The First-Year Papers were established in 1996-1997 to recognize the excellent written work of the first-year students at Trinity College. Each year, submissions are drawn from First-Year Seminars and from courses associated with the Cities, Guided Studies, InterArts, and Interdisciplinary Science Programs. Since 2014, the editorial board is drawn from members of the Dean’s Scholars, the top-25 members of the first-year class. Visit the First-Year Seminar Program Website.

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Papers from 2022

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Women’s Election in Genesis, Iqra Ahar

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Campus Prohibitions and Student “Manners” (Informal Social Control), Simar Bhogal

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Across the Fence: Analyzing the Trinity College HMCTA Partnership, Somen Chakrabortti

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Engagement with Hartford at the Koeppel Community Sports Center: A Misguided Endeavor, Caitlin Doherty

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Stop the Raids, Emily Fox

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Alexandra Gall

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Ocean Vuong: “The truth is I’m worried they will get us before they get us.”, Neo Khambule

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Orwell and the Quest for Happiness, Hayden Martz

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Dear Mom, I love you, Lillian McDonald

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How the 1776 Project Continues an Epistemology of Ignorance, Rose Molloy

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The Freedom and Felicity of Rivers, Sadie Zeiner Morrish

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Ten Thousand Miles, Janaki Nair

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Urban Segregation, Vy Sa Nguyen

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First-Year Papers Cover Sheet 2022-23, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

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First Year Papers Editorial Board 2023, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

Papers from 2021

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Battery Park City: Desire for Isolation and Normalcy amid Tragedy; Impacts of 9/11 on a Planned Community, Hannah Cuff

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Celebrated Ignorance, Sarah Culling

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The Paradox of Incarceration, Brody Faliero

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Respond, Revise, Reimagine: Examining Trinfo Café’s Legacy of Community Engagement in an Evolving Hartford, Anna Grant-Botlon

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Frankenstein: A Critique on Masculinity, Melina Pelli Korfonta

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The History of American Cryptology Prior to World War II, Robert Sawyers

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The Great Auk: Impact and Legacy, Charlie Taing

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First-Year paper Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

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Table of contents, 2021, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

Papers from 2020

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Mexican Muralism: An Expression of Identity and History, Andrew Briden

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Hexing the Patriarchy: Witchcraft and Feminism as a Rebuttal to Capitalism, Ella Campopiano

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Reconsidering Orwell’s Depiction of the Working Class in The Road to Wigan Pier, Jack Carroll

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Modern Segregation in Detroit, Michigan, Ashley Fitzgerald

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Non-Profits and Community Action: Analysing Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness’ Theory of Change, Tara Iyer

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The Validity of Originalism in 2021, Garrett Kirk

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Hartford Briefly Seen, Cecelia Lagomarsino

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The Key Distribution Problem: Prior Advances and Future Challenges, Benjamin Lee

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Youth Involvement in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama, Lily McMahon

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Evidence for Flossing: Solid or Suspect?, Giulietta Nitido

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COVID-19 Pandemic: Major Disparities in Connecticut Public Education, Oonah Maggie O'Neil

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White Supremacy Pipeline, Tenzin Sharlung

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The Legacy of Levittown: What the Post-WWII Suburbanization of Long Island Reveals about the Racial Wealth Gap Today, Molly Simons

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First-Year Papers Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

Papers from 2019

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The Misconstruction of The Book of Exodus as a Pure Liberation Narrative by Black Theology During the Civil Rights Movement, Alexander Bernhard

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Would Karl Marx Support the Existence of Bitcoin?, Henry Corderman

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Modernity, Kendra Keelan

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Excess Land Concentration in the Hands of the Wealthy: A Violation of Locke’s Law of Nature, Isabelle Mueller

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First-Year Papers Editorial Board, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut

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An Analysis of Human Social Structure in Relation to Evolutionary Psychology, Zoe Tucker

Papers from 2018

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First-Year Papers Editorial Board, 2018-2019

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Thanksgiving in Quarantine, Robin Bartlett

