2008 History Day National Qualifiers Junior Division: Papers Peter Hopper,Home School, "No Paper Compromise": How the Federal Response to the Pratt Street Riot Escalated What Proved to be a Costly Conflict Between Maryland and the Union Emma McGregor, Community Middle School, "Stonewall: Conflict and Compromise with Gay Rights in America" ALTERNATE Eman Eljdid,John M. Bailey, "1967 Detroit race Riots: A Time of Violence and Tragedy" Exhibit Individual Avisha Thakkar,Valley Middle School, "13 Seconds: Four Dead in Ohio" Hannah Bogolub,Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, "Sayanora Freedom: Manzanar's Conflict of Japanese Internment" ALTERNATE3015, Eric Sauer,Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, "Conflicts and Compromises of the U.S. Biological Warfare Program 1940-1969" Exhibit Group Valentina Pannullo, Victoria Gatarz, Emily Jarosiewicz and Amanda Chin,Applegarth MS, "Disney's America Exposed: How America's Favorite Mouse Fought—and Lost—A Battle to Build a New Theme Park" Priyal Kapadia, Santhoshi Kotrike, Kerrianne Fuoco, Haarika Reddy and Arthi Suresh,Applegarth Middle School, " The Rossmoor Revolution: How a Town Compromised its Identity to Solve a Taxing Conflict" ALTERNATE Monica Chung, Colin Whittle and Matthew Whittle, Valley Middle School, "The Highlands Act: A Growing Conflict, A Dying Compromise" Performance Individual Vineel Chakradhar,Manalapan English-town Middle School, "Religious Conflict Leading to the Indian Partition" Sarah Schneid,Pond Road Middle School, "13 States, 13 Opinions, One Constitution" ALTERNATE Arianna SjamsuGrover Middle School, "Releasing the Power of Savants: Aspergians and Society Reach for Understanding Through Compromise" Performance Group Eric Wang, Bryan Wang, Alex Lew and Stephen Guo,Marlboro Middle School, "The Dead Compromise: Last Conflict at Wounded Knee" Lisa Zheng, Matthew Herling, Olya Spassibojko and Angelina Lin,Marlboro Middle School, "Broken Promises: The Treaty of New Echota" ALTERNATE Giancarlo Sasso, Matthew Balik and Eugene Gonnello, St. Anthony, "Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Perspectives" Documentary Individual Thomas Halloran,Valley Middle School, "Armageddon in a Bombshell: The Quest of the Anti-Nuclear" Haley Potter,Marlboro Middle School, "Abolition of Slavery in New Jersey" ALTERNATE Shirel Danie, lRosa International Middle School, "To Vote or Not Vote: The 19th Amendment" Documentary Group Patrick O'Toole, Harrison Kim, Alex Siegel, Max Cohen and Perry Feinstein,Rosa International Middle School, "We, These United States: The Rebirth of a Nation" Megan Riley, Dana Silver, Brendon Rush, Teresa Banecker and Josh Becker,Rosa International Middle School, "Inventing America" ALTERNATE Tejasvi Gowda and Payal Marathe,Community Middle School, "A Crisis Conflict: China's Government Oversteps Its Bounds" Websites Alvaro Morel,School 18, "African American Civil War Soldiers: They Fought to Achieve" Nikita Raman, Dylan Nguyen and Jason Feinberg, Marlboro Middle School, "In the Name of Justice" ALTERNATE Alison Caceres and Perla Cruz,School 18, "No Room for Compromise: Revolutionary War in New Jersey, A State Divided by the Nations Conflict" Senior Division: Papers Joan Wilder,West Morris Central High School, "Conflict in the Workplace: The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913" Emily Morris,West Morris Central High School, "The Incursion into Laos: Lam son 719" ALTERNATE Robert Larson,West Morris Central High School, "444 Days: The Iran Hostage Crisis" Individual Exhibit Thaherun Miah,John F. Kennedy High School, "Women Air Force Service Pilots" Omar Acuna, John F. Kennedy High School, "Atomic Bomb" ALTERNATE Nickeisha Bennett,Eastside High School, "Conflicting Theories: The Historiographies of Roanoke" Group Exhibit Amjad Hamdan, Numan Mutlib, Robinson Cerat and Adnan Miah,John F. Kennedy, "Freedom Summer" Ronak Bharucha, Andy Balbuena, Tahiya Choudhury, Aesha Ahmed and Mahjeda Ali,Passaic County Technical Institute, "The Second Sunrise" ALTERNATE Denice Tapia, Akhlema Haidar, Jessica Cruz and Carolyn Andia, John F. Kennedy, "Konflict, Kompromise, and Kummunion" Individual Performance Ragha Suresh,Freehold Borough High School, "Hindu-Muslim Conflict and the Partition of India" James Boyce,Colts Neck High School, "Continuous Aim Naval Gunnery" ALTERNATE Kristi Marie DelGuidice,Bayonne High School, "Life: Holocaust" Group Performance Sarah K. Brodsky, Alexandra Hartley, Bettii Glauberszon and Allison Hartley, Montville High School, "Nobody Knows" Andrew Travis, Brandon Zurawlow, Jenna Abate, Kaitlyn Fitton, and Stephen Capitanelli,Montville High School, "The Great Compromise" ALTERNATE Vagisha Pandey, Reem Rayef, Alice Nie and Namrata Barbhaiya,Robbinsville High School, "Make Peace, Not War" Individual Documentaries Carolyn Lipka,West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, "Deaf"-Con Two: The Misheard Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis" Jason Vespoli, West Morris Central High School, "Controversy Over the Atom Bomb" ALTERNATE Ingrid Ma,West-Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, "Anthracite Coal Mine Strike of 1902" Group Documentaries Brittany Hoehlein, Kelly Kren, Margan Duhe and Amanda Meling,West Morris Central High School, "The Chicago Seven Trial" Tara Antonucci, Samantha Hughes, Samantha D'Ambola and Matt Stypulkoski,West Morris Central High School, "The Battle of the Bulge: The Conflict that Turned the Tide in World War II" ALTERNATE Poi DeStefano, Samantha Hansen, Mary Cabarle and Amy WardropWest Morris Central High School, "Four Days of Terror in New York" Websites Jeol Rodriguez,Eastside High School, "Dominican Civil War in 1965 and United States Intervention" Special Prizes NJ Historical Commission Prize Haley PotterMarlboro Middle School, "Abolition of Slavery in New Jersey" Best Use of Newspapers Peter Hopper,Home School, "No Paper Compromise : How the Federal Response to the Pratt Street Riot Escalated What Proved to be a Costly Conflict Between Maryland and the Union" Laura BoyceManalapan-Englishtown Middle School, "Endangered Species Act" Patrick O'Toole, Harrison Kim, Alex Siegel, Max Cohen, Perry Feinstein, Rosa International Middle School, "We, These United States: The Rebirth of a Nation" Raghav Gupta, Marlboro Middle School, "The Unknown Compromise" Carolina Ocampo, Lytisha Clements, Shentia Uddin, Ghadeer Abuhamdeh,John F. Kennedy High School, "Against All Odds – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" John T. Cunningham Award Peter Hopper,Home School, "No Paper Compromise": How the Federal Response to the Pratt Street Riot Escalated What Proved to be a Costly Conflict Between Maryland and the Union" Patrick O'Toole, Harrison Kim, Alex Siegel, Max Cohen, Perry Feinstein,Rosa-International Middle School, "We, These United States: The Rebirth of a Nation" Technology Award Jason Vespoli, West Morris Central High School, "Controversy over the Bomb" Katherine Austin,Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, "The Launch of Sputnik"