Selected Writings

 Four personal insight essays written during my university transfer applications. These essays explore educational barriers, leadership, creativity, and personal development, and contributed to admission offers from institutions including UCLA, New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. 

A historical exploration of the hurdy-gurdy, tracing its journey from medieval monasteries to royal courts, public houses, and modern performance traditions. 

A focused ethical analysis of how modern citizenship functions as inherited advantage. This essay argues that restrictive border regimes convert birthplace into political entitlement and reinforce global inequality rather than protect democratic values. 

A concise sociological analysis of the ghetto as a system of racialized spatial control. This essay examines how stigma, segregation, and modern policy mechanisms behind urban racial confinement in America.  

A constitutional law analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, reproductive rights, and federalism.

Short and long essays on congressional lawmaking, committees, and presidential foreign policy.

A political analysis tracing Trump’s populism to Nixon and Reagan, with voting theory framework.

A surreal, imaginative narrative that blends creative writing with existential themes.

A dialogic essay contrasting Kantian duty, Utilitarianism, and existential suffering through biblical narratives.

A personal-philosophical essay linking lived experience to moral theory, from Divine Command Theory to Contractualism.

An analysis of Hiroko Oyamada’s The Hole, examining the surreal everyday, alienation, and the uncanny through a critical lens of justice, fate, and societal expectation. 

A critical analysis of Buñuel’s Viridiana and Spanish cinema under Franco, exploring censorship, gender, and surrealism.

A philosophical synthesis weaving Aristotle, Cicero, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and McKenna into a meditation on democracy, creativity, and the accelerated future.

An interview profile: exploring the journey of breast cancer, resilience, and the role of affirmation, literature, and science in survival.

A critical-personal essay on The Twilight Zone, fear of the unknown, and Rod Serling’s use of science fiction to explore politics, paranoia, and human nature. Includes recognition of Jerome Bixby’s influence.