1993-1994 Harry Singer Foundation National Essay Contest
Responsibility, Who Has It and Who Doesn't and What That
Means For The Nation
Bondurant-Farrar High School, Bondurant, Iowa
Teacher: Sally Norton
1st
Jamee Krug 
2nd Shannon Enos 3rd
Justin Lockwood
"A jury ordered the New York City Transit Authority to pay thirteen
million dollars to a man and the family of his late brother after the men came into
contact with electrified subway tracks. Both men were admitted alcoholics and drug
abusers. Transit police testified that they found intravenous drug paraphernalia near the
victims. Although the reward was reduced to between five million dollars and six million
dollars, the public was ripped off. No one should be rewarded if he gets injured while
trespassing."
Justin Lockwood, Bondurant-Farrar High School, Bondurant, Iowa
“ I would turn the money over to the police. The likelihood that it would be drug money or
other illegally gained wealth is high when considering my luck; and I don’t want to
be murdered because I have a drug dealers money.”
Dan Findlay, Jr., Bondurant-Farrar High School, Bondurant, Iowa
“[Percy] believes the country is decaying because of weariness,
boredom, cynicism, greed, and helplessness. If
the country were truly decaying, we would not have so much effort towards things like
recycling, and all of the donating that goes to different organizations.”
Brian
Leech, Bondurant-Ferrar High School, Bondurant, Iowa