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1. DAT C RE e MIN es Heidelberg College pP Paw Lh gt tee a O eek Student Cer any Magazine oe rea A nL al Fall 2007 k Contents About this Publication iii No Country for Old Men by Alex Doepker 28 Author Biographies IV Sacrificial Straw Men and the CONTEST WINNERS Heart of Hollowness by Gary Gondek 30 Abandoned by Jonnatha Mayberry 1 ENGLISH 492 PROJECTS Bar Lights by David Young 2 About this Section ENG 492 55 Photo by Nikki Locker 4 Author Biographies ENG 492 36 Unsettling Waters by Craig Conrad 5 Strangers by Devon Walsh 39 Poem by Sarah Reed 8 Maple Tree by Abby Strack 50 Early Morning Delivery by Jeremy Franks 9 Family by Deena Marlette 66 Photo by Mi Yan Carter 12 Invitation by Robyn Kunsman 107 The Freedom to Fly by Nikki Locker 13 The Secret Lives of Inspiration by Ris Cashdollar 133 Instruction Manual by J aimie Figueroa 16 Wreath Hill by Gabriel Greenfield 149 On this Stone by Abby Hockman 25 A Boy and His Dog by Abby Hockman 26 Photo by Ben Schwarz 27 Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Welcome to the Fall 2007 edition of Morpheus Heidelberg College s student writing magazine This year s issue marks a departure for the publication in several ways First we ve gone electronic which allows us to share the best writing at Heidelberg with a wider readership2. Morpheus Nd bem Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 to Fly Good teaching is one fourth preparation and three fourths pure theatre Gail Goodwin By Nikki Locker This quotation perfectly sums up my dreams and aspirations for my future as an educator Looking back on my personal education the teachers that remember and admire the most were the ones who made learning come to life They adventured into the text and brought back mystery and wonder Class time was not spent listening to lectures but exploring the world around us through experimentation and discovery These amazing people were one of the many reasons that decided to become a teacher was drawn to education at an early age but have never lost sight of my dream am very fond of young children and always see something magical when they learn something new Their eyes light up and you can see their accomplishment clearly on their faces and how proud they are One of my favorite quotes of all time is from the great Walt Disney He once said Our great est natural resource is the minds of our children could Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 The Freedom Second Place Academic Literature not agree more If our greatest natural resource is our children s minds then believe that our second greatest natural resource is our children s laughter Nothing is quite as precious to me as the laughter of a
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4. Sec ond the production of the magazine has become com ponent of English 492 the Senior Seminar in Writing this change has allowed us to add a significant practical expe rience to the course Third the publication combines the winning entries of the Morpheus writing contest with the major writing projects from senior seminar The magazine will be organized into two sections the winners of the Morpheus contest followed by the major writing projects Enjoy Dave Kimmel Publisher Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Editors in Chief Contest Director Marketing Director Layout amp Design Director Publication Assistant Contest Judges About this Publication Ben King Devon Walsh Robyn Kunsman Deena Marlette Abby Strack Ris Cashdollar Vicki Ohl Marc O Reilly Julie O Reilly Gary Dickerson Scott H Clarke William Reyer Ruth Wahlstrom Douglas Collar Mi Yan Carter is from Lorain OH She is a junior major ing in Communication amp Media and minoring in Film Stud ies Mi Yan s goal is to work in the film industry and her dream is to film a documentary She likes photography because it is her way of relieving stress The particular photography piece she submitted was taken one sunny day while hanging out with a friend She liked the shadow that was cast and decided to take the picture Craig Conrad is a junior majoring in Water Resources Craig s hometown is Risingsun Ohio where he
5. a coin toss It s Sunday morning about a quarter til 10 sit in my seat in the Rose Hall Theater at the Lincoln J azz Center A small group of friends and have driven 10 hours and paid 35 each for a ticket to this showing It s the New York Film Festival The anticipation is growing scan the crowd as filmgoers continue to filter in through the doors a last chance to spot celebrity In walks Willem Dafoe he s not in this movie Excitement skyrockets Quietly we murmur amongst ourselves throwing quick glances towards the actor He sits down a row behind us Hearts race The lights dim The film begins The film in question is No Country for Old Men It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Cor mac McCarthy It is written for the screen and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen For the uninitiated the Coen Broth ers made such films as Blood Simple Fargo and The Big Lebowski The film opens with vast barren wideshots of 1970s West Texas shot beautifully by expert cinematographer and long time Coen Brother collaborator Rodger Deakins Everyone is on top of their game with this picture There Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 No Country for Old Men First Place General Non Fiction is no music to accompany the landscapes only wind and then the voice of actor Tommy Lee Jones Men In Black The Fugitive as aging lawman Sheriff Ed Bell No Country follows Llewe
