Every citizen has the right to vote‚ yet so many people don’t vote‚ "with the turnout at just 64% for the 2008 presidential election‚ and voter turnout rates decreasing steadily in most established democracies." My parents just can’t do it because they’re too busy and sometimes they just don’t want to vote. It would be fun to vote because of the freedom we have on voting for which president we want to have‚ but some people just don’t think that way. As a consequence‚ voter turnouts during presidential
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Rekita Shelton September 25‚2013 Dr.Morrison Topic: Can one be a Fulfilled Person without a Home Essay #2 Draft Every person has a place where they feel more comfortable than anywhere else. Home has different meanings. People differ on what home is. Every person has his or her own explanation on what home is. Pliny the Elder‚ a roman author and natural philosopher‚ once quoted that “home is where the heart is.” However Anna Quindlen‚ an American author once quoted that “home
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Are You Ready to Live Without Nonrenewable Energy Sources Chinita Johnson COM/220 Marla Muse December 12‚ 2012 Are You Ready to Live Without Nonrenewable Energy Sources What will you do when your lights go out because there are no more fossil fuels to fuel the electricity needs of our nation? As many of us have dealt with power outages for one reason or another‚ they were usually for a very short period of time that may have seemed like forever. For the past few
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possibilities‚ you could explore the wonders of the world‚ not only the seven‚ but everything you can from the lowest depths of the seas to the host peeks of the mountains or even beyond that‚ like to outer space. With all that knowledge you could write books and teach people about all those places where no one else can go. Besides that you would also be able to learn languages‚ and then meet people from all over the world. Hearing their stories would help you learn about all the vast cultures out
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essay: There is nothing that young people can teach older people Needless to say‚ we have to respect and obey older people‚ partly because they have more experience and knowledge than us‚ so what they say is almost true. However‚ that doesn’t mean they know everything and young people have nothing to teach them. In the following part of the essay‚ I will support the idea that there are some things we know but they haven’t known and they can learn from us. Young people can teach the elderly anything they
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For millions of years people have lived in areas where two different plates meet. In theses types of areas it is very common for earthquakes to happen and for volcanoes to form. So why if these are such dangerous places to live do people continue to settle here? One reason may be that people believe that the types of natural disasters that are possible will never affect them in their lifetime. It is impossible to tell when a plate movement will occur. Some people are willing to take the chance that
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where crowds of people‚ many cars‚ building and different types of business can be found. The place where luxury and light attracts people. The various reasons why people live in a big city are for the excitement‚ the opportunity‚ as well as for the modernized life. Firstly‚ people live in a big city for the excitement. For example‚ there are a lot of social places in the big cities like restaurant‚ museums‚ stadiums‚ movie theatres‚ amusement parks‚ clubs and school ; where people have different
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Environmental pollution Any abnormal change in chemical‚ physical and biological features of environment is called pollution. It means adding impurity to environment.Environmental pollution is the greatest curse of modern world. Our world is now badly affected by air‚ water‚ land and sound pollutions. The fresh air in which we breathe gets polluted by combustion of fossil fuel‚ emission smoke and gas from motorized vehicles and factories etc. A huge amount of industrial and municipal wastages are
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“To what extent did the liberal reforms in 1906-1914 improve the lives of people?” The Liberal government introduced a series of reforms aimed at moving away from the Laissez-faire ideology and toward a more self help scheme aiming to move people away from poverty and to make Britain a better country both in health and prosperity; Churchill said “If we see a drowning man we do not drag him to the shore‚ instead we provide help to allow him to swim ashore”. To do this the Liberals aimed at giving
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What does it mean to be an American? Many people dream about being an American. They dream because they envision America as the land of peace and prosperity. But is it? At times it has been‚ and at times its not. It is hard for the United States to be correct all the time because they have been unwilling designated as the "World Police". Throughout history there have been examples politically‚ economically‚ and socially‚ where being an American is rewarding and times where it is embarrassing
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