2008

Stephanie Mireku, “As Convincing as a Baby’s Bottom,” 1st Place ENL 257

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Stephanie Mireku, Spring 2008 Family. Healthy food. Laughter. There is a certain aura of feel-good emotions and positive character demonstrated in a joint advertisement with Cheerios and Pampers. In other words, there is a certain ethos, pathos, and logos that the ad communicates. Furthermore, there is a notion that the two companies have common goals… Read more Stephanie Mireku, “As Convincing as a Baby’s Bottom,” 1st Place ENL 257

Lauryn Nosek, “Change is Bad: Okonkwo’s Resistance to Change in Things Fall Apart,” 1st Place ENL 258

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Lauryn Nosek, Fall 2007 The character of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart was driven by fear, a fear of change and losing his self-worth. He needed the village of Umuofia to remain untouched by time and progress because its system and structure were the measures by which he assigned worth and meaning in… Read more Lauryn Nosek, “Change is Bad: Okonkwo’s Resistance to Change in Things Fall Apart,” 1st Place ENL 258

John Bell, “Born to Run: A Feminist Reading of ‘The Eve of St. Agnes,'” 1st Place ENL 259

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John Bell, Fall 2007 John Keats’ poem “The Eve of St. Agnes” reads like a fairy tale. Its plot centers upon the legend that a young lady will meet her future husband if she performs a ritual on the eve of the feast day of St. Agnes. In the poem, the central figure, Madeline, actually… Read more John Bell, “Born to Run: A Feminist Reading of ‘The Eve of St. Agnes,’” 1st Place ENL 259

Sara Kelley, “Where is Your Wallet?” 1st Place ENL 260

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Sara Kelley, Fall 2006 A well-known commercial asks, “What’s in your wallet?”: an interesting question, intended to increase awareness about a certain credit card. I would like to ask a similar question, “Where is your wallet?,” intended to increase the awareness (particularly in men) about the dangers of carrying a wallet in the back pocket.… Read more Sara Kelley, “Where is Your Wallet?” 1st Place ENL 260

Eileen Dunleavy, “The Art of Swaying a Hostile Crowd: Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration of Julius Caesar,” 2nd Place ENL 257

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Eileen Dunleavy, Spring 2007 In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony pleads with his “Friends, Romans (and) countrymen” to lend him their ears in an effort to exonerate Caesar from false charges laid against him. The three main conspirators in Caesar’s murder, Brutus, Casca and Cassius portrayed Caesar as an ambitious tyrant to the Roman… Read more Eileen Dunleavy, “The Art of Swaying a Hostile Crowd: Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration of Julius Caesar,” 2nd Place ENL 257

LeAnne Coady, “Toni Morrison Writes on Racism,” 2nd Place ENL 258

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LeAnne Coady, Fall 2007 Since childhood, we all have been taught that “racism is bad” and should be avoided at all costs. We have been told that “everyone is a child of God and we are all created equal.” In fact, Americans are praised for the so-called equality they possess. Renowned Author Toni Morrison sheds… Read more LeAnne Coady, “Toni Morrison Writes on Racism,” 2nd Place ENL 258

Kelsey Jacobsen, “The Other Native American Identity,” 2nd Place ENL 259

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Kelsey Jacobsen, Spring 2008 When analyzing Leslie M. Silko’s “Yellow Woman” through a Post Colonial lens, one must acknowledge that there is much controversy over whether or not the Native Americans were officially colonized. In this case, I have used Tyson’s definition of colonization, which says “any population that has been subjected to political domination… Read more Kelsey Jacobsen, “The Other Native American Identity,” 2nd Place ENL 259

Lauryn Nosek, “The Last Laugh: A Humorous Argument Regarding the Misuse of Humor,” 2nd Place ENL 260

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Lauryn Nosek, Fall 2007 Humor is a dangerous weapon that needs to be brought under control before it’s too late. Too often humor is used in arguments where it doesn’t belong or isn’t required, confusing millions of helpless readers, listeners, and viewers. Humor is best described by Andrea Lunsford, John Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters in… Read more Lauryn Nosek, “The Last Laugh: A Humorous Argument Regarding the Misuse of Humor,” 2nd Place ENL 260

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

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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

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

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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