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Every four years the citizens of the United States of America come together to vote and elect the President of the United States. Voting in any type of election is important because it voices our opinions in selecting important leaders and officials and overall policies. Voting helps the person to decide what will they see…

Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults. [1] Youth empowerment is often addressed as a gateway to intergenerational equity, civic engagement and democracy building….

At present, the world produces a lot of non-biodegradable goods like plastics and tin cans. These goods, when wasted, cramps up the world since it would take years for these materials to decay—most even do not. The only solution left is to recycle or reuse them, so the initial production of these goods can be…

It’s long been a debate that speech on college campuses should be or should not be censored. This debate is centered around colleges allowing offensive speakers onto campuses to pronounce their controversial views for everyone to hear. Some believe freedom of speech is a given right in every situation, yet some insist that college campuses…

In his book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes discusses liberty and the social contract. According to Hobbes, liberty is defined as “the absence of opposition (by opposition, I mean external impediments of motion)” (Ch 21, p.136). He argues that this state of liberty is the natural state of man but also leads to warfare and a troubled…

As an American child, I’ve always been told that I can make a difference, that I can change the world. While that’s always sounded nice, it’s hard not to wonder, “Can I actually change something? ” Such is the case of James H. Meredith. He changed the world not though extraordinary actions, but by rebellion…

After acquiring its independency Texas asked Congress if it could fall in the brotherhood to go portion of the U.S States. Congress accepted and so Texas became an official province. Mexico did non like the thought of Texas going independent and Texas wanted more land so they ended up holding the war in Mexico. The…

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Liberal vs. Conservative Growing up in a home that could be characterized as a political battlefield was traumatic. I spent the first decade of my life living peacefully with two left- winged hippie parents. My mother had hair like Rapunzel and my dad worked as a jazz musician. Life…

Is America stupid or just selective? When I initially reviewed the questions on the survey, I predicted that there would be a higher percentage of right answers on the pop culture questions than the civic literacy questions. After I compiled the data, I was pleasantly surprised to find that more interviewees got the civic questions…

A Georgian shoemaker ’ s boy named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and shortly became a professional radical. In the 1903 party split  he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party Congress abroad and worked in the Georgian party imperativeness. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to…