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Surbhi Taneja Katie Unzicker Luke Welker Marta Werner Stephanie Wolferman Kristin Zelazko The Harper Anthology of Academic Writing Issue XV 2003 William Rainey Harper College Harper Faculty: Would you like to submit your students' writing for a future issue of this publication? If so, please use the tear-out submission form on pages 159-160 of this issue. The Harper Anthology Donncl!c Fuller Which "Bard Girl" Are You? Table of Contents (Literature 210) 43 Bethany Gates The Southem American Epic (Literature 112) 46 Kris Picpcnburg Pati Gcittmann Foreword An E'scape ji'Oin Society (Euglish 10I) 49 Michelle Anselmo; Debbie Baiocco; Katie Unzicker Kristina Giovanni The Insanity Defense Vcm Sant :�· Villain (English 101) I (Literature 112) 52 Courtney Bishop Kristina Higgins In the Name qf'Social Change: Backed into Corners Jl Literary '!bur of2fY"�Century China (English 102) 54 (Literature 208) 5 Karina Jameson Bryan Clodfelter My Favorite Artist Cinder IJfock Versus Supercomputer (Speech 10 I) 57 (English 101) 11 Heather Jeffer ies Ravali Krishna Davaluri Lost Innocence: An Analysis of the Poem What Do I Know About Terrorism? "Innocence" (English 201) 15 (Literature !05) 59 Matt Day Julia Kang My Years at Thistle Court Before and After (Reading 099/English 1 00) 17 (English 10I) 61 Paula A. Ding Michael Kendall The St01y a/theAtom Killer Snakes,- Hitler, and "Hey, I Almost Died, (Chemistry 121) 19 Where the Hell�· the News Crew?!?" (Literature 115) 64 Kim Diorio Beowulf and the Dragon Kimee Le (Literature 23 1) 21 Which Way? (Art 105) 67 Lisa Duwe 11w Role of S'ocial Support in Hospice: Sheri A Luzzi Compassionate Care for the Dying Rainbow :s End (Sociology 215) 24 (Journalism 235) 69 Tricia Elliott Delia Malone The Handkerchief in Othello: From a Symbol Love Me as I Love You: A Response of Fidelity to lnjl'delity to Anne Bradstreet:\' "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (English I 02) 35 (History 210/Literature 224) 71 Kevin Farrell Gina Matth iesen Economically Feasible Methods a/Protecting Neanderthal Gender Roles: An Examination BrclZil �·Amazon RainfOrest of Lewis Binford�· Model (History 121) 40 (Philosophy 190) 73 Table of Contents Kevin Merkelz Anthonii Sanders ltte Refitge of Caddying On the Road of Racism and Rage: Reversing (English 101) 79 Bigotry (/964-2002} (English 101) 119 Peter Mcrkelz The A'iotion Ojjense Stephanie L. Simon (English 101) 82 Gentrification in Chicago (English I 0 I) 123 Jessica Crow Mermcl Lije, Pain, and Passion in Frida Kahlo S Art Holly Slawkowski (Humanities II 0) 85 Rapunzcl and Burd Janet: Damsel in Distress or Princess Charming? Colleen Mitler (Literature 219) 125 An Absurd Question (English 102) 88 David Sommers An Awakening Miwa Murase (English 102) 129 How to Succeed in an Interview to Get Your Child into a Prestigious Elementmy School in Japan Surbhi Tan�ja (ESL 069) 94 The Circle of Life (English 10I) 134 Bevin Murdock Rising fi'om Darkness Luke Welker (English I 0 I) 96 The Separation of Love and Sex (English I 0 I) 137 Rachel Natale "5'uch a Mad Marriage Never Was Before": Kate Marta Werner and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew A Long Road to Liberation (English I 02) 98 (History 212/Literature 222) 139 Lisa Nusrct Stephanie Wolferman Is There a Light at the End of the Sidwalk? The Unmentionable Issue (Literature 219) 102 (History 212) 144 Gabriella Jiho Orlita Kristin Zelazko The Sweetest Thing A Renaissance ofa Different Kind: Approaches to (English 101) 106 and Controversies in Art Restoration (English 201) 149 Dianne Pizzo A Fly on the Wall Harper Students (and Faculty) on Writing 154 (English 101) 109 Julie Fleenor Tracy Ratio Afterword: The William Prufrock Deciphering Dove's "Daystar" Furniture Company 157 (Literature 105) 112 Harper Anthology Paul Rollins Submission Forms (200412005} 159 For the Union Dead: Communiques fi'om Colonel Shaw Harper Anthology (History 212/Literature 222) 114 Production Schedule 161 Alternate Table of Contents 162 Th e Harper Anthology was in a mountainous area at the Pakistan/Af ghanistan border, in a rocky valley, with my eyes fo cused on an old Foreword railway tunnel entrance, high up in the arid mountains. I have never been to Afghanistan or Pakistan, but I have Dear readers, been through