2012 Table of Contents

Colloquy, Volume 8, Fall 2012

The Rhetoric of Cyber-Mourning: The Case of "10th Anniversary of Baby Casey"

Paul Vera

Love and Lust for FANg Culture: The Fandom behind the Twilight Phenomenon

Patricia Alberto

Gender and the Nature of Extended Prayer: An Analysis of Sappho's To Aphrodite, Enheduanna's Lady of the Largest Heart and The Exhaltation of Inanna, and Saint Augustine's Confessions

Sarah J. Black

You and I: Lady GaGa's Performative Disidentification of Social Normalcy

Jaime Guzmán

Communicating Symbolically: The Significance of Doodling between Symbolic Action and Psychoanalytical Perspectives

Afnan Qutub

The Forgotten Three Decades and Book IV of Augustine's On Christian Doctrine

Rensi Ke

Political Preemptive Apologia: Senator Barack Obama's Memo on Declining Public Financing for the 2008 General Election

Tanya Andrea Cornejo

How Employment Affects the Academic Achievements of Cal State LA Graduate Students

Angie Vargas and May Maalouly

Theories of Mass Communication: Analysis of Theories and Concepts to Content in Mass Media

Remy Ashe

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