WR: Journal of the CAS Writing Program
Issue 7, 2014–2015
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Carrie Bennett
WR 098 Essays
Food: The Hard Work of Separating Families While Keeping It All Together
Prize Essay Award
Maria Del Rosario Castro Diaz
The Melting Pot vs. Cultural Competency: The Crisis of Identity for Immigrants in America
Calvin Poon
WR 100 Essays
Exposure and Retaliation: Searching for Peace in the West Bank through 5 Broken Cameras
Camden Dean
Lionized Lincoln
Zachary Kraehling
Questioning the Copyright Act: Is Copyright Doing It Right?
Jung Hyun Park
Alcohol, Emotion, and Tension in Raymond Carver’s Fiction
Sara Kornfeld Simpson
WR 150 Essays
Translating Troubles: Alliterative Verse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Alicia Espinosa
Battlestar Galactica: A Vehicle of the American Road
Caroline Jones
Painting the Real Picture: The Benefits of Autoethnographic Filmmaking for Children with Life-Threatening Illness
Prize Essay Award
Lauren Kesler
On the Discourse of Cultural Colonialism: The Unexplored Political Dimension of Westernization in Brazil
Maria Clara Bezerra
A Good Little Monkey: Curious George‘s Undercurrent of White Dominance and the Series’ Continued Popularity
Prize Essay Award
Maya Terhune
Alternative Genre Essays
Bad Parenting: The True Villain of “Rumpelstiltskin”
Hannah Levin
Is violence–
Prize Essay Award
James Sbordone
This Is the Way We Are: America through Street Photography
Sarah White