ESSAI
Volume 14 (2016)
Created in 2002 by a cross-disciplinary faculty, ESSAI, The College of DuPage Anthology of Academic Writing Across the Curriculum is an annual academic journal that represents a unique but inclusive discourse community of student writers; it fosters student success through writing across the curriculum and in all levels of learning at College of DuPage. It rests on our belief that writing empowers and prepares our students for meaningful careers and advanced academic pursuits and that, to realize such goals, the entire college community is responsible for incorporating writing into their courses as a vital part of the academic experience at our college.
Like all the past volumes, this Volume XIV continues to harvest our belief in fertile cooperation with our cross-disciplinary faculty who implement writing to learn and promote discipline in their teaching. Some of the published essays, therefore, have resulted because our students made use of journals, logs, microthemes, and other informal writing assignments encouraged in the classroom. In this way, students wrote frequently and improved their writing skills enabling them to comprehend better and to retain information longer. Others – expository work such as reports, article reviews, criticisms, research papers – attest to students’ successful participation in academic discourse according to the conventions of language use and style expected in specific disciplines.
That we practice the philosophy of student success through good writing will become even more apparent in the journal’s name. It harkens back and pays homage to Michel de Montaigne whose seminal style of writing “essais” connoted one of trials and attempts. Thus ESSAI chronicles our students’ intellectual trials wherein they dialogically encounter diverse culturescapes, critically weigh various issues at hand and then engage in analytical exercises, while each evolving from a personal to a public writing self. The resulting published work is their expanded cultural and epistemological self endowed with talent, sophistication, and fresh scholarship, all expressed with clarity, eloquence, and grace.
We continue our editorial tradition in making the best selections for publication. The most exemplary of the year’s submissions are those that:
- Are completed according to assignments’ purposes
- Have mechanics, grammar, and other technical points in place
- Are imaginative, creative, logical, and risk-taking with respect to assignments’ purposes
- Exhibit clarity of writing with respect to purposes
- Follow the disciplinary format
- Include relevant literature reviews where required
- Demonstrate analytical abilities
- Generate interest
Join with us in honoring the exceptional talents of our student authors and our student artist whose graphic design adorns our cover. And watch for Volume XV of ESSAI which will be published in 2017. We appreciate your readership. Through your interest and support, our anthology will keep growing.
Prefatory Notes
Front Cover
Mary Moses
Selections
Gentrification and Chicago
Sean Anderson
Karl Marx and the Making of the Modern World Looking at the Problem of Scientific Bias from All Engels
Auguste Baltrimaviciute
Hollywood Before the Camera Flashes
Jasmine Careddu
The Effects of Body Mass and Water Submersion on Decomposition Rates in Mice and Rats
Elizabeth Carroll
Sub-Standard Standards
Liz Casaletto
Epic Simile: A Window to the Past
Corey Czopek
Economic and Political Theory
Christopher Daudish
The Reaper in the “Nursery”: A Defense of Parental – Elective Euthanasia of Severely Ill Newborns
Douglas Davison
Syrian Refugees in Chicago: Examining Obstacles to Resettlement and the Role of the Syrian Community Network
Sarah El Neweihi
Cosmetology: A Beautiful Career
Marisa Fernbach
Adopted Religion
Jeremy Glavanovits
Achilles Creed?
Ana Juvan
Exploring the Sublime in Art
Emily Krebaum
From Peasant to Proletariat: How the Irish were able to overcome the Irish Potato Famine
Alyssa Laatz
Fathers and Sons
Jessica Lee
Ethno Nationalist Terror
Dan Loris
Fritz Lang - An Auteur of German Expressionism
Phil McCarron
Benefit of Animal-assisted Therapy Programs in Prison
Jessica McCormack
Chicago Riots of 1919
Eric Pingel
A Dinner to Remember
Jon Pollack
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Jennifer Pope
Achieving School
Jaime Skrobania
Creon and the Pressures of Being King
Theresa Snitchler
Performance Review
Jackie Spathies
Anthem of an Italian Stallion
Kevin Uvodich
Animation: A True Art
Elyse Warnecke
Civil Disobedience in Chicago: Revisiting the Haymarket Riot
Samantha Wilson
Rahm Emanuel: Where is the Golden Boy Chicago was Promised?
Samantha Wilson
How Chicago’s Architectural Style of Today Developed from The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Jane York
Back Matter
Editors
- Graphic Design
- Brian Blevins
- English
- Franz Burnier
- Chemistry
- Richard Jarmin
- Philosophy
- Keith Krasemann
- English
- Sarah Magin
- Biology
- Lynda Randa
- History
- Ben Whisenhunt