Emiliano Gomez is from Marysville, CA, a small town off the 99 surrounded by orchards, just north of the Capitol, a working class community that motivated his creative writing thesis and research. He double majors in English (with a concentration in Creative Writing) and Linguistics & French (with a specialization in Computing). The working title of his thesis is “An Elegy for Middle America.” His thesis elaborates that—based on empirical evidence—the state of man is a failed state. Gomez’s work aims to prove that the goal of man is to be his unique expression, unique being. Proving that this goal is unaccomplished, Gomez attempts to derive how man failed, which influences were too overpowering, experiences too severely damaging; and decisively concludes that family and culture have left us with the unexpressed man, the middle American. After graduation, Gomez aims to achieve Aristotelian magnificence.