The United States Of America

Voting has not always been as easy as it is today. It is interesting to examine how far America has progressed in its process of allowing different types of people to be able to vote. Voting was once aimed at a particular group of people, which were white males that owned their own property. Today, most people over the age of eighteen can vote, except for the mentally incompetent or people who have been convicted of major felonies in some states. The decline of voter participation has always been a debate in the public arena. According to McDonald and Popkin, it is “the most important, most familiar, most analyzed, and most conjectured trend in recent American political history (2001, 963)” The question is, how important is voter

The United States national elections have been experiencing a steady decline of eligible voters showing up to vote. This steady decline has been ongoing since experiencing a significant increase in voter turnout from 1948 through 1960. Over the years there has been significant, meticulous research done to try to pinpoint the cause of the decline in voter turnout over years. All of this research has led to the production of an enormous number of literatures written on the perceived causes. The vast amount of literature produced has led to a number of competing explanations about this decline. The quest for the answer to the question of, why this decline in voter turnout, is very important for an overwhelming majority of Americans and

Since the United States of America established itself as its own self-governing country, one of the things that caused it to be salient and stand out from other countries is its relentless insistence on functioning as a democracy. Wars and protests have occurred so that every type of people, whether it was women or African Americans, may be granted the right to vote. Having a say in the American government is an honor and a privilege bestowed upon American citizens when they reach the age of eighteen. However, in recent years, statistics have shown that voter turnout and participation in recent elections has been rapidly and steadily declining, causing the United States to have the lowest voter participation in the world (“Is the System

In the United States of America, slavery has been abolished formally on December 6, 1865 through the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution has also established the fundamental law, method of governing, and rights of individuals. However, what if I told you that there is a certain group of people who are unjustifiably stopped, searched, and arrested by law enforcement, governed by a different set of laws which are more strict, in addition to the justice system that further dictates their lives after release and all this because of their race and ethnicity. This was the reality of the five black and hispanic teens in the Central Park jogger case, the people of color who cannot afford a prominent attorney, the people

United States’ voting is looked at through two different functionary systems, closed and open. Close and open systems are a method of looking at how external factors influence that system; I use this method to distinguish between the theoretical level of voting and how the voting system works when put into the real world (Heylighten and Joselyn 1992; Walonick 1993). A closed-system analysis of voting provides a foundational understanding of how the voting process works. This method of analysis allows for a theoretical understanding of how the voting process should work; essentially, it is an explanation of the structures, laws, etc. that allow the voting processes to be carried out in America’s democratic society. Looking at the voting process through an open-system allows for an understanding with external influences. This part of the first section analyses how the voting process works in reality. It addresses questions like, why do people vote and why should or shouldn’t people vote? Further, the open-system approach looks at who ends up voting. Overall the two approaches to understanding the voting process, open and closed systems, establish a foundation of knowledge later linked to the influences of education on the voting

The United States of America, a country that used fight for the small guy, that used fight to protect the people that needed to be saved. Yet now we can barely save ourselves from a water balloon fight. This country got caught up in the small thing .We are fighting ourselves about bathroom rules, being democrat or a republican. Recently people are making a deal about the pledge of allegiance some people who don 't believe in a religion or have a different region than most people in this country.

The United States of America: Land of the free! Home of the brave! A place where opportunities are endless and equality is everlasting. Speaking on behalf of others in my generation, I believe it is safe to say many of us have seen a lot of selfish and outrageous acts develop drastically. From white cops killing innocent black citizens, to people supporting the evil Donald Trump, to ostracizing ourselves from the LGBT community and looking down upon them, it is quite obvious that the saying “America: the greatest country in the world” isn’t so accurate. We are naïve to the destruction that occurs daily and have a habit of sugarcoating our mistakes. The matter of the truth is: our generation is distorted and unethical, which is why in 200

The United States of America can be considered as world power and one of the nation’s top competitors in terms of strength and equality. However, in the second half of the 18th century, America greatly lacked what was needed to grow and prosper into the thriving country it is today. Several historical themes like, for instance, the growth of national identity, diversity, and geographical resourcefulness can be used to analyze the growth of America. These factors allowed Americans to break out from colonial monotony. Without a vast improvement and maturity of America between the years of 1750 and 1876, America would most likely not be strong enough or have the potential as a country to become a threat to other countries around the world.

