One of the central goals of the First-Year Experience Program is to help
new students improve their writing skills. In order to acknowledge the efforts
of students who worked especially hard to improve their writing, the Student
Writing Committee has selected several successful papers from the FYE courses for publication on our website.
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You will notice a broad range of topics and approaches here.
There are papers from all three academic divisions -- Humanities,
Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences -- and formats that range
from reflective interpretations to research papers. First-year
students wrote the papers collected here as specific assignments
for their courses, so their content also reflects some of the
types of writing professors are currently seeking from students.
None of us, from first-year student to professor, is ever finished with
the process of learning how to write. As you will see, the papers here are
works in progress -- fine examples of what our first-year students can do
with an assignment, a few days time, and a word processor. They all reflect
intelligence, clarity of thought, and hard work. None of them are meant
to stand as examples of perfection, or models for grading. All are tributes
to the importance we place on good writing at Colorado College.
-- The Writing Committee:
Peter Blasenheim, Tracy Santa, Molly Gross, Carol Emmer, Danita Stewart,
Janelle Dozar, Jane Hilberry, Mario Montano, Shane Heschel, and Robin
Satterwhite
2007 Winners
Kyle Hemes
Transcendent Truths: The Literary Classics of Boeithus and Goethe
Elizabeth Stephan
Thinking Sociologically-Background and Environmental Activism
Lark Turner
"The Highest Principle:" The Fractionalization of Mao Zedong's
Red Guards
Will Vunderink
That Darker Side
2007 Honorable Mention
Joey Glick
A History of the History of the Jewish Emancipation
Megan Van Aken
Gregor's "Little Legs"
2006 Winners
Artie Niederhoffer
“A Tale of Two Countrysides: Impositions of Culture and Nature
in Daphnis and Chloe and Pride and Prejudice”
Kim Hurd, An Dang, Dan Lenzen, and Kristin Rider
“A Call to Action”
Alex Tom
“Why the Majority of Americans are Wrong About Prayer in Public Schools”
2006
Honorable Mention
Jessica Olson
“Integrate for Efficiency: Traditional Yoruba Medicine in Nigeria”
Andrew Salimbeni
“Raga Bhimpalasri”
2005 Winners
Matthew Baum
"Novel Technique using Naturally Competent ADP1 to Clone Variable
lux Genes via Homologous Recombination Tested"
Tara Menon
"Carving the 'Old Trunk of Olive'/ Inventing a Path in the Sand: Narrative as Construction of Human Identity in The Odyssey and The Sand Child"
Nikki Muyskens
"Falling in Love with Pemberley, Falling in Love with Darcy: Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice"
Naiara Posniak
"Pathologizing the Female Body: An Analysis of a Commercial Menstrual Product Website"
2005 Honorable Mention
Amy Hepner
"8086 miles (13014 kilometers) away"
Ella Street
"A Sunni Islamic Approach to Suffering"
2004
Nicole Vettese
"Serratia Exposed to UV Radiation Show Increase In Survival
Capabilities"
Sean Anderson-Branowitzer
"WWED: What Would Epicurus Do?
Epicurus, Happiness, and Psychology in Modern America"
Jette Petersen
"Story in the Floor Plan: Intentions and Familial Relationships through Spatial Relations in The Metamorphosis"
2003
Jeff Jacobson
"The Inner Struggle of Empire"
Morgan Stempf
"The Chechen Pursuit for Independence and the Role of Islam"
Rachel Feder
"Literary Conflict and Transformation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis"
2002
Kyle Bartsch
"The Vinland Map: The Controversy Continues"
Marlesa Moore
"The Vinland Map: 15th Century Artifact or 20th Century Forgery?"
James Kerrigan
"Regarding Indefinite Administrative Detention"
2001
E. Wilson Myers
"A Comparison of Nietzsche and the Death of God Theology"
Loren Udall
"Search for Islamic Order"
Stella Copeland
"Science and Literature"
2000
Rebecca Haimowitz
"The Core of 'The Triangular Pear'"
Corey Josselyn
"The Thecodont and Theropod Hypotheses: On the Origin of
Birds"
Carla Wojczuk
"Science and Literature"
Take a look at this year's FYE
Courses.
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