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The Harper Anthology Volume Xvi THE HARPER ANTHOLOGY VOLUME XVI ... an annual, faculty-judged collection honoring the best academic writing, campus-wide, by students at William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, Illinois ... STUDENT WRITERS Elisa Ad01:jan- Karbin MaryJo Franciskovich Teresa Behrends Stephanie Gan Bob Brown Laura Gross Kristin Cichowicz Kate Hendrickson JaimeDahm Carrie T. Jackson Richard Snowden KatieDevitt Erika Miranti Teresa Jimenez Goska Starski MoiraDonovan Amanda Norton Helen Johnson Brian Thomas KevinDoss Tulay Nubani Vanessa Koniecki Matthew Thomas JeffEilrich AliciaPreo StevenLee Christine White Kate Elkin PietrinaProbst Kenneth Lehmann Nicole Wiwat Diane Ellis MagdaPrzybycien AnnaLeja Valerie Zieske Jocelyn Engle Patricia Reyna WendyLippert Malinda V. Fields Scott Schoenknecht Mi:rjaLorenz Patrick Schorn Surbhi Malik Mark Schuler Kevin Merkelz N iyati .Shah Timothy A. Meyer Hardy Sims The Harper Anthology of Academic Writing ... an annual, faculty-judged collection honoring the best academic writing, campus-wide, by students at William Rainey Harper College... Issue XVI 2004 The Harper Anthology Foreword Dear readers, On behalf of The Harper Anthology committee of the Harper College English department, I am pleased to present another excellent collection of students' academic writing produced in Harper classes, this time covering the year 2003. This volume featured a near-record number of submissions--over 170-and as far as I know, the high number of articles published-48-is also a record. A new diversity of types of writing is also represented in this volume. In addition to the many excellent papers from Liberal Arts, there are also exemplary works from Biology, Interior Design, Economics, Physics, ESL, Computer Information Systems, and Mathematics. The diversity of this publication is testimony, once again, to the far-reaching abilities of Harper students, but also to the quality and vitality of the academic and career programs at Harper College, and to the faculty's desire to honor all types of excellent student work through publication. -Kris Piepenburg, Chair, for The Harper Anthology committee: Charles Brown, Barbara Butler, Teresa Chung, Tony Hammer, Judy Kaplow, Catherine Restovich, Josh Sunderbruch, Andrew Wilson Acknowledgments Typesetting and page production: Deanna Torres Design, printing, and binding: JoEllen Freeding, Matthew Nelson, Peter Gart, Steve Schwertfeger, Tom Gibbons Harper students (on the covers): Paul Hunter, Rahul Thakkar, Sarah Urbansky, Lauretta Will, Klaudia Zuradzka Support and assistance from the Liberal Arts Division: Dennis Weeks, Pam Toomey, Tammi Jungdahl, Kathy Herrnreck, Lisa Larson Development of The Harper Anthologyon-line: Kurt Neumann and Chris Padgett Submission Information I Table of Contents Submission Information Table of Contents Elisa Adorjan-Karbin Deadlines Anita Endrezze's Blind Artistry (Literature 1 05) 1 Submission deadline, 2005 issue: Thursday, December 16, 2004 Te resa Behrends Crossing the Charles Bridge Submission deadline, 2006 issue: (English 200) 4 Thursday, December 22, 2005 Bob Brown Looking for the Good Man in To Submit a Student's Manuscript: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Complete the submission forms included m Man Is Hard to Find" the back of this issue, or available at (English 1 02) 6 the "Publications" tab of the Harper College English Department website: Kristin Cichowicz www.harpercollege.edu/libarts/eng/dept. A Modem-Day Flying Dutchman (History 212/Literature 222) 11 Send manuscripts (hard copy and disk) along with submission forms by campus mail to Kris .Jaime Dahm Piepenburg, English Department, Liberal Arts The Things Martha Carried Division, or send materials by e-mail: (Literature 115) 15 [email protected]. Katie Devitt Where Are the Parents, What about the Music? Manuscript Evaluation (Literature 115) 18 and Publication Moira Donovan Student manuscripts are read by the Harper Making a Difference Anthology committee once a year, during the win­ (Biology 130) 21 ter break. Faculty and students are notified of manuscript acceptance and upcoming publication Kevin Doss in February. Printing takes place in July and The Party and the People August, and a ti·ee contributor's copy of the publi­ (Literature 208) 23 cation is mailed to each student writer in September. Jeff EHrich The Spirit of Summer (English 10I) 26 The Harper A11tlrology Kate Elkin Helen Johnson Discrimination in the Game Masculinity and Money: (English 101) 28 Glengarry Glen Ross (Literature 112) 67 Diane Ellis Tom and Christian: Vanessa Koniecki A Study of Two Readers Walter's Utilitarian Calculation (Literature 219) 30 (English 1 02/Philosophy 115) 71 Jocelyn Engle Steven Lee The Hodag Country Festival Does a CEO Deserve a Million­ (English 101) 35 Dollar Pay Package? (Economics 200) 76 Malinda V. Fields Two Views of Charles Manson Kenneth Lehmann and The Family: Oo-ee-oo The Silence Is Recognized (Literature 