Personal Narrative: Elizabeth Warren

I have not had much interest in politics until recently. Before last year, I did not care for anything related to politics; I thought that it was all boring and had little to no affect on me on a personal level. I am more interested in politics nowadays. I know better now that it does affect me and I should care about it. I had learned about the concepts of political socialization, party identification, political tolerance, political trust, political efficacy in government class and how they affect my political beliefs. My personal political belief has been shaped into what it is today and is still being shaped because of those six concepts.

Politicians are sometimes easy to dislike. Their flaws are often aired publicly for the entire world to see, and many people generally distrust politicians based on this information. But even if you don't particularly like any of the candidates, do you really know them? And should it matter whether you like them or not? Perhaps a politician's stance on issues important to you is more important than whether or not they are likeable. Even if it's choosing the lesser of two or more evils in your eyes, voting is still an important way for you to voice your opinion about the subjects you care about most.

As I prepare to enter the next stage of my life, I look forward to furthering my passion for politics and government, with the ultimate goal of preparing to run for public office one day. To continue to build off of what I cannot think of a better way to continue the journey I started back in 2008 at the

I have had many great mentors that have stood out in my life thus far, but I have one lady that really stands out. Her name is Tina; I know her better as Ms. Hicks. She is a kindergarten teacher and Glee Club director at the middle school I attended. I came to know her really well when I joined the Glee Club my sixth grade year. She is so selfless and always puts others before herself. I just began watching her one day and realized that I wanted to be just like her. I began to volunteer in her classroom the last period of the day because I want to be an elementary school teacher as well. I decided why not learn form the best. Throughout the year, I learned so much from her. She taught me that students can learn and have fun while they

My AP government class seemingly encapsulated critical shifts of voter behavior into a single lecture, but I craved to see democracy in action. Working on Raja Krishnamoorthi’s Congressional campaign before my junior year, I was able to translate what I had read in books into practice. Scrolling through endless lists of voter files, I was able to picture how different neighborhoods in Illinois’s 6th District voted distinctly each election. I found myself engaging on issues that may have occupied half a page in Patterson’s The American Democracy, but hit to the heart of voters, from a grandmother dependant on Social Security to a steelworker that was laid off.

This weekend I interviewed J.Cherrelle Leslie, a very well-known young lady from my hometown of Fairburn Georgia. Leslie has just recently received her masters in transformative leadership from Bethune Cookman University this year but also has an associates in business administration and a bachelor degree in business with a concentration in marketing. This summer she started her first job since graduating from Bethune at Savannah State University where she is the Athletics Compliance coordinator. I choose to interview Ms. Leslie because I have an interest in marketing and she also graduated from Clayton State University with a bachelors in business concentrated in marketing in 2009. Although her current job does not deal with marketing, she

It’s been 2 years, 35 days and 22 minutes, and I’m still peeking through the dismal, damped window to just have a look at my family. Though years have passed but I still see my mother stepping out of the door every morning with the hope that her daughter Selina Dimp, would arrive. If only she knew that our separation would result to her survival, the urge and temptation to step in my house, smell the aroma of my ever favorite lasagna, tease little Jason and be in the arms of my mother has grown extremely more. No matter how many years have passed but the plague is still out there on our streets, infecting every person I love , my own brother and my entire Nation. As always, the newsboard flashes “The Republic of America war against the Democratic of America is still in progress” , the same old news by the government but for the first time it shows something that gives me a leap of faith for a second. The

Too many people out there strive to be like their favorite celebrity, who probably doesn’t do good with their money or time. I hope to never be one of those people, because I want to do good things with my life one day. Things similar to what Senator Philip A. Hart did with his life. Senator Hart always did what he thought to be right, and never cared what other people thought of him for it. He made it his goal to make the world a better place for his, and our, ancestors to live, by fighting for the little man through things like Antitrust Laws, Civil Rights Laws, and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Another thing that he strived to do was make the environment better. Some national parks are here because of him and they are greatly appreciated

“Hey, terrorist,” a boy called out to me from across the classroom, drawing laughter from his friends. I pretended not to hear and stared into my book. It was a typical day in my life growing up as a first-generation American attending public school in a poor Bronx neighborhood. Being one of the few Indian kids there, I was relentlessly picked on. My school was desperately underfunded where teachers often spent their own money on supplies.

"Why is a politician? A politician is to find the money, to find the poor to vote. Be to let the rich and the poor are convinced that they will maintain their interests." -- a master of humor in the United states.

Through her experience of starting off as a literature major, interning at a public radio station, and then on Capitol Hill after someone in one of her classes suggested it, Ms. Karen discovered that these were an interest to her and she ended up realizing what she wanted to do. In Capitol Hill, there is a lot of communication and she was exposed to a lot of different people and issues. She was also interested in causes and helping people. This taught me to take everything in my life as something that is potentially valuable. That I’ll never know what opportunities will come to me if I don’t open myself up to new experiences. I’m going to try to join another club next year if my schedule permits, or I might become a less active member

“We got a chink!” was the first thing this boy said to me my first year of band camp. It was also my first encounter with one of the “hicks” in the small, rural town I had just moved to. Growing up in Austin, my views have been shaped by the liberal and diverse environment that surrounded me. I disagreed with more conservative beliefs and frowned upon the views that favored inequality and injustice. I never knew many people with those views on a personal level until I moved to the farm town. The boy was in my squad for marching band, which meant we would be spending more time together. He was your typical country farmer who was extremely conservative and ignorant to many issues. Whenever he would say some kind of racist, sexist, or derogatory

I’m still discovering who I am, that’s what we’re supposed to do as teenagers, right? I know what I want to do though, which is not a common feeling among some of my friends. I have an internal love for politics—it’s my go-to thing to talk about. And the thing is, I am really passionate about it. When I was fifteen, I caucused for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, and later on, I continued volunteering up until Election Day. I couldn’t even vote yet.

It's been one year. One year since I had seen Park. I had gone to school and everything. Again I had been the weird new kid. Except my Aunt had not let me walk out of the house in my old clothes. A week after I had got there she made me go to the mall and get new clothes and a hair appointment. I instructed to the hairdresser only the dead ends and nothing else. She also gave me a product for frizz.I used to see Park everywhere but it wasn’t Park. It would be some random guy reading a X-Men comic wearing headphones. I’d look twice hoping It was him.

I never necessarily enjoyed politics. I never was the debate type. I have always liked basically everything but politics. That was until I joined speech and debate. Because of the fact that we were assigned to watch the news, I learned to like watching the news. Later, when the presidential debates began stirring up, I found out about Carly Fiorina! The only female politician that I had heard of before that was Hillary Clinton. Since I had never been a huge fan of her, I decided I would begin to route for Fiorina. As the debates grew more dramatic, it seemed as if Fiorina was becoming more of a competitor. I could relate. Since I am a competitor myself, I found her work very interesting.