Personal Narrative: My Conservative Beliefs

This year has been a contentious year for WV legislators and teachers. For teachers, we have been fighting to keep our health insurance costs down, are pay up, and seniority intact. Legislators have been dealing with the heat from our fire and trying to give us what we need to put that fire out. To deal with my eternal fire, I posted to Facebook saying, "I will never claim to understand politics as I would hope most politicians wouldn't claim to understand teaching. I think we need to fix this. Maybe we need to walk a day in each other's shoes. I don't mean spend an hour walking around. I mean a day, maybe even two." I went on to explain the life of a teacher and decided that a Facebook post seen by my friends wasn't enough. I decided to put my money where my mouth was. I created a paper invitation and a small note then mailed one to every member of the Senate, House of Delegates, and to the Governor's office. In this

Studying in a foreign country is an interesting experience of an individual lifetime. One tends to learn a number of things relating to ways of life in a foreign land. Social, political and economic values and aspects are usually different from one region to another. Therefore, through studying abroad one is able to learn different issues about another society such as gender and sexuality issues, social class and race/ethnicity issues. Having come from a developing country studying in the U.S.A has been a great experience personally. This paper will attempt to provide a reflection of my personal experience on studying in the U.S by comparing the history of Angola and the U.S.

I believe that I am more Republican. Some of the biggest issues that are important to me are abortion, immigration and taxes. Even though my beliefs on abortion do not line up with that of republicans, I still generally side with their beliefs more. I believe in prochoice, I think that people should be safe when it comes to things like pregnancy but if they want to get an abortion, it is up to that person. The government should not be allowed to control what someone does with their body in this aspect. Immigration is another issue I find very important feel that if someone is here illegally, they should not be allowed to stay. I feel that immigration is ok as long as the person coming into the country does it right. America is a country of immigrants so of course our arm should be open to those who wish to live here. However, the moment they are here illegally and are not planning to legally be part of the country they should be deported. Finally, taxes are a somewhat important issue to me. I think that the very rich should have higher taxes since it makes more sense that they would have the money to pay for it. Those who do not make a lot a year should be minimally taxed so that they are able to pay their taxes each year.

When I was in my Government class in high school, I took a test in class to see where in the political spectrum I was in. When I counted all my answers, I came to the bar and saw that I was in the middle but learning to the left. That was when I officially identified myself as a liberal. Before then politics were a boring stuff that adults fuss and quarrel about. After getting that title, I started looking things differently, every time I observe a political issue I would just see which side a liberal is supposed to be at and say I support it. Since I believed myself to be on the left. I never for one second thought, a sane person could be on the right. They are all crazy old white racist men was what I was told. It was not until I took a GOV

The day I had been waiting for had finally come; it was October 29, 2015, and I was going to vote for the federal election at Thistletown C.I.'s school cafeteria just like any other Canadian citizen. There were two main reasons as to why I wanted to vote that day; one was because I wanted to see a change in Canada and another was that I didn't want the Conservatives to win again since I didn't agree with some of their promises. I voted for the New Democratic Party because their promises in jobs, families, and healthcare can help Canada become more prosperous, affordable. The party which didn't impress me as much was the Conservative Party because their promises on energy and environment, manufacturing and infrastructure, and public finances

Until I was in eighth grade, I believed I was a republican. Pursuing the ideas thrown in my direction like softballs in a fast pitch game, what it meant to be a republican seemed pretty great. The upper class thriving, spending less and saving more, living for oneself, all making an America that soared, my father could tell me it all, and that was all that I needed to hear. Like a glimmering, sunshiney day, FOX news could play, and I would pretend that everything sounded great. That is, at least, with closed eyes and shuttered ears, only hearing what my dad wanted me to hear. But at this point in my life, I had never had much an opinion of my own. My news sources being seventeen magazine and the supercutesupertrendy quizzes that it consisted

I was raised a conservative republican. Even in 5th grade I didn’t believe in gay marriage which is ironic now since I’m bi. In sixth grade I began to realize that the republican party cares very little for the poor, my views started to slowly coincide with the democratic party. In 7th grade I came to terms with liking girls. Over the years I’ve become less of the person I once was. I’ve changed from capitalist views to socialist communist views, ultimately i decided to register with the Green

I am a hard-core liberal and I believe that the first part of the reason why I think I am this way is because of the family I was born into. After my mother and elder uncle were born my grandmother adopted two African-American kids and when I was a kid being introduced to my aunt, uncle, and cousins, all I saw was my family; people who are like me. That view has followed me through life to the point where I don’t see people as different but living things that walk and talk like me and that each of them are unique in their own way. Each of them has their own problems like me.

