Preview

Right to Vote

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
391 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Right to Vote
Global warming, STOCK MARKET plunges, housing market at an all-time low, bird flu, and Americans dying in Iraq! When you’re a kid it feels like you’re letting adults plan your future. Adults are voting, but their votes affect the next generation. We are the ones who have to live with their decisions.

In our multimedia-based society kids are exposed to more information than ever. Television, Internet, and satellite news are available 24/7. Polar ice caps are melting, our troops are dying, and people are starving as we watch live. My generation is more aware of what is going on in the world than previous ones. My generation is more likely to be offspring of single-parent families, multi-racial families, and openly gay parents. The world has changed, society is different from when our parents grew up.

Kids are more socially and politically aware; so why can’t we take part in the political process? What would the political environment be like if kids could vote? Perhaps SUVs would be illegal - if you don’t get 35 miles per gallon, you’re off the road. Why are our troops dying in Iraq if no weapons of mass destruction were found? Perhaps we would bring the troops home now, if kids had a say. How come Katrina victims still need help, while we turn away economic aid from other countries? I would vote to accept help from foreign countries. Why does it matter if we agree with their government or leaders if they want to help? Also, my generation doesn’t care who makes up a family. I would vote that families are people who love and care for their children.

My hope is that because children of my generation have more knowledge, they will make the right decisions. My fear is that kids are so busy memorizing Red Sox stats, so concerned with Britney at the VMA Awards or with beating the newest video game, that they may not pay attention to what will affect their lives. On the other hand, don’t some adults focus on these less important things too?

Perhaps only the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Summary Response The article “ Kids are kids until they commit crimes ” by Marjie Lundstrom talks about how the under-eighteen crowds are considered kids .Yet when they commit a crime or start acting inadequately they start considering them as adults and they start receiving the consequences an adult would have . Many people do not consider this fair .That is why Ron Wilson ,Democratic State Rep. of Houston suggested to lowering the voting age to fourteen . He also said that “if you want to throw the adult book at kids”(paragraph 8) and give them the consequences of an adult then they can be able to vote too and do things an adult does. This article also talks about how people have created an image that teenagers are something to…

    • 234 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Ann Hulbert's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", she outlines the Millennial Generation and some of the qualities that set this unique generation apart from the rest of the generations. The Millennial Generation is at one of the greatest social crossroads in our history as a country, as political ideology divides the nation like no time ever before. We as a generation are growing up in a time when political ideology threatens to gridlock the country; A time where media outlets spin and manufacture the news to suit one political ideology or the other; A time in which multiple social issues are being pushed to the forefront of political platforms. This is the setting for my generation and the influence that it has on us. I am the Millennial Generation.…

    • 824 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Maybe they shouldn't have a say in what's happening in the country but they should have a say what is happening in the community.When kids enter their teenage years they start to mature and wonder about more.…

    • 215 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    One thing is, since they lowered the voting age, we must take this for granted. What I mean is that if you have the privilege to vote, then do so. It is your responsibility as an American citizen to choose who you want, and trust to control our country. Voting isn't something you just say, “Oh, whoops, forgot to vote today… Eh, I’ll just do it next time.”…

    • 247 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Right To Vote Dbq

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The right to vote is fundamental in a democratic society, our forefathers intended it to be this way. The ability to choose the politicians who run our government is the very principle that this nation was founded on. During this election year, more and more people are being urged to vote. This raises the question of whether those people are exercising their civil liberty or taking advantage of a privilege. Though some may consider it the latter, voting is a guaranteed right because it is directly promised to us by the constitution and further reinforced by state law.…

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Voting Rights Dbq

    • 714 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965, originally designed as a temporary emergency measure, quickly suspended the use of all literacy tests, as well as good character requirements. Congress believed that enacting the voting rights act was necessary because it enforced the pre-existing 15th and 19th amendments.…

    • 714 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Tattooed Need Not Apply

    • 1638 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Pew Research Center. (2007, January 9). How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics a Portrait of “Generation Next”. Pew Research Center For the People and the Press. Retrieved June 10, 2009, from http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/300.pdf…

    • 1638 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Right to Vote

    • 376 Words
    • 1 Page

    Antony mentions the word “right” or “rights” many different times in this excerpt. How does she use and refine this key term over the course of her speech? Use evidence from the passage to support your response. Your writing will be scored on organization, development of ideas, and use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.…

    • 376 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Apathy In America's Youth

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages

    When it comes to politics, and the government in general, adults treat teenagers like kids, making it nearly impossible for them to get involved with it. By doing this, they make teens feel as if they have virtually no say in anything that goes on in the world, so they find it pointless to get drawn in to it. When teenagers see the amount of poverty in the world, although they may be concerned, they realize that they can’t really do anything about it, so they just shrug it off, which can be easily mistaken as…

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A.) One law passed by Congress that made discriminatory voting requirements such as poll taxes, the grandfather clause, and voting laws illegal was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This act made it illegal and attempted to stop the discriminatory requirements and tests. The act prohibited states from imposing “voting qualification, prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure…to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color”.…

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Compare with the previous generation, the youth today have more chances to make decision by themselves. In the other words, they are more free and dependent. For example, in the past, parents always interfere to their children’s life and push them to what they want even when their kids were not in favors such as marriage arrangements. Meanwhile, in the present, parents mostly allow them to do what they are interested in and try to give good advices to them; instead of causing arguments which easily break family relation. Moreover, today we have the internet, iPods, gaming devices, etc. We also know a lot more scientifically, which can help with our homework and other stuff. All makes the youth’s life become easier.…

    • 358 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    First, let us go into political apathy amongst youths in the United States of America. In this ever-changing global society, what really matters is, to put it simply, to earn as much bucks as you can, and climb the ladder of success. As long as one has affluence and wealth, that is considered success. Politics? Where does that fit into the jigsaw puzzle? Nowhere. So, logical and clear-minded youths of the American society, in their younger days of schooling, would have just plainly concentrated on their studies, rather than devoting that one hour just to catch up with the daily news happenings.…

    • 1021 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Seperating past, present and future is a mistake many people tend to make. The past, present and future are entwined in each other, and most apparently, the past is deeply embedded in the future. Often, youngsters feel that the past is unimportant, and that we ought to be looking to the future. This is a deadly, fatal, and extremely misguided way of thinking; are they even thinking at all?…

    • 824 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As the world keeps developing, many things happen like environmental problems, poverty, and animal welfare. We cannot deny that the consequences of those problems have caused many troubles to our life. As a result, young people nowadays are much more aware and concerned about those issues than previous generation.…

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    - Advancement in technology also leads to the generation gap in the modern world. Children tend to spend most of their time with the internet, with social media and especially when facing problems instead of sharing their problems with parents, they prefer to using solutions which provided by internet. Thus again reducing the communication and leading to a generation gap between them.…

    • 346 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays