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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    University of Missouri, Department of English (University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
    Table of contents for Artifacts, Issue 12 (2015).