Included in this issue:Shift Happens: The Discourse Shift and Its Implications for SocietySara Mohler, Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pennsylvania)What the Hack?: Communication Dysfunction in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49Jacqueline Boualavong, Honors College, Towson University (Towson, Maryland)Disobedience, Generational Gaps, and Warren's Court in Andrea Lee's Sarah PhillipsNathan Dize, University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)Grimm Lessons: Animals and a Child's Vicarious LandscapeChristina Elaine Miles, Stevenson University (Stevenson, Maryland)The Shifting Gaze in Stephen Crane's "The Monster"Abigail Wagner, Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland)Nausicaä, Miyazaki's Great HeroineKelly Thompson, Howard Community College (Columbia, Maryland)Les Morceaux de ma Mère (Bits and Pieces of My Mother)Sophia Laurenne Altenor, Goucher College (Towson, Maryland)Tolstoy: An Incomplete ConversionDiana Walsh, University of Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)