{"id":400,"date":"2021-01-05T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2021-01-11T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:13:55","slug":"essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>MLK Essay Writing Contest<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan. 15 \u2013 Jan. 29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an activist committed to peace, justice, and equality. As a visionary leader of the civil rights movement, King fought for racial and economic justice for the oppressed. His driving forces were nonviolence, love, the importance of family and self-respect. To commemorate the life, work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,&nbsp;BC students are invited to submit an essay on any topic that celebrates the work and legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although you may write on any topic, these are sample essay topic ideas that you may use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe Movement made Martin rather than Martin Making the Movement: Exploring the Overshadowed Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement.\u201d The topic our keynote speaker Dr. Kenya Davis-Hayes will be speaking on Thursday, January 21, 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Martin Luther King Jr. said, \u201cCourage faces fear and thereby masters it.\u201d In your essay, write about a time at school, with friends, or in the wider community when you faced a moral dilemma or an unjust situation.&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u201cKeep Moving Forward,\u201d is a quote from Dr. King\u2019s address <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/unpacking-martin-luther-king-jr-s-mountains-60-years-after-spelman-speech\/\">\u201cKeep Moving the Mountain\u201d given at Spelman College on April 10, 1960.&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;You can reflect on these words and how they relate to you or others in your families, schools, neighborhoods or world.<\/li><li>\u201cThere is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;What do you think about this quote?&nbsp; What can the US do about ending poverty?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Essays must be maximum of 500 words and must be your original work. &nbsp;Judges will select twenty essays written by students who will receive a book written by a prominent black author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essays&nbsp;will be judged on creativity, clarity, content, coherence and adherence to theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students can submit their essays from 8:00 a.m. on January 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline:<\/strong> 5:00 p.m. Friday, January 29&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Registration link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/organizations\/mlk-day-essay\/\">https:\/\/forms.bellevuecollege.edu\/organizations\/mlk-day-essay\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sponsored by:<\/strong>&nbsp;Asian Pacific Island Student Association, Black Student Union, International Student Association, El Centro Latino, LGBTQ Resource Center, Arab Culture Student Association and BC Association of Veterans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For any questions about the MLK Essay contest, please contact:&nbsp;Nora Lance @ <a href=\"mailto:nlance@bellevuecollege.edu\">nlance@bellevuecollege.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLK Essay Writing Contest Jan. 15 \u2013 Jan. 29 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an activist committed to peace,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/mlk-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}