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Undergraduate Essay Contest
To recognize and to honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Overview
Geneva College is proud to announce an Essay Contest to recognize and to honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. All entries for the contest must be submitted in hard copy form to Ms. Cindy Cook (Assistant Dean of Multiethnic Student Services) or to Dr. David Guthrie (Professor of Higher Education and Sociology), no later than Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 12 Noon.
Prizes
After all essays are evaluated by a panel of judges, three prizes will be awarded as follows:
Third Place $75
Second Place $150
First Place $300
The First Place essay writer will also have the opportunity to present the paper to a gathered audience on Friday, January 22, 2010 in Skye Lounge.
Contest Rules
- All traditional undergraduate students at Geneva are eligible to apply.
- All essays are to be written in direct response to one of the questions identified below.
- All essays must be no shorter than seven (7) pages in length and no longer than ten (10) pages in length, not counting a cover page.
- The cover page to submitted essays must include the following information in some format: Title of Essay; Name of Author; Date of Submission; Email Address of Author; Telephone Number of Author; and, the Signature of Author that will bear testimony to the fact that the essay is in compliance with Geneva’s Academic Honesty policies.
- All essays must have one-inch margins on each page and utilize a font that is no less than 11 point.
- All essays must include a minimum of three bibliographic references appropriately.
- All essays must be submitted in hard copy form to Ms. Cindy Cook (Assistant Dean of Multiethnic Student Services) or to Dr. David Guthrie (Professor of Higher Education and Sociology) no later than Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 12 Noon.
Essay Guidelines (Please respond to one of the following items below)
- The themes of freedom and justice clearly resound in Dr. King’s famous I Have a Dream speech. In a world context, but certainly a context that includes the United States, where do you see a clear and desperate need for the embodiment of these themes in our day?
- To what extent, if at all, do you believe that the election of Barack Obama just over one year ago may have furthered the ideals embodied by Dr. King’s vision?
- In the book, Divided by Faith, Michael Emerson argues that evangelical Christians may perpetuate racial divisions rather than eliminate them. Do you agree, disagree, or both with Emerson’s point of view in this regard?
- Evaluate Geneva’s Blueprint for Diversity with an eye towards identifying ways that we may have made some progress, ways in which we may have fallen short, and one or two crucial issues that you believe that are absolutely imperative for us to address/resolve.
- Fifteen years ago, Cornel West authored Race Matters, a book that continues to be widely read and discussed not only in the United States but in various parts of the world. To what extent, if at all, do you believe that “race matters?”