by Charles Edward Ryan | Apr 11, 2021 |
Over the past few months, I have been working on my honors thesis, which explores voter turnout as a function of social mobility. It was an incredibly valuable and enlightening and experience. I am honored to say that my work was affirmed this past week when I was...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Mar 7, 2021
Thesis Update Over the past week, I have been working hard to get the data for my thesis into shape. My topic is voter turnout, and so, naturally, I have a lot of data. Specifically, I have 8,858,284 rows and 21 columns of data. Getting my data to this point has been...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Feb 7, 2021
My long term goal is to serve in government at the intersection of federal public policy development and its application at the local level. I envision contributing to a policy apparatus that addresses inequality and political disaffection through action to address...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Nov 8, 2020
I have been in a rut for the past few weeks. I spent the first month and a half of school working tirelessly on my application for the Marshall scholarship, and in the weeks since I have struggled to harness the excitement and curiosity towards more opportunities....
by Charles Edward Ryan | Oct 11, 2020 |
In the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rilke writes “I am a beginner in my own circumstances”, expressing the simultaneously liberating and constraining potential of each moment in a new place. For me, the most powerful experiences I have had are when I have been a...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Sep 14, 2020 |
While studying at the London School of Economics this past year, I was struck by the way I felt as a student compared to my experience in the United States. Whereas my home university emphasizes that students should maintain a fluency in generality, in the sense of...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Apr 20, 2020 |
Last week I finished reading On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. The book is written as a collection of letters written by a Vietnamese American to his illiterate mother; at times it reads as a coming of age story and others as a collection of prosaic...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Apr 13, 2020 |
If anybody is in need of some reading, here is an interesting research project locating 10.7 of the 11 million acres of indigenous land expropriated under the Morrill Act of 1862, which established the land-grant institutions. The Act ceded 11 million acres from 250...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Mar 29, 2020
Mills’ theory of the “power elite” centers around the idea that elites are products of the distinct institutions within which they arise, whether it be the military, politics, or business. However, Mills does not consider whether the elite dynamics he identified were...
by Charles Edward Ryan | Mar 23, 2020
As part of the summative coursework for my Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy course, I wrote a review of The People of the Abyss by Jack London, which chronicles the author’s observations over six weeks among London’s poorest citizens in the Whitechapel District...
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