My essential question departed significantly from the original project, where I knew I wanted to explore communities and the relationships between people and physical spaces, and courts and the written[…]
Author: Theodora Dotson
5/17 – Bay
Towards the end of this week, I decided to watch a documentary called The Farm: Angola USA (1998). The documentary follows the lives of six inmates in Angola (the colloquial[…]
CR #5 – Bay
My project was always intended to be an independent study, so I was prepared to do a project that required self-motivation the whole time. However, I was going to be[…]
5/10 – Bay
This week I read a Supreme Court case for my class, Martin v. PGA (2000). A professional golfer, Casey Martin, sued the PGA under the ADA because they wouldn’t allow[…]
CR #4 – Bay
This week I read a few articles in The New York Times covering the Supreme Court arguments scheduled for the next few weeks in May. Some of the cases are[…]
4/3 – Bay
This week I watched the TV show The People vs. O.J. Simpson. The show was adapted by the journalist Jeffrey Toobin from his book, The Run of His Lifetime, about[…]
CR #3 – Bay
I definitely feel like I’m exploring answers to my essential question, just not in the way I had originally planned. All of the different things I’ve done have sort of[…]
4/26 – Bay
This isn’t exactly related to my project, but today I had a conversation with my dad and brothers about the criminal justice system that was really interesting. My dad was[…]
CR #2 – Bay
This week I read John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689) for my online class. Locke’s entire theory of the State of Nature and the State of War were very[…]
4/19 – Bay
This week in my online class I learned about the theory of libertarianism, and specifically the libertarian doctrine of Robert Nozick in the 1970’s. I found that the aspects that[…]
4/16 – Bay
This week I read John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism” for my online class. “Utilitarianism” is a manifesto that attempts to address the criticisms of Jeremy Bentham’s Greatest Happiness Principle. In the[…]
CR #1 – Bay
This week I spent a lot of time reading Dead Man Walking (1992) by Sister Helen Prejean. As I wrote about in an earlier blog post, the book is sort[…]
4/12 – Bay
This week I intend to finish my first book for the project, Dead Man Walking (1992) by sister Helen Prejean. The book is sort of memoir/non-fiction with a lot of[…]
Bay’s Senior Project 4/11
This week I started my online class on political philosophy and justice. In the first lecture, the professor introduced the difference between consequentialist vs. categorical moral reasoning by presenting multiple[…]