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    The Electoral College was established in 1787 as a compromise between having Congress select the next President of the United States‚ and having a direct democracy in which the popular vote selected the next President. The system has worked for over 200 years‚ so why change it now? Proponents for the Electoral College to remain the same argue that the Electoral College contributes to the cohesiveness of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support to be elected president‚ enhances

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    II 10 October 2006 Popular Culture Should Be A Popular Course Dear Chair of the Education Department‚ Popular culture should be a course that is offered on Clarion campus for everyone. If popular culture is taught correctly‚ a course on popular culture can provide a very educational outlook on wide variety of important topics such as race and ethnicity or politics(Rise and Fall). Popular culture is very interesting‚ in that it is what is popular to people‚ and should be a class that is taught

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    Should College be Free What if college was free? There are so many people that want to go to college. But in this case‚ some people are not able to go because they can’t afford it. Even though some citizens get so much aid from the government‚ with all the stuff they give us. Free college is something we don’t need‚ because if we do get it then there would be alot of stuff that would get out of place “College scholarships are gifts of money that helps students pay for education‚ and there are so

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    right to vote. All citizens must vote in order for a political leader to be fairly elected. A citizen’s vote insures equality among all races‚ genders‚ and the various economic status.Voting represents a citizens mortal values. For these reasons americans should vote in local state and national elections. A citizen’s vote makes certain there is equality among all people within the u.s. A voter who is por has the same vote as one who is wealthy. People of all races have equal votes. The vote of an

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    Unit Paper In today’s politics the Political Parties‚ Voters‚ The Electoral Process and Mass Media are all connected to one another. An example for this is the incoming elections in the United States. There are political parties that have their own ideas on how to change the government for the better of the citizens. Political parties are defined as an organized group of people with the same political aims and opinions‚ who seeks to change the public policy by having their candidates elected

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    Why the Electoral College should not be preserved? The Constitutional Convention of 1787 gave birth to the system of the Electoral College. Electoral College system can be described as a system in which voters vote for electors on election day‚ who then cast their vote for candidate in their respective party. Our Founding Fathers described this system in Article II‚ section 1 of the Constitution. According to the Constitution‚ electors per state are equal to the number of seats each state holds

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    not voting at all. American citizens should not be required to vote because democracy thrives on participation of its people and if citizens are being forced to vote then their opinions are not going to be an accurate representation of the honest beliefs and opinions of American citizens as a whole. "Democracy is about freedom" (Text 4‚ line 11) and citizens

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    and poor students decreases as poorer students have more opportunity. The economy also benefits from the increased pool of highly educated labor. An educated workforce attracts employers and foreign investment. Socially‚ a more educated population should have more choices regarding nutrition‚ jobs and lifestyle. An additional point is that university fees only contribute a small proportion of the university budget. However‚ some people are opposed to free education. First of all‚ through their taxes

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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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    March 29‚ 2012 English 112 (B) Research Paper 1 Should We Pay College Athletes? Should we pay college athletes? That is a big topic in NCAA sports right now. People think that college athletes work hard and that they deserve to get paid. Michael Wilbon is one of these people. At first he was against paying college athletes‚ but now he is all for it. He says that he is interested in seeing the people that make revenue share a little piece of it. Then you have people like a reporter from the

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