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
—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
—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
—STEPHANIE K. YEE
Scientific & Technical Writing
Design With and Without Intelligence
—SHANE CELIS
—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
—MATTHEW GUESS
Reasoning in Korematsu v. United States§
—ASAD HABIB
—AMY JOHNSON
“Star Wars”: The Strategic Defense Initiative
—MELANIE KRIEG
—DAVID LAVINE
—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.