Denzel Research Paper

Teens are not the same as they used to be. Those who are not at least 16 years of age should have the choice to vote. Teenager’s minds have developed a lot.

Among many things that a young adult can do, it's voting that has the biggest impact on our emvironment. Voting is the way people can get whoever suits thier opinions and or beliefs, in office. Unfortunatly, teenagers do not get to voice their opinions econimically. I believe that teenagers can vote if they were to have a oppertunity. The voting age should be lowered to 16.

For example, Denzel Washington was interviewed because he switches his support from voting for Hilary to Trump. Denzel said, “If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed and if you do read it you are misinformed”. So the reporter asks, “What do we do in a situation in like this?” Washington response was “What is the long term of too much information? One of the effects is the need to be first and not the need to be true anymore, and the media has a responsibility to tell the truth. We live in a society that what’s first and who cares, get it out there, we don’t care who it hurts or destroys or if it is true… just say it and sell it.” According to Hume, he would say that we are “maintaining these customs or habits”(Morris). I believe this is a habit in our society that we are being confirmation biased and that we only want to hear or see what we want to hear. I believe the media is making it easier for us nowadays to sustain these habits because they try to keep us in these filter bubble. Therefore, habits have caused many Americans to elect their candidate based off reports of slander, diverting the people from the real issues that affect them. We must expect the unexpected and take nothing for granted, not even life is guaranteed tomorrow. We must not be ignorant and believe the

When election comes, they would have less than a semester of background knowledge on the structure of the United States government and its voting process. Students would have only a year or two of history classes, yet they still wouldn’t know information about the electoral college, policy institutions, and voting registration until government class. Sixteen-year-olds know what they want for themselves, but they don’t understand the effects of policies for the country as a whole. It is easy to want an Immigration policy in place, but many seventeen year olds still don’t understand the resources, political figures, and branches required to actually put a policy in place. This lack of understanding and political knowledge on what ballot measures and elections fully require is exactly why teens should not vote at the ages of sixteen or

It is generally thought that young people mature and become more politically active. While this may have been true in the past, evidence is showing that this progression is not occurring in modern times. Most people make the assumption that once an individual is fully independent, paying taxes, and performing all of their civic duties, they would be more concerned about whom is governing them. For example, they would impose the question “What kind of laws are they passing or planning on passing?” However, this is not the case anymore. The modern day American is too absorbed in technological distractions to be bothered by the mundane aspects of the political world. Young people today are postmodern citizens – cynical, distracted, no longer possessed

When issues came up that young people were unable to relate within their everyday lives they showed little interest and power to act on them (wars and terrorism).

Lack of knowledge would control a portion of the lower aged voters. Most teens pay little to no attention to what is going on with politics. The promises made by the canidates, or most importantly the future our nation holds from the different choices between each canidate. It can be granteed that a teenager

When holding a survey on a website, “The Student Room Group”, found that just twenty-one percent of students say that the age should be changed to sixteen. This means that just under four out of every five students think the age should stay the same. Students that are for changing the age could possibly know what they are talking about. Even though it isn’t a cool thing or a common hobby to know as a teenager, politics is a very good mechanism to learn in your life. Politics is complex in the ideas that the separate parties believe in. Politics is very important to learn and use in your lifetime, but that

They believe they should have an opinion, yet they do not According to Fair Vote, “Denmark found that 18-year-olds were far more likely to cast their "first vote" than[sic] 19-year-olds, and that every month of extra age in those years resulted in a decline in "first vote" turnout. Allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections will enable them to vote before leaving home and high school, and establish a lifelong habit of voting.”(Fairvote).Furthermore, students are engaged in political discussions and arguments everyday in school. In high school students start to understand government and realize what is happening in society. As a student, teens are taught to have an opinion about the world around them. Society contradicts what they are teaching by denying voting for young Americans. Denying teens the right to vote is not only unfair, it is violating their 15th Amendment right. The 15th Amendment states, The right for U.S citizens to vote cannot be denied by State or Federal Government (Claveau). This clearly states that the right to vote shall not be denied to any citizen. While the constitution may say

