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In 1942, Fred Korematsu was arrested and convicted for refusing to go with other Japanese Americans to incarceration camps mandated under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066. The Fred T.

Want a motivator to take your students’ writing to a higher level? Here’s an opportunity to write for a real audience, and the chance to get published by an award-winning magazine.

Read Red’s essay, Your Voice, Your Vote,” about how a vote isn’t just for a person, but also for an idea, a policy, and, even, your integrity.

Read Catherine’s essay, “Make a Choice,” about how time and time again voters have proven that when we make the choice to vote, we give ourselves the power to change the nation.

Read Ben’s essay, “The Voting Superhero,” about how we may not be able to fly or have an arsenal of high-tech crime-fighting tools, but we do have the power to vote.

Read Tyler’s essay, “With Great Asians Comes Great Responsibility,” about how some of the same people who urge us to vote are the same people who neglect what should be their real

Read Norbu’s essay, “A Voice for the Voiceless,” about how his father’s treacherous escape from Tibet to America in 1949 shaped his appreciation for the rights—like voting— that Americans have today.

We received many outstanding essays for the Fall 2016 Writing Competition. Though not every participant can win the contest, we’d like to share some excerpts that caught our eye.

Yessenia Funes responds to the winners of our Fall 2016 National Student Writing Competition.