Importance of Voting Essay

I have worked for the Democratic party in Wisconsin. I have divided my ten hours in three different dates. The first time was on the 18th of September, when I did canvassing. I went with a more experienced member of the volunteers, which was nice. It was my first time and it made me more comfortable not being alone because I simply did not know what to say and I am also not that comfortable talking to people. So that was definitely good for me. He picked me up and we went there together. First…

Inventors, states, and electors all have one thing in common and that is their rights. Whether they 're the rights to an invention or the inalienable rights of a human, they are all in place to protect the rightsholder. Protecting rights is a major idea that the founding fathers had in mind when declaring their independence. The electoral college is a rarely understood establishment, that provides rights to all voters in America, while protecting the states as well. Due to a low informed…

As a first time voter, I had been told horror stories about same day voting and heeded the advice of those wiser than me. I casted my ballot days before avoiding the lines while still getting emotional as a female voting for the first woman presidential nominee of a major party. As lunchtime rolled around at the Cache Valley County Clerk’s Office, the lines were growing and people 's desire to fulfill their civic duty depleted. Many grumbled, asking “what the hell was taking so long”. The…

Negative campaigning and its effect on political participation is a topic that has been widely studied during the last decades in the US, mainly due to the fact that some scholars defend that this electoral strategy threatens American democracy as it reduces voter turnout (Brooks. 2006). This is the case of Ansolabehere et al. (1994), which conducted both an experiment and also an aggregate-level analysis during the senate elections of 1992. The results of the experiment demonstrated that the…

Racial Equality and Civil Rights Socialization in Modern Day America Democracy, regarded as the rule of the majority has evolved into the most desired form of governance preferred by the majority of individuals across nations around the world. However, the concept of the rule “of the people, for the people, and by the people” as reiterated by Abraham Lincoln, has been considered a fleeting construct of the society as fewer citizens are engaged in measures and processes tailored towards promoting…

Why filter bubble is a problem? Well, to answer this question we must think about things like: other points of view, different opinions, importance of information, somewhat challenging. Today it is filtered by importance and number of clicks done for search certain information. After UK’s vote to leave EU many people were shocked with the results where expectations were entirely opposite what they expected. “In the aftermath of the UK’s vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s victory in the US…

In the United States there are two form of democracy Republican and Direct democracy. Direct democracy is a form of government where the individual citizen of the country directly vote for the leader or president. This means that everyone's vote is specially counted and everyone gets a fair chance to show support for the candidates, However this only works on small nations. On the other hand there is Republic Democracy, this is where the representatives vote for the leader or president. United…

The candidates incorporated authority, social proofing, and the central route to persuasion in their debating techniques to persuade voters. Authority and social proofing act in a cyclical way, since a social proof is the act of individuals imitating others due to their own uncertainties in regards to a topic, and authority is used by those who use this uncertainty to their own advantage by acting credible, all-knowing, and confident to assure others that they should follow them. Central…

Friday night, 4:59 p.m., I sat at my laptop, refreshing the page until the results were posted. At 5:00 p.m., I nervously scrolled until the page displayed ‘Freshman Class President’. Taking a deep breath, I squinted one eye and read what was underneath: Jackson Winn 2013-2014 Freshman President. I stared at the screen, tears fighting to emerge from behind my eyes, thinking it was the end of the world. Little did I know, this would be the first of my many battles in the election process. I…

Lindy Li is a graduate from Princeton University. The Daily Princeton goes in some detail about Lindy Li accomplishments relating to politics during her time at Princeton. Cassidy Tucker of The Daily Princeton writes “Li served as Class Council president, and was the only woman to be elected to serve four consecutive years as her class president” (Tucker). “Li also founded the Do it in the Dark campaign, which encourages students to use less energy. The event is still active on campus today”…