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Shadows and Light: Plato’s Cave Reimagined

By Erika Rayo

A Wound of Loss: The Epic of Gilgamesh

By Amy Swanson

We are an Undergraduate Journal for students of all disciplines, seeking essays which succeed in transcending the compartmentalization of discipline and address matters of importance to the human whole: questions to which the great works in the liberal arts tradition point us.

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