When the 26th amendment was passed‚ it gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Today‚ nearly thirty-five years later‚ the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" Of course the general consensus of youth is for this option‚ yet a surprising amount of adults are supporting the movement as well. In order to understand why lowering the voting age would even be considered‚ it is necessary to examine why the 26th amendment was passed in the first place. The United States was in the throes
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Change Required for Municipal Financial Viability Canadian municipalities are delivering and funding more services today than anytime in previous history (Kitchen & Slack‚ 2003‚ p. 2217). Cities especially are under pressure to grow as they are the main drivers of economic prosperity for the provinces‚ whereas a multitude of towns and villages in rural locations are fighting for their very existence with desperate attempts to counter their already diminished populations. Providing and maintaining
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Vote against Trump for the countries sake The Dallas Morning News broke with more than 75 years of tradition to endorse a Democrat for president‚ choosing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. The Dallas Morning News’ editorial page is very‚ very conservative. It hasn’t endorsed a Democrat for president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. But the editorial went on to savage Trump: "He plays on fear — exploiting base instincts of xenophobia‚ racism and misogyny — to bring out the worst in us‚ rather
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t-shirt that says “Vote for Nichole Mossalam”‚ carrying the voter registration forms and handing out personalized campaign pins; I was pumped to spread the work of this motivated and humble candidate that would do an amazing job in representing the exploding diversity in Malden‚ Massachusetts. Canvassing and attending school and community events became a routine during my summer. We familiarized ourselves with the populace of the district and registered more than half to vote. I was overcome with
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Jesus was a Jew‚ believed by all Christians to be the son of God. However the Jewish religion does not recognize him as the son of God; why is that? The Jewish religion believes that Jesus was a prophet‚ but not the “Messiah” only because he did not fulfill the messianic prophecies‚ Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah‚ and the Biblical verses referring to Jesus were “ mistranslated”. What was the Messiah supposed to accomplish? Throughout the Old Testament of the Bible
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Greg Bennett 3/18/13 Required close Analytic Reading Authors Stylistic Choices: Enhancing Analysis Using Rhetorical Grammar The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien 1. What is the narrator’s tone in the opening sentence? Describe how the use of the word butterfly affects the reader’s understanding of the description that follows. The narrator’s tone in the opening sentence is of peace and or prosperity. The narrator tricks the reader by using the noun butterfly to show beauty‚ calmness
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Speakers can switch to more social or political perspectives. Good morning I am the 2nd speaker for the opposing team. The topic of “students should wear school uniform and follow rules made by only adults” can be divided into two parts. The first part being “students should wear school uniform”. The proposing team said that students should be forced to wear uniform because they would be bullied if they wore civilian clothes. However‚ uniforms do not change the fact that bullying will still
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improve women’s education and rights in marriage. However women were still not allowed to vote in the general elections. Many women considered this as a huge prejudice‚ and that they would have to carry on being second-class citizens until they received the right to vote because a lot of women thought that having a say in general elections would give them more opportunities and rights. Before 1918‚ only men had the vote‚ even though they had to qualify by meeting the property qualification (which was someone
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university education. In my opinion‚ compulsory attendance is better than having no requirement to attend all the lessons on-campus. There are two points of view to this question. First‚ one side will say that university students are adults and should be able to manage their time as they see fit. This point of view says that sometimes‚ in today’s busy world‚ people need flexibility to manage their lives. For example‚ many single parents who are trying to earn their college degrees will sometimes
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with the Middle-East. “The UN boasts 193 members‚ and the U.S. provided economic assistance to 184 of them‚ or 96% of the countries in the world” (Forbes). You would think that with us giving money to almost every country in the world‚ that everybody should like us‚ but that isn’t the
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