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Culture She followed her star
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Lara Fraenkel, an 11-year-old student at École Buissonière in Montreal, Canada. You can find more work from our young writers here A young girl stared out a window. Her wavy brown curls were…
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Culture Freedom, a poem
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Covenant Olorunyomi, is a 17-year-old student from Baptist High School in Lokoja, Nigeria. You can find more work from our young writers here. My world has never been limited to the four walls…
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Culture Learning about the First Amendment changed my life
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Lilli Libowitz, a 14-year-old student at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School in Washington, D.C. You can find more work from our young writers here Three years ago, when I was in fifth…
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Culture Freedom means doing the right thing
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Ezra Cutler, an 11-year-old student from the Jewish Community Day School in Boston. You can find more work from our young writers here. Freedom to me is something that all people should have….
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Culture How I found freedom through dialogue
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Emily Bernstein Dunkel, a 17-year-old student at the Fieldston School in New York, NY. You can find more work from our young writers here It was June 26th, 2019 when I left my…
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Culture Free To + Free From = Freedom By
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Ellery Bergman Chudnow, a 16-year-old student at New York’s Eleanor Roosevelt High School. You can find more work from our young writers here “To” is such a small, seemingly insignificant preposition, but it…
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Culture What it means to be free in 2020
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Kayla Nickfardjam, a 17-year-old student at Miliken Community School in Los Angeles. You can find more work from our young writers here What it Means To Be Free in 2020 Today I lay…
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Culture What freedom means to me
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Zachary Levy, an 11-year-old student at New York’s Schechter School. You can find more work from our young writers here The word free can mean many things, it just depends on who you…
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