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Undergraduate, 3rd Place: Little Choice In The Matter For Comfort Women: Tales Of Little Hope And Survival During The Second World War, Dayden Gardner

2023 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

During the Second World War, Japan was an imperialistic powerhouse that took over most of Southeast and South Asia during the war. In this time of conflict, Japan committed atrocities that are still being questioned to this day. One of their lesser-known war crimes was the enactment of so-called comfort stations during this war. These stations provided Japanese military men with sex from women, dubbing them “comfort women.” These stations were established widely throughout the Japanese empire after the events of the Nanking Massacre to prevent rapes of women in captured territories and to protect their soldiers from venereal disease.1 …

Graduate, 1st Place: World War I War Front And Home Front: The Correspondence That Brought Them Together, Michelle Thole

2023 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

The First World War was the first time American soldiers had participated in a war at a distance from home that did not easily facilitate home furloughs. Although the United States and Europe are physically separated by more than 3,500 miles, the relative distance between American World War I soldiers on the war front and their families on the home front was minor; the correspondence between them mitigated the physical and cognitive distance.

Historians of the First World War have explored soldiers’ contact with their families while in training camps and the US military’s intentional cultivation of a balance between …

Undergraduate, Honorable Mention: The Good, The Bad And The Nerdy, Athena Ballard

2023 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

No idea is original. People have been writing concepts down for thousands of years, and coming up with them for even longer, so it’s statistically possible that at some point, an ancient Mesopotamian came up with James Bond. With centuries of literature and film already written—ideas that probably weren’t original then either—it’s even harder to create something entirely new. With that in mind, modern film and TV relies heavily on character tropes: pre-existing stereotypes for fictional characters based on shared attributes, appearances and even entire backstories. Tropes can do much of the storytelling without saying a word. For example, the …

“Why Invest In Racism?”: Anti-Apartheid Activism At The University Of Illinois, 1977-1987, Shane Smith

Student Honors Theses

On February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison a free man after being held captive for over 27 years. Crowds roared with joyfulness as their beacon of hope pumped his right fist in the air triumphantly. The international community watched the occasion with hope and a feeling of success after the assistance in the struggle to bring down the brutal regime of apartheid. This inspiring movement took decades of unified activism from both South Africans and local, grassroots organizations to bring the system down. Amidst the ongoing Cold War politics and other international issues, dismantling apartheid proved to …

Eng 1002g-005: College Composition Argument & Critical Inquiry, Ann Hart

Fall 2022

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Eng 2205-001: Introduction To Literary Studies, Robert Martinez

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-004: College Composition I, Lucinda Berry

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-010: College Composition I, Shelly Spear

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-013: College Composition I, Glen Davis

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-016: College Composition I, Leanne Akins

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-018: College Composition I, Rachel Heicher

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-019: College Composition I, Travis Moody

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-008: College Composition I, Jamie Golladay

Fall 2022

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Eng 1002g-002: College Composition Argument & Critical Inquiry, Tammy Veach

Fall 2022

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Eng 1002g-009: College Composition Argument & Critical Inquiry, Brad Stiles

Fall 2022

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Eng 1091g-099: College Composition Critical Reading & Source-Based Writing Honors, Mike Mcclelland

Fall 2022

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Eng 2901-003: Structure Of English, Melissa Caldwell

Fall 2022

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Eng 3001-001: Advanced Composition, Tim Engles

Fall 2022

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Eng 3062-001: Intermediate Poetry Writing, Colleen Abel

Fall 2022

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Eng 3604-001: Special Topics In Literature And Language, Melissa Caldwell

Fall 2022

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Eng 4760-600: Special Topics In Professional Writing, Donna Binns

Fall 2022

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Eng 4775-600: Studies In Literature Culture And Theory, Elizabeth Tacke

Fall 2022

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Eng 4906-600: Issues In The Teaching Of English, Donna Binns

Fall 2022

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Eng 5061a-600: Special Topics In Literature And Literary Theory, Melissa Ames

Fall 2022

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Eng 5500-001: Practicum In Writing Center Theory And Practice, Terri Fredrick

Fall 2022

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Wgs 2309g-002: Introduction To Women's And Gender Studies, Jeannie Ludlow

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-011: College Composition I, Zahin Zaima

Fall 2022

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Eng 1091g-290: College Composition Critical Reading & Source-Based Writing Honors, Randal Beebe

Fall 2022

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Eng 1002g-008: College Composition Argument & Critical Inquiry, Brad Stiles

Fall 2022

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Eng 1001g-710: College Composition I Critical Reading & Source-Based Writing, Kim Redfern

Fall 2022

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