Category: Essay & Reflections
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Remembering My Grandma’s Garden — She Loved her Daffodils
I was inspired to enter the Ocean Awareness Writing Contest by a teacher. I had never before entered a writing contest, and she felt it would be a valuable experience. This writing contest had a list of set topics to choose from. Generational Knowledge was a category that provided a broad range of different writing…
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I’m a Civilian, not a Target — When Civilians are Hurt, That is Terrorism
Going into writing this essay, it took meticulous research and days of planning even before writing. Out of the 2025 John Locke essay’s seven subject categories, one of the philosophy categories read: “When civilians are the main target, there’s no need to consider the cause. That’s terrorism; it’s evil.” This topic caught my attention from…
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Toxic Exposure for All
An Analysis of Social Media’s Role in Sexism “Informed Citizen Essay” was the Finals essay we wrote in the first Semester of my Junior year AP Language and Composition class. It was a research paper that had no boundaries for the students to adhere to – besides the MLA format – and it was required…
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Lit Junior Editor
It Started with a Good Story — Polyphony Lit Junior Editor Polyphony Lit is a literary magazine with works submitted by students and edited by their student editors. I stumbled upon Polyphony Lit through the suggestion of my English teacher, who gave me much encouragement to join. I’m passionate about creative writing and literary fiction,…
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