Writing Samples & Media
Here you will find writing samples I have completed during my undergraduate years and at my internships. My Public Relations and English courses have been a three-fold experience: Learning how to write at a higher academic level, how to write for the every day reader, and how to differentiate between those two for my appropriate audience.
Public Relations (Academics)
Erie Family Health Center Blog
In this self-generated story, I wrote about the attitudes regarding campus sexual assault at a university with college students.
I wrote about how men suffering from depression can receive the help and support they need.
In this position paper, I wrote about why President Obama's successor should continue to provide funding for Planned Parenthood.
I wrote about the clinic's running club and why they promote running as a form of exercise for their patients, doctors, and staff.
This is a speech that I wrote for another classmate to present in class. This speech is about why killer whales should not be kept in captivity.
This research analysis represents the findings from a recent survey where students at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota answered questions related to the frequency of unwanted sexual conduct as an undergraduate at the university, and their knowledge and perceptions on Title IX.
English
Here is my thesis proposal for my undergraduate senior thesis.
Here you will find an abstract for my English senior thesis, "Anzia Yezierska: A Writer Who Stayed True to her Authentic Self."
In this research and argumentative essay, I wrote about the complexities in Title IX investigations with campus judicial procedures and reporting to law enforcement.
In this post, I gave advice for Erie's patients on how to start a new exercise routine that fits their individual needs.
Media
Below are links to a few interviews I have participated in regarding Title IX:
City Year Chicago
Examining Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers, I focus on Sara’s desperate attempts to separate herself from her successful transition to the American life and unintentionally grasping to her family’s religious and cultural values, and why this internal struggle reveals the impossible choice of choosing one “cultural lifestyle" over the other because of her immigrant status.
In this close reading, I analyze Cynthia Ozick’s short story "The Shawl." Ozick attempts to capture the overall trauma that Holocaust victims lived through by focusing on an isolated event that is arguably insignificant, but brilliantly exposes the horrific circumstances for victims in their day-to-day life. In Ozick’s unconventional and fictionalized short story, I argue that she illustrates the theme of dehumanization through her imagery and/or depiction of the shawl, cannibalism, and unwanted beauty.
In an attempt to represent a world that is unfamiliar to those who may not fully grasp what it is like to live in the “concentration universe,” I talk about how filmmakers and writers highlight the process of dehumanization that Holocaust victims and survivors experienced.