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Volume 21
Awards
Analysis
A Rhetorical Analysis of “The Safire Memo”
By Chris Rizkalli
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At Christ’s Feet: A New Definition of Sanctity
By Kendra Lyimo
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Why Gillette’s “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be” Ad is Not a Vilification of All Men
By Andreah Graf
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Working in the Heights
By Liam Holland
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Brenda Sitting on Her Bed as an Intellectual Conversation Starter
By Ainsley Hurford
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Meditation on Reclamation
By Trinity Cha
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Window to the Soul
By Kendra Lyimo
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Landscape with Factory: A Rare Critique of Belgian Industrialism
By Rory St. Hilaire
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Narrative
Finding Consistency in the Inconsistent
By Qinxiao Wu
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Once
By Andreah Graf
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Diary of a Quarantined Kid
By Dillon Hughes
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Lessons from the Farm at Faller Road
By Caroline Kranick
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Above All, Decency: Camus and Coronavirus
By Peter Di Re
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Colorism in Chinese Beauty Standards
By Misha Lee
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My Life is a Tap Dance
By Eleanor Zinsmeister
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What It Means to Be Pretty
By Maria Isabela R. Abalos
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My Super Smash Brother
By Tyler Martire
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My Misplaced English Elitism
By Angela Mathew
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A Meditation on Voice
By Amanuel Shiferaw
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By Hayden Ousley
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You Don't Look Sick!
By Madeline Kroner
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Research
X-Men: Putting the X in Exclusion and the Issue of Disability Within Superhero Films
By Madeline Kroner
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Campus Newspapers: Withstanding the Journalism Digital Crisis
By Maggie Eastland
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Down Syndrome: A Death Sentence?
By Emma Barrett
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Redlining: The Suffocating Wall of Exclusion
By Chrystian Rangel
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Fanggo’ti Mafñot
By Dayna Lou Katelyn Macaranas
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Not Your Typical Epiphany: Subversion of Epiphanies in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass
By Finley Corrigan
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Citizens Divided
By Peter Herrmann
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Disparities in Infant and Maternal Mortality: Examining Obstetric Racism in the United States
By Maria Murphy
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The Consequences of Outdated Flood Maps on Low-Income Houstonians
By Michael Jamieson
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The Now-Troubled Tradition of Sign-Stealing
By Christian McKernan
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The Fight for Wild Atlantic Salmon
By Jack Reford
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The Nightmare of Being a Woman in Mexico: Feminicide and its Cultural Roots in Misogyny
By Rebeca Santa Maria
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Want to Save the World? Stop Recycling
By Abigail Keaney
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Language and Excellence
By Joy Agwu
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Rebuttal
Why the Death Penalty Should Not Be Reinstated in Puerto Rico
By Isabela Tasende
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