10th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

119 Pages·2015·3.71 MB·English

10th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
DISTINCTIONS

Volume 10 | Number 02
Spring 2015
DISTINCTIONS, the journal of the Honors Program of Kingsborough Community
College of the City University of New York, welcomes scholarly articles and creative works
that explore important issues in all aspects of humanistic endeavor, not confined to a spe-
cific academic discipline. Our editorial staff is sympathetic to a broad range of theoretical
and critical approaches; however, the views expressed in articles are solely those of the
authors.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Associate Professor Robert Cowan | Editor
WAC Fellow Erika Bodor | Faculty Editor
WAC Fellow Samuel Nicolosi | Faculty Editor
ADVISORY BOARD
Associate Provost Reza Fakhari | Office of Academic Affairs
Dr. Rachelle Goldsmith | Director of the Honors Program
Book Layout by
Tsubasa Berg
Kingsborough Center for Advanced Technology Training (KCATT)
Cover Art by
Elena Archer
Copyright © 2015 Kingsborough Community College The City University of New York
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EDITOR’S COLUMN
Decade

The 2014-15 academic year marks the tenth anniversary of Distinctions, the journal
of the Kingsborough Community College Honors Program. What Professor Barbara Wal-
ters began in 2004 as “the pet project of one faculty member” has become institutionalized
here at the College under the leadership of Honors Program Director Rachelle Goldsmith
and Associate Provost Reza Fakhari.
Professor Walters served as editor for the first three years, handed the reins to me
when I arrived at Kingsborough in 2008, and I have now been editor for the last seven, but I
will be handing the reins to someone else shortly. It has been a great pleasure to be in charge
of this publication. We have published pieces by over 250 students in the last ten years,
including disciplines from fashion design and mathematics to philosophy and nursing. We
have included a range of students, diverse in age and background, but with the common
thread of outstanding academic achievement. The word “decade,” meaning “ten parts,” de-
rives from the works of Roman historian Livy, and indeed the ten volumes of Distinctions
serve as an intellectual history of most recent period in the College’s ongoing story.
When the Fall-2104 issue of Distinctions went to press, I had written an editor’s
column dedicating that issue to my late father, Dick Cowan, an educator for over 35 years.
But, by the time the issue was printed, my mother, Jeanne Feiman, had died as well. It is
from her that got my own concern with issues of inequality and social justice, and it has
been articles related to those issues that I have tended to favor in my tenure as editor of this
publication. So, I would like to dedicate my last issue of Distinctions to the memory of my
mother and to say thank you for all who have made this journal such an important compo-
nent of life here at Kingsborough.
Robert Cowan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English
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A Streetcar Named Desire Illustrated:
Excerpts from Scene 31
Jezreel Agustin
1 Completed under the mentorship of Prof. Robert Blaisdell for ENG 12: Freshman Composition I.
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