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Torrey Academy Excellence in Academic Writing Winners



Torrey Academy students' final term papers are eligible for entry in the annual Torrey Academy Excellence in Academic Writing competition. Tutor-nominated essays are submitted to a panel of judges from the academic and Christian community.

Read the 2009 Winning Essays!

Inklings

3rd place:

"Not Story or Essay, but Story with Essay"
by Elena Trueba, Miss Larsen's Online Inklings

2nd place:

"Story Versus Essay: The Particular Feud of Universal Virtue"
by Eric Corona, Miss Larsen's Online Inklings

1st place:

"A Necessary Terror: The Doctrine of Spiritual Condemnation"
by Briana Ung, Mr. Glazener's Online Inklings

Foundations

3rd place:

"Poetry: Songs of Self or Pictures of Paradise?"
by Elizabeth Bush, Mr. Bartel's Yorba Linda Foundations

2nd place:

"The Gilded Trap: The Dangers of Equality"
by Bethany Crossley, Mrs. Harrington's Online Foundations

Faith

3rd place:

"When Less is More, or, The Joy of Looking Up"
by Anna Vander Wall, Miss Romero's Online Faith

2nd place:

"Poetry of Great Price"
by Nathanael Biggs, Miss Romero's Online Faith

Foundations/Faith

1st place:

"Of Affirmations and Rejections: Anagogical Methodology within the Divine Comedy"
by Gabriel Choo, Mr. Bartel's La Mirada Faith

Aston Moffatt Award

"Tradutorre, Traditorre: 'Dante and the Treachery of Translation'"
by Jonathan Diaz, Mr. Bartel's La Mirada Faith