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2008 Winners

First place: $300

André Guiulfo

Second place: $200

Ashley Good

Third place: $100

Theresa Kannengeiser

The Honors Essay Contest sponsored by Beta Theta Omicron is open to all Skyline students enrolled during the Fall 2008 semester.

The Honors Study Topic for 2008-2010, The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences, is the most important aspect of the comprehensive Phi Theta Kappa program for student development. Though the leadership, service, and fellowship dimensions are very important, the development of forums for intellectual stimulation is stressed above all others.

Therefore, we offer this essay challenge.
The contest
Write an essay describing a current or historical event relating it to the honors study topic: "The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences." Topics might include health, the environment, economic policy, or technology and resources. Cite references from journal or newspaper articles as appropriate.

Rules
1500-word original, unpublished essay. title page

Double-spaced, one-side of page 8.5 x 11 inch paper. 12 point, Times or Times New Roman.

Number pages and include a running head with the title of your essay on the top right of each page.

Do not put your name in the essay.

Include a title page with:

•Title of the Essay
•Your name
•Your address
•Phone number
•Email addreess
•And this statement

This is my original work. I grant permission to Beta Theta Omicron to use this essay in electronic or print publications.

Type of essay
•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.

•Your essay can be entertaining, reflective, inspiring, philosophic, witty, poetic, or all of these at once and expresses a personal attitude.

•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.

•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.

Due date
Turn in your essay at 7A-130 or pH 214 by October 31, 2008

Winners will be announced in November 2008.