Importance of Voting Essay

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    if more African Americans knew of the struggles our people went through to gain these rights, and then maybe they wouldn’t take them for granted. V. Rationale My research is necessary because African Americans need to know the importance of voting. This issue is important at the present time because African Americans don’t go out and vote like they should. There should be no reason as to why African Americans who is eligible to vote, doesn’t show up to the polls. Even though my…

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    or nothing approach. The state will cast its vote for only one candidate. While Maine and Nebraska may split their vote proportionately. “Unlike other states Maine and Nebraska are different because they use a congressional district method for voting,”( Split Electoral Votes). The reasoning behind the all or nothing vote maximize its influence in the election. Presidential candidates concentrate on the states that provide them the most votes. Therefore, it is in the state’s best interest to…

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    The forty fifth Presidential Election in United States will be on November of 2016. The politician aspirants to the white house have already launched their campaigns to obtain the vote of the people. The most popular parties are the Republican, Democrat, and the Green Party. They are using the logic and emotional appeals to convince people to vote for them. Most of the candidates are visiting some of the states where the vote is really important. Some of them are being controversial about the…

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    rights that each citizen of United States has and the government are responsible to protect these rights to its people and making sure nobody is doing any unconstitutional decision to the citizen in America. Personally, I think the best right is the voting right, we can choose who is going to be our next president though the electoral college. We have a saying on it. Unlike other counties, for example; China. It is a communist nation, beside the citizen cannot vote who is going to the next…

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    Seeing my name on that ballot was weird, really weird. I was overwhelmed with pride as I entered the anonymous booth to cast my vote. Here, in Virginia, we use primaries to elect someone to run for office. This means that come voting day you have to be 18 years or older, be a U.S. citizen, and have no past or present felony charges. Then, you sign up to vote at a local building where you have been designated and enter a small booth. You are the only person who knows how you voted and it’s up to…

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    presidential election which is taking place on November 8th, 2016. To accomplish this project, my group created a twitter account as a secondary socialization to reach out to students of University of North Texas encouraging and educating them on the importance of voting in the society. Polling, surveys and random sampling were used to show percentage of people who identified with a party and who were going to vote in the upcoming elections. In class, we talked about how polling are used to…

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    non-US citizen, I am not allowed to vote. Due to this situation, voting becomes uninteresting to me. In addition, none of my parents are into politics hence, there is no role model that guide us, me and my siblings, for the importance of it. I’m not saying that my parents do not care about politics, and how the government works here in the US, but since we are all non-US citizen they do not see the urge to make politics and voting a big deal. It 's not until I had a government class in high…

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    It is interesting that he would refer to voting as a toy. .Voting is something only democratic societies do . Women didn’t have the right to vote until 1920 and African Americans until 1965. Voting is something special and important. Comparing voting to a toy diminishes its importance and value. Children have a favorite toy until a newer flashier one comes along. Perhaps the author was illustrating that the vote…

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    What would my employees think? Am I a pushover? Will more complaints occur? In order to avoid these questions and any resulting regret the decision was made based on the regret theory (Plous, 1993 p.101). 3. Compare and contrast your understanding of judgment and/or decision making using these three different theoretical approaches. My understanding of the judgment was based on the surrounding context. The baseline for the behavior of the employee was determined by a reference point,…

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    African-American men were the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws unfairly discriminated against African-Americans preventing them from casting their ballot at the voting poll. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the overt forms of racial discrimination in voting practices. However, as time has passed and with the June 2013 Supreme Court decision declaring Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act (1965) unconstitutional, many more ambiguous ways to discriminate for elections (especially local) have come…

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