For several years, the inhabitants of our country were taken advantage of, trade of inhabitants into slavery, victims of killings and singled out by the immigrants who sought entitlements of their territories. Before any European or Spanish authority stepped foot on American coasts, the inhabitants already had their origins rooted in the soil of what was to become the United States of America. Different from the immigrants, the occupants did not have the same approach to declaring and take control of the land. They were seekers who were watchful of the land they were occupants of and deemed themselves equivalents of any, and anything that occupied the area. They pictured the land as open for those who wanted to live there. They were also

Slavery in the United States of America has a long history. The legal institution of human chattel slavery in the country has long been part of its society. In fact, its existence can be traced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries after the country gained independence from its colonial masters and prior to the end of the American Civil War (Sublette and Sublette 180). Apparently, the existence of slavery during this particular period is highly attributed to the fact that the same has been practiced in British North America, having been declared legal in all thirteen colonies thereof at the time of the Declaration of Independence.

The United States of America is the result of various famous individuals who positively contributed to its establishment. Among these figures, was Benjamin Franklin an American citizen born in Boston in 1706 and passed away 1790. Mr. Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. He built his character based on values and virtues. Mr. Franklin made several inventions that impacted and still influenced the country such as extension arm, he developed journalism, library chair, daylight savings times, bifocal glass, swimming fins, odometer and so on. Besides these inventions, He made a colossal effect by declaring the independence, founding the nation. in addition, establishing the first Public library in the nation.

The United States of America is arguably the most powerful and influential nation in the 21st century. With its massive military force that spans across the globe and the complex and powerful economic capabilities of American businesses, the United States dominates every aspect of worldly power. Yet, there is one field where the United States recently began to falter behind many other modern nations. This field is the education system. The halting and event the reversal of the progress of education will be detrimental to the future of the United States if the problems are not solved soon and continue to persist.

In 2009, the United States of America experiences a financial crisis commonly considered by most economists as the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. In the attempt to address the crisis, Timothy Geithner the Secretary of Treasury featured on the NPR News interview and coined what has come to be termed to as the stellar example of creating and using soundbites that people will remember. He said, “It 's like you 're in the cockpit of the plane — your engine 's burning, smoke 's filling the cabin, it 's filled with a bunch of people that are fighting with each other about who 's responsible, you have terrorists on the plane and people want you to come out of the cockpit and put them in jail. And you have to

I moved to United Sates of America when I was fourteen years old. It’s not my first time visit to America; I did visit many times before. I used to spend my Christmas break at my cousins place in Austin. During my 9th grade summer Holidays my parents decided to move me to America for my higher studies. It was just me who moved not my parents. I was kind of scared. I had to leave my childhood friends, and I have never been away from my parents. At the same time I was excited to live with my grandparents in America. Finally I moved to US with mixed emotions. I was here a month before school started. During that one month span, my cousins started to give tips on how to make friends in school, how to engage you in conversation and how to not be scared to talk in front of the class. They also gave me an idea of how the school setting is going to be, so that I won’t be surprised or shocked.

Living in the United States of America, it is currently common to hear of how our healthcare system compares to other countries. In the past, snippets would be shared on occasion on the internet and in the news about the highlights and lowlights of the United States Healthcare system. Presidents all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt would bring it up as important matter to tackle for the nation but it wasn’t until President Barak Obama was campaigning that American’s really started to see the possibility of a solution. We took notice to the vast differences in our healthcare system, especially when compared to our neighbors to the north, Canada. In the past 8 years, more and more American’s have come to realize that our system did have some areas in which we are severely lacking.