09/12/2023
📚 Are you ready to put your thoughts into words and win big? 🏆 Our Essay Contest is just around the corner! 🖋️ Submissions open on 9/14 and close on 10/16. Don't miss your chance to win up to $200 in gift cards to local businesses! 🛍️💰
Choose one of three thought-provoking prompts and craft a 250-500 word masterpiece that leaves a mark.✨ Whether you're passionate about free speech, civil discourse, or countering harmful speech, your voice matters!
Ready to take the challenge? Here are the prompts:
1️⃣ Should free speech have legal limits, as opposed to only social limits? Why or why not? In your essay, be sure to draw on specific contemporary or historical examples and explain your understanding of free speech, and if you endorse limits, explain what the limits should be.
2️⃣ While freedom of speech is an important right, words can create individual and social harm. In a society like that of the United States where freedom of speech is highly prized, how can individuals and/or institutions encourage more civil discourse around controversial issues?
3️⃣ Freedom of speech without legal limits allows for speech that will harm some individuals and communities. What do you think is the best way to deal with harmful speech (for example, ignoring and encouraging others to ignore harmful speech, supporting more speech to counter harmful speech, organizing collective responses to limit the reach of harmful speech, defining and enforcing stricter legal limits on harmful speech)? In your essay, be sure to draw on evidence to support your conclusions.
Email your submissions to [email protected], and remember to properly cite your sources! 📖🔍
