Red Deer Polytechnic

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Creative Writing (Years 3 and 4). A screenplay written with creativity and a strong supernatural interpersonal storyline.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Creative Writing (Years 3 and 4). Creative writing, poetry.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Creative Writing (Years 3 and 4). A screenplay of a cyberpunk future.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Creative Writing (Years 1 and 2). A creative work - part photographic journal, part memoir, part analysis - that became a story of motherhood.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Creative Writing (Years 1 and 2). A short story of memory and trauma in the family home.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Creative Writing (Years 1 and 2). A creative series of 'unfinished' love letters.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Research Essay (Years 3 and 4). A research essay that discusses how feminist media theory challenges the patriarchal system of how film portrays gender.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Research Essay (Years 3 and 4). A research essay that discusses the 'Indigenous Critique' and the Wyandot orator Kandiaronk's success in navigating the political waters of the English, French and Haudenosaunee people in North America.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Research Essay (Years 3 and 4). A research essay that discusses the aggressive eugenics campaign of the Nazi Party in the 1930s, revealing the oppressive policies of sterilization, compulsory motherhood and abortion prohibition.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Research Essay (Years 1 and 2). A research essay that examines the Early to Late Middle Ages practice of astrology and the Christian belief that practitioners were heretics.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Research Essay (Years 1 and 2). A research essay discussing the gender balance in the politics of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of 1600s Eastern Canada.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Research Essay (Years 1 and 2). A research essay discussing the art form, 'Ukiyo-e' or Japanese Woodblock Printing, as the foundation of modern contemporary art.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 3 and 4). "This paper represents an excerpt from a much larger “critical annotated edition” for S.E. Hinton’s 'The Outsiders', and as such it is somewhat different from a traditional analytical essay. The project is divided into two sections: the first, the “Introduction”, is a critical examination of the novel’s history, influence, and scholarly aspects, with the second being a close reading of a passage from the text." [footnote]

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 3 and 4). An analytic essay discussing the meaning of wage labour and the definition of employee self-ownership in the TV series, 'Severance'.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Analytic Essay (Years 3 and 4). An analytic essay exploring the veil as a conduit to the supernatural in the Puritan concept of sin.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 1 and 2). An analytic essay that discusses how storytelling and filmmaking techniques present a postmodern perspective on America's fascination with the violent history of the Wild West.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 1 and 2). An analytical essay comparing two texts that reveal the importance of self-fulfillment through the practices of grounded normativity.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Analytic Essay (Years 1 and 2). An analytic essay that discusses the male gaze in James Joyce’s novel, 'Araby'.

A research essay exploring the depiction of women pharaohs and shifting narratives of power in the art of Ancient Egypt.

An research essay comparing the limitations of the current educational system in disallowing children the power and autonomy to choose their educational path to the role of clones in the novel, 'Never Let Me Go'.

Executive Summary of the Independent Research paper.

A research essay discussing the relationship between art and evil in Oscar Wilde's novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' through an analysis of the Aesthetics Movement and Art Nouveau.

An analytical essay focusing on the interplay between attachment styles and social media from the psychological viewpoint of Attachment theory.

An analytical essay focusing on the use of EEG in researching music, multi-tasking and working memory.

An analytical essay discussing the debate regarding lab animals used in medical experiments.