{"id":63534,"date":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-sponsoring-essay-contest-in-honor-of-gandhi\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-sponsoring-essay-contest-in-honor-of-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/uri-sponsoring-essay-contest-in-honor-of-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 sponsoring essay contest in honor of Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 29, 2010 \u2013 In honor of Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s birthday, the 溏心vlog免费B站 is holding an essay contest to acknowledge and celebrate the teachings of the father of India\u2019s independence. <\/p>\n


\n\tSponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Program and the India Association of Rhode Island, the contest will open on Oct. 2, Gandhi\u2019s birthday, and be due on Jan. 17, 2011, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is open to all eighth grade students in Rhode Island. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe dates of the contest are extremely important,\u201d said Ruby Dholakia, 溏心vlog免费B站 business professor and coordinator of the contest. \u201cStudents are aware of Martin Luther King, Jr. but not aware of where he learned his non-violent approach to social protest. It will be a good opportunity to expose children at an early age to nonviolence on personal and global levels.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe essay prompt, a short vignette about Gandhi provided by the essay contest committee, is as follows: <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOnce while Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s train was pulling slowly out of the station, a European reporter ran up to his compartment window. \u2018Do you have a message I can take back to my people,\u2019 he asked. It was Gandhi\u2019s day of silence, a vital respite from his demanding speaking schedule, so he didn\u2019t reply. Instead he scrawled a few words on a scrap of paper and passed it to the reporter. \u2018My life is my message.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n


\nStudents are being asked to explain what it means, how they will make their life a message and personal examples of what they or others can do to make the world a better place. Essays will be judged on how well the prompt is answered. The judges are looking for thoughtful and well-written essays. Decisions will be announced May 1, 2011. <\/p>\n


\nThe essay committee chose to target eighth grade student since they are at an influential period in their lives and lessons about nonviolence at this age would be particularly valuable at both a personal as well as a global level. Along with reaching out to students, the committee is hopeful teachers will incorporate the contest into their curriculum for both English and social studies and encourage student participation. <\/p>\n


\nFor more information about the essay contest, please contact GandhiEssay@etal.uri.edu. <\/p>\n


\nThis release was written by Alicia Blain, an intern in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Communications and Marketing and a public relations major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 29, 2010 \u2013 In honor of Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s birthday, the 溏心vlog免费B站 is holding an essay contest to acknowledge and celebrate the teachings of the father of India\u2019s independence. Sponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Program and the India Association of Rhode Island, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}