The supervising teacher must ensure that contest materials for each entrant have been completed correctly and returned to the Dallas Fed within the allotted time period. The supervising teacher must also verify that each essay represents the student s own thoughts and writing. Family members of Federal Reserve Bank employees are not eligible to participate. The land of opportunity. Anywhere in the world, those words bring to mind just one place the United States of America.
Opportunity defines our heritage.
Waves of immigrant farmers, shopkeepers, laborers and entrepreneurs came to America for the promise of a better life. Some amassed enormous fortunes the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Du Ponts, the Fords, the Vanderbilts. Many millions more, descendants of those who arrived in the New World with little more than the clothes on their backs, improved their lot in life through talent and hard work. Opportunity permeates our folklore. There s no better example than the 120 novels Horatio Alger churned out in the years after the Civil War, all featuring ordinary boys going from rags to riches.