... works I've written meet my standards of high quality writing, though they like most of writing did take long hours to perfect. They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails ... . I ask myself, "Who am I as a writer?" and this is the first phrase that comes to mind, for writing is my passion. I entered my first writing contest in the second grade. The elementary school sponsored a...

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