Young teens argue that if they are given adult responsibilities, like paying taxes on certain things, then they should be able to partake in government elections. A large group of people have said that if teens are forced to pay taxes on the items they buy and the money that they earn from their job then how is it fair that they can’t vote to change something that directly affects them. On average people from the ages of 15-18 “pay an average of $9.7 billion in sales tax alone”(Top Ten Reasons to Lower the Voting Age). Young teens want to be able to alter the government that they will be living in. They say during a local election most teens have grown up or lived near that area and when they turn 18 most of them be on their way to college to start a new life. Rebecca Tilsen once argued in front of a courtroom that if teens are old enough to live in poverty, if they are old enough to be sick due to the poor healthcare system provided to them by the government, that means that they are old enough to vote to change that (The Teen Brain: Still Under

Teenagers should care about politics, even though there not old enough to vote because it helps them get prepared for the future when they vote for their future president of the United States. Not just teenagers should learn about politics but also children should learn about politics it will soon benefit them when they’re older and they want to elect someone someday when they are old enough to vote for a president and it will help them know what they’re looking for in a president. Some of the reasons why citizens vote for president is because they can make a difference by choosing. Some people who have the ability to vote and those people don’t take that chance to make a difference in their life because once there president there and tell

Nussbaum introduces her arguments by stating that the world is in a time of crisis, a silent crisis, where radical changes are happening within the education system at drastic rates. Nussbaum fears that the youth of the global community are being fed information for the sole purpose of economic gain. This teaching style obstructs the students’ capacity to develop and discover opinions of their own, while limiting the opportunities for each adolescent. Nussbaum is afraid that “if this trend continues, nations all over the world will soon be producing generations of useful machine, rather than complete citizen...” (Nussbaum 2). Nussbaum’s idea of a complete citizen is one who thinks freely, forms differing opinions, and can express his ideas without restrictions.

There are three possible solutions to the lack of active participation in politics and elections in youth, ages 18 to 25. The first solution is to pass House Bill 16-148 in Colorado which will require high school students to pass the civics portion of the federal citizenship test to graduate high school. The second solution is to lower the voting age to 16 years old. The third solution is to create a youth congress that deals with social issues that relate to the youth. The policy that our group decided would best increase participation in politics and elections in people ages 18 to 25 would be to lower the voting age to 16, because it develops the habit of voting at a younger age, it encourages schools and parents to provide the youth with a better understanding of the government and politics, it allows youth to have a voice in issues that involve them as well as encourage politicians to support policies that help the youth, and it has been proven to fix the issue of voter participation.

Teenagers look up to their parents and teachers. Both groups “do not push [students] towards a future in politics” (p.77). Students are heavily influenced by their mentors, so if political engagement is not something that is promoted than students will not try to go into politics. Politics also does not interest the youth like the other activities they do on a daily basis. For example, school is something that children need to attend for the betterment of their future, and hanging out with friends or playing sports is something younger people just want to do. Political engagement is neither a want or a need for the younger generation. The youth do not want to because of the negativity of politics, and because of how broken they think the system is. Political engagement to younger people is to engage in a “constant stream of scandal, conflict, and failure” (p.87). The media constantly shows politics in a “negative and combative” manner, and this causes the younger generation to stray away because they do not want to constantly engrossed in something that only results in negativity. This is also the reason teenagers do not discuss politics around each other. It’s normal that teenagers do not want to talk about something that will only make people sad or spark an argument. Teenagers also believe the political system is broken and “ineffective” (p.88). This feeling stems from the

After a long day at school, the average student comes home and reaches for the remote, turning on whatever reality show is playing. To watch the news was never a thought in the student’s head. New conflicts arise daily throughout the world without many people having any idea. With an uninformed youth comes either no voting, or voting based solely on what they see on the media. “Youth believe that government and elections are not relevant to things they care about” (Child Trend Database). The media is where most millennials get all of their incorrect information from. In this day and age, it is harder to retain correct information without bias. With that being said, it is of the uttermost importance that the youth start doing their research and become informed on the daily world issues and their role as a citizen. There is a common misconception within the youth that their vote does not matter, leading to disregard about world politics. Young adults are the future politicians, supreme court justices, lawyers, police officers, doctors. If they are not educated, they will not be able to perform their jobs to their full potential. It is crucial that the youth starts informing themselves about world issues so they can get involved and make a difference. To add to that, they must be getting their information from reliable sources. It is critical to have a knowledgeable voting populous because decisions need to be made about war, public policy, and economics.