2010

Elise DePlanche, “How Willie’s New Style Creates Stark Contrast,” 1st Place ENL 257

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Elise DePlanche, Spring 2010 At a pivotal moment in the 1949 film All the King’s Men, aspiring governor Willie Stark stumbled drunkly onto a state fair stage to give an address the town would never forget. While the audience expected the lawyer-gone-politician to present a calm, stately discourse full of figures and issues they didn’t… Read more Elise DePlanche, “How Willie’s New Style Creates Stark Contrast,” 1st Place ENL 257

John Michael Bell, “Analysis of Google’s ‘Parisian Love,'”2nd Place ENL 257

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John Michael Bell, Spring 2010 A good commercial needs to hook its viewers, convince them to watch it, make them remember it, and persuade them into thinking that its product will be valuable in their lives. Google’s Super Bowl commercial, “Parisian Love”, did all of these things, and through unusual means. Typical Super Bowl commercials… Read more John Michael Bell, “Analysis of Google’s ‘Parisian Love,’”2nd Place ENL 257

Sephora Marie Borges, “The Troubles of an Irish Poet,” 2nd Place ENL 258

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Sephora Marie Borges, Spring 2010 Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939 in Derry, Northern Ireland at the Heaneys’ family farm of ‘Mossbawn’; as the son of a potato farmer, he would have been expected to follow in his father’s footsteps, but chose a profession in writing instead (Vendler xi). Heaney lived in Northern… Read more Sephora Marie Borges, “The Troubles of an Irish Poet,” 2nd Place ENL 258

Kristen Hall, “Breaking the Habit: Renouncing Selfish Motives in Favor of Justice,” 2nd Place ENL 259

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Kristen Hall, Spring 2010 According to NAACP activist Kenneth B. Clark, “Racial segregation, like all other forms of cruelty and tyranny, debases all human beings-those who are its victims, those who victimize, and in quite subtle ways those who are mere accessories” (Massey, xi). This quote epitomizes the conflict in James Alan McPherson’s short story,… Read more Kristen Hall, “Breaking the Habit: Renouncing Selfish Motives in Favor of Justice,” 2nd Place ENL 259

Peter Jansen, “Feminist Analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,'” 2nd Place ENL 259

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Peter Jansen, Fall 2010 Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” shows a family vacation that quickly meets a violent end by a criminal known as “The Misfit.” As the title suggests, the men in this story are short-tempered, sexist, and at worst, murderers. Although a good man in this… Read more Peter Jansen, “Feminist Analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’” 2nd Place ENL 259

Crystal Blomquist, “Putting the Sex Back into Education,” 3rd Place ENL 260

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Crystal Blomquist, Spring 2010 Many of you may not want to know what happens in your child’s sex education class, but you need to. In my class I sat watching a man tell us how sex was a horrible thing to do, unless you were married. I had listened to the same sermon a priest… Read more Crystal Blomquist, “Putting the Sex Back into Education,” 3rd Place ENL 260

Rhetoric: Not Just Persuasion – ENL 257: Introduction to Rhetoric

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Brittany Allcorn, Spring 2010 Over the years rhetoric has come to signify a manipulative and persuasive tool associated with politicians who use it to try and mold the minds of their audience. However, as many scholars like to note, rhetoric is not a simple persuasive tool but is a fountain of logic, expression, and art.… Read more Rhetoric: Not Just Persuasion – ENL 257: Introduction to Rhetoric

One of the Boys – ENL 257: Introduction to Rhetoric

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Mandy Aguiar, Spring 2010 In the 2006 version of All the King’s Men, Willie Stark was an honest man from Mason City Young who was running for governor of Louisiana. It seemed to Willie that despite his good intentions no one wanted to hear what he had to say. When speaking in front of an… Read more One of the Boys – ENL 257: Introduction to Rhetoric

Intricacy in The Cherry Orchard – ENL 258: Literary Studies

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Abby Ringiewicz, Spring 2010 Peter P. Remaley’s article, “Chekov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard,’” illustrates both the complexity and the vagueness of Chekov’s play. The common debate among critics, Remaley points out, is whether The Cherry Orchard was written as an intended tragedy or a comedy. The article demonstrates that many critiques have argued both; and truly… Read more Intricacy in The Cherry Orchard – ENL 258: Literary Studies