2015 Delta Winds

A Magazine of Student Essays

A Publication of San Joaquin Delta College 2015

Table of Contents

• Letter from the Editors
• The Dividing Line
  Jessica Driver comes to a realization about the social class distinctions in her hometown of Lodi, California.
• Unsocial Media
  Christina Teed analyzes the dysfunctional behavior in the film Disconnect and applies her findings to her own family.
• A Little Bean
  Kayla Sabella Weaver tracks the complicated decision-making and reactions involved after a positive preganancy test.
• Adventures in Education: Mexico and the U.S.
  Eloisa Garcia comes to an understanding of how her mother prepared her for the challenge of a foreign language environment.
• A Meaningful Vacation
  Thong Duc Cao fondly recalls powerful images when meeting relatives in the Vietnamese countryside.
• An Unforgettable Event in My Life
  Abdul Juana, as a five-year-old, has his life turned upside down with a murderous civil war in Sierra Leone.
• Coming Out
  Brianna Webb rebels against the social values of her parents and chooses to embrace her own path.
• My Grandmother Danced Barefoot to Korean Music
  Candy Lin recollects deep impressions of a loving relative from her early childhood.
• How I Met My Mother
  Tenille Packer meets the woman who abandoned her for a life of crime and irresponsibility.
• Meeting John Doe
  Kayla King questions her self-worth as the child of an absentee father before finally meeting him.
• We Were Just Doing Our Jobs, Sir
  Jonathan Bethards relives the intensity and frustration a first-responder experiences with a life-threatening incident.
• The Big Red Pickup
  Marla Jenkins runs for her life in an escape from an abusive relationship.
• An Analysis of the Chorus in Henry V
  Alex Chellsen focuses on Shakespeare's use of metaphor and wordplay in one of his historical plays.