King County, Washington

To me the Fourth of July is a kind of celebration celebrating the past and what we have done in the past instead of what we plan on doing in the future. As an American I believe that the way our country celebrates things is by mostly remembering and saluting them instead of living up to them. We commemorate or remember those that died on July 4th that sacrificed or fought for us to obtain our freedom however, we take for granted our freedom and forget that we weren’t always free. The 4th of July…

Chinese Exclusion Act The title of the document is the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882. The document was written by the federal government of United States, passed by congress and signed by the President Chester A. Arthur. The document was written on 6th of May 1882. Chinese began to emigrate in the year of 1849, and the act was passed in 1882 so, this document was written approximately after 32 years the events described. In 32 years many things changed, the American government felt the…

There are numerous similarities between warfare and elections. Both involved protracted struggles for power, strategizing, fundraising and research. Political campaigns in the U.S. even borrow several terms from warfare, further demonstrating their congruence. Campaigns strategize in “war rooms”, put their fundraised capital in their respective “war chests”, “mobilize” campaign members and confront their opponents in “battleground” states. The results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election…

The Electoral College Needs to be Abolished Every four years, millions of Americans rush to the polls to vote for the next President of the United States of America. What many Americans voting today may not know is that they are participating in an unfair system; this system is taking power from a majority of Americans and placing an emphasis on the few. The best solution to this problem is the simplest one, abolish the Electoral College and use a popular vote for the election of the…

impacted Washington D.C. However, there are other presidential scandals such as the Watergate Scandal in 1971 and the Iran-Contra Affair were peoples trust in the government diminished. During the Iran-Contra Affair, many events were largely forgotten or ignored, but the events that took place during Watergate will be difficult…

The United States government has been secretly spying on its citizens and has built a database that records every phone call made in the United States. Patrick Leahy, a senator from Vermont, said, “Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT has been secretly interpreted to authorize the collection of America’s phone records on an unprecedented scale” (Leahy 1). Where does the government get the authority to do such a thing? According to Leahy, the government can only collect information that is relevant…

Public Education across the United States has been under attack for several years. Parents want school districts, administrators and teachers to be accountable for their children’s education; however, they do not want to finance their schools. School districts are forced to work with the income they have. This income varies from district to district and state to state. Affluent districts across the United States have larger budgets than poor districts causing great inequalities in students’…

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. Three years ago, after the Edward Snowden revealed the massive surveillance program conducted by the U.S. Government, made it clear that we are living in an age where our information is being stored digitally. This had resulted in an ongoing debate between on balancing of national security and civil liberties. The government, however, argues that it is…

When it came to drafting the Constitution, the Framers had different options and ideas of the ways to select a president and the Electoral College seemed to fit their society well. After all, politics in 1787 was different than what it has come to be in this time. During that time, there were only 13 colonies, which are states, all of which were located on the Atlantic border. This made “national campaigns... impractical...”, because transportation and communication wasn’t well built between…

. Here in the states, the topic as of late is the constitution; whether ratification of the document should happen, or whether it should not be ratified. The year is 1788 and the debate about the ratification of the U.S constitution is quite the topic among everyone including everyday citizens, in which everyone has an opinion on the topic, myself included. The U.S has the articles of confederation in place however, state delegates believed that the articles where weak, and something needed to…