our second prize high school west winners are geoffrey kang, rachel joo, and leo baek. they are 11th graders at jp academy in irvine, california. where c-span is available through cox communications. their winning entry is titled "american food: the culinary diversity. " >> something that connexus altogether is an easy thing that everyone loves, food. through food we can approach the topic in a very approachable way for all people, young, old, with all races, and come to bigger topics about how the united states is defined by its diversity and we can see that in our everyday culture. >> i mainly feel like our time management issues overwhelm us, but overall i feel like it was a learning experience and that was important. >> i was shocked. we were running out of time and trying to rush and get everything done and we just did it and we were like oh my god, are we going to get it? of the first people to popularize the term "a nation of immigrants," john f. kennedy described america as a place founded, shaped, and strengthened by immigrants. this acknowledgment of america's

baek is struggling to deal with the aftermath of cycling kenneth the storm hit a week ago destroying homes on roads many people see if you are yet to receive help and i increasingly frustrated about the government's lack of action our correspondent chris sends us this report from one of the west affected areas. has felt somewhat traumatised ever since. ravaged. i mean. when the storm came everything was still ok. my house was still standing. but then it rained for hours on end as you see in the that's when my house collapsed. quickly packed a few things and. many people in the village lost everything and in the time since the cyclon hit they've lost all power. luis takes us to see the only means of transportation that is left in his village. the rickety old boss only starts after a long time and i wanted to finally gets going it only runs for ten minutes since i plan kenneth the road ends here. and the next town is an hour away by foot. we want our streets back so that we can drive to the city like we used to so we're asking the government to finally help out anybody. but the governm

that the death toll has reached forty one by that number is expected to rise many parts of muslim baek in assessable with remote areas and small islands still waiting for aid supplies our correspondent travel to evil an island in the north of the country that was especially hard hit. we are onboard an eight flight headed towards the vacation island of now for the first time we get an aerial view of the massive destruction up till now flights have hardly been possible due to the strong rain. i've never seen anything like this there's entire villages that are completely destroyed not a single house standing and if you look at the trees most of them fell down just like toothpicks. and now we're about to land on the island of e-books the first aid packages have arrived but this is by far not enough to help out the six thousand people living here the island has been almost completely destroyed nearly all the houses have been torn down including that of shamu rai for days she has been trying to bring order to the chaos. he. moaned warming in our beds our clothes we have lost everything we ar

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that this variation that people have had in this time has has been really bad ok so that was most on baek earlier on this year i want to go to india and talk about my time funny how the look on my laptop defender who is with us he post says this no cycling ever had such a long generation april may it's being set aside kind of funny he's a view from the hotel was safe for children is kept out i want you to listen to this sound. to ventura can you explain what we're saying i have. read i mean this is the capital city state which was just like you and this is going to be sure. it's about forty five degrees of the from the coast so what you're seeing is a wind speeds of one seventy kilometers per hour but the second image landfall near . the speed was in excess of eighty five. seeing the devastation there and what those wind speeds look like in that video and then juxtapose that with this we got to see this tweet it's circulating online this is a who writes that happiness when you get electricity and water supply after. gaffe of seven days in a little gift as they're about how happy residents