Author Archives: emilyrutter1

Behold, the final of my 9th grade year. In assigned reading groups, we wrote essays on the expectations of young men and women in the Dominican Republic.The highlighted words were to fill the quota of necessary vocabulary usage. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a book hinged on gender stereotypesContinue reading “Cataloguing 2018: Gender representation in “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao””

This was actually written in the winter of 2017, after a class discussion of society’s perception of the youngest generation compared to those before. The following piece was a 14 year old’s perspective on the treatment of the younger generations. All of recent history has been divided up into generations, with everyone being born sortedContinue reading “Cataloguing 2018: An “Op-ed” on the views of Gen Z”

In the same semester in 2018, we were introduced to works of transcendentalist fiction. The class was assigned Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, but I did an independent study of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The following was my analysis of religion and social issues in the world of the book, and how itContinue reading “Cataloguing 2018: An essay on transcendentalism”

During my 9th grade year, I split my time in English class between Honors 9th and what would amount to be Honors 10th. The next year, I skipped my sophomore year and into AP Language and Composition. I’ll be adding some of my older pieces of graded writing (mistakes and all!) as a way toContinue reading “A Throwback Piece from 2018”