Each year, the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric recognizes the best essays in Writing 2-3, Writing 5, and the First-Year Seminars. We are pleased to announce the following winners for the 2008-2009 academic year.
This year, Writing 2-3 had a three-way tie (the winners are listed alphabetically by last name):
“The Dream Precedes the Meaning,” by Harold Dansu for Professor Karen Gocsik's class (download here)
“Ecuadorian Migration: A Rough Road to Success,” by Juan Carlos Freile Franco for Professor Doug Moody's class (download here)
“A Way of Life and Death: Milan Kundera’s National Dilemma as Represented in his Novel Immortality,” by Ore Koren for Professor Karen Gocsik's class (download here)
“Talk to the Pool Table: Stanley Kubrick’s Use of Color in The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut,” by Brady Kelly for Professor Kevin McCarthy's class (download here)
“Aggressive, Absent, and Out of Line: Prisoner Detention in the War on Terror and the Constitutional Failure of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches,” by Kunal Malkani for Professor Linda Fowler's class (download here)
