Year: 2023

Chloë Krueger, “History: Silken Slippers and Wooden Shoes,” 2nd Place ENL 260

March 13, 2023shino No Comments

Chloë Krueger, Fall 2009 History has many definitions and there are many ways to interpret what history truly means, but one certainty remains; history is all encompassing; it is the journey of the living and the story of the dead. History is the sound of silken slippers whispering across majestic halls, tiptoeing down great flights… Read more Chloë Krueger, “History: Silken Slippers and Wooden Shoes,” 2nd Place ENL 260

Meghan Matheson, “To Build or Not To Build Controversy over the ‘Mosque at Ground Zero,'” 3rd Place ENL 257

March 12, 2023sweisberg No Comments

Meghan Matheson, Fall 2011 The looming controversy surrounding the Islamic Center near Ground Zero has sparked debate throughout the nation. The Center is associated with emotional strain from both the supporters and the opponents. Each group, whether for or against, has very strong opinions and valid reasons as to why this Islamic center should be… Read more Meghan Matheson, “To Build or Not To Build Controversy over the ‘Mosque at Ground Zero,’” 3rd Place ENL 257

Abby Ringiewicz, “Constraints on Healthcare Voters,” 3rd Place ENL 257

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Abby Ringiewicz, Fall 2009 With the recent changes and proposals affecting healthcare today, it can become somewhat overwhelming. While some may feel that they are being robbed of their comfortable healthcare plan, others cannot wait for a sufficient means of healthcare. The current voters of today, as well as the future voters, have differing priorities… Read more Abby Ringiewicz, “Constraints on Healthcare Voters,” 3rd Place ENL 257

Lynnette Nolan, “The Contribution of Context: Implications of Associating Outside Information with Frost’s Poetry,” 3rd Place ENL 258

March 12, 2023sweisberg No Comments

Lynnette Nolan, Fall 2011 Unlike the Formalist approach, where “the proper concern of literary criticism is with the work itself,” biographical and historical perspectives invite audiences to read the text “with a sense of time and place” and to consider “the social and cultural contexts in which the writer lived” (2165-2166). While understanding the situations… Read more Lynnette Nolan, “The Contribution of Context: Implications of Associating Outside Information with Frost’s Poetry,” 3rd Place ENL 258

Sara Kelley, “The Rhetoric of Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address,'” 3rd Place ENL 257

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Sara Kelley, Spring 2007 Advertisements on television, newspaper and magazine articles, websites, conversations, speeches, songs—we are bombarded daily with rhetoric vying for our attention. Whether we realize it or not, within these daily situations lie the three proofs of rhetoric: the appeal to emotion, the use of character, and the appeal to reason (pathos, ethos,… Read more Sara Kelley, “The Rhetoric of Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address,’” 3rd Place ENL 257

Joseph MacKenzie, “The Final Verdict: Obama’s Discourse,” 3rd Place ENL 257

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Joseph MacKenzie, Fall 2009 After having identified an exigence, chosen his key audiences, and recognized their constraints, President Obama must now fashion his discourse to meet the constraints of these audiences. However, for a problem as vast as poverty, many other problems must first be solved before the poverty problem can get better. The truth… Read more Joseph MacKenzie, “The Final Verdict: Obama’s Discourse,” 3rd Place ENL 257

Sara Kelley, “Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,'” 3rd Place ENL 258

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Sara Kelley, Fall 2006 Flannery O’Connor, the renowned Southern author, has earned the reputation of writing shocking, violent stories. Strangely, she uses this violence to depict salvation, often through spiritually or physically grotesque characters. “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” one of O’Connor’s best-known stories, exemplifies this principle; a self-righteous grandmother is shocked into… Read more Sara Kelley, “Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’” 3rd Place ENL 258

Chloë Krueger, “The Presence of Absence: The Downfall of the Tyrone Family,” 3rd Place ENL 258

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Chloë Krueger, Fall 2009 In Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, a family of four struggles to reach each other through the shroud of absence each has encircled around them, they desperately try to reach each other but their final inability to exist to one another eventually leads to the downfall of the individual… Read more Chloë Krueger, “The Presence of Absence: The Downfall of the Tyrone Family,” 3rd Place ENL 258

Liz Pounds, “The Light Is on, but Nobody’s Home: Long Day’s Journey into Night,” 3rd Place ENL 258

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Liz Pounds, Fall 2009 Home is more of a feeling than an actual, physical place; it is an ineffable sense of deep belonging that instills in people confidence and security. Home can be anything that makes people feel safe, secure, and perfectly connected with what they love. Unfortunately for the characters in Eugene O’Neill’s play… Read more Liz Pounds, “The Light Is on, but Nobody’s Home: Long Day’s Journey into Night,” 3rd Place ENL 258

Jessica Andreason, “Earthseed: Defining an Enduring Home,” 3rd Place ENL 258

March 12, 2023shino No Comments

Jessica Andreason, Fall 2009 The idea of “home” is a concept overtly and subtly defined in Octavia E. Butler’s work, Parable of The Sower. Through both physical manifestations and metaphysical representations, sensations of home can be seen throughout the text as present entities, which are more often than not victims of destruction through forces such… Read more Jessica Andreason, “Earthseed: Defining an Enduring Home,” 3rd Place ENL 258