Personal Narrative: My Vision For America

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To be honest...I don’t have a vision for America. I still don’t. When this prompt came out I just kept drawing a blank on what my vision for America might be. My vision for America doesn’t really matter too much. It’s about the vision to improve America that benefits all American citizens, instead of just me. If my vision could come true, I’d make it a dictatorship and I’d be running the country...naturally. But that’s probably in my best interest and not the country’s.
Many citizens are unhappy about our worsening economic problems, the weakness in our education and national security, and environmental issues. America needs to improve all the problems that American citizens worry about for their future and their children’s future.
As the wise Dante Alighieri
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Education is the most important thing for a country. The U.S. ranks 27th, almost the last, among developed countries when it comes to education. Education is worth investing in. Right now, high school graduation rates are less than 75%. We can help create better students by starting public education must earlier. Harvard shows that without early nurturing, nutrition, and stimulation, children can be impaired over a lifetime. In addition to this, children who are deprived economically and socially, enter the education system already behind. Early-childhood programs are proven to the most productive and cheapest. They can boost high school graduation, college-enrollment, and employment rates!
Education issues go hand in hand with economic problems. Economists found that if the average number of years of school in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over decades. Another economic problem is that America can no longer sustain itself. We import more than we export and have massive debt. If we bring more production in America, we can create more jobs, which help us economically, produce more, so we can sustain the population of our

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