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The Harper Anthology Volume XXVII 2015 The Harper Anthology Volume XXVII 2015 An annual, faculty-judged collection honoring the best academic writing, campus-wide, by students at Harper College, Palatine, Illinois Prepared by The Harper Anthology committee Marjorie Allen Keith Jensen Meg King Maggie McKinley Josh Sunderbruch Kris Piepenburg, chair Table of Contents Foreword (Kris Piepenburg) Caila Bender A Hope That Anchors the Soul (Literature 115) 1 Chester Busse Weightlifting: A Road to Emotional Health (English 101) 5 Submission Information Lisa Croneberg Submission deadlines: The DeafNation Expo 2016 issue: January 25, 2016 at Harper College 2017 issue: January 25, 2017 (Sign Language Interpreting 101) 8 Send manuscripts to [email protected], or submit a print Jacob Custer copy to LIB ARTS, Room L203. Please include I Speak Therefore I Am student contact information (e-mail, phone (Linguistics 205) 10 number, street address) with all submissions Sean Dahlgren Submission forms are available The Unresolved Nature of Military at the back of this issue; in the Harper College Euphemisms Liberal Arts Office (L203); and at the English (Linguistics 205) 14 Department web site: dept.harpercollege.edu/english Courtney Beth Dohl A Divide between Genders: Sefi Atta’s Submissions are read each winter by the Everything Good Will Come members of the Harper Anthology Committee (Literature 208) 19 The Harper Anthology is also available at Christopher Dwyer dept.harpercollege.edu/english White Weddings and Marriage Equality (Sociology 120) 23 Back issues of The Harper Anthology can be accessed at the Harper College Library website, Ryan Eberhardt by selecting the Harper Archives tab, followed Martin Hellman: A Great Thinker by Institutional Repository and on Many Counts Student Publications (Humanities 105/History 105) 26 Stephanie Fox Rayna Maneva-Stoimenova A Hero, a Great Thinker, a Survivor: Magda Brown The Power of Language (Humanities 105/History 105) 31 (English 101) 79 Rachel Freeman Sunita Mani-Sriram The Postmodernist Who Went Back in Time: Stuttering: Types, Causes, and Treatment A Study of Walton Ford (Linguistics 105) 81 (Art 105/English 102) 37 David Modica George Galetsis Arthur Miller’s “The Misfits”: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic The Effect of Housing Discrimination on Education (English 102) 45 (Literature 112) 86 Megan Giacomino Bryan Morris A Critical Analysis of Dallas Buyers Club’s Divinization: A Distraction of the Self Depiction of AZT (English 101) 89 (English 102) 49 Leslie Murray Ala Hashemi-Haeri “Pen Is Envy”: Language, Gender, and Identity Through the Prism of de Beauvoir’s in The Handmaid’s Tale The Second Sex: Yuko Mishima’s “Patriotism” (Literature 115) 93 and Jan Morris’ Conundrum (Humanities 105/History 105) 54 Olga Novikova The Appeal of Dystopian Fiction Jasen Jonas to the Young Adult Reader Holy “Howl”: Spiritual Guidance (Literature 115) 98 from Allen Ginsberg (English 102) 57 William Nutini Madness and Confusion in Alifiya Josh William Shakespeare’s Lack of Women in STEM Fields Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (English 101) 59 (English 102) 101 Whitney Keck Kamil Piluk Melodic Memories: The Examined Life’s Obstacle: Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity Fighting Conformity (English 102/Literature 105) 63 (English 101/Philosophy 105) 106 Kathleen Kurek; Natalie Marski; Virginia Pszczolkowski Marie E. Pena The Working Poor and the Immortal Youth: A Review of the Harper College Radiologic Class Struggle and Escapism in the Novel Technology Program Website and Film Adaptation of Morvern Callar (Computer Information Systems 211) 67 (Literature 112) 129 Ben Snively The Different Messages in the Literary and Film Student Reflections on Writing Versions of A Clockwork Orange (Literature 115) 113 Chester Busse 6 Jacob Custer 11 Aleksandra Stosovic Sean Dahlgren 15 Morality and God Courtney Beth Dohl 21 (Philosophy 220) 116 Rachel Freeman 38 Sunita Mani-Sriram 83 Olga Novikova 99 Eri Svenson Ronald Tragasz 126 The U.S. Government and Political System: Hannah Valdiviejas Cohn 131 Necessary Changes Brenda Ward 142 (Political Science 101) 119 Ronald Tragasz The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre: Homicide in Heyer’s Garage (Law Enforcement and Justice Administration 230 ) 123 Hannah Valdiviejas Cohn From the Frying Pan into the Fire: Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and Phil Klay’s “Redeployment” (English 102) 129 Acknowledgments Brenda Ward Marketing and Publishing Services Failures of the Imagination: J.G. Ballard’s The Harper College Marketing, “The Subliminal Man” and William Harrison’s Communications, Advancement, “Roller Ball Murder” and Community Relations Division (English 102) 136 Printing and technical assistance: Maryellen Riley, Matt Nelson, Afterword Angelina Bonilla, Steve Schwertfeger, Efferent and Aesthetic Communication Tom Gibbons, Tony Garcia, (Jennifer Berne) 145 Darin Halley, Eppie Perez Submission Form 149 Cover Design: Jan Elbert Liberal Arts Division Jennifer Berne, Dean The Harper Anthology