

2001 Winners
(click on students' names to read winning essays)
Level III Winners: Graduate
Jacob Blosser
The Tragic Story of George Washington
at Jumonville Glen"
(First Place)
Jacob Blosser
"The Changing Face of America:
The Evolution of National Identity Revealed
in Early Histories of the American Revolution"
(Second Place)
Michelle L. Brown
"Castrating the Nun in Pope's 'Eloisa and Abelard'"
(Third Place)
Level I Winners:
Freshman and Sophomore
Grace Love
"Creating a More Effective Learning Environment:
The Effects of Nonverbal Immediacy
in Multi-Cultural Classrooms"
(First Place)
Katie Rubright
"The Realism of the Surreal in Joan Miro's Painting"
(Second Place)
Ruth Hariu
"A Confederacy of Dunces:
Grotesque Incongruity and Societal Criticism"
(Third Place)
Level II Winners: Junior and Senior
Jason S. Bauer
"First Strike to Fallout:
American Culture, Nuclear War, and the Movies,
1949-1999"
(First Place)
Lisa M. Vanada
"Digital Image Database Documentation"
(Second Place)
Morgan Evans
"Parodies of Hamlet:
Truth in Bias and Stillness in Motion"
(Third Place)
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