6. ask him out if she ever got the chance But last night he took his boyfriend to the dance So they took him outside and the girls kissed his cheek Then they beat him till he couldn t even speak Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Second Place Poetry What makes him different He acts just like me Why does the world judge so superficially If you cut him he bleeds if you shoot him he dies If you hurt him he still gets those tears in his eyes What happened to love Why s the world filled with hate hope we all change before it s too late Some days don t even want to walk out my door I m always stuck wondering what s all this hate for We steal and we lie and we tear each other down Will there ever be a day when we all come around What makes you different You act just like me Why does the world judge so superficially If you cut me I bleed if you shoot me I die If you hurt me I still get those tears in my eyes What happened to love Why s the world filled with hate hope we all change before it s too late By Jeremy Franks still remember my first day of kindergarten My mom taking me into the room filled with miniature furni ture and posters of colors shapes and the solar system The tables were each named for a different color my table was the red table remember being proud of it felt sorry for the kids at the brown table at the time I as sociated it with the poop table don t remembe
7. because they had the spot lights near the windows There were at least two cars could make out at least three cops and someone else in civilian clothes was with them but looked like he was handcuffed think Why do I see this twice That s right was down a road that only had one customer on so had to turn around and comeback to get back to the main road Now the scene is on my left side This time there is no man in civilian clothes don t remember giving this any real thought It wasn t the first Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 time had seen cop or sheriff s cars out this way and my only real concern as a law abiding citizen was getting my route done and going back to sleep for a couple of hours Then then the lights Yes remember the flash ing lights It couldn t have been but a quarter of a mile down the road My first instinct was to check my speed but was only doing thirty was confused but sure didn t do anything wrong so pulled over turned off the radio and pulled out my wallet remember the cruiser s door opening and closing and a flashlight beam click ing on in my direction couldn t see much the rain had covered the side mirror and could only make out the light Did roll down the window No it should have been down but because of the rain rolled it up between Stops It was up Just as was going to roll it down my world collapsed The only thing can remember w
8. d rather entertain and hope that people learn than teach and hope that people are enter tained Walt never realized it but he also summed up me Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Second Place General Non Fiction Morpheus Instruction Manual By J aimie Figuera Continued on the next page Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 bid Deidelberg College Engaging Students Creating Futures Instruction Manual How to Navigate Oasis2 The college freshman s guide to registering for classes on Heidelberg College s new Oasis2 enrollment system Logging In to Oasis 2 This section of the Oasis2 user s manual consists of instructions on how to find and log in to the Oasis2 enrollment system Congratulations new members Welcome to Oasis HEN of Heidelberg Academic Services Academic Information amp You ve made it this far Login to your account Resources and now you re a current Enter the Oasis of information Beeghly Library student Here s how to Bookstore register for classes Figure 2 Directory To travel from the Exam Schedule Current Students page Registrar to the Oasis2 enrollment Technology system first use your left pude mouse button to click on the OASIS2 link as Current Students To log in to the Oasis2 enrollment system click on the words Login to your account using your left mouse button This is a hyperlink which will take you to the screen where Figure 3
9. hurricane intensities with CO2 induced warming as simulated using the GFDL hurricane prediction system Cli mate Dynamics 15 503 519 Retrieved J anuary 23 2006 from Ohio Link Full Text database Laidman Jenni 2006 February 5 Debate over what s happening with the climate heats up as does the earth The Blade Michaels Pat 2005 Global Warming and Hurricanes Still No Connection Scientists Recent Comments on Global Warming and Hurricanes Retrieved Jan uary 23 2006 from Ohio Link Full Text database Pielke R A Landsea C Mayfield M Laver J amp Pasch R 2005 Hurricanes And Global Warming Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Retrieved January 30 2006 from EBSCO Host By Sarah Reed She s a bright little girl with a bright little smile Eyes that can touch your soul She s never tried drugs and she never tells lies But still you all act like she s rotten inside So her skin s somewhat darker but why does that mean That you have the right to hang a noose from her tree What makes her different She acts just like me Why does the world judge so superficially If you cut her she bleeds if you shoot her she dies If you hurt her she still gets those tears in her eyes What happened to love Why s the world filled with hate hope we all change before it s too late He s always been nice and he does well in school He s even considered quite cute She planned to
10. of 90 degrees As far as the increase in the number of hurricanes is concerned satellites were not available before 1970 so there were many storms out in the At lantic which were never counted because no one knew Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 of their existence According to Dr O Brien the sever ity of Hurricane Katrina was due to the fact that it was a slow storm coming across a large distance so it was able to gather up a great deal of moisture from the hot ocean water O Brien However there are opposing theories which support the reality of global warming The U S Public Interest Research Group Education Fund has compiled reports from several sources stating that the rate of warming is unparalleled the level of the sea Is increasing there has been a 40 shrinkage of the artic ice cap glaciers are disappearing and spring in the Northern Hemisphere is an average of two weeks earlier than in the past Abend The Geophysical Fluid Dynam ics Laboratory GFDL used global climate models to run experiments which showed that an increase in carbon dioxide caused by greenhouse gases seemingly creates more intense storms Knutson Studies by the Pew Cen ter on Climate Change and the Galbraith Environmental Services of Vermont have discovered that many birds and animals have moved farther north because of warming temperatures and that many plants are blooming an aver age of 7 3 days earlier which corresponds with a rise of
