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WRITE ON'S ESSAY CONTEST!
Theme: My favorite place
Deadline: December 31,2007.
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NASA 50th Anniversary Essay Competition
Topic 1:Describe how you benefit today in everyday life due to NASA aerospace technology and spinoffs from the last 50 years. Topic 2: Describe, 50 years from now, how your everyday life may benefit from NASA's future aerospace technology. Due Dates:The Competition Opens on October 15, 2007Notice of Intent December 7, 2007Final Entry Is Due on or Before January 7, 2008
Eligibility: Any U.S. students enrolled in an middle school, junior high school (under tha age of 15) in the U.S. or its territories is eligible to enter the competition for cash prizes. Non-U.S. citizens and students in international locations can enter as well, but they are not eligible for cash prizes.

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Third Annual Diversity Essay Competion
Theme: The purpose of this year's essay competition is to examine the role of freedom of religion in the context of contemporary society. As in previous years, we hope that the topic will stimulate a healthy conversation among young people.
Therefore we invite young people to share their views on the following topic:
On February 10, 2004, the French Parliament voted 494 to 36 to approve a legislative bill which bans all conspicuous “religious” articles of faith from public schools. The bill passed France's national legislature and was signed into law by President Jacques Chirac on March 15, 2004. The law disproportionately affects those for whom the wearing of “religious” articles is considered an obligation, not a choice—an obligation that cannot change, whether the practitioners are in public or private spheres.
In an essay of 1,000 words, please discuss the implications of the French ban for the minority communities of France who have been impacted by it. In your essay, please take only one of the two positions below:
If you favor the ban: While engaging with issues faced by communities impacted by the ban, please discuss how France’s conception of secularism (laïcité) can be used to shed light on the ban.
If you oppose the ban: What makes you oppose it? Please outline a strategy through which the international community may be mobilized to force France to repeal the ban.
Eligibility:
You should have been between 14 to 19 years old on December 31, 2006 to qualify for the competition
All entries will be considered without regard to race, sex, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, religious affiliation, or disability
Deadline: 01 February 2008.
Prize: First Place: $1,000.00, Second Place: $500.00 ,Third Place: $250.00

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