Delta Winds: A Magazine of Student Essays A Publication of San Joaquin Delta College 2004

Table of Contents

• Letter from the Editors
  
• Forgotten Children
  Cassandra J. Eastham discusses the need for child support services and explains the procedures involved in collecting support.
• A Hard Act to Follow
  Karrie L. Bennett narrates the short but accomplished life of her father, a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Livermore Lab.
• Growing Up With Lies
  Katie Williams shares episodes of a child raised by an unreliable parental figure.
• The Burden of Being Black
  George Austin explores language and the underlying connections involved with word connotations, race, perception, power, and prejudice.
• My Technologically Challenged Life
  Monica Wunderlich describes a life lacking the influence of the latest technology.
• "No."
  L. Hoag questions why so many people in his life pressure him to get a haircut.
• Parental Advisory
  Lorrie Condon heeds a mother's warning not a moment too soon.
• Prescription Drug Ads: Too Much Information?
  Bryan Tortolani criticizes pharmaceutical companies for pushing drugs through television advertisements.
• The Day I Died
  Daniel Maychen returns to his childhood memory of the tragic loss of a family member.
• The All-American Prospect
  Samuel S. Barbano compares the views held by Henry Thoreau and Benjamin Franklin on extravagance and industry.
• The Best Thing
  Angela Quinones relates the events in her life that led her away from and back to her chosen path and place.
• The Death Penalty: Society's Injustice System
  Alisha Ott argues against capital punishment on moral, practical, and economic grounds.
• King of the Road
  L. Hoag relishes his independence on an open, isolated road as he watches the invading construction crews.
• What Did You Say?
  Lorrie Condon expresses the frustrations of learning the complexities of American slang.