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Competition Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the competition facet of life. Competition-Blog: Writing-Competition News Korantema Owusu Darko Wins National Essay Writing Competition: December 4, 2007
Fourteen year old, Korantema Owusu Darko, from the University of Ghana Basic School in Accra has won this year’s Coca Cola National Essay-Writing competition for students in public Junior High Schools across the country. She received an air ticket from South Africa Airlines to South Africa, for a week stay. She also received books worth GH˘600 and a GH˘1,200 scholarship. The other 19 award winners received cash prizes and assorted books. The Deputy Minister for Education, Science and Sports, Mrs. Angelina Baiden Amissah commended Coca-Cola Company for sponsoring the programme over the years. Mrs. Amissah said the education authorities will take a second look at some of the problems identified under the Education Reform programme. She also congratulated the winners for their hard work and urged them to work harder to achieve more laurels. The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, GBC is one of the main sponsors of the competition. The Head Publications of GBC, Mrs. Joana Bannerman commended the other sponsors for sustaining the competition over the past five years. Competition Blog Comment:
I question the basic genuineness of such a writing competition when it comes to be assessed and judged by the judges like you and me. None of us is a perfect one who can pass for being a flawless judge. We all do have our subjective biases for or against a particular kind of style or/and subject matter. We are all fallible to our various subjective follies! So in such competitions it all depends on who checked whose submission. The one who won could easily have been a loser with a great margin only if her/his submission had fallen in some different hands. It's all a matter of chance and not of real worth, and I am saying this after a great experience of mine both as a competitor and as a judge. Why don't we better go for a draw of luck than going for such a volatile kind of assessment that gives more pain to many than a little thrill to one? It becomes all the more important since both the pain and the thrill easily develop as psychological complexes, the inferiority in the loser and the superiority in the winner; and all this for no genuine reason!
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