2007
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
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First Place
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Second Place
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Third Place
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Amy Takabori
Diamond-Encrusted Ring Around the Rosie
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Britton Kowalk
To Serve the King of Kings
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Jessie Hawkes
My Father's Sketchbook
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| Critical/Textual Analysis |
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First Place
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Second Place
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Third Place
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Rachel Ashby
Ironing Out Tillie Olsen
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Stephanie Johnson
Sexism Supported and Expectations Exploited in 'A Rose for Emily'
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Kelsey Jorgensen
Societal Flaws in O'Connor's Stories
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| Research Paper |
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First Place
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Second Place
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Third Place
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None
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Bradley McMullin
Second Hand Smoke: An Analysis of the Detrimental Side Effects of US Marijuana Policy
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Christina Hilton
The CDC Dilema: When Armchair Science Determines Truth and Policy
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2006
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Bradley Gerhardt
Avacado Pie |
Spencer Greenhalgh
Romance Languages |
Rachel Teh
Sisters |
| Critical/Textual Analysis |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Jess Ward
Incidents on a Bus: Insights into Julian's Egalitarianism |
Mitchell Robinson
On 'An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge' |
Alia Strickling
Schindler House |
| Informative Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Melissa Davis
Minding the Gap: Gender Disparities in Neuroscience |
Scott James Jackson
Muslim Students at BYU: The World is Our Campus |
Spencer Johnson
Conflict in Utah Territorys |
| Argument Paper/Persuasive Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Mitchell Robinson
A More Balanced Interpretation of Sergeant Francis Troy |
Lorren Johns
Ethnic Enclaves: Lost in Their Own World? |
Adam Heninger
The Quantum Mechanical Definition of God |
2005
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Michael Potter
Fade to Black |
Stephanie C. Payne
Forever Summer |
Jessica Smith
Acting Up |
| Critical/Textual Analysis |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Ryan Hunsaker
Defining Experience: Dominance of Reality or Desire |
Fiona Stewart
When Fluency Fosters Frenzy: Joseph McCarthy's Eloquence and the Era of Witch-hunts that Would Ensue |
Paul Hanson
Later, Gator |
| Informative Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Second Place |
Elisabeth Lund
Exclusion, Gossip and Rumors: How Teachers and Schools can Reduce Alternate Aggression |
James Jensen
The Gravity of the Issue: Hillside Building in Utah Valley |
None |
| Argument Paper/Persuasive Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Nicholas Bishop
Preventative Prenatal Care for Hispanic Undocumented Immigrants in Utah |
Jesse Walton
Diversity and Accurate Representation in the BYUSA Program |
Benjamin Miller
Stoning Young America: Overprescribing Harmful Stimulants |
2004
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Charisse Johnson
Goodbye Doesn't Suck |
Jonathan Bitter
I Heard My Daddy Cry |
Paul Felt
My Aunt Robin was a Mother |
| Critical/Textual Analysis |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Abigail Pyne
Fanny's Pathos Overrides John's Logic: A Textual Analysis of the First Two Chapters of Sense and Sensibility |
Katherine Pulsipher
Score in Night and Fog and One Survivor Remembers |
Mary Elizabeth Decker
Extremists for Love: Religious Allusions in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
| Informative Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Second Place |
Christie Peterson
1924 Castle Gate Mine Explosion and Its Impact on Local Families |
Derek Frei
Glory Lost: Human Impacts on the Colorado River |
Donald Sampson
Academic Performance, Mental Health and School Factors |
| Argument Paper/Persuasive Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Katherine Pulsipher
Native Americans and Archaeologists: Who Owns the Past? |
Blaine Farr
Utah's Political Monopoly |
Amy Sonntag
The Effects of Dual-Language Immersion Programs on Young Hispanic Students in the U.S. |
2003