The year was 2015 and I just sat down in the 9th-grade social studies class, government. Nothing truly exciting or life-changing happened right away, we were just taught` how the government worked and so on. Then we are told we will be doing a class election but before we start working on the project, we need to learn a little about ourselves. In order to really see what we believe in we are given a couple quiz like things to see where our answers put us and I learn that most of my views would be considered conservative and at this time I really didn’t know what that meant, but I notice that a lot of my friends had the same results, they were conservative. This all made sense when I thought about it because when you are spending anywhere

“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

Confessing one 's political identity in 2016 truly embodies the phrase “walking on eggshells”. Whether you’re a liberal or conservative, owning up to your political resolutions sometimes comes with some intense backlash. In this years’ presidential election we have an intense candidate with very radical views, and if you don 't know who I’m talking about you should probably move from the rock you are living under. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has gained a immense popularity amongst not only the American public but Internationally as well. His chauvinist rhetoric, egotistical outlook, and how he continuously fabricates lies upon lies has truly brought him into the public eye. Hearing Trumps incredibly horrifying agenda makes me proud to admit that I am a Democrat, a solid liberal to be exact. As a solid liberal I believe in the power of the people and that means all people.Whether you are rich, poor, black, white, gay, or straight building and creating a nation that caters to people inherently means doing right by the economy and when we do well for the economy we do well for everyone.

In my Government class, junior year, naturally, we discussed politics a lot. Outnumbered by liberals, I was typically on my own to defend conservative values. I was used to this and typically enjoyed the lively discussions, as they were civil and my best forum for sharing what I truly believe in. Although, my teacher always went against me too, which became very frustrating as he controlled the conversation. One class I was emboldened to ask him why he felt the need to argue against my position every time, he brushed me off and said that he could be the devil’s advocate for any position I had. So, I retorted, “The Holocaust was bad.” My goal was to show him how ridiculous his statement was and that he could not in fact counter every view

About a year ago I had an incredible interest in controversy and conspiracies. These controversies and conspiracies soon led me to study more about political views in "hot topics" and general topics of politics that pertained to these topics. By the time summer came my junior year I picked up a lot of information on political views and I considered myself more knowledgeable than most people because I kept myself up to date with most news and views, but one topic always intrigued me because no matter how much information there is there are always new laws to change regulations and many different arguments. Gun control has always had many people fighting against it and people fighting for it so I asked myself "Which side has the better argument?"

When talking about something as controversial as politics, the words “conservative” and “liberal” can be used as an automatic rejection when some individuals are so dead set in their ways of believing that they don’t even want to try and understand the other person’s belief and why they believe it. Personally, I am more liberal than conservative, but I am very open when it come about discussing politics, at least with other open minded individuals I trust to have those conversation s with. I don’t want to just shut someone’s beliefs down, even if I don’t agree with it, I still want to know why they believe the way they do. For the most part, I believe that those who are liberal have more open-mindedness when it comes to these issues. That

When I was twelve, I donned my Obama gear and canvassed with my parents, going door-to-door discussing policy with voters as my parents watched from the sidewalk. When I was older, I protested at the state capital to impeach Scott Walker, even leading the chants with my younger brother. In school, I founded and ran a bi-partisan political discussion forum. In my small agricultural town, I was the epitome of politically active, and I really did think I was politically informed. However, once I got to college, I realized that that was not necessarily the case. Suddenly I was surrounded by people who had dedicated their lives to thinking deep thoughts about politics. Fairly quickly, my political ideologies changed, moving further left. While I had always been far left of center, before college I did not understand the intricacies that have since shaped my political views.