| Win Cash prizes for your essay on Food
Fight!: Competition and Food.
The Honors Essay
Contest sponsored by Beta Theta Omicron is open to all Skyline
students enrolled during the Spring 2012 semester.
First
prize: $300 | Second prize: $200 | Third prize: $100
The Honors Study Topic is The Culture
of Competition. To
get started: Read more about
it. |
The
contest
Write an essay addressing one of the following questions:
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How do factors such as ethnicity, economics, and location
affect what foods are available? How do these factors affect
what foods are preferred?
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Why have shows such as Cake Boss, celebrities like
Anthony Bourdain and Cat Cora, food competitions, and networks
such as the Food Network become so popular in recent years?
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The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of
the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving.
Worldwide, 15 million children die of hunger annually. Nearly
15% of U.S. households don't have a stable and adequate food
supply. Is there enough food for everyone? Do the well-fed have
any obligation to share?
Cite references
from journal or newspaper articles as appropriate. |
| Rules
1500-word original, unpublished essay.
Double-spaced,
12 point, Times or Times New Roman, in MS Word.
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"
Download
title page (doc) |
| 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 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.
•Winners will be encouraged to submit their essays for the
Regional Literary Award. |
