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There is currently a great debate in our nation about the necessity of Voter ID laws and the impact they will have on our democracy. It is with clear distinction that the Voter ID laws recently passed in various states, noted by right wing support, are a clear infringement on the ideals of a collective and openly participatory democracy. Voter ID laws, which in their inception are supposedly to protect democratic thought, would be a noble effort if they were implemented without malicious…

three research studies, Kelley and Mirer’s The Simple Act of Voting (1974), Clausen’s Response Validity: Vote Report (1968), and Flannelly, Flannelly, and McLeod’s Comparison of Election Predictions, Voter Certainty and Candidate Choice on Political Polls (1998), all work to improve the explanation of how voters make their decisions when voting. The studies prove that voting predictions are forced to take many other factors into consideration, including time, personal connection, and the choice…

stay for a couple of minutes and that he will explain later. One minute later the police arrive at your home and ask if you have seen a suspicious man running by your house,what would you do?In a recent ipsos poll 50% of the respondents said, lying is never acceptable, but in the same poll ⅔ said it was ok to lie in certain situations.I believe lying is unacceptable and is wholly unjustified. Lying is unacceptable and is morally wrong.For example, German philosopher Immanuel Kant states…

In the 1930’s, white Americans devoted their lives to an idea that America was “separate but equal”. White Americans did an exceptional job keeping their lives isolated from African Americans, yet they did a very poor job keeping their lives separate. During the 1930’s, Jim Crow Laws were in place; Jim Crow Laws were, “A practice or policy of segregating or discrimination against blacks, as in public areas” (Kipfer & Chapman). Jim Crow Laws originated in the Deep South during the times of…

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…

particularly large [declines] for assault victimization, bullying, and sexual victimization.” This strategy works because it is proof that today’s society is indeed safer than it has been in the past. Then to further strengthen that claim, he uses another poll that states “73% of [Americans] are suckers for sensationalistic news coverage that distorts reality”. By using this, Gillispie is suggesting that while Americans think millennials face more hardships than previous generations, those…

when beginning the training process is that the horse must be broke and able to collect itself and break at the poll (“Rope”). Breaking at the poll means that when the rider applies pressure to the horse 's bit, the horse drops its head allowing the three vertebrates in the neck to arch. If the rider applies pressure to the bit and the horse fights back, the horse is not breaking at the poll. When training a rope horse, and any horse for that matter, a vital component is spending time with the…

change the way that politicians usually will campaign. It also states within the article that, “even rival campaigns acknowledge that Twitter is providing a powerful bulwark against a slide in his poll numbers”, this means that what Trump is creating on Twitter is causing it to become extremely tough for his poll numbers to…

Tattoos in Mainstream Culture Over the past few decades, the number of tattooed people have skyrocketed. According to a 2016 Harris Poll, three in ten American adults have a tattoo. Tattoos have become a part of mainstream culture due to various reasons. Some people get tattoos on a whim, while others get them to remember a loved one. Tattoos are a popular form of body modification, but there are people who dislike tattoos. Regardless of how people view tattoos, we can confidently say that they…

has been met. The death penalty should be abolished because some of the claims that it helps are not even supported. The claim about how the death penalty deters murder is not evident and often inconclusive. The chart below shows the results of a poll done by presidents of top academic criminologists: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf About 88% of the experts believed that the death penalty did not act as a deterrent to murder (Death Penalty Info, Deterrence). The…