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CNO Presents Awards to Naval History Essay Contest Winners September 15, 2017 ANNAPOLIS, Md. (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson presented awards to the winners of the CNO 2017 Naval History Essay Contest during the McMullen Naval History Symposium at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), Sept. 14.

In an effort to help those who have been impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, my office is joining with Island Harvest as they undertake a Hurricane Harvey Donation Drive to help bring.

Selected Submissions to the 2017 CNO Naval History Essay Contest. Clearing the Way to Wonsan, by Lieutenant Commander Jason Shell, USN. Chaos Under Control: Lessons from Quiberon Bay, by Andrew J. Graff. Seaplanes: The Beginning, by David Alman. Seaplanes Go To War, by David Alman. Seaplanes: The End (of the beginning), by David Alman. Some Thoughts on a Maritime Strategy for the 21st.

The 2015 Narrative High School Essay Contest Winners “Where I’m From and Where I’m Going” Since Narrative began, it’s been central to our mission to discover, mentor, and publish the next generation of talented writers. And for a long time now we’ve been hearing from teachers around the world who use Narrative’s free library as a vital tool in their classrooms.

The BYU Student Alumni Association and descendants of former BYU president George H. Brimhall honor the founders of Brigham Young University each year at Homecoming with the Brimhall Essay Contest. The competition is designed to encourage high levels of scholarship among BYU students and promote understanding and appreciation of BYU’s mission and legacy and the challenges of its great.

For 50 years, District 22-W of Lions Clubs International, which covers Western Maryland from Carroll to Garrett County, has sponsored the American Heritage, Preservation and Patriotism essay contest.

Four Pittsylvania County high school students have won the annual Congressional Essay Contest, sponsored by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. A total of 55 winners were chosen from across the country. Sam Hedrick and Kay Lightfoot of Chatham High and Molly Hughes and Lauren Jackson of Tunstall High won the right to represent Virginia at a weeklong session June 23-29 of the.

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Blair Academy was pleased to welcome Peter Mandaville '90, PhD, who spoke to students, faculty and staff during a virtual Society of Skeptics lecture on April 21 at 7 p.m.His presentation focused on the future of the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia in particular. Mandaville worked on this topic during his time at the U.S. State Department and his friendship with assassinated Saudi journalist.

He wrote in his essay that he last saw his father in 2012, “inside a white, rectangular wooden box.” Having no father, the young man helped his family cope with their difficult situation by selling food and vegetables in the wet market very early in the morning. He then goes home to study, sleep a little, then go to school. He said there were times when they could not eat a decent meal and.

The Millions: Red Clocks is often compared to The Handmaid’s Tale, and rightly so—it’s a near-future sci fi novel, and the major factor that has rearranged the world is government regulation of reproduction, specifically as it applies to the female body. But The Handmaid’s Tale is also about religious fundamentalism, whereas Red Clocks seems as if it’s really more just challenging us.

His essay on the Remedies of Good and Evil Fortune is a singular work in a colloquial form, and a most scholastic style. It seems to be framed upon the model of the Tusculan Questions,—with what success those who have read it may easily determine. It consists of a series of dialogues: in each of these a person is introduced who has experienced some happy or some adverse event: he gravely.