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2024 Essay Contest Top Ten
Let's up the excitement a bit higher! Here is the Top Ten. Award winners will be announced very soon!!
“My Home, My Stability” by Michaela Harhajova
“A Mosquito Meets a Memory” by Maggie Whelan...
2024 Essay Contest Shortlist
Countdown to the winners is around the corner! Here is the shortlist for Essay Contest 2024. We congratulate all the participants. Winners will be announced very soon. Please follow our announcemen...
The Fountain Essay Contest 2024
“Home” holds a special place in our lives. A large, luxurious mansion or a small, decrepit place, our homes are hard to replace with anything. Our earliest memories form inside its walls; we utter ...
2022-2023 Essay Contest Winners
...And the winners are:
A Silent Ticking Time Bomb, by Keneth Erfelua
What Is Distraction? by Colm O_Shea
A Trip to the Zoo, by Zulma Suro
Unplugging the Mind: Reclaiming Focus in the Age of ...
2023 Essay Contest Shortlist
Countdown to the winners is around the corner! Here is the shortlist. Winners will be announced very soon. Please follow our announcements!
“Distraction Timed,” by Allison Hope
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The Fountain Essay Contest 2023
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Istanbul: Conversations on Life, Knowledge, and Belief
November 4-10, 2013 / Istanbul, Turkey
The Fountain organized a three-day conference in Istanbul featuring scholars and academics from diverse disciplines to convene and discuss some philosophical...
Religions and Economic Justice
Economic inequality refers to the disparity of wealth or income between individuals or between the different groups in a society. According to Di Matteo (2014), economic inequality occurs primarily...
Jihad in Islam and Christianity
Politicians and anti-Muslim activists frequently take to audiences and websites to criticize the term jihad as a form of Islamic supremacism, oppression, and violence. Muslim extremists, on the oth...
Parents: The First Teachers in the School of Humanity
It is very interesting to note the importance that God places on children respecting and honoring parents. The fifth through the tenth commandments in the Ten Commandments deal with man's relations...
Istanbul: Poverty and Wealth in the Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Poverty and Wealth in the Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Fatih University, Istanbul June 9 and 10, 2014
The human condition is one with many chal...