11. twice a month However the most rewarding of all was my inter pretive dance with the two year olds Once a week would put on my Fantasmic CD a soundtrack from a Stage show in Walt Disney World From memory would talk the class through the story and we would imitate the magical brooms the fireworks Native Americans rowing in their canoes and the jungle animals My favorite part of the song was during a medley where we simply broke loose and danced however we wanted Parents would walk in and ask me how made their child so happy and would just smile and say It wasn t me Mrs Howard It was the music The arts are more than just pretty pictures or songs Art is a form of communication Children who have problems speaking their mind can easily do so by painting a picture writing a poem or composing a song Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Those children who may not fully comprehend what an environmental disaster is could pick up a book and read a first person account of another child who survived a great tragedy Art is a form of expression Sometimes it is difficult to put thoughts into words Through visual arts music dance and drama even the least confident person can be creative and get as much across as the most self assured in the crowd Art provides us with so many me diums to express our deepest pleasures desires fears and regrets Not everything has to be spoken some things just have t
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14. Men The Complete Poems and Plays 1909 1950 56 59 New York Harcourt Brace amp Company 1980 Miller Tyrus Late Modernism Politics Fiction and the Arts between the World Wars Berkeley University of California Press 1999 Roessel David Guy Fawkes Day and the Versailles Peace in The Hollow Men English Language Notes September 1990 MLA International Bibliography EBSCO Heidelberg College Tiffin OH Beeghly Library 27 February 2007 Ronnick Michele Valerie Eliot s The Hollow Men Explicator 1 December 1998 56 2 MLA Interna tional Bibliography EBSCO Heidelberg College Tiffin OH Beeghly Library 27 February 2007
15. alyptic im agery and tone are illuminated by its placement in this time period Europe where Eliot then lived had been torn apart by a bloody war and was just then beginning to pull itself back together This was a time of immense change throughout Europe altering forever how Eu ropeans saw themselves their fellow men and women and the forms of collective power at once frighteningly Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 First Place Sacrificial Straw Men Academic Literature and the Heart of Hollowness remote and dangerously proximate to the most intimate dimensions of life Miller 26 The complete upheaval of social order in the wake of World War I was not at all lost on writers of the time whose work often comments upon these immense changes in the world around them T S Eliot is no exception his poetry from The Hippopota mus to The Waste Land to The Hollow Men is charged with political social and religious commentary that is im possible to ignore This is why the two epigraphs to The Hollow Men are such an important key in deciphering the cryptic language of the poem as they serve as keys to understanding the social commentary locked within the allusions to literature and real world events The first epigraph references an important event of this time of war s end President Woodrow Wilson s ar rival in Europe where his name was often linked with the concept of a Messiah Roessel for peace talk
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17. as the flash then blackness Surely the window exploded in towards me but all remember is the flash then nothing don t know how know but he shot me again think the sec ond one hit me in the chest They must have thought I was dead and maybe I really am can t feel anything can t feel myself breathing There are no sounds or sights only what remember Continued on the next page Although can t feel have the sense of being dragged then thrown on the ground I think there is another body below me but can t tell Then what must be dirt being thrown on me None of these are real sen sations only abstract thoughts that come almost as If were watching a movie not actually experiencing them don t know if I m alive or dead can still think but that is all have no sense of having a body only a mind floating in the blackness of space If am buried surely can t be alive but my brain works like am Maybe in ternal battery keeps the brain alone going If so how long will have to be like this before die can t scream can t move all have are my thoughts The world knew seems like a world away and a lifetime ago which sup pose it is don t know how long I ve been here have no sense of time It could be minutes or days Maybe this is hell all alone with your thoughts for eternity Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Second Place Visual Arts
18. child Whenever a child catches my glance I always focus on making the child smile and laugh It is so fulfilling to see that pure ecstasy and genuine joy When worked at summer camp always found inspiration in the laughter of my preschoolers If they were ever laughing as they were busy at play it was constant reassurance for me was doing my job cor rectly encouraged laughter at the summer camp in sev eral ways but never quite as effectively as through the arts Every day my preschoolers would participate visual art activity whether it was simply free coloring with crayons or making papier mache soccer ball for sports week There was always scrap paper on the shelf and plenty of markers and colored pencils to go around By the end of the summer the doors of my closet were plas tered with all of the drawings had received highly an ticipated taking the grade schoolers outside so we could use theatrical arts to re enact the stories of Robin Hood and Peter Pan that we were reading Continued on the next page would set the scene for them and all of a sudden we were in Neverland or Sherwood Forest as the kids ran around the playground in search of the hidden treasure Music was an essential element whenever was a classroom always played music even during naptime The older children would ask me to lead them in song as we walked back and forth to the park and there were mu sic classes held
