Red Deer Polytechnic

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Research Essay (Years 1 and 2). A research essay that looks at the resurgence of vinyl records as an analog medium in a culture dominated by digital media.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Research Essay (Years 1 and 2). A research essay that discusses the philosophy of deflation in macroeconomics of a modern Western economy.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Research Essay (Years 1 and 2). A research essay that compares Escapism and Realism in two classic films, "The Thin Man" and "The Maltese Falcon".

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 3 and 4). An analytic essay that presents a personal view toward the themes of white privilege and harm in 'Bro' by Ian Williams.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 3 and 4). An analytic essay that discusses the many types of feminism with a focus on trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERFism) and looks at the way that feminism has historically caused harm to groups with marginalized identities.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Analytic Essay (Years 3 and 4). An analytic essay that discusses race and gender in Kogawa's Obasan, a novel of childhood in Canada's Japanese internment camps during WWII.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 3rd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 1 and 2). An analytical essay that reveals the role women as Jigonsaseh played in the early history of Canada and the United States.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 2nd Place, Analytic Essay (Years 1 and 2). An analytical essay of the filming elements that communicate the destructive power dynamics between the characters in the western movie, The Power of the Dog.

Winner of the Student Writer Award 1st Place, Analytic Essay (Years 1 and 2). An analytic essay that discusses silence and memory in Kogawa's Obasan, a novel of childhood in Canada's Japanese internment camps during WWII.

An analytical essay outlining the effects of excessive alcohol consumption on college students.

An analytical essay focusing on the perception of the Japanese Geisha in America.

A personal look at the narrative functionality in video games for both passive and active consumers.

An analytical essay comparing the healing effects of storytelling in two of Richard Wagamese's novels.

A critical essay on the Sentience View of moral personhood.

An analytical essay discussing the development of the Solutrean hypothesis as an attempt to reorient the human origin of North America as white European.

An analytical essay that seeks to define body image and its involved processes and that examines the ideals of media and its effects on body image.

An analytical essay that examines active and passive euthanasia.

An analytical essay discussing linguistic sexism as the invisibility and depreciation of women.

An analysis of propaganda in film.

An analysis of the film elements in Roma and of the main character, Cleo.

An analytical essay discussing academic procrastination.

An analytic essay that traces the source of Africa's atrocities to colonialism.

An analytical essay on the concept of death and how death is presented in two classic children's books.

An analytical essay on successful listening.

An analytic essay that questions the reliance on the testimony of religious experts.