The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.

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The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

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Parents often hear the advice that children are watching what they do for role models to follow. For Jody Ingle of Middletown, a decision to return to school at Miami University Regionals 15 years ago ...

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