My Writing.
Read below to see some of my favorite pieces from various courses, mediums, and causes.
You may notice that they vary in topic area from post to post, but I hope you recognize one consistent theme:
An eager longing to improve the lives and experiences of people through critical analysis and heartfelt storytelling.
Identity Spaces
Written for the print publication The WaterStone Journal, this article focuses on the role that physical spaces play in our spiritual experiences. How can WaterStone impact it’s surrounding communities through spatial rhetoric?
Leveraging Media to Spread Awareness of Human Trafficking
Originally written as a plan for action for civic engagement at the University of Central Florida, this analytical essay looks at how we can implement media practices to raise awareness for human trafficking victims.
You Are What You Teach
Written as an cultural commentary essay for the University of Central Florida, this article focuses on how our pedagogical environments shape how we learn and how we teach through the lens of my upbringing in competitive dance.
Writer’s Block
Written as cultural commentary, this is my personal story of finding my educational direction and the role of writers in society.
Viewing Life
Published in Academic Research Journal!
Written as a comic in image, test, and braille, Viewing Life brings uniqueness to the reader within the comic form. Many rhetorical strategies could not have taken place if it weren’t for the visual nature of this project, making the comic form a necessity and an opportunity for exploration when communicating to an audience that comics cannot usually speak to.
The Personal Versus Logical Exigence of Truth and Paradigms
Two time award winning essay!
Do we resolve to shift paradigms, or find Truth, due to voids in scientific evidence and lack of reason, or do we pursue to find Truth through paradigms because of a transcendental source of discomfort that may arise as we interact with the ideas and actions that seem truthful to us at that time?
60-Second Pastors: Why TikTok Should Be the Church’s Last Strategy
In the era of the algorithm and exposure by the thousands, one would expect that the global church should seize the opportunity to take their primary marketing strategies to social media apps like TikTok and Instagram, as they bring mass exposure and insightful conversation to one of the most sought after audiences – Generation Z.