Artifacts, Issue 12 (2015)

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Editor's Introduction to Issue 12: The community guides the individual’s behaviors and actions and controls misbehaviors and bad actions. This society starts from the family and ends with the people who are living in the surroundings. The small society, however, has interrelationships with other societies, which makes it impossible for an individual to be apart from the whole global community. In other words, the small society is a small picture of the big society, which is the whole global community. Individuals, hence, are free in their wills in some contextual situations, and they are not free in other contextual situations. When an individual’s action or behavior constitutes any kind of harm or danger to others, the individual becomes unfree in his will, even when his will is good for him. Accordingly, an individual is free only when the behavior or action does not affect negatively members of the community. Artifacts is a refereed journal of undergraduate work in rhetoric and composition at the University of Missouri. The journal celebrates writing in all its forms by inviting student authors to submit projects composed across different genres and media. Artifacts seeks to promote a public exchange of ideas by providing MU students with audiences outside their own classrooms. Please note that all links provided in the articles were current at the time the article was placed in MOspace.

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Books, or, A brief history of a fleeting love affair
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015) Myers, Peter
In this work, Peter Myers presents his relationship with reading and some of the books that hold important places in his personal development.
I Love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015) Mackenzie, Bruce
[Harry Burns and Sally Albright] begin as recent college graduates driving from Chicago to New York; they do not see eye-to-eye and after the drive, leave with mutual contempt for one another. Five years later, they meet again on a plane and recognize each other, progressing their relationship as acquaintances. After another five years, they see each other in a bookstore and agree to have dinner, the first step to start their friendship. The two remain friends for a while, straddling the line between friends and lovers. Their relationship changes for the worse after they have sex, but after Harry's realization that he loves Sally, the two appear as the last couple in a documentary-style shot. Through the transformation of Harry and Sally's relationship, food serves as a marker of change, coinciding with their feelings for each other.
The Cultural power of iron in early Africa
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015) Froeschle, Elias
Iron played a central role in many societies of early Africa. It held both spiritual and material power. Physically, Africans used iron to create tools for agriculture, utensils for everyday life, and weapons for protection and conquest. Spiritually, Africans considered iron potent. Because of the elemental forces wielded to create iron out of earth, smiths were revered, respected, and feared.
Birth of a workforce : The Blacksmiths rise in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015) Murray, Jordan
The "Ritual Staff with Seated Nommo" made by the Dogon people from modern Mali available at the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archeology represents the rise in specialized occupations in early Africa and demonstrates the complex techniques of smelting and crafting iron, which were carried out across the continent during the so called Iron Age. Blacksmiths and metalworking were common throughout Africa since 1000 BCE. They used primarily gold, tin, zinc, and iron, but also scarce metals in the continent, such as copper, which Africans imported from Europe and Asia through trans-saharan trade routes. The museum's Dogon staff was entirely made of iron in the first half of the twentieth century. However, the techniques used to build it were similar to those employed in previous centuries, allowing us to examine Africans' progression from farmers to tradesmen and the rise of blacksmiths' power in early Africa.
Hauntings of the Hudson Valley : landscapes, and ghosts
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015) Brassea, Michael
The Hudson Valley is an area of one hundred and fifty miles that encompasses a large section of New York State, from Albany to downstate New York. Over the last few centuries the Hudson Valley area has become to many a very haunted place. These hauntings are seen through various literary sources, local stories, and folklore. The hauntings of this area have been said to influence such early American short stories as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Not only do the atrocities against Native Americans linger in the minds of Americans and the literature written by early American authors, but cause feelings of regret that keep the ghosts in style.

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