Delta Winds: A Magazine of Student Essays A Publication of San Joaquin Delta College 2002

Table of Contents

• Memories
  Honorato Menezes rekindles memories of his grandmother and life on the Azores.
• Winnie-the-Pooh and My Tummy Too
  Sarah Pope questions self-help ads and articles before finding her own solution from an unlikely source.
• The Story of Juan Sánchez
  Branimir Ciric critiques a short story by Richard Dokey, a Delta College philosophy instructor.
• AIDS in Africa
  Raulyne Kenfack chronicles how she found a way to educate an unwilling village in the prevention of AIDS.
• Workplace Policies: Dictator or Protector
  Steven Price clarifies how and why policies and procedures affect employees.
• Four Walls
  Jennifer Hallum contemplates on the value and solace found in a comforting environment.
• Lies and Fuzzy Legs
  Sarah Pope gives a humorous look into the deception caused by infomercials.
• Days Gone By
  Linda Mangrum compares small-town life in Sonora then and now.
• In Defense of the Real American Family
  Kenneth D. Valdez sheds light on research comparing the non-traditional family to the two-parent family.
• Our Differences
  A Delta Winds writer struggles to understand what causes unprovoked violence.
• Happiness
  Tiiu Newlin distinguishes between pleasure and happiness, between objects and a way of life.
• Hooked on "Caramel-Colored Gold"
  Melody Nelson argues against junk food vending machines on the schoolgrounds.
• Editors' Choice Introduction
  The Editors' Choice essays are works published in previous volumes of Delta Winds. As a way of commemorating the fifteenth volume of Delta Winds, the editors have selected these essays for special recognition.
• Editors' Choice: Homemade Dresses
  Michelle Cox notes a moment of silence from her childhood.
  (Originally published in 1992 in Delta Winds Volume 3)
• Editors' Choice: Racism and Sexism in Advertising
  Shafeeq Sadiq analyzes the subtle messages found in advertising.
  (Originally published in 1997 in Delta Winds Volume 10)
• Editors' Choice: Me and My Shadow
  Cathy Anne Murtha recalls meeting her guide dog for the first time.
  (Originally published in 1997 in Delta Winds Volume 10)