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[email protected]. Table of Contents First Year Writing A Breath of Solitude Chloe Taylor. 3 Weird is Relative Haley Carlin. 5 Arts and Humanities A Drug You Can Trust Christina G. Noland . 11 Do College Athletes Deserve to Be Paid? Malick Fall . 17 To Be the First Sean Lavin . 23 An Education Worth Writing Home About Glorianna R. Noland . 29 Leadership Analysis: Cindy Wilson Taton Smith . 35 Natural and Social Sciences Figuratively Speaking: An Analysis of English Language Metaphors Based on Familiarity and Context Shelly Davenport, Tammi Drapeau, Sammi Ford, and Claire Leffingwell . 43 The Social Spark in Therapy: Social Factors in the Therapist-Client Relationship Affecting Client Motivation in Cognitive-Behavioral Homework Ethan Nelson . 53 Defining Forensic Anthropological Theory Taylor Nickel . 63 When I Got Glasses Hanna Strader . 73 Creative Work A Little Fish in a New Pond Glorianna R. Noland . 81 Sweater Weather Max Macheca . 87 And Anger Ethan Nelson . 91 I Am Not Invisible Christina Noland . 93 Love Letters Kelsie Quaney . 99 Today in the USA: Live? Hannah Kirby Sanford Pomerantz, Peter Sandquist, and Emma Staats .