2007 – 2008

Contents

Acknowledgements & Preface

—DR. PAMELA DEMORY, EDITOR OF PRIZED WRITING

 

The Essay

Blizzard Poetics: Kenneth Goldsmith’s Textual Wonderland

—COLLIN BRENNAN  

Verse as Monument of Immortality: War, Class, and Prophecy in the Sonnets

—JACOB ISRAEL CHILTON*

A Healthy Distrust

—KELSEY C. CODY

“I Did Not Get My Spaghetti-O’s”: Death Row Consumption in the Popular Media

—STEVIE JEUNG

“I Don’t Want to Be Barbie: I Want to Benchpress Her”: The Lifestyle of a Female Bodybuilder

—MICHELLE JONES*

The Sword’s the Thing

—JAMES KEITH

John Singer Sargent’s Tourist Experience in Venice

—KRISTEN VERA KOCH*

Manga: The Queer or the Patriarchal?

—KENNY WEI LUN LIEW      

Therapists with Hooves: The Miracle of Animal-Assisted Therapy

—CHRISTINE PARKER

Is This the End? The Doors, Vietnam, and the End of the American Experiment

—KEVIN PETERSON

The Waste Land: An Animated Journey

—JULIA SANDS

Depression in College Students

—ALISSA STEINER                                             

Revolutionary Thought and the Politicization of Vietnam’s Forests

—CALVIN VU

My Beauty’s More Real Than Yours! Consequences of “Real Women” Discourse

—NATALIE YAHR*

 

Scientific & Technical Writing

Use of Torpor in Chiroptera

—CAITLIN BARALE                                                      

Human Papillomavirus Infection in Males: Penile Carcinoma

—AURORA CRUZ     

A Race Against Time: An Overview of Progeria and Its Clinical Symptoms

—KYLE DAVIS

The Role of MicroRNA in Cancer

—DMITRIY KOLESNIKOV                                      

Promising Therapies for Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Literature Review

—MICHELE LOMELINO

The Conundrum of Human Gene Patents

—JOHN W. SAMPLES                               

Of Superposition and Solipsism: A Survey of Quantum-Mechanical Appproaches in Addressing “The Hard Problem”

—DANIEL SWAIN

Chew-Toy Color Preference in Kenneled Dogs (Canis Familiarus)

—TERRI WONG

BPA: Ubiquitous, Controversial, and Scary as Hell

—SASCHA ZUBRYD*

 

HONORABLE MENTION

 

†Natalie Yahr was published in the 2006–2007 edition of Prized Writing.

*Also awarded an Honorable Mention.

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Cover Photographs: Enji Khoo: “Strength” and “Grace”

Photographs by Florence Low; design by Pamela Demory and Lauren Liets