19. e The child released his grip on Charlie s throat and the pup thrashed violently about gasping for air all the Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 First Place A Boy and His Dog while Sit still Sit still you little bitch he commanded With one hand holding the dog s collar for stability the other began to pummel the dog You re getting what you deserve bellowed the boy using the exact words his daddy had used last night Blood started to leave the spaniel s mouth in red foamy spurts After a time the dog went limp just like mommy The boy got up and started stamping on the carcass digging in strongly with his feet Through his legs he felt the power in cracking the dog s ribs and dis figuring its face The boy went home to find his father reading the newspaper Daddy love you he said Ingesting gulp of scotch the father replied You Should have died in the condom The boy ran past his father and into the master bedroom where she lay not asleep but in sleep Grab bing her arm to help him crawl up into the bed the quiv ering voice expelled You re cold Mommy I ll keep you warm Then snuggling into her still frigid breasts he whispered Don t worry Mommy Tomorrow I ll get the cat ben Schwarz gt C Co 2 a M i m x Eu en 1 Lu r 4 1 By Alex Doepker What s the most you ever lost in
20. e is the broken jaw of which Eliot writes a place where there are no eyes Just as Con rad showcased the West s blindness to its own barbarism Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Eliot illustrates the very same phenomenon twenty three years later He clearly disagrees with the actions of those in power both during and after the war and makes it no secret that the glory of Europe may indeed be our lost kingdoms line 56 Throughout the dark landscape painted by The Hol low Men the image of straw men is a constant presence Coupled with the second epigraph this points clearly to an allusion to Guy Fawkes Day the fifth of November The festivities on this holiday include guys straw effi gies meant to represent Guy Fawkes which before the day itself are often used by children to beg hence the line A penny for the Old Guy and are traditionally burnt at a bonfire on the fifth Sacrificial straw men appear in a variety of other cultures as well one such example is found in the Roman ritual of Argei The Argei are twenty four or twenty seven straw puppets cast into the Tiber from the Pons Sublicius in a ritual of purification Ron nick The puppets were thought to absorb evil forces and their ritualized murder was thought to represent the slaying of that very evil Continued on the next page Further connections to similar traditions are sug gested as well Eliot may hav
21. e of years don t remember doing anything special for any of our anniversaries don t know how I will be remem bered by my family if will be missed or wind up being a greater burden in death than was in life For the life of me can t remember the last thing said to my wife and kids before we went to sleep last night hope it was that loved them wish would have woken my wife up this morning and kissed her goodbye and told her how much loved her Instead quietly dressed and left for my route do know that did look at her sleeping and thought about waking her but decided to let her sleep It feels like a life time ago Continued on the next page God how did get here What happened Maybe if work it through can figure it out remember pumping gas at the Circle K which was about 2 30 a m picked up the newspapers and picked up my paycheck from my mail slot probably pulled out at about ten till three There wasn t anything unusual It was slightly rainy and the wind was blowing nothing out of the ordinary for October in Ohio saw a few deer on the left side of the road That was probably about four maybe made the turn on 19 to head toward Bloomville did my stops around the village know got to TR 58 that s where the stops are really spaced out This was probably about 4 30 Then what passed what looked like cop cars in a field on the right know they were cops
22. e had in mind the mari onette in Igor Stravinsky s ballet Petrushka or that the straw symbols are associated with harvest rituals cel ebrating the death of the fertility god Roessel The sacrificial nature of these straw men did not escape Eliot in The Hollow Men he uses the image of guys to represent those of the younger generation powerless to stop and forced to fight in the war that the older gen eration had started Eliot writes in Part l Our dried voices when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats feet over broken glass In our dry cellar lines 1 10 As so often happens in war the voices of those doing the fighting are lost quiet and meaningless in the resounding din of battle diplomacy and bureaucracy When Eliot writes Those who have crossed With direct eyes to death s other Kingdom 13 14 he refers to the older generation who are not fighting but are instead generating the conflict the straw soldiers lament that they will be remembered As the hollow men The stuffed Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 men 17 18 by those who refuse to listen to their voic es These men the straw men and the real men they represent were sacrifices in the bonfire of war just as the guys on the fifth of November The most striking and memorable lines of the poem are found within its famous and apocalyptic final stanza where th
