Engl 3130 Advanced Composition, Fall 2021


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Best Student Essays This Term  

last update: December 3, 2021 

 

Travel, Leisure, Lifestyle, and How To: 

- 24 Hours of Sweetness: A Review of Blackbird Bakery, Bristol, VA, by Taylor Harr

- Brain Breaks and Kinesthetic Learning: How These Strategies Help Students after the Covid “Lost Year”, by Gabby Humble

- Dutch Oven/Slow Cookin’ Pot Roast, by Briana Presley

- A Guide to Meditation for the Uninitiated: The How and Why of It, by Caleb Griffith

- The Hideaway: 3 Reasons Why Johnson City, Tennessee Needs This Punk Sanctuary, by Kylee Phalen

- How to Spend a Weekend in Johnson City, Tennessee: A Guide from a Local, by Taylor Harr

- One Friday Night Serving at Label: Think About This the Next Time You Sit Down to Eat, by Brett Strother

- A Time to Pretend: Dungeons and Dragons and Friendship, by Charles Marvel

- Turning a Brown Thumb Green: A Beginner’s Guide to Houseplants, by Amber Brophy

 

The Arts: Music, Books, and Video Games:

- The Album That Started Heavy Metal Music: A Review of Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath Album, by Brett Strother

- Curiosity from Controversy: A Quarantine Read of Nabokov’s Infamous Lolita Guided by One of the Most Unreliable Narrators in Literature, by E.P. (pseudonym).

- An Extension of Me: A Review of Millennium Mother by Mili, by N. E. Whey

- Of Hope and White Wings: A Review of Hatoful Boyfriend, by Emma Sheedlo

- Rapture is Falling: Bioshock and Existential Philosophy, by Charles Marvel

- A Review of Hades: How Supergiant Games Proved That Videogames Are Art, by Korbin Rhue

- Why Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small Quartet Should Have Been Gen Z’s Harry Potter, by Emrie Gilbert

 

Narrative, Personal Experience, Statements:

- Climbing the Capitol Hill: Meeting US Senators at Boys Nation 2019, by Trevor Parsons

- Friend for a Time: How I Found and Lost a Best Friend in My Freshman Year of College, by Amber Brophy

- From Broken to Blessed: My Journey Through Pregnancy, by Hayley Reagan

- Prodigal Daughter: A Queer Christian’s Open Letter to the Church, by Kylee Phalen

- The Sacrifice of a Stray: Laika’s Mission to the Stars Aboard Sputnik 2, by Laken Greene

- The Secret Heart: A Memoir of My Grandfather Thurman Cooper’s Life, by Samantha Matney

- “The Sins of the Fathers Visited Upon the Children,” or How I Lived More-or-Less Openly Queer in the Southern Baptist Church, by Emrie Gilbert

- The Two Years That Changed My Life: A Story of the “Love” and Abuse of a Naïve Girl, by Isabella Marrin (pseudonymn)

- Winter Birds on Barren Trees: A Visit to Arlington Cemetery, by Emma K. Sheedlo