Culturelink Press will be application banknote and book prizes for the best essays submitted by all-embracing visitors and immigrants in “Cultural Encounters of the American Kind,” a challenge area participants address about a cultural affray or confounding they accomplished if they aboriginal came to the United States.
San Diego, CA -- International humans will now get a adventitious to acquaint about their difficulties in adjusting to the U.S. in an article challenge alleged "Cultural Encounters of the American Kind." Winners will get banknote and book prizes for the best essays submitted in the antagonism sponsored by Culturelink Press.
For the essay, all-embracing visitors and immigrants are asked to address about a cultural affray or confounding they accomplished if they aboriginal came to the United States, and explain how they bound the cultural conflict.
The purpose of the “Cultural Encounters of the American Kind.” challenge is to advance intercultural acquaintance and to deepen Americans’ compassionate of the struggles newcomers face if they appear to the U.S. from added countries and acquaintance altered cultural customs.
The challenge encourages all-embracing newcomers to be absolutely frank, and address what they candidly acquainted if they came to the U.S. The article is a way to allotment perceptions of American behavior and community in a anecdotic and abundant way. By autograph about their cultural challenges, all-embracing humans will accept the attenuate befalling to allotment their claimed angle of activity in the United States.
Essays have to be typed, double-spaced, and the breadth of the article should be 500-700 words. Submissions will be acclimatized from May 1- June 30, 2006. The challenge is accessible to all foreign-born association who accept been active in the U.S. from one ages to 2 years, and contestants have to be at atomic 16 years old.
Essays will be advised by Diane Asitimbay, an ESL teacher, intercultural trainer and columnist of a accepted guidebook on American ability alleged What’s Up America? A Foreigner’s Guide to Understanding Americans.
The Grand Prize champ will accept a $100 banknote prize, a archetype of What’s Up America? by Diane Asitimbay, and will aswell be featured on the Culturelink Press website. Two finalists will be listed on the Culturelink website, and anniversary of the finalists will accept a archetype of the accepted cultural guide, What’s Up America?.
Complete data and access forms can be begin at www.culturelinkpress.com
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