory

Economic Intervention and the Fairness Doctrine

Universal Condition: Implications and Problems

A Sure Thing: Human Language and the Concept of Truth