The following papers and original creative pieces were written by students enrolled in Lit 112A and Lit 112B. These pieces are published with permission of the authors, with whom all copyright resides. Reprint of these materials is strictly prohibited without written consent of the authors.

• "Handsome Lake," by Natasha Montoya - A paper analyzing the Seneca story about the "discovery of America" by Europeans, related by storyteller Handsome Lake. The writer credits Handsome Lake for using "the white man's naivete, greed, and religion as the means by which [white men are] fooled into doing something as evil as what they have done in the story."

• "Report made by Honor Student Arthur W. Erskine to our Professor Kenn Pierson concerning the abominable treatment of Canine in the State of California. The year 1998." - A parody which attempts to "emulate the rhythms of Father Fray Carlos Delgado's report to Rev. Father Ximeno, which addressed the abominable hostilities and tyrannies of the governors and alcades mayors of New Mexico towards the Indians in the 1750's."

• "The Martyr of Los Angeles," by Ana Nieto - A poem written in response to "The Martyr of Alabama," by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper chronicles the trampling death of a young black boy in Alabama, while Nieto focuses on the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles.

• "The Brown Picket Fence," by Eddie Becerra - A personal essay about racism in Orange County, written in response to poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

• "A Visit to Yellowstone," by Todd Tomita - A sequel to Charlotte Perkin Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," in which the central character is diagnosed with bipolar disease and institutionalized in Yellowstone, an insane asylum on the California coast. After her release, she obtains a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford, enabling her to make a surprising self-diagnosis of her true "condition."