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Blog Stage 8

On Tuesday August 11 th , one of my classmates wrote a piece titled, “ Give Youth a Voice Expansion ” as part of her blog called, “Young Minded Perspective of the U.S.” I found to relate and strongly agree with their argument on lowering the voting age in order to allow young adults (aged 16) to vote. The author makes several points to support this claim, such as stating that many kids at that age are currently learning about politics in classes and are already being exposed to adult situations, therefore making them more mature to vote than assumed by most adults. As the author mentioned, she thought that kids at age sixteen are learning about the government, and are therefore informed enough to vote. I agree with this because at the age of sixteen most of us are learning about the government and the history of our country. Along with this, I know personally that in my history and English classes, the teachers have always made time for students to be able to discuss current news a...
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Blog Stage 7: Is the wall ever going to go up?

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Is the wall ever going to go up? The infamous wall promised to be built on the Mexico-U.S border has been something everyone has been talking about since Trump announced his campaign for this past elections. The wall was promised to be built in order to keep illegal immigrants and violent drug cartels from Mexico, out. As said by President Trump, this wall would be, “Impenetrable. Physical. Tall. Powerful” with no gaps and would replace the steel barbed fences creating the border right now. With this wall projected to cost billions of dollars, President Trump has promised that American tax payers wouldn’t have to pay a single penny for the wall, but if we don’t pay then who does, and how do we know that its necessary to go to such extremes to stop illegal immigration and the drug cartels? This nearly 2,000-mile wall is said to prevent immigrants from coming into the country completely by having a variety of sensors, an anti-dig base, and an anti-climb cap. But is all of th...
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Blog Stage 6

Sumin, I find your argument on President Trump and his poor cabinet choices very interesting and true. Trump has created himself quite an image on social media and often times we all get carried away by that. Instead, we should be focusing on how to prevent any detrimental laws from passing that will damage the future of our youth. In relation to education, as you mentioned Sumin, Betsy DeVos, our secretary of education supports and rallies for private schooling which represents a very slim number of our youth today with a majority of the kids getting their education from public schools. With a office member like her, it is vital that we take responsibility to ensure that students in public schools are not harmed or affected with any bills passed by her. From your argument Sumin, I actually learned more about Mike Pence, what he represents and American’s views on him. I learned that many Americans hope to see him as a President after Trump, which could create conflicts as much of...
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