23. e speaker s energy and perhaps Eliot s own willingness to argue against the society he so deplores implodes upon itself in the chanting of these bleak words This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper lines 95 98 It is here that Eliot makes his strongest statement against the society of his time and its leaders The war itself the bang was not the end and the world s death knell was instead the following peace Society survived World War that much is clear in that this poem was even written However Eliot feared perhaps rightly so that it would not survive the ensuing chaos of European diplomacy the very same diplomacy that swallowed Wilson Eliot s Mr Kurtz Continued on the next page This is relevant in today s society just as much as it was in 1925 war has not gone away and perhaps never will The storm of words meaningless and dry surround ing the war and swallowing up those who are sacrificed in the name of warmongers will perhaps always do more damage than the war itself ever could It was not the end of the world for T S Eliot s generation however the danger still remains and Eliot s words still ring true his prophecy that the world will not end in a fiery conflict but instead in the meaningless words of hollow men Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Works Cited Eliot T S The Hollow
24. ests However many natural disasters have taken place throughout history long before the idea of global warm ing was put forth The subject has been the basis for many groups to use as a scare tactic to advance their theories and push for environmental reform However these groups do not always have the scientific studies to back up their premise Continued on the next page Perhaps their conclusions are drawn from sources which Support them without sufficient analysis of opposing views The American Meteorological Society has stated that linking global warming to the increase in storms can not be done at this time At present there is no proof of any connection between greenhouse gas emissions and hurricanes A great deal more study will be necessary be fore such a correlation can be made Pielke Many scien tists including Dr William Gray who pioneered the study of hurricane forecasting feel that human beings are just not powerful enough to cause the type of warming neces sary to cause an increase in storms Gray Dr James J O Brien the Director of the Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University says that the theory that global warming causes an increase in oceanic temperatures which in turn create more storms sounds reasonable However water temperatures have actually cooled in the region which spawns hurricanes and the temperature of the Gulf of Mexico is always an aver age
25. five degrees in average March temperatures days earlier Continued on the next page According to temperature measurement research done at the Pew Center the consensus is that over the past 1 000 to 2 000 years temperatures have not been as high as they are now Laidman These are all valid points but there is not enough real data to significantly prove a link between global warming and the rise in number and intensity of hurri canes Theories concerning global warming and its effect on the environment need to be more fully studied Nev ertheless this does not mean that we should not be con cerned with what is happening to the earth Steps should be taken to reduce greenhouse emissions and do what ever is within our power to protect our world and preserve it for many generations to come Works Cited Abend Katherine 2001 Flirting With Disaster U S PIRG Retrieved January 23 2006 from Ohio Link Full Text database Glassman James 2005 Hurricanes and Global Warming An Interview with James O Brien Tech Central Station Retrieved January 23 2006 from http www techcentralstation com images gray transcript htm Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Glassman James 2005 Hurricanes and Global Warm ing An Interview with William Gray Tech Central Station Retrieved January 23 2006 from http www techcentralstation com images obrien transcript htm Knutson R amp Tuleya R E 1999 Increased
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27. ing its expansive damages on four different characters On This Stone is a personal reflection on the loss of her mother Nikki Locker is a senior from Westlake OH double ma joring in Theatre Arts and Early Childhood Education An artist from an early age Nikki was on the Morpheus staff for the last three years and has contributed to the Mor pheus every year Some of her past submissions include Normal Illinois Am and several photographs Jonnatha Jonna Mayberry is a sophomore English writ ing major She is from Fayette Ohio Jonna writes a lot of poetry in her free time but this was her first time ever submitting her writing Sarah Reed is a biology major with minors in chemistry and psychology She s a senior from Wooster who is cur rently interviewing at a number of medical schools Sar ah wrote this piece as a song for the Jena 6 rally Ben Sehwartz Schwarz is a junior psychology major has red hair and he has quite the lumberjack esque body He is a founding member of Rho Eta Delta and he is also the winner of almost everything in life Ben never fails Ben enjoys collecting pens and certain types of antique toilet paper scented or non scented Ben also wants to thank everyone for putting a T in his last name Guess what it doesn t belong there Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 David Young is a transfer student from Findlay Ohio studying English with a concent
28. is displayed and you can log in to your Oasis2 account Enter your Course Web Pages Moodle ee underlined in Figure l User ID Hu ness Please be patient ID and PIN OASIS Comparision It may take a few sec and use your left Vehicle Registration onds for the Oasis2 page mouse button to Student Life to load When the screen Uer us Dos Financial Aid Information comes up Figure 2 should Aou be displayed Figure 1 Figure 3 Main Menu Welcome Your Name Here Last web access on MM DD YYYY at pm Personal Information Update addresses contact information ar marital status register a vehicle for parking review name or social security number change information Change your PIN Customize your directory profile Student Apply for Admission Register and View your academic records Financial Aid See the status of your Financial Aid Moodle The Moodle Server Figure 4 If you remembered the correct user ID and PIN for your Oasis2 account the screen in front of you should be displaying Figure 4 This is the screen from which you can reach any of the many functions of the Oasis2 enrollment system The Personal Information link will take you to a screen where you can change any of your personal information that Heidelberg College has on file The Student link will take you to a screen where you can register for classes add or drop classes check your class schedule view your grades fifth week
