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19th Annual MLK Event – 2012
Winning Essay EntriesSouth Denton County
Westside Baptist ChurchLewisville, Texas
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
Sixth Grade, FIRST Place
Lee-Ann Saavedra, Downing, Mrs. Young
“The United States is like a bowl of soup. You can't just have one ingredient, you need
many different ingredients to let it flavor... We celebrate different holidays and have
different religions and cultures from all over the world.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
Sixth Grade- Second PlaceVivek Chilakamarri, SRMS, Mrs. St. John
“ Racism is an infamous issue but it isn't the only form of oppression. People who are
learning-disabled, mentally challenged, or crippled are usually excluded by their peers.
If someone can't run, it doesn't mean that they can't think...”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
SIXTH Grade, THIRD Place
Emmalee Ann Clubb, SRMS, Mrs. St. John
“ Now, Color segregation isn't such a huge problem... instead, kids,teens,, and even adults are being merciless
bullies to people around them.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
6th Grade THIRD Place
SAMANTHA LANGFORD, SRMS Mrs. St. John
“Racism is wrong and it is wrong to exclude other people because they are
different from you. We are all people and we need to accept each other's
differences.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
SIXTH Grade THIRD Place
Kyle Whipple, SRMS, Mrs. St. John
“I think we should live in “King's World” because we won't be judged by
our looks. We will all be treated the same … nobody will be … treated
unfairly.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
7th Grade FIRST Place Suchir Angana, SRMS – Mrs. St. John
“Looking back at King's world and looking at ours, you can see how far we
have come. You can also see how far we have to go...”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
SEVENTH Grade SECOND Place Cassia Joseph – Mrs. St. John
“Take one glance at society and one can see that kindness isn't always shown. This is not living the dream. Living the dream is seeing and treating everyone
as people.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
SEVENTH Grade THIRD Place 3A
Zaria Champion-Woods- Mrs. Williams
“ We could really go somewhere if we stop trying to follow after our parents and grandparents; … we should really
strive to be better than the adults in our life”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
SEVENTH Grade THIRD Place 3B
Katie Ricketson, Lamar, Mrs. Bywater
“ Life is an opportunity to do so many things. I hope you know that dreams
are not just about helping you, they are also about helping others fulfill their
dreams too.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade FIRST PLACE Rohit Swaminathan, Downing, Ms. Lentz
“Dr King’s vision continues to inspire people around the world. . . The Occupy
Wall Street movement ... is now spreading across the globe as people
fight for economic justice…With greater global cooperation, we can truly make Dr. King’s dream a reality across the
world.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade SECOND PLACE Kylie Cluff, Shadow Ridge, Ms. St. John
“How did this man change my life? I go to school with people of many faiths and
colors. I am allowed to ... sit anywhere I like on the bus. My friends are black, white,
brown, yellow and all colors in between….I am an American teenager, and the color of
my skin is. . . Does it really matter?”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade THIRD PLACE Gabrielle Morris, Downing, Ms. Lentz
“...he would never have imagined that today, ... people would have tears in
their eyes while listening to his “I Have A Dream” speech. I want to say thank
you Martin Luther King, Jr. for standing up for mankind and making our world a
better place..”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade THIRD PLACE Denise Sun, Lamar, Ms. Hausmann
“... dreams are the resources of reality.. . . the power of dreams are truly invincible. Perhaps if we all challenged ourselves to dream more, to imagine more, to see this world in a different
and better way, we too could transform the world...”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade Hon. Mention-1
Elizabeth Filomeno – Mrs. Kirby
“We have Indians, Asians, Africans, and Mexicans in our school. We eat
lunch together. We even have Mexican and Black teachers
teaching students from all these races.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade Honorable Mention-2 Simone Shaffer, Downing, Fredericks
“He saw that the world was on the edge of chaos, and that if we didn’t learn to work and live together... we would all plummet into an endless war. This
great man … united a nation, and in the process, he united a world.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade Honorable Mention-3 Kyle Wichert, Downing, Ms. Lentz
“Dr. King was a man of ... love for his fellow people. He knew that we are all in this life together and must be unified by our strengths and by our weakness
in order to be one world and live the dream.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade Honorable Mention-4 Tyler Collins, Huffines, Ms. Hadley
“In order for us to have one dream, we all need to have the right frame of mind. ... We all have different opinions... but we