Te hachapi Pass in the Mojave Desert of California a few times. It is a similarly mountainous area Do you like the cover of this year's Harper Anthology? with many railway tmmels, so perhaps that is where the (I'll tell you what, I love it, and I think Matt Nelson, imagery came from--or maybe from a video about the Harper :S· graphic designer, deserves a promotion on the Khyber Pass. At any rate, "there I was," as 1960s cartoon strength of it.) The cover captures the spirit of the book, legend Commander McBragg might have said, on an entirely. An anthology like this one is a gathering of expedition to reach that tunnel, up there in the mountains. humanity, where minds are shared, where if we read, we I was not alone-! had a guide along with me, an older have the great opportunity to wear someone else's glass­ man, as well as my family, but we were going to approach es, and I had planned to devote the entire this tunnel differently. We were going to do it the hard way, fo reword to this idea. Something happened, though. I fo llowing a narrow path that ascended out of the valley took a look at some of the world through the lenses of my along a narrow, rocky ridge, toward the summit (and the esteemed (and now retired) colleague, Julie Fleenor. tunnel) a few miles away. Friday night, July 18th, 2003, I sat at my kitchen table, As I began to learn in this dream, we were not the only saying to myself, sometimes audibly, "left,right, left,right, people here making this expedition--or this pilgrimage, as tl left, right, left, right," as I reviewed the proofs of this 15 ' it turned outto be. As we neared the summit, and the tun­ edition of The Harper Anthology. This was just one of the nel came into view, we began ascending a wooden stair­ many strange little behaviors involved with the lengthy way over a series of warm mineral springs and pools, production process fo r this annual publication. It made fo r steaming away, full of bathers. I paused to take pictures of quite an exciting Friday night! this sight, using a disposable camera. The stairs were by Two hours aftergoing "left,right" in my kitchen, I was now crowded with other pilgrims in swimming suits, who in my basement, at the computer, having just read the copy had used the climate-controlled twmel system within the of Julie Fleenor's Afterword to this edition (and you can mountain (not the narrow sun-beaten path we had taken), read it, too, on pages 157-1 58, and have an experience sim­ to reach the summit (and surprisingly, the fo untain and ilar to mine). It was nice for me to connect with a writer plastic water slide at the top of it). When I got to the swu­ like Julie and be reminded of some of the ways a writer m it, I hesitated, before sitting and sliding down into the gets some work done, because after so much reading and pool below. After splashing around a bit, I fo llowed some teaching, I sometimes fe el I no longer know how to do other people to an overlook, where a rocky, expansive what brought me to this point. mountain valley on the Afghan side of the mountain could In the Afterword, titled "The William Prufrock be seen. A Pakistani man near me took pictures of land­ Furniture Company," Julie provides us with a few ideas for marks that he observed in the valley, and he was overcome generating fiction, and these ideas are just as suitable for with emotion, because he had not seen them in so long. generating other types of writing, as well. Among other The tripdown the mountain was not as arduous as the things, she suggests that writers must read other writers and ascent. Along with hundreds of others, I used the series of engage in dialogue with them; that news reports, slides, tubes, stairs, and passageways through the interior anecdotes, and overheard conversations can be the germs of the mountain to fmally reach the valley back in Pakistan for good writing; that dreams (and other people's dreams) (or was it Barstow, California?). In one case, though, I should be written down and can be the source of material could not fit through one of the slide entrances, so an fo r writing. attendant let me through a back passageway to a huge tl So: last night, Thursday, July 17 ', I had a travel/ rotating plate, which spun me slowly to a slide that I could adventure dream that made for a great Thursday night.