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'.
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'.
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.
A historical essay on the 1837 Smallpox epidemic and the steps the Swan River HBC fort took to stop the spread of the disease among the indigenous people of the area.
An analytical essay exploring Japanese film history, specifically through how 'hentai' provides a way for individuals to express their private desires as an act of counterculture in a time of censorship placed upon the Japanese by Americans.
An analytical essay that explores the debate around homoeroticism within Shakespeare’s work regarding whether it exists through the actor or to further the heterosexual bonds of the characters.