Contents The Essay Acklowledgements —ERIC SCHROEDER, EDITOR OF PRIZED WRITING Genocide and the Romantic: The Characterization of Marlow in Conrad's Heart of Darkness —WILLIAM BAKER No Child Left Behind and the Future of State-Run K-12 Public Education —SHELLY BENNETT Of Love and Loathing: The Role of the Vulture in Three Cultures —BROOKE BYRD The Enchanting Armageddon: Kandinsky's Artistic Credo as a Sorelian Myth —DAVID CHUI Cinderella and Society: The Use of Jokes in Children's Culture —JACQUELINE CURRAN Paperclip Man —CHRISTIAN DANIELSEN Walking Through Maasailand —MIKE DIAS The Not-So-Reality Television Show: Consumerism in MTV's Sorority Life —KYLE DUNST "Comedy Tonight"—Or Is It? —LAURA DULLUM Charity as a Function of Neo-liberalism and Global Class Structure —DENNIS G. GAY The Ebonics Controversy —C. MICHELLE KLEISATH awaken, not stirred —JONATHAN LAI Tres Croissant —SAMANTHA LEW Johann Sebastian Bach and the Lutheran Chorale —ERINN LOSNESS Woodland Services: The Changing Face of Child Welfare —LUKE MUIR The Black Death and Surviving Traditions in Medicine —JOSH ROSA I Brake for Hmongs: A Defense of Their Culture —JENNIFER SABLAD HONORABLE MENTION Scientific & Technical Writing Acklowledgements —ERIC SCHROEDER, EDITOR OF PRIZED WRITING Who's the Boss? Reforming Your Dominant Dog —TRACY BITZ Redundancy Recommendation T. —ANDREW BLACK Living a Whole Life —LINNAE EDMEIER Potential Parallels in Presenilin Dependant g-Secretase Cleavage: A Research Investigation of Notch, APP, and the EGFR —JILL HEIDINGER The Stinking Truth: What Your Perfume Is Really About —SHANNON LARSON A Review of Livestock Impacts on Riparian Ecosystems: Vegetative and Aquatic Consequences and Grazing Management —LESLIE M. ROCHE Research Proposal: Neuroprotective Effects of R-Type Voltage Sensitive Calcium Channel Antagonists in Traumatic Brain Injury —IZUMI TOYODA HONORABLE MENTION | 
