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Win Cash for Your Creativity.
Open to all Skyline College students enrolled in the Fall 2007 semester
Gold, Gods, & Glory:
The Global Struggle for Power Essay
First Prize: $300 Second Prize: $200 Third Prize: $100
Essays due: October 30, 2007
Write an essay describing a current or historical event
relating it to the honors study topic: "Gold, Gods, & Glory:
The global dynamics of power." Topics might include a person, immigration,
emigration, or exploration.
Cite references from journal or newspaper articles as
appropriate.
Rules
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1500-word original, unpublished essay.
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Submit as a Microsoft Word document (.doc), double-spaced,12
point, Times or Times New Roman to boo@smccd.edu
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Number pages and include a running head with the title
of your essay on the top right of each page.
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Do not put your name in the essay.
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Include a title page with:
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Title of the Essay
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Your name
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Your address
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Phone number
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Email address
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And this statement:
- This is my original work. I grant permission to Beta Theta
Omicron to use this essay in electronic or print publications.
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Your essay can be a prose, nonfiction composition
that deals with a single topic. It may be instructive, informational,
persuasive; exploring people, places, historical events and personalities,
new ideas, how-to, or personal experience. This genre usually appears
in magazines, newspapers, and journals and often involves research.
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Your essay can be entertaining, reflective, inspiring,
philosophic, witty, poetic, or all of these at once and expresses
a personal attitude.
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Your essay can describe an inspirational personal
experience. Such pieces are faith-promoting, nonfiction narratives
that demonstrate personal insight, reveal heroic conduct, or show
personal stamina; the central character often experiences an epiphany
that results in life-altering action.
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Your essay can relate an anecdote. Anecdotes are
short narratives detailing particulars of an interesting true episode.
It is often biographical and dramatizes a situation of human interest.
Slice of life, reflections, and fillers are also appropriate entries
in this category.
Essays will be judged on creativity, mechanics, and relevance
to the topic.
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