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^to-^ etfirrtVLertcr L%^ .t 'Q^ fy(mnt{ii Washington College Review The Washington CollegeReview is a liberal artsjournal that seeks to recognize the best ofundergraduate student writing from all disciplines ofthe College and to publishwork deserving ofwider availability to readers in the College community and beyond. The Washington College Review is published annually by the Rose O'Neill Literary House Press. Cover Illustration: Self-Porlrait by Kathenne M. Coots '05 Mixed Media Washington College 300Washington Avenue Chesiertown, MD 21620 ©2005 byWashington College. All rights reserved. Washington College Review A Liberal ArtsJournal '<& Volume XIII 2005 Chestertown, Maryland Editorial Board Michele Volansky, editor Kathryn Moncrief, humanities editor John L. Seidel, social sciences editor Jennifer O'Neill, fine arts editor Katherine A. Cameron, natural sciences editor KathyWagner, creative writing editor Robert Mooney, publisher Meredith Davies Hadaway managing editor Kaitlin Knight Amann '06, student editor, publication design Contents AWord from the Editor IX Old Testament and an Old Man 1 Will Grofic Gum Underneath the Desk: A FingerAway 3 Will Grofic "In whom Love wrought new alchemie:" InverseAlchemy in "A Nocturnall on S. Lucies Day" 5 JenniferBockmiller Modern Physics as Seen Through the Philosophy ofSimone Weil and Three Contemporary Plays 15 Michael Ridgaway Fifty-Thousand Chickens 23 Liam Daley The Professor Speaks ofClass 31 HeatherAnn Blain "And Dats De Way Dey Take Us In;" The Role ofMusic in the Gang-Labor System 33 Johann Wahnon God'sJudges: DivineJustice in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy 47 Samuel Herman Out to Dry 61 Anna Lodwick January 22, 2005 62 Elizabeth Rideout Mikes Drawer 63 Bethany Heilman Youseji Silence 64 Nicole Tripp CMSP in November 65 Astra Haldeman For Robert Rauschenberg 67 M.Jeanette Kelkher Venice,July 69 M.Jeanette Kellcher The Relationship ofEducation and Rural-to-Urban Migration to Quito's "Urban Children at Risk" 71 Jessica Cain Two Weeks After Christmas, 2004 87 Sara Kathleen Wuillermin Home as an Imagmary Place 89 Ron Young VI EInfluence de la Revolution Frangaise de 1789 sur les ecrivainset 1ecriture du dix-neuvieme siecle 99 KathrynBelmonte The Influence ofthe French Revolution of 1789 on the Writers andWritings ofthe Ninteenth Century 111 KathrynBelmonte ExploringCivil Societies in the Middle East 119 Ambika Vishwanath Autonomy and Equality 139 HeatherAnn Blain AWord from the Publisher 147 Contributors 151 Colophon 156 VII Digitized by tine Internet Arcinive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/washingtoncolleg13unse