My Literacy Sponsors
The Boy Scouts of America and my participation in it has been a large sponsor for me. Every since I was five I have been spending a lot of time out doors, and I have both developed a literacy for camping as well as a love of nature. It has indirect and sometimes direct influences on my writing, and I have often tried to describe in writing the feeling I get outside.
Any Rand and specifically Atlas Shrugged have been by far some of my biggest literacy sponsors. I first read the book my Junior year of high school, and have now read it twice. The ideals and morals contained in the book as well as the story and the characters connected to me in a way nothing ever had before, or has since, and has without a doubt subtly made my writing more similar to hers.
My high school physics teacher, Dr. Oancea, has been a literacy sponsor for me. Her traditional yet broad outlook on the world has influenced me and helped me develop a love for physics. No Teacher has ever affected me as much as she has.