Engl 3130 Advanced Composition, Spring 2025


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Best Student Essays from This Semester 
last update: April 28, 2025 

 

Here are the best essays that students have written in Advanced Composition this semester. Enjoy! -- Dr. O'Donnell, instructor -- odonnell@etsu.edu

 

 

Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Culture

 

- The Intersection Between Broadway and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Review of the Subversive Musical-Comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, by Heidi Nantz

 

- Play Like A Girl: What the Rise of the Professional Women’s Hockey League Means for Women’s Hockey and Why it Matters, by Heidi Nantz

 

- Pixels and Pages: How Red Dead Redemption 2 is Comparable to Great Novels Such as The Great Gatsby, by Christopher Johnson

 

 

History and Travel

 

- The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Destruction of a Community, by Dallas Rogers

 

- Quiet Nature and a Buzzing Tourist Town: Spending a Weekend in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, by Shan Patel

 

- How to Spend the Weekend in San Diego, CA 21+ Guide to a Three-Night San Diego Experience, by Ivy Norton

 

 

Essays and Cultural Commentary

 

- Sweeping Up Hair and Gossip: A Visit to My Grandma's Beauty Salon While I Was in Elementary School, by Jack Lee (pseudonymn)

 

- The Mind and the Stomach: A Narrative about Health and What Makes Someone Who They Are, by Kyle Norris

 

- Man or Bear? A Reflection on Women’s Safety and Society’s Blind Spots, by Camden Vandever