2009

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

Hannah Tool, “Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing,'” 3rd Place ENL 259

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Hannah Tool, Fall 2009 Depression era America left no family unscathed. The harsh economic conditions coupled with rigid social norms meant that both fathers and mothers felt a separate yet equally compelling desire to provide for their families like never before. Traditional gender roles dictate a father to provide the financial support for the family… Read more Hannah Tool, “Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing,’” 3rd Place ENL 259

Keith Amaral, “The NBA: Morality Police and Basketball Savior,” 3rd Place ENL 260

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Keith Amaral, Fall 2009 One of the big draws of America has always been the country’s reputation as “the land of opportunity.” Everyone who has made the trek, and continues to make the trek, to America’s borders has done so under the premise of freedom. As Americans, we are told how lucky we are to… Read more Keith Amaral, “The NBA: Morality Police and Basketball Savior,” 3rd Place ENL 260

Charles Gale, “A for Effort, A+ for Extra Effort,” 3rd Place ENL 260

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Charles Gale, Fall 2009 Every time a syllabus is passed out the first day of class there is a predictable format for it and summary of information on it. It has the teacher’s name on the top along with the class name, and assignments and grading policies after them. Most of the material on syllabi… Read more Charles Gale, “A for Effort, A+ for Extra Effort,” 3rd Place ENL 260

Stephanie Mireku, “‘Jew’: Ethnicity, Religion, or Both?” 3rd Place ENL 260

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Stephanie Mireku, Fall 2009 “What [nationality] are you?” “ Well, I’m half Jewish and half Polish” To some, this response to the question about nationality is sufficient, and to many others, this answer neglects to include half of the requested information. Is it appropriate to claim “Jewish” as one’s ethnicity or race? What does the… Read more Stephanie Mireku, “‘Jew’: Ethnicity, Religion, or Both?” 3rd Place ENL 260

Joe Boomer, “A Game of Chess for Humanity,” 3rd Place ENL 257

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Joe Boomer, Fall 2009 Occasionally, something happens that challenges us to reconsider our relationship with technology, and question whether our own technological advancements will eventually replace us as the dominant force on Earth. Once such instance took place with a simple game of chess in New York City in 1997 between the world’s greatest chess… Read more Joe Boomer, “A Game of Chess for Humanity,” 3rd Place ENL 257