WR: Journal of the CAS Writing Program
Issue 8, 2015–2016
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Christina Michaud
WR 098 Essay
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents: Yolanda’s Struggle with Identity
Prize Essay Award
Jiani Shen
WR 100 Essays
Passive Objectification: Vulnerability in Yoko Ono’s Participatory Art
Eva Vidan Gallagher
Finding Veritas in Harvard’s Tourism
Clara Kim
American Media and the Dream in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
Prize Essay Award
Reetu Varadhan
WR 150 Essays
Hydentity Crisis: Interpreting Dr. Jekyll’s Doppelganger as a Golem
Daniel Collins
When Awareness Is Not Enough: Trivialization of Women’s Symptoms and the Gender Gap in the Outcomes of Cardiovascular Disease Patients
Meghan Robbins
Battling Against Stigmatized American Orientalism: An Analysis of Mayling Soong Chiang’s Rhetoric of Chinese Principles
Dave Sebastian
Adopted into an Identity Struggle: An exploration of themes presented in Wo Ai Ni Mommy and Somewhere Between
Prize Essay Award
Gayle Tan
The Greater Good: Analyzing Morality in Watchmen
Jeffrey Wu
Alternative Genre Essays
The Excavation of Mind, Body, and Culture: A Final Engagement with Tributary and Silent Anatomies
Vanlizza Chau
Situation Script: India Kager “Caught in the Crossfire”
Sarah Hirsch
The Fallen Sakura: A Retelling of the Ballad of Fa Mulan
Prize Essay Award
Helen Luo