2008 – 2009

Contents

 

The Essay

Doing Your Homework: College Girls and Egg Donation

—MALINDA BARRETT

To Inherit the Moving Mountains: The Displacement of Iu-Mien Culture and Identity in Refugee America

—CATALINA CHAO

“She Was Out of Her Senses When She Did It”: Narratives of Infanticide Defense in Eighteenth-Century London

—APRIL GENUNG

Symbolic Oppressions: The Rhetoric and the Image of the Veil in the West

—BRIGITTE JOHNSON*

The Antiquity of Man as a Metaphysical Response to The Origin of Species

—DANIEL LEV

Excerpts from The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

—ARIANE MERIDA METZ

The Craft of Comedy

—CURTIS MINAMI

We Are The Hollow Men: Empty Ideology and the Devotion to Efficiency in Conrad and Achebe

—KEVIN PETERSON*

Are You Gonna Eat That? Diving in Dumpsters for 120 Pounds of Cheese

—RONNY SMITH

Another Way: When I Chose To Be Queer

—MO TORRES

"Short Hair Is For Boys!"

—STEPHANIE K. YEE
 

 

Scientific & Technical Writing

Design With and Without Intelligence

—SHANE CELIS

An Examination of the Genetic and Environmental Interactions Between the Alcohol Flushing Syndrome, the Hepatitis B Virus, and the Incidence of Hepatocellular Carcinomas

—JEREMY CHIN FOIN

Letter to the Ghost of Science Present

—SCOTT DOUGAN

The Footsteps of the First Americans

—KEVIN DUMAS

San Francisco Bay’s Hawk Watchers

—YOLANDA FLORES

Destroyer of Worlds

—MATTHEW GUESS

Reasoning in Korematsu v. United States§

—ASAD HABIB

For Hemp's Sake

—AMY JOHNSON

“Star Wars”: The Strategic Defense Initiative

—MELANIE KRIEG

The New Food Frontier

—DAVID LAVINE

Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Host Eukaryotes and Their Bacterial Endosymbionts: Analyses and Problems

—JEREMY LIPKOWITZ

Collaborative Disappearing Act Trumps Levitation As Useful Trick For Future Electronics

—PAUL RIECHERS

Laxative Cocktails and Ice Cube Dinners: The Adventures of “Backpack Boy”

—CHLOE THORN

 

*Students also awarded Honorable Mention(s).
†Student published in the 2007–2008 volume of Prized Writing.
§Although a prize-winning essay, we were unable to print it for logistical reasons.