29. lives with his parents and two younger sisters Craig graduated with honors from Lakota High School in 2005 where he was involved in many activities including student council Show choir National Honors Society football and track Craig graduated with honors from Terra Community Col lege in 2007 where he was involved in Phi Theta Kappa and received an Associates Degree in Pre Engineering His hobbies include tracking weather watching sports playing videogames collecting Hot Wheels and spending time with family and friends Alex Doepker is a senior communications and theatre arts major Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Author Biographies Jaimie Figueroa is from Cleveland OH She s a computer science and English writing double major She will be graduating in May 2009 Jaimie wrote this manual as one of the projects for her Technical Writing class this semes ter Jeremy Franks is a freshman history major Gary Gondek is a senior here at Heidelberg College He is from Avon Lake Ohio and is majoring in English lit erature and music with a voice emphasis In addition to academic writing Gary enjoys writing prose fiction His contribution to the Morpheus is a paper 5 Eliot s poem The Hollow Men and its post World War political commentary Abby Hockman is a sophomore English literature major with a history minor Her hometown is Lancaster Ohio A Boy and His Dog is a story about abuse stress
30. lyn Moss played by Josh Bro lin The Goonies Grindhouse Planet Terror who is out hunting deer when he stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone sour Bloody corpses litter the ground pick up trucks and other vehicles are full of bullet holes and more corpses a stash of heroin and 2 million in cash are left for the taking Moss grabs the cash and sets off a chain reaction of violence and bloodshed personified by one man the psychotic assassin Anton Chigurh por trayed in one of the creepiest performances I ve seen by Javier Bardem Before Night Falls Collateral Chigurh is an unstoppable killing machine who uses a pneumatic cattle stun gun for blasting the locks off of doors and carries a shotgun with a silencer that when fired makes the strangest most horrifying sound Woody Harrelson pops in as another only more diplomatic hit man by the name of Carson Wells sent in to deal with Chigurh and get the money Sheriff Bell tries his best to maintain law and order and hopes to find Moss before more bodies turn up Continued on the next page No Country for Old Men is easily the most violent Coen Brothers film to date Believe me that s saying a lot This film is not for the squeamish It is intense un comfortable and unsettling The lack of music adds to the atmosphere and tone of the film One can hear every blood curdling scream and groan The Coens also manage to add a little dark h
31. mation View Final Grades for all terms in academic history org anized by term of View Test Scores VIA View your test scores attendance tuition Academic Transcript Review an unofficial copy of your transcript Request Printed Transcript Order an official transcript Request Enrollment Verification Print certificate to verify enrollment Course Catalog Summary information about Heidelberg courses and financial aid and payments received Account Summary by Term Billing information by term attended Account Detail for Term Detailed billing information by term attended Credit Card Payment Go to OASIS to make a credit card payment Figure 13 Checking Financial Aid Status This section of the Oasis2 user s manual consists of instructions on how to check financial aid status using the Oasis2 enrollment system The first step to finding the right place to check your billing information is to use your left mouse button to click on the Financial Aid link underlined in Figure 14 When the next screen appears it should be displaying Figure 15 Personal Information Update addresses contact information Change your Student Apply for Admission Regist Financial Aid See the status of your Fina Moodle The Moodle Server Figure 14 Financial Aid Financial Aid Status View overall status holds a Eligibility Review Financial Aid Ho Award View account summary Rev lds Figure 15 To check your billing inf
32. o be witnessed would never dream of educating anyone without incorporating the arts especially children Children are young impressionable and are truly experiencing the world for the very first time Art provides everyone and especially children with the freedom to be who they truly are Through all forms of art children can clearly com prehend what it would be like to live in a candy castle to hear a symphonic orchestra to breathe in the waves of the ocean to fly Continued on the next page My career goal for education reflects my deep pas sion for children and the arts In 2005 changed my Theatre Arts minor to a second major with the hope of developing a theatre arts program for children Grow ing up there were always numerous opportunities to get involved in sports or music after school My dream is that children will get involved in an after school theatre program As much as possibly can I try to incorporate pantomime and dramatic play into my lesson plans love dramatic play and feel that it is essential in a child s education to get the opportunity to experience what it would be like to walk in the footsteps of someone else am hoping to do so myself when apply next year for the Walt Disney World College Program in antici pation of becoming a character or stage performer Much like art consider Walt Disney to be a life force A man of immortal genius he once summed up himself by saying I
