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Ellis College
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CONTENTS
Rebecca Albright (Mentor: Peggy Dunn Bailey)
Women’s Societal Persecution in Sexton's "Her Kind" and Piercy's "Barbie Doll"
Carly Cate (Mentor: Wayne McGinnis)
Restoring Sylvia—Reconstructing Sylvia Plath's Ariel
Kevin K. Durand
The Search for Justice in the Republic
Linda G. English
Muggin
Betsy Fulmer
A Discussion of Representation as Applied to Selected Paintings of Rene Magritte
Mary Leigh (Mentor: Peggy Dunn Bailey).
Pamela: A Narrative
Michael Lloyd
Inferential Statistics using the Coefficient of Variation
Michael James McClard (Mentor: Peggy Dunn Bailey)
Making a Heaven of the Innocents' Misery: William Blake's "Chimney Sweeper" Poems
R. Blair Olson
The Key to Group Counseling Effectiveness
Michael Ray Taylor
A Conversation with John Irving
God of the Slide Guitar
Words, Words, Words
Fred Worth
You Have To Get To Him Early