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The Middle Ages as a Conducive Period to the Witch Craze, Elizabeth Foster-Feigenbaum

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Postmodernism and the City: The Changing Realities of Cities, Nayantara Ghosh

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The Dichotomy of Election, Amelia Huba

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Illness, Guilt, Conscience, and Responsibility in The Brothers Karamazov, Sara Lambert

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The Impact of Executive Order 9417 on New York City’s Jewish Communities Following the Second World War, Shawn Olstein

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Salt of the Earth, Dana Parker

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England in Wonderland, Valerie Zis

Papers from 2017

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“...and Peggy!”, Macie Bridge

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Jeff Sessions Brings Back the War On Drugs, Jiuyuan Chi

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1984 as a Religious Critique, Lindsay Dowty

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Manufacturing Disaster: The Privately-Owned Causes of Katrina’s Devastation, Kyle Fields

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The True Impact of Black Lives Matter, Devin Iorio

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Orwell the Underdog, Thomas Kolle

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On Ai Weiwei’s “Remembrance”, Xinbei Lin

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The Odds, Kyle Long

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Empowering the Untouchables on the Eve of Indian Independence, Sawyer Peck

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Tale of a Mad Man, Kexin(Sabrina) Shu

Papers from 2016

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First-Year Papers Editorial Board, 2016-2017

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Group Egotism in the Pergamon Altar: Debunking the idea of individualism in Hellenistic Art, Alison Leigh Cofrancesco

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The American Founding: Still Burning, Kira Eidson

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Eager to be Accepted, Kalimah Muhammad

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The Shift in Women’s Rights During the Augustan Age, Mary Tursi

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Human Trafficking in South East Asia and Economic Empowerment, Ethan Yang

Papers from 2015

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First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2015-2016

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Le Corbusier’s Fatal Flaws – A Critique of Modernism, Alessandro Hseuh-Bruni

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Nootropics for Healthy Individuals, Jin Pyo Jeon

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Pepón Osorio: Promoting Growth and Addressing Identity in Hartford, Michaella Kendrick

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Debate on Educating the Youth in the Athenian Assembly, Krikor Norsigian

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A New Perspective Through Islamophobia: The True Oppressors of Veiled Muslim Women, Elizabeth Patino

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Medium and Meaning in Nick Cave’s Soundsuit, Brooke Williams

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Salute to the Kitchen Ritual: A history of the transformation of Chinese food in America, Shuxin Zhang

Papers from 2014

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First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2014-15

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Taking on Hartford: Perspectives from the Seat of a Bike and a Chair in Class, Steven Craney

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A Conditional Cycle, James Wylie Deitch

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Nature in its Simplicity, Noor Malik

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Tracing Thoughts: Nietzsche to Sartre, John Martone

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Preservation or Conservation: Landscape Photography’s Role in Idealizing and Destroying the American Wilderness, Sarah Messenger

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Propaganda Art in Nazi Germany: The Revival of Classicism, Mathilde Sauquet

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Destructive Technological Departure from Tradition in The Invention of Morel, Molly Schineller

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The Bacteriophage “fabiolayun”, Fabiola Yun

Papers from 2013

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First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2013-14

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Race and Social Class Relations at Trinity and Beyond, Isabelle Boundy

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The Post-World War II Suburb in the United States, Seth Browner

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Art for the Disappeared, Cassandra Cronin

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Forgiveness Is All I Have To Offer, Edward Culhane

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The Isolation and Morphology of Imp48, Maura Griffith

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Anxious, but Getting Help, Amanda Lundergan

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Integration of Evolution and Christianity, Campbell North

Papers from 2012

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First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board, 2012-13

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Sucette: The Discovery and Classification of a Bacteriophage, James Cescon

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Andromache: Denial and Despair, Gaia Cloutier

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The Effect of Social Media in the 2012 Presidential Election, Maggie Dalton-Hoffman

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The Origins of a Name, Chris D'Amico

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Controversy in Virology: Bacteriophage Therapy versus Antibiotics, Frankie Jeney