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Claire Wallace
Families (that have been torn, re-cut with dull scissors, then messily glued back together) Are Forever |
Elise C. Dickerson
The Vending Machine |
Jamie Ellsworth
Remembering Charlotte |
| Critical/Textual Analysis |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Heidi Harris
Inciting the Masses |
Alison Stone
Flannery O'Conner Sees the Future: A Great Works Response |
Jill Carpenter
Limiting Space
Trevor Cook
Disconnect and Self-Isolation in "Tokyo" |
| Informative Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Second Place |
Tammy Smith
Children Versus Adults in Second Language Acquisition |
Brandon Bates
The Beginning of the End: The Failure of the Siege of Vienna of 1683 |
Michael Brodeur
Gassed by What? A Case Study of Mustard Gas Dependent on Historical and Physiological Studies in Gas Warfare |
| Argument Paper/Persuasive Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Austin Smith
Protecting Offensive Speech: The Case Against Amending the Constitution to Criminalize Flag Desecration |
Jamie Karpowitz
Destroying Tomorrow's Wilderness for Today's Oil |
Caleb Miskin, Laura Turner, Stephen Carr, Rebecca Sin, Jason Standring
Saving America's Youth |
2002
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Jaehee Hwang
A Running Sunday |
Matt Allen
Late April, Early May |
Cara Longmore
My Miracle |
| Critical/Textual Analysis |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Reid Mosman
Eudora Welty on African American Women |
Mary Hedengren
The Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Supernatural |
Jacob Fillerup
Metaphors with Water and Nature |
| Informative Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Second Place |
Losaline Lautaha
A Woman's Civil War |
Lara Anne Hunt
Islamic Calligraphy: a Fundamental Art Form |
Daniel Evensen
Ethical Journalism During the Vietnam War |
| Argument Paper/Persuasive Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Carrie Frost, Mary Hedengren, and Daniel Nielsen
BYU and the Mountain Meadows Massacre: Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve |
Brett M. Condon
The Controversy of Operation Crossroads: A Post WWII Nuclear Weapons Test |
Daniel Roberts
Possible Solutions for the Grazing vs. Ecosystem Conservation Conflict |
Fall 2000
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Matthew Pierce
Cutting Strings |
Rebecca Olsen
Marvin and Georgean |
Trevor Salter
A Most Exquisite Whiteness |
| Honorable Mention |
Brooke Wright
Maybe Later
Richard Graham
Muses |
| Argumentative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Joshua M Madsen
Calvin and Hobbes: An Existentialist View |
Garrett Woodbury
Children on the Homefront |
Laura Boyle
O, The Sweetness of Reading |
| Honorable Mention |
Cynthia Streeter
A Veteran's Relationship with History |
Winter 2000
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| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Peter Shirts
War Imagery in Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Sting's "Children's Crusade" |
Richard Esplin
Willy Couldn't Find Walden Pond |
Jeff Brown
Two Views of Affirmative Action |
Fall 1999
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| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Jane Galt
Hydrogen |
Chad Alan Speirs
The Day I Decided I Didn't Want to Be a Doctor |
Emily Wing
Kirtrine's Basement |
| Honorable Mention |
Kate Randle
And He Bringeth Up |
Natalie Green
Our Moon |
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Winter 1999
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| Personal/Narrative Essay |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Amy Malley
Just a Simple Bowl
Roger Hansen
IndelibleMarks |
Mary K. Bucaria
Karen's Story
Bart Frischknecht
Of Pirate Ships & Silver Steeds |
Janene Spelts
A Tear Between Twins |
| Honorable Mention |
Erika Schank
My Brother Cried |
Nicole Buys
The Mirror |
Christian Mulholland
The Years of Living Nakedly |
| Critical/Textual Analysis |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
Corri Anna Greiss
Structure in Sonnet XXXIII |
Paul A. Wright
PALL MALL: Conformity & Fun for the Fifties |
Kara Andrus
Emphasizing Order |
| Honorable Mention |
Aaron Pacini
Colgate Brushes On: A Contrast of New & Old Colgate Advertising |
Erynn Andrews
A Woman's Sheek & Subtle Revolution: Analysis of a 1952 Du Pont Nylon Ad |
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| Informative Research Paper |
| First Place |
Second Place |
Second Place |
Bryan Catanzaro & Jaron Coombs
Holographic Data Storage: Not Just a Mirage |
Jane Marie Brog
Space Flight of Victory: The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing |
Troy Smith
Racing Through a Five-Billion-Year-Old Mystery: The Secret of DNA |
| Honorable Mention |
Tonja Bowen, Kate Despain, Larissa Lew, Rachel Wood
Unraveling the Tangle: What Grades Really Mean |
Molly Benedict & Sunny Chen
Space Flight: The Dangers of Weightlessness |
