The Nomination Hello! This is Nick Sansone, a current junior here at Uni. I am writing to nominate a paper that I wrote in English last year for the Wylde Q. Chicken Award. The assignment was to write any kind of response to one of Shakespeare's sonnets that we had read in class. Most people wrote serious papers about how they related to the themes of the sonnets or wrote sonnets of their own. However, I had a completely different thought process while reading the sonnet below: Shakespeare's Sonnet #130 My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lip's red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; In some perfumes there is more delight Than the breath with which my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know, Music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.         And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare         As any she belied with false compare. I found the best way to relate to this was in a modern-day Jerry Springer episode, resulting in the attached paper which I turned in. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. I hope you enjoy it! Nick Sansone