Young Adults Power in Government
Some of our nation’s founding principles and ideals are solely based on the people inhabit it. That every single person matters, what they think, feel, and shout to the masses has weight in some sort of government atmosphere. Today the common individual is content in their own little world and unaware to the ever changing world around them. This trait is found especially in young adults who have been persuaded that they their voice doesn’t hold weight, that they are too uninformed, or just too young to participate in and change the world around them. When in fact there are many ways that they can make their voice be heard. Today’s progression in social media along with a whole different universe in the internet …show more content…
One of the most successful men in America, Warren Buffet, has a very famous quote that “the more you learn the more you earn.” Success and involvement is based off of knowledge and what you do with it. Recently the Intercollegiate Studies Institution did a study about how little Americans are actually educated on their local, state, and federal government. More than 2,500 randomly selected Americans took ISI’s basic 33 question test on civic literacy and 71% of them received an average score of 49%, or a failure. The study showed that three times as many people know that Simon Cowell was a judge on American Idol than know that “a government by the people, for the people” comes from former President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It also finds that half as many adults ages 25 and up know the three main branches of government than people under the age of 24. Teens and young adults literally have all the power in the world to learn and be informed on whatever they want to be. Chairman of ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board Josiah Bunting boldly states, “There is an epidemic of political, economic, and historical ignorance in our country on all levels (referring to age groups).” Summarizing the continuation of the chairman’s rant he puts emphasis on the fact that the up and coming generation needs to play an important role on curing the national epidemic of social ignorance. These young adults that the chairman is calling on …show more content…
They feel as if their voice doesn’t matter, that politics are boring and uninspiring, or just have difficulty getting a grasp on it all. I have a few solutions that I deem to be the way to increase the involvement in our political environment that may give our future adults of America the motivation to take the power back. First off I believe that debating and government/politics should be stressed more on in public preliminary school. The ability to debate alone increases the confidence and critical thinking skills. The National Children’s Mental Health Institution did a study in April of 2013 concluding that heightened brain activity increases in teenagers and young adults that took apart in regular debate or extended periods of personal expression by 61%. Finally, young people shouldn’t be as scrutinized or slandered by society as frequently as they have in the past few years. I am positive that I speak for the majority of my fellow generation that need not be victimized. If young people were encouraged more often and given the feeling that they were a more integral part of society, the more they would feel a need to shape the world around them. Instead, many young people reject a path into politics and government because it is part of the society that victimizes and tunes them out. Contrary to what society believes, young adults are not ignorant self-consumed thieves. They are bright minds and huge hearts wanting to make a way
Some of our nation’s founding principles and ideals are solely based on the people inhabit it. That every single person matters, what they think, feel, and shout to the masses has weight in some sort of government atmosphere. Today the common individual is content in their own little world and unaware to the ever changing world around them. This trait is found especially in young adults who have been persuaded that they their voice doesn’t hold weight, that they are too uninformed, or just too young to participate in and change the world around them. When in fact there are many ways that they can make their voice be heard. Today’s progression in social media along with a whole different universe in the internet …show more content…
One of the most successful men in America, Warren Buffet, has a very famous quote that “the more you learn the more you earn.” Success and involvement is based off of knowledge and what you do with it. Recently the Intercollegiate Studies Institution did a study about how little Americans are actually educated on their local, state, and federal government. More than 2,500 randomly selected Americans took ISI’s basic 33 question test on civic literacy and 71% of them received an average score of 49%, or a failure. The study showed that three times as many people know that Simon Cowell was a judge on American Idol than know that “a government by the people, for the people” comes from former President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It also finds that half as many adults ages 25 and up know the three main branches of government than people under the age of 24. Teens and young adults literally have all the power in the world to learn and be informed on whatever they want to be. Chairman of ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board Josiah Bunting boldly states, “There is an epidemic of political, economic, and historical ignorance in our country on all levels (referring to age groups).” Summarizing the continuation of the chairman’s rant he puts emphasis on the fact that the up and coming generation needs to play an important role on curing the national epidemic of social ignorance. These young adults that the chairman is calling on …show more content…
They feel as if their voice doesn’t matter, that politics are boring and uninspiring, or just have difficulty getting a grasp on it all. I have a few solutions that I deem to be the way to increase the involvement in our political environment that may give our future adults of America the motivation to take the power back. First off I believe that debating and government/politics should be stressed more on in public preliminary school. The ability to debate alone increases the confidence and critical thinking skills. The National Children’s Mental Health Institution did a study in April of 2013 concluding that heightened brain activity increases in teenagers and young adults that took apart in regular debate or extended periods of personal expression by 61%. Finally, young people shouldn’t be as scrutinized or slandered by society as frequently as they have in the past few years. I am positive that I speak for the majority of my fellow generation that need not be victimized. If young people were encouraged more often and given the feeling that they were a more integral part of society, the more they would feel a need to shape the world around them. Instead, many young people reject a path into politics and government because it is part of the society that victimizes and tunes them out. Contrary to what society believes, young adults are not ignorant self-consumed thieves. They are bright minds and huge hearts wanting to make a way