{"id":4417,"date":"2014-05-14T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T19:24:55","slug":"cmu-congratulates-winners-of-2014-high-school-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2014\/cmu-congratulates-winners-of-2014-high-school-essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"CMU Congratulates Winners of 2014 High School Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

CMU is pleased to announce that Marta Bunnett of Havelock, NB; Francesca Cammarata of St. Albert, AB; and Larissa Campbell of Winnipeg, MB, are the winners of the 2014 High School Essay Contest.<\/p>\n

Students were asked to respond formally in a 950- to 1100-word essay to one of three questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. What does it mean to \u201ccompare\u201d literature? Can the study of comparative literature foster mutual understanding among readers and between communities?<\/li>\n
  2. How do visual media communicate and tell stories? Compare and contrast visual and written literacy.<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cWith great power comes great responsibility\u201d\u2014Voltaire. To what extent are wealthy, highly developed societies responsible for aiding \u201cdeveloping\u201d countries? What are some pros and pitfalls of \u201caid\u201d and \u201cinternational development\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bunnett\u2019s essay Responsibility for a More Equitable World placed first, earning her $500 in prize money. Second place at $300 went to Cammarata for her paper Care with Consideration, and Campbell took third prize at $200 for her work on The Responsibilities of Developed Countries to Less-Developed Countries.<\/p>\n

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    2014’s High School Essay Contest Winners (l-r) Marta Marta Bunnett,
    Francesca Cammarata, and Larissa Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Bunnett, who will be attending CMU in the fall to study International Development, says her interest in the subject first took root at her family\u2019s organic farm:<\/p>\n

    \u201cMy parents have had a big influence on my thought in this area; on the farm, they always prioritized growing good food and caring for the land equally. They model a very relational perspective, in terms of how we should interact with the land and others, rather than a utilitarian one.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Bunnett says one reason she chose pros and cons of International Development for her topic was so she could use the project as a motivator to further research some of the issues in which she was already interested. She is excited to pursue International Development Studies formally at CMU this fall:<\/p>\n

    \u201cI want to deepen my understanding of these things. Right now I have ideas, but they are not all necessarily grounded in much; I want to study and participate in discussions and really work through these issues with others on a deeper level.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Cammarata, who will be graduating in June, said she was \u201cthrilled\u201d to place in the contest and aspires to pursue music studies for her post-secondary education. Campbell is a grade 11 student and will be completing her diploma at Miles Macdonell Collegiate in Winnipeg next June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    CMU is pleased to announce that Marta Bunnett of Havelock, NB; Francesca Cammarata of St. Albert, AB; and Larissa Campbell of Winnipeg, MB, are the winners of the 2014 High School Essay Contest. Students were asked to respond formally in a 950- to 1100-word essay to one of three questions: What does it mean to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[191,417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}