Schedule of Events
English Capstone Presentations and Writing Awards
Student Abstracts
Student(s):
Elizabeth Bugtai
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
The Model Minority Myth: Educators Beware
Student(s):
Amelia Cassidy
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Jacqueline Lyons
“This is How a Daughter Dies”: A Creative Nonfiction Capstone
Student(s):
Paulina Cordero
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
Sleeping with the Fishes: A Sustainable Alternative to Traditional Burials
Student(s):
Reese Coulter
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
America’s National Park Lands: Weighing the “Ownership” Options
Student(s):
Shysel Granados
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
Recategorizing Daisy Hernández
Student(s):
Khadeja Kahn
Faculty Mentor:
Dr Joan Wines
A Paradigm Shift in Brain Theory: Its Implications for Academic Instruction
Student(s):
Triana Lin
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
Machine Translation in Second Language Acquisition Instruction
Student(s):
Dallas Notter
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Griffin
A Different Kind of Beauty: The Bluest Eye & Jane Eyre
Student(s):
Hector Rodriguez
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
Anticipating the Future Effects of Virtual Reality Horror
Student(s):
Marie Rodriguez
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
Bilingual Education: The Key to Displacing Linguicism in a Monolingual Society
Student(s):
Dylan Russell
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
The Importance of Loanwords in English Acquisition for Native Japanese Speakers
Student(s):
Harrison Ruud
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
The Power of Imagination: C. S. Lewis’s Challenge to Postmodernism
Student(s):
Hannah Strickland
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Jacqueline Lyons
The Drums of December
Student(s):
Meagan Toumayan
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines
Absorbing the Other: Victoria’s England and America’s “Melting Pot”
Student(s):
Brianna Zaragoza
Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Joan Wines