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The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California.Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by encouraging authors to submit a 'really good page of really bad Hemingway' in a Hemingway-esque style.
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
Don't cite essays as if they were policy – we don't use essays or proposals as if they were guidelines or policy. Essay writing guide – how to create and edit essays. Quote your own essay – how editors may refer to essays, provided that they do not hold them out as general consensus or policy.
The idea of a just society first gained modern attention when philosophers such as John Stuart Mill asked, "What is a 'just society'?" [3] Their writings covered several perspectives including allowing individuals to live their lives as long as they didn't infringe on the rights to others, to the idea that the resources of society should be distributed to all, including those most deserving first.
CONTEST is composed of the "four Ps" – prevent, pursue, protect, and prepare – which aim to reduce terrorism at all levels through: Preventing more people from being radicalised; Pursuing suspects operationally and legally; Protecting the public through security measures, and Preparing to manage the response to mitigate the impact of an ...
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today ...
The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, reads in full:
The Sporting Life and Other Trifles (1922) Books and Authors (1922) The Blue Lion (1923) Selected Essays (1923) The Peal of Bells (1924) The Money Box (1925) The Orange Tree (1926) The Little Angel (1926) Dr. Johnson and Company (1927) The Goldfish (1927) The Silver Books of English Sonnets (1927), editor; The Green Man (1928) It's a Fine World ...