Analyzing the Negative Impacts of Lowering the Voting Age Justin Smith-Lorenzetti (6263537) Politics 110‚ Section B TA: Peter Rak‚ Section X Professor Rose Submitted November 8‚ 2010 Word Count: 1454 The debate between quantity and quality is an ever-present one in modern society‚ whether it be with number or quality of friends one person might have‚ the quantity or the quality of artwork that someone may own‚ or‚ most appropriately‚ the quality versus the quantity of votes taken at polls
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THAT GAS PRICES SHOULD BE LOWER IS BECAUSE HIGH GAS PRICES LEAD TO INFLATION. WHEN GAS PRICES RISE‚ IT COSTS COMPANIES MORE OVERHEAD TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FOR THEIR PRODUCTS; THEREFORE‚ CAUSING THE PRODUCTS’ PRICES TO RISE‚ TO PRICES THAT PEOPLE CAN NOT AFFORD. GAS PRICES ARE THE MAIN REASON FOR THE ECONOMY BEING IN THE STATE IT IS IN NOW. IF GAS PRICES WERE LOWER‚ THE ECONOMY WOULD DEFINITELY START TO GET BETTER‚ AND MORE JOBS WOULD BE THERE FOR PEOPLE IF GAS PRICES WERE LOWER. IT MAY NOT SEEM
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Keep The Voting Age At 18 Recently‚ discussions have been made about proceding to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. I fully believe that the age should remain at 18‚ considering I myself happen to be 18 years of age and know for a fact that two years ago I was in no way capable of voting. We are better off keeping the statistics at 62% participating voters‚ then letting immature teenagers who want to be able to make adult decisions without adult responsibilties vote. Personally
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Economics Should voting be made compulsory in Britain? Britain currently employs a voluntary voting system‚ whereby it is entirely up to the individual to choose whether to vote or not. 32 countries across the world‚ such as; Australia‚ Switzerland and Belgium‚ employ a compulsory voting system‚ were the citizens of their countries must register their vote in elections. This paper is going to look into the positive‚ negative‚ opportunity and threat aspects of whether voting should be made compulsory
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Persuasive Essay Against Lower Drinking Age Some people think that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. I personally don’t think it’s a good idea. Alcohol is a depressant meaning it slows down brain function. Most people don’t know that alcohol is a drug just like methamptamine and marijuana the only difference is that alcohol is legal in the U.S. for anyone 21 and over. Each year‚ approximately 5‚000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking. This includes 1‚900 car
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the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" Of course the general consensus of youth is for this option‚ yet a surprising amount of adults are supporting the movement as well. However‚ there are still those who seriously doubt a 16-year-old’s ability to maturely handle voting. While politicians are still debating the topic‚ it is obvious that both sides of this subject have very logical arguments. In order to understand why lowering the voting age would even be considered
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Voting vs. Not Voting Everyday individuals complain about how society is getting worse and blame everybody else for America’s downfall. Most of the things that people complain about are issues that can be easily solved because they can gain control over the situation‚ yet they sit back and do nothing to help. However the issue with this is that people are not obligated to vote‚ therefore they cannot do something they do not want to do. It attacks their rights’ but they also have the right to vote
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The United States of America has been one of the lowest Presidential voting participation countries in the world and many people could argue the different reasons for this. Honestly many of those reasons would probably be correct. Some people may argue that its because not enough people are allowed to vote and that they should drop the voting age to 16 instead of 18. Others also may argue that it is because there arent many different variations and options to vote from. I believe that both these
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Should CEOs be on the Board? By direction of the board‚ a foundation’s top executive staff person (titled CEO for this discussion) manages all aspects of the organization. CEOs typically oversee the foundation’s money‚ time and human resources and act as a liaison between the board and staff. Rather than keeping the CEO in a strictly managerial position‚ some boards award them a role in governance as well‚ offering the CEO full membership—and in some cases‚ voting rights—on the board. CEOs who sit
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Some may believe that voting age is not the only reason as to why the teenagers are not paying attention to the politics and there is no evidence that lowering the voting age would increase political participation. They believe that there are major reasons as to why the political participation has declined rather that the issue of the voting age. While the view is probably wrong when they claim that there is no evidence to prove the connection between voting age and political participation‚ it is
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