33. ormation use your left mouse button to click on the Financial Aid Status link underlined in Figure 15 When you have done so your screen should be displaying Figure 16 Aid Year Some financial aid information is determined by Aid Y Select Aid Year Not t Applicable No v Value Found i200 7 2008 2006 2007 2005 2006 2004 2005 2003 2004 2001 2002 2000 2001 RELEASE 6 1 Figure 16 Select the year for which you want to know your financial aid information by clicking on it with your left mouse button Click the Submit button with your left mouse button and the screen that appears will display your financial aid status Your Oasis2 user ID and PIN should be entirely numerical If you are a freshmen there should only be financial aid information for the current year Heidelberg College 310 E Market St Tiffin Ohio 44883 2462 1 800 HEIDELBERG First Place On this Stone Abby And as gaze at the stone wish could believe the lie of the picture My hard heart was drawn to this place For have the same coral in my cheeks To a stranger of close relation And all that stands between us The memory of a cancer that raped her brain Mother and daughter Echoes in my soul years later Is life The tombstone the color of coral Reminds me of once flushed cheeks How odd to think that on this stone a life is captured How odd to think that on this stone a lie is ca
34. ory The number of storms is relatively the same each year the difference being in location and intensity While the number of hur ricanes of high levels has increased in the Atlantic Ocean in the northern hemisphere typhoons have decreased in the Pacific Ocean and southern hemisphere Records show that in the early 1940s hurricanes were very de structive but then the severity of the storms gradually decreased In 1995 storms in the Atlantic began an up Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Unsettled Waters Is Global Warming Contributing to More Hurricanes Third Place General Non Fiction ward swing both in numbers and intensity The opposite was true with typhoons in the Pacific Michaels It would appear that nature has a way of balancing itself If these patterns remain constant the severe hurricanes will con tinue for a number of years and then increasingly dimin ish in number and intensity There has been a great deal of discussion concern ing global warming and its effect on the earth Many theories have been advanced that the increase in the number and severity of the storms is due to global warm ing while just as many theories are presented that there is no link between the two Environmentalists present the argument that all weather related disasters such as droughts floods and storms are directly attributable to global warming caused by human activity such as burn ing of fossil fuels and destruction of for
35. ptured A picture Of mother son and daughter engraved This woman was never so fair Her son never so healthy Her daughter never so untroubled Yet the thick stone stands The permanent marker of a life hardly lived How fitting that the marker s finish is gloss Smoothing over a rough life Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 By Abby Hockman The boy lifted his small brown shoe and cracked the dog s ribs kicking once twice three times The only thing he felt was anger an anger which provided the fuel for the violence he was unleashing on Charlie The spaniel tried to get away but small hands like vice grips held its throat There was a collar and leash on the puppy and it was not going anywhere He slid his small hand up and down the dog s throat wondering what would happen if he squeezed Smoothly stroking the golden fur up and down up and down he tried to gain the puppy s trust When little Charlie had relaxed ever so slightly the boy became possessed with a rage that forced him to choke his pet The dog flailed pathetically and the life behind its eyes almost extinguished That wasn t enough though He wanted to make the dog pay Something had to pay for every time daddy yelled You fucking whore at mommy Something had to understand his pain every time daddy yelled I want to kill you So the little boy preyed on a life form more vulnerable then himself following daddy s exampl
36. r much of grade school mostly smells The smell of the lunchroom that always seemed to be the same no matter what food was in the foil trays the smell of Elmer s glue and the brown glue that looked like snot in art class The memory of coming to school in the morning and smelling the disinfectant cleaner they used on the desks that reminded me of the smell of matches The sharp odor of rusty steel of the old metal jungle gym a relic of an earlier era where safety wasn t important and how it would linger on my hands for hours after recess The four years after high school come to me in flashes arriving at boot camp going to combat training my first day at my first unit attending the Marine Corps ball with my wife Finally signing my final separation Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Early Morning Delivery Second Place Fiction papers and moving back to Ohio The next five are also blurry a lot of drinking and working jobs that I hated Fi nally decided to go to college and that is why was de livering papers at three in the morning on a lonely stretch of township road in October It didn t pay much but with classes all morning and kids the four hours from two to Six a m were a perfect fit think what really troubles me the things that can t remember don t remember how I felt when our first child was born remember being there but not the emotion don t remember most of my kids first coupl
37. ration in literature This is his first semester at Heidelberg David has been writing for years but Bar Lights is the first piece of work he has ever submitted for any type of publication Abandoned By J onnatha Mayberry Chipped paint falls from the walls of the old farmhouse Years have gone by since anyone has lived here Once these rooms had been filled with laughter Now these walls hold only pure silence The windows are looking out over life Spectators look in at darkness People will be curious They always are Emptiness remains Still Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Third Place Poetry By David Young You never seem to notice the quick glances steal when we are together You sit next to me and all the time we talk patiently wait for you to turn your eyes for a moment Even as we talk spend the night noticing ev erything about you in the dim light of the place we often meet listen intently as you speak taking in every word that comes from your lips While you speak gaze at the way the lights bring out every imperfection that makes you perfect catalogue them all in my mind like facts that someone would store up in order win at Trivial Pur Suit but what am committing to memory is in no way trivial They are what make you you and what makes me fall harder and harder every time we are in the same room You light another cigarette and watch earnestly as you d
