Writing Samples
Originally an assignment for English class, this piece of writing was first written as an allegory on how violence is not a means to solve problems. It was later rewritten as a fiction short-story piece which won 2nd place in the Young Writer’s Contest 2022 at Spencertown Academy.
Written for American Literature Class, the course was an overview of short works of fiction produced in the US in the last two centuries. This piece drew inspiration from an assigned reading of Black Boy by Richard Wright, a memoir of his upbringing in the American South. A Single Orange later won Honorable Mention in the Spencertown Academy Young Writer’s Contest 2021.
This piece was a final project for the course, The Inferno of Dante. It represents my vision of hell as seen through the character’s eyes.
This essay was created in the Fall of 2022 for the senior seminar, Zoology and Evolution. The essay is an answer to the prompt how our world today could change if our cultural morals and beliefs changed.
These are short pieces written as part of the Creative Writing elective. Students were given a variety of prompts and asked to write original thoughts.
As part of an economics course in January 2022, we read various texts to gain perspective on capitalism, communism, fiscal policy and the place of economics in contemporary social life. Students were asked to write their opinion on Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto.