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Category: High School Essay Contest

High School Essay Contest

The Coalition to Protect Against Misinformation: an answer to a wholly global issue

Posted on May 2022 by Andrew Chung

3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 “Peanut butter cups can cause cancer!” proclaimed conspiracy theorist David Wolfe on Facebook in 2017. The claim is ob...

High School Essay Contest

Coming to Consensus: Ensuring Privacy at the Global Level

Posted on May 2022 by Isabelle Ravanas

2nd Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 From 1999 to 2019, the world underwent a 1125% increase in the percent of the global population using the internet[1]....

High School Essay Contest

Ensuring Cooperation for Central Asia’s Water Woes

Posted on May 2022 by Evan Burkeen

1st Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 On April 28, 2021, border personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan fired on each other, marking the beginning of a bor...

High School Essay Contest

Japanese Culture and Government: How Culture Influences Politics, Governance, and Priorities

Posted on May 2021 by Yewon Chang

3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 臭い物に蓋 — Put a lid on what smells bad. This Japanese saying reflects the nation’s culture of desiring to melt...

High School Essay Contest

White-Nationalism as a Culture in the U.S. and its Impact on Immigration Policies

Posted on May 2021 by Gooha Park

2nd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 On 19 March, 2021, The New York Times told a heartbreaking story of striving, failure,  and despair1. Having paid...

High School Essay Contest

Once Again with the Church and the State: Russian Orthodox Faith in Characterizing Contemporary National Politics

Posted on May 2021 by Giang Huong Do

Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 “The conversion of Prince Vladimir and the whole of Rus to Orthodoxy were of truly historic significance and played a f...

High School Essay Contest

Upholding French Secularism at the expense of the French Muslim Identity

Posted on May 2021 by Nishat Nayla

Finalist, High School Essay Contest 2021 On March 30th, 2021, The French Senate voted in favor of adding an amendment to the “Separatism Bill” that seeks to ban...

High School Essay Contest

Hope In a Whirlwind of Adversity: Rio De Janeiro’s Favelas

Posted on May 2021 by Anthony Rumbos

1st Place High School Essay Contest 2021 Along the alleys and narrow streets that line Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, the informal settlements whose distinctive red ...

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Differing Conceptions of Citizenship: Nehru, Gandhi and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)

Posted on May 2020 by Suhan Kacholia

In December 2019, the Parliament of India passed a law entitled the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The CAA, endorsed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata...

High School Essay Contest

Citizenship: The Right to Rights and Duties

Posted on May 2020 by Sophie Donnellan

“​To celebrate citizenship is one way for society to show that it is something valuable which strengthens the community.​” ~Jens Orback, 2006 The concept of cit...

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