217) 37 (English 1 02) 78 MaryJo Franciskovich Anna Leja Sick Building Syndrome Home Is Where the Heart Is (Interior Design 1 00) 39 (English 101) 82 Stephanie Gan Wendy Lippert George Willard's Development The Metamorphosis (Literature 115) 42 (English I 02) 84 Laura Gross Mirja Lorenz A Letter to Gabriel Conroy My Dear Papi (Literature 115) 46 (ESL 067) 88 Kate Hendrickson Surbhi Malik Sitting on Fences A Matrix of Morals: Beowulf (History 212/Literature 222) 48 as Didactic Poetry (Literature 231) 90 Carrie T. Jackson Things Fall Apart Kevin Merkelz (History 212/Literature 222) 54 A Good Man Is Nowhere to Be Found (English I 02) 94 Teresa Jimenez Painting Room Dividers: Timothy A. Meyer Moving a Planar Robotic Arm The Generation IV Nuclear Reactor: Is It Safe (Math 200) 60 Enough to Be Welcomed Within Your City? (Physics 122) 98 Ta ble of Contents El'ika Miranti Niyati Shah Circus Girl, Without a Safety Net E-Commerce Web Usability (Literature I 05) I 00 (CIS 218) 128 Amanda Norton Hardy Sims The Other Existentialism: Gurov, Anna, and Chekhov: Simone de Beauvoir The Pursuit of Excellence (English 101/Philosophy 115) 103 (English 1 02) 132 Tulay Nubani Richard Snowden The River and the Babies The Apology for Free Expression (ESL 073) 107 (Literature 231) 138 Alicia Preo Goska Starski Why No One Should Ever Wear a Seat Belt Scenes from My Childhood (English I 0 I) I 08 (ESL 073) 142 Pietrina Probst Brian Thomas Pauline's Quest for Power in A Letter from John Stuart Mill Louise Erdrich's Tracks to Willie Loman (English I 02) II0 (English 102/Philosophy 115) 143 Magda Przybycien Matthew Thomas Nature in Moby-Dick A Series of Correspondences (Literature I 15) 115 between Nora and Torvald Helmer (English 1 02) 145 Patricia Reyna Giving Christine White (English I 00) 119 Survival in the Smokies (English 101) 147 Scott Schoenknecht To the Master of the Scriveners Nicole Wiwat (Literature 115) 122 Triumph over Tragedy (English 1 02) 15I Patrick Schorn Tracking Deceptions of Valerie Zieske "Hunters in the Snow" Discernment of Truth in Bacon's (English 102) 123 The Four Idols and Lewis' "Meditation in a Toolshed" Mat·k Schuler (Humanities I 05) 155 Ode to the Body Builder (Speech 101) 126 Submission Forms 159 Alternate Table of Contents I 62 Harper Students on Writing Bob Brown Wendy Lippert Writing is an opportunity to interact with literature. It is a Occasionally, I'll discover the wr1tmgs of an author chance to share the same joys and passions of creation that whose work so riddles me with glee, I find it necessary to authors throughout history have experienced. leap fr om my seat and applaud the pages. Whether it's the When I have an opportunity to write for a class, I begin it intellectual integrity celebrated by such pro-science writers in a very informal way. I simply dwell on the subject materi­ as Michael Shermer or James Randi, or the mesmerizing al and theme of the paper for a long time. For days and per­ darkness depicted in the works of Jean Genet or Violette haps even weeks, I spend time throughout my daily life Leduc, great writing is easy to distinguish. The response we reflecting on the source for my paper and on the approach have to the work of others aids us on the promising and fr uit­ that I am planning on taking. Occasionally, I will make a ful path to unleashing our own abilities as writers. Recently, quick note of a particularly appealing phrase or idea that I was fo rtunate to discover yet another path toward generat­ occurs to me, but usually I will just keep my thoughts in my ing this skill-the guidance of a tntly talented professor, Dr. head at this point. When the time is ripe, I sit down and begin Wilson. He presented my class with numerous, varied build­ letting my fingers translate the images and ideas that have ing points to begin our assignment and provided us with the been brewing in my head into words. I may later construct an necessary fe edback to transform a short essay into our outline to ensure that the structure of my paper is correct, but required research paper. His knowledge and sincerity was my first fo ray into its writing is very informal and just flows evident during each class, as he dazzled us with his syntax from my ideas. savvy and helped release us from the hell that is grammatical I believe very strongly in revision and in comments from imprecision. As my first attempt at writing about literature, others. I am too close to my own work to see all of its flaws. my essay surely would not have been selected for publication Other people's comments are vital in enabling me to refine without Dr. Wilson's magnanimity. and fo cus my paper. -"The Metamorphosis" (pp 84-87) I consider writing to be a privilege. I sometimes look to an assignment with a certain apprehension, maybe even Mirja Lorenz dread, but as I go through the process and come out the other I want to fight the words; side with a finishedpaper, I realize that I have prospered and I want the words to fight me too.
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