Human Rights Commission Announces 2013 Essay Topic

Submitted by City of Kirkwood. 

The Kirkwood Human Rights Commission has announced the topic for its annual essay contest for high school juniors. This year, the topic will be:

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.  In it, he outlined numerous challenges society needed to meet. Please read his speech and describe which challenges he described have been met in the past 50 years and which ones have not.

Who can participate:  Juniors in the 2012-2013 school year attending Kirkwood, Vianney or Ursuline High Schools, and any other 11th grade Kirkwood resident.

Essay rules:  Five paragraphs in length, typed, double spaced, 10-12 size font, reasonable margins, pages should be numbered, and author’s name should appear at the top of each page.

Essay judges:  Members of the City of Kirkwood’s Human Rights Commission.

Judging Criteria:

1. Thematic Maturity:  How the essay demonstrates the ability to write in a logical, organized manner that easily and efficiently conveys meaning.
2. Content:  How the essay expresses ideas that are substantive and workable.
3. Communication:   The essay’s content should be understandable with good sentence and paragraph construction, attention paid to spelling and grammar, and formatted according to the instructions given.

Deadline:  Essays should be submitted in hard copy to Michael G. Brown, City of Kirkwood, 139 S. Kirkwood Road, and should be received by4:00 p.m., Friday, February 1, 2013.  Include participant’s contact information:  Name, address, telephone number, age, and high school. Essays also may be emailed to:  stephekj@kirkwoodmo.org, with “Essay Contest” in the subject line, but they must arrive by the deadline.

Awards:  1st Place ($100.00), 2nd Place ($75.00), 3rd Place ($50.00) and Honorable Mention.

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