2022 Essay Contest: Results
Congratulations to our 2022 Essay Contest winners! Here are the four winners of this year’s contest:
First place: Binita Koirala
Our Lady of Mercy
Second place: Elani Spencer
School of the Arts
Third place: Josephine Noel
Our Lady of Mercy
Third place: Joelle Blankenship
Our Lady of Mercy
The prizes are distributed as follows - First prize: $250 Second Prize: $100 Third Prize: $50
Prompt: DO WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF?
The well-known phrase about having nothing to fear but fear itself comes from President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s assertion that “the only thing we have to fear…is fear itself.” Do
Roosevelt’s words, often quoted as “nothing to fear but fear itself,” apply to today’s world?
You may address the question from any point of view. Your answer may take into consideration
local conditions or more broadly, you may address the state of affairs in the United States. You
may range farther to consider the wider world. You may refer to your own personal situation or
give a more general response. You do not need to address all those suggestions and you may
write from a different approach to the question. Remember that your treatment of the topic
should be in the form of an essay, not a letter or a poem.