debt due to the excessive costs of a college education. Today in 2017‚ Americans owe more than 1.4 trillion dollars in student loan debt. In the United States‚ college is more expensive than almost any other country. Overall‚ it limits students abilities to reach their full potential. This impacts many families‚ even my own‚ from coast to coast. My family is middle class and I know there are plenty of families out there who have children that want to attend college‚ but are limited due to not being
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College has always been in the picture for me. Although for people like my mom and dad‚ they didn’t get the opportunity to think about college. They grew up thinking that working was always more important than school. On my mom’s side of the family‚ they believed that men were more superior than women so the women had to spend their times working to fund the men’s educations. Based on my mom’s story‚ school has been something that i value deeply. I believe that women in America take the opportunity
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The electoral college in america should be abolished because it has major flaws‚ supports political inequality‚ and doesn’t support third party candidates. On top of the flaws that already exist in the electoral college the biggest flaws is what happens when there is a tie. In the case of a tie the decision of who gets to be president is cast in the House of Representatives. This would mean that every states essentially has one vote making “the single representative from Wyoming‚ representing 500
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One of the unequivocally worst parts of college is sharing a bathroom. I can’t speak for the girls‚ but for guys? It’s disgusting. It may seem alright at first. I can only assume some governmental detox team comes in and cleans during the summer because for the first few weeks‚ everything is tolerable. Just give it time. After a few weeks or so‚ things start to get gross. Toothpaste begins popping up in the most unexpected places‚ clothing starts littering to floors‚ and the stench? Well‚ let’s not
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unconstitutional? The Electoral College is‚ and there are many more reasons it is a flawed system of electing our president. As it stands today‚ electoral votes only matter in a few states and some states do not matter in the grand scheme of things. Besides that‚ we have recently had a president elected who did not win the popular vote. This president has made a number of controversial decisions‚ and many call for him to be impeached for a large variety of reasons. The Electoral College elected such a man
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The Electoral College Before the tense and puzzling presidential election in 2000‚ many people thought the Electoral College was a place of education. Most people now know that it is not a place‚ but a process of how the President of the United States of America is elected. The Presidential Election of 2000 helped inform Americans that our President is not elected by the popular vote‚ but through the process of the Electoral College (Ballaro). The Electoral College has existed since the beginning
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When voting for a President and Vice President‚ Americans are actually voting for presidential electors‚ generally known as the electoral college. It is these electors who actually vote to elect the chief executive. Each state has a specific number of electors equal to the combined total of the state’s Senate and House of Representatives delegations. There is currently a combined total of 538 electors. It is relatively easy to become an elector because “Aside from Members of Congress‚ and persons
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popular election‚ the United States has the Electoral College‚ a group of elected electors who represent a certain states votes. The Electoral College was established by the constitution to protect minority interests and reduce the possibility of a regional candidate. However‚ some believe that the advantages of a direct popular vote election‚ such as its consideration of democratic values‚ outweigh the disadvantages. While others believe that the Electoral College has been put in place to hinder regional
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I like the Electoral College. I don’t want a most popular vote win election because I want the smaller states to still have a say‚ but‚ if America switches to most popular election‚ the way things are‚ might just get worse. There are some good reasons for a most popular election‚ and there are not good reasons for one too. I like the Electoral College a lot‚ and I would like the voting system to keep it that way. However‚ our founding fathers created the Electoral College‚ to create a better way
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Should The Electoral College Be Abolished? In the year 1787‚ the new nation of the United States set up an electoral system in order to ensure that the federal elections that would soon be taking place in the young country would go over smoothly… This system was the Electoral College… If this system sounds familiar‚ it’s because the Electoral College is still in service today‚ currently acting as the system which selects the American President and Vice President‚ or to be more broad‚ the Executive
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