of a semester of a composition course. What the phrase “writing well” means is constantly under discussion, Foreword though, as it should be, as are the means of helping students develop greater command of various strategies of effective writing. Contributing to those discussions has Can Anyone Do It? always been one of the prime purposes of The Harper Anthology, and that the contributions to the discussion largely come from the students themselves, has, in my Kris Piepenburg, Chair mind, always been one of the greatest strengths of this The Harper Anthology Committee publication, as a resource for helping students write. As you turn this page, you will encounter a page full of quotations, about writing, from some of the student writers published in this volume. These extracts are from the “Student Reflections on Writing” features interspersed . .anyone can do it, as long as you focus on what throughout this volume. A few themes emerged from you truly want to say. these commentaries, as determiners for success on a given writing assignment: So says student Hannah Valdiviejas Cohn, on page 131 of this Harper Anthology, as she reflects on the • Interest in, or passion for, the subject of a paper; process that leads her to writing well. With this comment, Hannah provides an answer to a question posed on page • A thorough research process, if research was required for the paper; 145 by Dr. Jennifer Berne, Harper College’s Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in her thought-provoking • A systematic approach to the process of writing; and Afterword to this volume: • Careful “finishing” work, such as proofreading. Passion for the subject shines through in every one of Can ‘anyone’ write efferently, but only true artists the papers in this collection, but a few papers really stand write aesthetically? out, for me, with regard to this component, after having Hannah is of the opinion that “anyone can do it” read all of them three or four times in the publication (write a good paper, or maybe, “write efferently”), by process. It is clearly evident in Rachel Freeman’s out- just figuring out what needs to be said. As a professor standing paper on the artist Walton Ford (pages 37 – 44), teaching students research skills and methods of writing, a painter who takes his inspiration from the work of John it is necessary for me to believe that “anyone can do it,” or James Audubon, reinventing the artist’s style and subject write efferently, which Dr. Berne defines in her Afterword, matter in a way that questions the negative influence as a type or style of writing that serves more utilitarian of humanity on the natural world. Rachel’s paper is a purposes—to “express ideas,” “to discover or uncover masterpiece of its own, in the organized, detailed way that what our ideas actually are, to demonstrate knowledge, or it conveys a sense of the person, Walton Ford, and then to communicate with those who are not in the room with presents commentary on Ford’s work. The accompanying us.” Watching rooms full of students peer editing their photographs of a few of Ford’s paintings are not left to tell end-of-term English 102 research papers last week, I was the story, either. Rachel interprets them for her readers convinced that some sort of success in writing was taking in a style that allows any layperson to extract meaning shape for my students, as they had arrived prepared for and to gain an appreciation of the artist and his message. peer editing and were engaged in a round of proofreading Reading Rachel’s paper will result in what Dr. Berne and evaluation, to help each other smooth their papers out refers to as “aesthetic reading”—reading for pleasure— a bit. How well “anyone can do this,” I guess, is what all as the subject is interesting, and encountering such clear professors have to consider after peer editing, though, and language is a delight—but it also is an application of when the final papers have been turned in. “efferent reading”—reading for purpose, for information, Many of our students write well, and in teaching for meaning. A reader can learn a lot about Walton Ford writing, it seems helpful to believe that any of our students from Rachel’s paper. The high quality of the paper, can learn to write well, or more effectively than at the start Rachel reminds us in her commentary, began with her Can Anyone Do It? interest in the subject. Of additional interest is the fact high, establishing careful processes for inquiry and writing that Rachel states, in her commentary on page 38, that can be the crucial factor in a student’s success. she is not artistically talented; her passion for animals led Brenda Ward’s commentary about her process (see her to the topic for the paper, which she composed for a page 142) for writing a research paper for English 102 Learning Community course titled “Artists and Authors.” points to a number of factors that helped her to arrive The paper is a fine example of expository writing from at her outstanding and interesting paper, included in this research and would be an excellent model for any volume.
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