Educated voting Author: Nathan Kyer Good evening everyone my name is ________‚ and today I would like to talk about voting and the importance of being an educated voter. To start how many of you plan to vote in the next election? (Base response according to the audience)It is very important to vote. Our country‚ the United States of America‚ has been from the start‚ founded upon the principle of representative government and officials. It has only been within the last century that all Americans
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governments and a great example is the United States of America. Ancient Greek democracy had a deep influence on the design of political institutions in the United States. Many ideas from Ancient Greece pertaining to how they set up their
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Hypocrite as "a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion" A Democratic-Republican opposes a strong central government with most power assigned to the states‚ Alexander Hamilton’s economic policies‚ advocates a liberal agrarian democracy‚ a foreign policy favoring the French Revolution while also appealing to poor townsfolk. Both Mr. Jefferson and I were firm believers of Republican ideals‚ but under the circumstances‚ we had to adapt to the issues that affected our presidencies
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The popularity of reality TV shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the fact that we live in a culture that worships vanity‚ rather than virtue. So here is the true reality behind reality TV. Reality TV‚ which is in the business of making us feel good rather than be good‚ actually contributes to the growing problems in our society by celebrating human weakness rather than human excellence. Reality TV doesn’t empower us‚ but rather overpowers us by taking our innate power and inner knowing and
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According to Election Data Services the percentage of electronic voting machines per county doubled between 1998 and 2002 to 16 percent-‚ yet a full replacement of the traditional voting procedure is very unlikely. In its essence‚ an electronic voting machine is a computer assisted self-interviewing device (CASI) giving the voter the opportunity to review and change his/her vote before submitting it. The different types of voting machines allow for different kinds of interaction‚ such as using
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God that holds you up” (Edwards 2). Jonathan is saying that the only thing keeping all humans from going to hell is God. To get this to stick in people’s minds he is appealing to their already growing concern. This appeal to pathos‚ and maybe even ethos‚ makes his arguments stronger because he gets his audience to listen to the words
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‘Prose; words in their best order; - poetry: the best words in the best order’ (Coleridge). A reflection on Coleridge’s definition‚ Nobody can claim that prose is a somewhat less commendable form of literature than poetry. Prose must still contain a certain amount of veraciousness and technique in order to be created. However poetry requires these things in order to be successful and whilst it is some people’s view that prose is layered with different meanings and is read to be analysed‚ poetry
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Book Review: “Is Voting for Young People?” (2E) by Martin Wattenberg Watternberg‚ Martin. Is Voting for Young People? With a Postscript on Citizen Engagement‚ 2nd edition. Harlow: Longman‚ 2007. In this concise work of political science‚ Professor Wattenberg of UC Irvine sketches the outline of a potentially serious problem facing modern democracies: the ever-declining political awareness and participation among youth. Wattenberg analyzes election surveys and public opinion polls in order to ascertain
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The Importance of Voting & Close Election Facts Summary: The author’s opinions about why voting in elections is important with some examples of the most-famous examples of close elections in U.S. history. Why is it important to participate in the democratic process by voting? That’s an interesting question with several different ways in which to answer it. Voting is the foremost way to exhibit good citizenship and civil responsibility. First‚ voting in free elections is a right that should
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Reality Shows In china: A Road to a More Democratic China or Not? In 2005 up to 400 million viewers‚ nearly a third of the population of China sat to watch the grand finale of The Chinese version of American Idol Supergirl Idol. The winner Li Yuchan was chosen via text messages receiving 3.5 million votes. Apart from voting through new age technology ‚the 2005 finale also was covered by over 100 newspapers with series of articles and the website sina.com alone received 2.4 million comments on the
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