Margaret Chase Smith Library announces annual essay contest.
Margaret Chase Smith created the library in part to provide herself a forum for meeting with students. Through her own example, she hoped to inspire young people to aspire and to serve.
SKOWHEGAN — The Margaret Chase Smith Library is pleased to announce the topic of its 24th annual essay contest. As the Pine Tree State commemorates the past during its bicentennial year of 2020, we invite Maine high school seniors to look to the future and share with us ideas of how they would propose to make the state “the way life should be” for young people so that more of them will.
The Margaret Chase Smith Library is an archive, museum, educational facility, and public policy center devoted to preserving the legacy of Margaret Chase Smith, promoting research into American political history, advancing the ideals of public service, and exploring issues of civic engagement.
The staff continues to work from home. The Library organizes the History Day program in Maine. There was a virtual regional competition at the end of March and the virtual state competition will be on May 2nd. The staff has also been reading entries to the Margaret Chase Smith Essay Contest. We are currently exploring opportunities that we.
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2019 asked students to assess the arguments for and against an Equal Rights Amendment. Read on Digital Commons.
Margaret Chase Smith High School Student Essay Contest Democracy Needs a Free Press. Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2018 concerned the importance of a free press. This is the first-place essay, written by Cassidy Lessner. Read on Digital Commons.
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. In this issue, we feature the three prize-winning essays as the Margaret Chase Smith Essay.
Margaret Chase Smith, former US Senator (ME); Michael Murray, a junior from Lake Oswego High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon, for his essay on Tom McCall, former Governor of Oregon; and Katie Rebhan, a sophomore at The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, for her essay on Ellis Arnall, former Governor of Georgia. Each finalist will receive a.
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Each year, the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for Maine high school seniors. The essay prompt for the 2009 contest was tied to a quote from Sen. Smith not to fear the inevitability of change. Essayists were asked to respond to the question, “What changes do you think the new administration will need to make, and we the.
The Margaret Chase Smith Library has announced the theme of its 12th annual essay contest. With another election year upon us, the nation once again revisits the boundaries of the role of women in.
Margaret Chase Smith Essay Contest May 3, 2019 To commemorate the centennial of women’s suffrage, the Margaret Chase Smith Library invited Maine high school seniors to assess the arguments for and against an Equal Rights Amendment.
The Margaret Chase Smith Library is pleased to announce the topic of its 24th annual essay contest. As the Pine Tree State commemorates the past during its bicentennial year of 2020, the library invites Maine high school seniors to look to the future and share ideas of how they would propose to make the state “the way life should be” for young people so that more of them will choose to.
Essay The Declaration Of Conscience By Margaret Chase Smith. Smith’s Urgent Declaration Throughout the 1950’s, a Red Scare movement caused mass panic among Americans, led by the Senate accusing innocent citizens of supporting communism, which ruined the careers and lives of many.
Essentially, Margaret Chase knew from the beginning that her participation in the electoral process was not the end of marginalization of women, but it was a means to ending that era of marginalization. Women in politics have had to contend with the fact that the society is not ready for women leadership. While everyone wishes that gender.
Essay subject: Ernest Gruening, former US Senator, Alaska Garifalia Kapsalis, a junior at Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Illinois Essay subject: Margaret Chase Smith, former US Senator, Maine Michael Murray, a junior from Lake Oswego High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon Essay subject: Tom McCall, former Governor, Oregon.
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