2007 Issue
Number 16, Spring 2007
Editorial Committee
Ms. Lyndall Nairn, Chair
Dr. Will Briggs
Dr. Delane Karalow
Dr. Phil Stump
Dr. Robert White
Ms. Erin Lloyd, Student Representative
The Agora annually presents writings by Lynchburg College students and faculty and includes essays written by students from other institutions that are members of the Association of Core Texts and Courses. Lynchburg College contributors participate in the Lynchburg College Symposium Readings (LCSR) program, which integrates ideas from classical selections with contemporary ideas and issues. LCSR classes encourage students to think deeply about current issues and to become sensitive to the interdisciplinary influence of classical ideas. Contributors from other colleges and universities participate in similar "great books" programs.
Table of Contents
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| Editorial: In This Issue… | Lyndall Nairn |
| Expanding Universes and Shrinking Humans | Neal Sumerlin |
| Abdication and Acceptance: Slave-Trading in Antebellum Lynchburg | John Marks |
| The Little Engine That Couldn’t: Societal Fears, Upward Mobility, and the Failure of Technology in Mark Twain’s Works | Dana Sliva |
| The Controversial Character of Roxy in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson | Jennifer Ervin |
| The Solitude of Poe's "The Raven" | Michelle Hensley |
| Walden: An Exercise in Awakening | David Neasz |
| Jo March of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, According to Adler, Horney, and Rogers | Ellen Parks |
| Classicism and Anti-Classicism in the Quintessentially Romantic | Grace Rochfort |
| Passion and Marriage in Anna Karenina | Kelly Castillo |
| Translators Can Empower! | Andrew Rohr |
| Definition of Jihad: Legitimate? | Ryan Mayr |
| Talk Like an Egyptian: Applying the Theory of the Subaltern to the Works of Nawal El Saadawi | Elizabeth Giglio |
Personal Responses Written in Senior Symposium
| The Fear Factor | Robert Howell |
| The Press: The Tool and Foil of Tyranny | Chris Rand |
| An Educated People, a Stronger Society, a Stronger Country | Kyra Smith |
| he Declining Value of Music in American Culture | Lauren Bruce |
| Lost Women: International Sex Trafficking | Shoshana Sakolsky |