E-Journal Second Edition, October 2009

Welcome to the second edition of Corridors, the annual juried electronic journal that highlights the best student essays in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth English Department's foundation courses for the major. Corridors showcases essays that best demonstrate the objectives of these foundation courses in writing, literary analysis and explication, and the application of literary and rhetorical theory. We hope you enjoy them!

ENL 257: Best Essays in Rhetorical Theory
1st: Rachel Holliman "Willie Stark: Master Rhetor"
2nd: Keith Amaral "An Analysis of Jim Valvano’s ’93 ESPY Awards Speech"
3rd: Joseph MacKenzie "The Final Verdict: Obama’s Discourse"
ENL 258: Best Essays in Literary Analysis
1st: Ana Maria Bell "Balancing Man and Man Alike"
2nd: Steven Martin "Ask the Art, not the Artist"
3rd: Liz Pounds "The Light Is on, but Nobody’s Home: Long Day’s Journey into Night"
ENL 259: Best Essays in Literary Theory
1st: Jess Andreason "Love, War, and Undecideability: Deconstructing 'The Things They Carried'"
2nd: Rachel Holliman "Invisible Chains: A Feminist Critique of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'"
3rd: Ryan Carney "'You Never Know For Sure How Girls’ Minds Work':A Feminist Reading of Updike’s 'A&P'"
ENL 260: Best Essays in Intermediate Composition
1st: Kristie LaBerge "Pom-Struck"
2nd: Joseph MacKenzie "The Other Side of the Crash"
3rd: Stephanie Mireku "‘Jew’: Ethnicity, Religion, or Both?"
3rd Keith Amaral "The NBA: Morality Police and Basketball Savior"
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