Center for a New American Dream Announces Student Art/ Essay Contest
Enter our Essay/Art contest! Our two winners will each receive a scholarship worth $1000, and their entries will be posted in Enough! (the CNAD newsletter) and on this site for everyone to see! (Runners-up will also be posted on the web). New Dreamers who are under 18 years of age may enter. In the summer, we will select one essay and one artwork winner. To enter, all you need to do is write an essay OR create a piece of artwork that answers the question: "what do you really want that money can't buy?" First, get your parents' permission! Then include your name, age, address and phone number with your entry, and send it in by June 30, 2000 to: The Center for a New American Dream Essay/Art Contest 6930 Carroll Ave. Suite 900 Takoma Park, MD 20912Marie Wanek Asian Studies Essay Contest
For High School Students from the Mid-Atlantic Region Each year two prizes for the best essays examining a topic related to Asia written by high school students are awarded by the Mid-Atlantic Region/ Association for Asian Studies. $350 is awarded for the best essay and $175 for the runner-up. Prize recipients and their teachers will be recognized During the annual fall meeting in October, 2000 at Lehigh College Papers may examine any of the cultures or countries of Asia from any disciplinary standpoint: history, anthropology, religion, economics, literature, political science, or art history. Essays should be written on the basis of research and include a bibliography of sources used and cited. Papers should not exceed 12 double-spaced typed pages exclusive of bibliography. For consideration, 3 copies of the paper must by received prior to June 15 at the address below. On a sheet accompanying the paper, should be the student’s name, address, and telephone number, the name and address of the applicant’s current school, the student’s grade level, and the name of the teacher under whose auspices the paper was prepared. A panel of scholars and teachers selected will read each submission from the membership of MAR/AAS. It will be judged on the quality of written expression, on the level of the writer’s demonstrated understanding of the topic, and on its scholarship. The best essay will be published in the MAR/AAS Newsletter and will also be posted on the MAR/AAS web site, http://www.dickinson.edu/prorg/maraas/index.html.
National Peace Essay Contest
1999-2000 Essay Contest Topic: The US Response to the Changing Nature of International Conflict The nature of international conflict and warfare changed radically in the 1900s compared to the rest of the twentieth century. Rather than warfare among major nation-states, or fighting between smaller countries or armed groups that often served as proxies for the great powers during the Cold War, international conflict today has given way to bloody civil and inter-communal conflicts in Haiti, Sudan, Rwanda, Zaire, Congo-Brazzaville, Liberia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia, and Tajikistan. These new circumstances have led to an increasing challenge for the United States in responding to such conflicts. Conflicts such as these do not directly threaten the security of the United States, yet they affect the interests of friendly states, destabilize important regions of the world, and offend American values such as human rights. A case in point is Somalia. No longer an area of competition between Soviet and American strategic interests, the country dissolved into murderous warfare between different armed clans. International forces (including American soldiers) intervened in Somalia to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered Somali civilians. Outrage at the subsequent death of American troops soon led to the quick withdrawal of US forces. In a very short period of time, therefore, the United States had pursued two very different courses of action—intervention and withdrawal. The United States has thus responded to civil war in Somalia and other recent international conflicts in a variety of ways. Many have viewed American reactions (or, in some cases inaction) as ad hoc responses often driven or constrained by domestic political pressures or the media. Others, however, see American interventions as justified by such foreign policy objectives as providing global or regional security; acting as a moral leader and authority; promoting democracy, human rights and civil society ; pushing for free trade and a global liberal economic order; or advocating human and economic development. In a 1500-word essay: 1. State, in your view, which two or three of the foreign policy objectives listed above should serve as America’s foreign policy priorities. 2. Select two conflicts since the end of the Cold War and discuss whether the US response or action (or inaction) with regard to these conflicts successfully reflected the priorities you have listed. 3. Assess whether the United States was responding primarily to the changing nature of violent international conflict in the post-Cold War world or whether it was simply acting in response to domestic pressure. 4. Conclude your essay by stating how US responses to future violent conflicts abroad can better serve the objectives you have defined for American foreign policy.
2000 Kaplan/Newsweek Essay Competition
What if you had the opportunity to write an essay - on any topic you wish - and earn money for school? Well, here's your chance. Kaplan and Newsweek will award scholarships worth $1,000 to 13 lucky high school students or college freshmen for their winning submissions in the "My Turn" Essay Competition - a thousand bucks to put towards your college education! All you need to do is write a 500-1,000-word essay on anything - that's right, anything - you feel like writing about. The deadline for submitting your essay is March 1, 2000. Be sure to read all of the official rules before you enter. Look at it this way: You're going to have to start explaining yourself through essays sooner or later, so why not start now and earn a little money while you're at it? You can download an entry form right now.
Holocaust Museum 200 May Family Art&Writing Contest
May 8, 1945, marked the Allied armies’ defeat of Nazi Germany and thus the end of World War II in Europe, bringing peace to the war-torn continent. By the end of the war, almost two out of every three European Jews were dead. For those who survived the Holocaust, however, the end of the war brought the beginning of a long and difficult period of rebuilding their lives. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors were among the approximately seven million people who found themselves displaced after the war. Within six months after war’s end, six million non-Jewish displaced persons (DPs), most of whom had been deported by the Nazis from Eastern Europe to Germany as forced laborers, were able to return to their homelands. But Jewish DPs—plagued by illness, shock, and exhaustion—emerged from concentration camps and hiding places to discover a world in which they had no place. Many were unable or unwilling to return to their homelands where communities had been destroyed and their property had been appropriated. Others, who survived the Holocaust by fleeing to the interior of the Soviet Union, returned briefly to their homelands in Eastern Europe. They left again after facing anti-Jewish riots and other forms of fierce antisemitism. By the end of 1946, most Jewish DPs, having lost many if not all of their family members during the Holocaust, found themselves stranded in Western and Central Europe.The victorious Allied armies and Jewish relief agencies rallied to help the DPs. The Allied armies of the United States, Britain, France, and the United Nations established special camps for DPs. The camps were located in the American and British-occupied zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy. Some of these DP camps were even located at the sites of former Nazi camps. Soon, Jewish DPs began to assume internal administration of the DP camps.
They established cultural, educational, and social institutions (schools, synagogues, newspapers, theaters, and orchestras) and mobilized themselves into a powerful political force.
By
the summer of 1947, the number of Jewish DPs was estimated at 245,000,
of whom approximately 182,000 were in Germany, 44,000 in Austria, and
19,000
in Italy. Due to the strict immigration restrictions of many nations,
DPs continued to stay in the camps for many months, even years. While
in the camps, DPs began
to rebuild their lives. They learned new skills, searched for Even
after experiencing the devastation of the Holocaust and World War II and
still facing difficulties as refugees desiring to immigrate to countries
outside of Europe, Jewish DPs asserted and organized themselves
to create flourishing, although temporary, communities
in the DP camps. There, from 1945 to 1951, European Jewish life was reborn.
The
DPs’ demand for a Jewish homeland in Palestine played a key role in the
creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. After that, Jewish refugee
ships freely entered the seaports of the new nation. The United States
also changed its immigration policy to allow more Jewish refugees to enter.
In addition, thousands of DPs immigrated to Canada, Australia, Britain,
and Central and South America. Through
an artistic or written medium, depict ways in
which Jewish displaced persons rebuilt their lives
after the Holocaust.
Maryland Colonial Society Maryland History Contest
"All history is but prologue to the future"
