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Creative Assignment: For The 21 Day Challenge And N100k

The 21-Day Challenge will form part of a product I’m developing for digital natives who wish to improve their online productivity. So it is proper to finish up with an assignment that reflects the learning outcome.  For the N100k cash prize, draw from your journal and create a digital product of your choice. Then write a commentary explaining; 1. Why you chose the product and the method/approach used to create it. 2. What you learned in 21 days and areas that could be improved. The word count is (750 )± 10%, preferably in Google Docs. Submit via email to admin@cmonionline.com on or before Wednesday 20/12/2023 at 11:59 pm.

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Essay Competition: Week 21 Winners.

  Roselyn Sho-Olajide and Johnson Onyedikachi have won the N20,000 cash prize for week 21 of the #CmonionlineEssayCompetition with their essays titled The Botched Job and Don’t Die On Your First Job respectively. Roselyn announced her entry in week 19 with My First Love., an emotional treatise that impressed the Judges and instantly flagged her as one to watch out for. Since then she has submitted works for the subsequent weeks and landed the prize on her third attempt. In The Botched Job, she immediately triggers the reader’s imagination with a suicide scene and then relives the story from the past with graphic details. Roselyn packs a combination of simple grammar with succinct brevity and her ability to weave a tale in the first person is top-notch. Congrats on your first win Roselyn and we hope to read more from you. Johnson has become a serial winner and a Judge had this to say about this remarkable young man: “I would have given this boy a 10 but for the fact that as the ruler of Dubai said, “in the race for excellence, there is no finish line”. Considering he is a teenager; probably not even in a university yet or have not graduated, but wrote very creatively, with no spelling or grammatical errors. He needs to be encouraged.  He is my Week 21 winner.” Well done Johnson, you must not stop writing. Our Judge went on to commend the standard thus: “I must say the quality of the contributions have considerably improved from what it used to be.  Well done!  I am highly impressed with what I read, especially the fictions.  Chisom, Oluwaseun, Emmanuel, Roselyn and Johnson wrote captivating, riveting and suspense-filled stories.  I applaud them. Its a pity only one person can be the winner.” Feedback: 7:00 A Need For A Healing by Victor Oladejo. The writer needs to review his work for grammatical errors before submission. Elementary errors like been for being and birds for beards harms his chances. Regrets And Pain by Timilehin Igeleke. Timilehin is a good writer and has a knack for fantastic plots. In this essay, however, the dialogue between James and his mother could have been abridged while still providing the same information. Soro Soke Generation: A Beacon Of Hope For Nigeria’s Redemption by Sunday Ogbaga. A very good essay. The writer made the effort to research and find compelling points to support his position. High quality in grammar, syntax, logic and content. He is definitely a winner too. The other essays were equally good and just as a judge stated we are improving and can only get better. Congrats to all our writers. We also say a big thank you to the Judges and readers. New topics for week 22 have been published. Click here to see them and participate.  

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India now has 21 million ‘unwanted’ girls

The desire of Indian parents for sons has created an estimated 21 million “unwanted” girls because couples keep having children until they produce a boy, the government said on monday, Jan 29th, 2018. Indian parents have historically wanted sons, who are seen as breadwinners and family heirs. Girls are often viewed as a financial burden in a country where the tradition of giving a marriage dowry persists. Even though sex selection is against the law, illegal gender-based abortions have been blamed for a sex ratio of 940 females for every 1,000 males in the last census. But many couples continued having children until they produced their desired number of sons, the government said in its annual economic survey report. “Families, where a son is born, are more likely to stop having children than families where a girl is born. This is suggestive of parents employing ‘stopping rules’ – having children till a son is born and stopping thereafter,” the report said. Couples, particularly women, in India face immense pressure to produce male children and many rural families do not send girls to school, marrying them off young. But the report said India’s preference for sons appeared “inoculated to development”, with even wealthier families not immune. Illegal sex selection and gender-based abortions remain rampant across social and economic groups in the country, according to several studies. A 2011 study in the British medical journal The Lancet found that up to 12 million girls had been aborted in the last three decades in India. Source: Straits Times

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