38. raw the smoke into your lungs and release it from between your thin lips You take another drink and closely eye you as the amber liquid slowly flows forth You never notice You keep speaking and look directly into my eyes you always look directly in my eyes notice the way your cigarette dangles gently between your fingers it s as if you were mercifully holding my resolve in its place You turn from me to order another drink another Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Bar Lights Third Place Fiction moment may take in silently You continue to talk and continue to listen want to remember the sound of your voice so that it may lull me to sleep when we part You could not begin to un derstand the pain you inflict on me a pain that only you could succor was an easy kill My mind briefly wanders as begin to imagine what life with you would be like out side these four smoke stained walls can only imagine regain focus and the lights have become brighter this can only mean the end of our time together at least for now We say our goodbyes and once again watch you without you knowing it as you walk away The parting words always remind that we are doing just that The lonely journey home is always spent the same way won dering if there was anything that could have been said any word uttered that would have prevented you from departing know there is not you have someone wait ing Continued on nex
39. s Here begins the connection Eliot draws between Wilson and Mr Kurtz They are both men visiting from the shining world of civilization to bring hope to the dark and barbaric uncivilized world The comparison between Kurtz and Wilson does not end there however and like Kurtz Wil son found himself crushed by the forces he encountered and rejected by those who sent him Roessel Continued on the next page Part V of the poem indicts Wilson for making Kurtz s fatal error allowing a vast shadow to fall Between the idea And the reality lines 72 73 and Between the con ception And the creation 78 79 made all the more scathing by the repetition of For Thine is the Kingdom 77 referencing again Wilson s original welcome as a Messiah Wilson s death in 1924 solidifies this compari son by the time Eliot had written the poem Mistah Kurtz certainly was dead The link between Wilson and Kurtz is a bridge con necting The Hollow Men with Heart of Darkness even more closely Eliot may indeed have perceived Europe to be as dark and uncivilized as the characters of Conrad s novel perceived the Congo and as readers of that novel may come to perceive the very Europe Eliot is indicting Eliot writes in his poem The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms lines 52 56 Europe of cours
40. t page lie in bed and try to forget you yet you haunt me Your image your voice your scent all appear before my senses in the dark room stare at the unlit light that hangs from the ceiling remember every word ciga rette drink and laugh they won t allow me to sleep can t shut it out can clearly see the glow of your face in those dingy lights your crooked smile the shape of your neck and the strand of hair you constantly had to brush away from your eyes it s all here with me It all will re main with me until the next round Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 Third Place Nikki Locker ees Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 By Craig Conrad In recent years there has been an unprecedented num ber of hurricanes causing billions of dollars in damages and widespread loss of life and countless injuries Many scientists and environmentalists believe that there is a direct link between the rising number of hurricanes and warming of ocean currents due to global climate change Do facts really support this claim or are we jumping to conclusions without adequate study At this time there is not enough data to prove or disprove the theory that global warming is the cause of the recent increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes and other changes to the earth and its inhabitants Weather patterns occurring as natural cycles have remained fairly constant throughout hist
41. umor here and there but a lot of the time this is nervous laughter For those questioning the Coens for their last couple of films rest assured they are back to their roots with this latest masterpiece The acting is phenomenal the writing the pacing everything is spot on After the lights came up in the theater didn t care that Mr Dafoe had already snuck out was just pleased for having seen this picture 35 well spent highly recommend it and will be forking out seven more dollars when it opens in theaters on November 21 Call it Friendo Heidelberg College Morpheus Fall 2007 By Gary Gondek T S Eliot s The Hollow Men begins with two epi graphs Mistah Kurtz he dead and A penny for the Old Guy 56 These allusions to Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness and to Guy Fawkes Day provide the reader with an invaluable key in deciphering Eliot s meaning within his bleak poem The Hollow Men is a poem about war in a time of peace and a nation s actions during a war Eliot uses both Conrad s novel and the famous English holiday to illustrate this point vividly The reader s two clues to the true meaning the epigraphs lead finally to an en hanced understanding about Eliot s startling statement This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper lines 97 98 Published in 1925 The Hollow Men comes shortly after the end of the First World War Its apoc
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