GHRP Contest Scholarship 2024

1. What actions would YOU as an individual take to stop ridicule, stereotyping, indifference, bullying, violence, hatred and/or discrimination of any kind?

2. How would YOU inspire and involve your peers in YOUR call to action?

3. Include the Display Permission form.

FOR STUDENTS not submitting an essay, include a paragraph or two that explains to the viewer or listener the thoughts behind your work so that they can best understand what your project conveys. Your write up should include:

1. A project title - explain the meaning behind your title.

2. What message/theme is your project communicating? How does your submission demonstrate the answers to the two project questions?

3. If applicable, why did you choose the colors, notes, instruments, etc. in your work?

4. If applicable, why did you employ symbols in your work and share what each one represents?

5. Please tell us anything else about your project that you would like the judges/readers/listeners to know.

6. Include the Display Permission Form

PLEASE READ THE REQUIRED BACKGROUND INFORMATION BELOW BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE CONTEST QUESTIONS. 

Throughout history,  prejudice and hate have contributed to violence, discrimination and divisiveness. The Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews and other groups, is an extreme example of anti-semitism and racism. It occurred because individuals, organizations and governments made choices that not only legalized discrimination, but also allowed mass murders to occur. Violent anti-semitism and hatred did not start with Nazi Germany nor end with its defeat. Reports indicate it is very much on the rise today, both in our country and across the world as witnessed in Israel on October 7th, 2023.

While anti-semitism is a very specific form of hatred that Jewish people have experienced generation after generation, people of all backgrounds and nationalities have been victims of hatred in one form or another.  Perhaps you have read stories about hatred, prejudice or discrimination in a book, magazine or online. You may have seen someone being bullied and did something about it, or maybe did nothing at the time, but in hindsight you wish you had. You may have witnessed derogatory speech directed at a specific group of people or even been the social media victim of prejudice, discrimination, or hatred. 

Question
What action can individuals and groups take to diminish prejudice and hatred in our community at the present time, which lead to discrimination, violence, divisiveness, and anti-semitism? 

Please draw on your opinion, knowledge, and experience, and support the actions you propose with personal reflections.  

You may choose to submit an essay, poem, oral interview, video, painting, or multimedia project.  

Completed projects should be uploaded to GHRP.net.