can strive to have a better nation. America will soon realize that to have a
better nation, we have to love one another.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
EIGHTH Grade Honorable Mention-5
Kelly Wanhanen, Shadow Ridge, Ms. St. John
“Martin Luther King sought to make all people have equal rights – men,
women, blacks, whites and people from different states, countries and even
continents. Overall, Martin Luther King, Jr., is a great influence to everyone in
the entire world”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
NINTH Grade FIRST PLACEJessica Young, LHS Harmon, Larson
“Martin Luther King, Jr. expressed his beliefs on using nonviolent resistance and yet here we
stand as a violent world. ... The power of love, willingness to suffer, and the focus on
society’s evils, and not the individuals, is what it will take for our world
to live the dream. ”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
NINTH Grade SECOND PLACEMichelle Reyes, LHS Harmon, Lawson
““One” means unity. Unity is what Martin Luther King, Jr., longed for mankind to
discover and embrace. He fought to make it clear that we should not ... stress our differences, but to unite in harmony…
Together, let’s build the definition of unity…Dream the same dream.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
NINTH Grade THIRD PLACEAlexander Villegas LHS Harmon, Nigliazzo
“ Dr. King’s vision exemplified the view that we are one people, regardless of race or skin color. In order to help mankind live the
dream of a color blind world without racial oppression, Dr. King chose to fight for the
rights of his people.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TENTH Grade FIRST Place Farhan Ahmad, Hebron HS, Shelton
“…The dream of one world is not too far fetched. From an individual donating to a
charity to a philanthropic group raising public awareness... With the syncretism of the
modern age, races and peoples of all identities join and collaborate every day ”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TENTH Grade SECOND Place
Hejab Khan, The Colony HS, Shideler
“He is regarded as one of the most inspirational people in history because of his
... fight against racial prejudice… We live under one sky and ultimately have one
destiny...we are all still humans and are all internally composed of the same basic
desires, needs, and emotions…”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TENTH Grade THIRD Place Christy Paliwoda, The Colony HS, Shideler.
“Dr. King had such a strong vision in his mind about what our country should look like. He
wanted friendship, and brotherhood. He wanted us to become ... accepting of each
other …He said his famous speech, hoping to change people’s lives
for the better, and he did..”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TENTH Grade Honorable Mention Blake Lubbers, The Colony HS, Ms. Shideler.
“Live the dream. I hope to one day live my dream… I want a world where the popular kids and the not-so popular kids, the jocks, and the band kids…can all just get along. Dr. King spoke of a world where people of different races could live together, and I
want my world to be no different.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
ELEVENTH Grade FIRST Place D. J. Simon, Marcus HS, Brininstool
“It seemed so long ago when Dr. King sparked the fires of equality that spread throughout
America before the foot of the statue of Lincoln... Dr. King’s flames of dreams would
reach to the far corners of the world inspiring a new generation of suppressed
people to rise up and face their oppressors…”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
ELEVENTH Grade SECOND Place Cherry Srivastava, Marcus HS, Petkoff
“He opposed judgmental opinions while abetting the common acceptance for all…His ideals only pushed for the betterment of our world and displayed how simple it
was to acknowledge yourself as an individual and to recognize others as the
same.”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
ELEVENTH Grade THIRD Place
Emerald Johnson, The Colony HS, Shideler
“A man of existence, so inspiring, changed life for the better. He created a world of
peace, with words…His words cut through the separation and outcasts...Today we share the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. … to continue the dream. ”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TWELFTH Grade FIRST PLACEDavid Leerssen, The Colony HS, Shideler
“There’s only one world, filled with 7 billion people that are all equal… If people would
spend their lives devoted to encouragement and love, their own lives would be valuably
affected in a positive manner. Dr. King believed in this very firmly…”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TWELFTH Grade SECOND PLACEGarrett Young, Flower Mound HS, Kemler
“A heart filled with compassion is needed to mend both the physical and emotional
wounds, and Dr. King knew that compassion heals and reforms the broken bonds that hate
and selfishness shatter”
19th Annual MLK Event – 2012Winning Essay Entries
TWELFTH Grade THIRD Place
Tre Wilson, The Colony HS, Shideler
“King’s dream was to live in a world where the color of your skin did not determine
how a person was treated …In the beginning, ... it was a nasty and vile divide between Blacks and Whites…By the end of the movements ... Blacks began to have
a non-invisible place in the world”