The Good, the Bad, and the Apathetic Essay -- Voting Election Voter Vo

The Good, the Bad, and the Apathetic Another presidential election year rolls around for America and what will the vote decide? Sometimes equally debated and foretold, another issue exists that does not appear on the ballot. How many people will turnout at the polls to cast their vote for their governmental representatives? The patterns of American history would say that not very many will show up. â€Å"Indeed, voter turnout has fallen from its peak of 63 percent in 1960 to just below half during the last presidential election, in 1996. As a result, the world's leading democracy ranks 140th in voter turnout among democratically elected governments (Cooper).† They make this point at what seems like every election in recent years and the problem has existed off and on for the entire history of the United States. No easy solution exists to lead more people to the polls without enacting a law requiring the vote, but a few things could help in a small way. Some of the influence for addressing this problem stems from my own personal experience with trying to register for voting in my first presidential election. Complicating my situation is the fact that I go to school in Pennsylvania, but am an Ohio resident. I found it very difficult to complete my registration forms. My first trouble encountered appeared when I found out that no matter what I looked up on the internet, I still had to send away for a registration form and then send it back in. It said that I could print out a form, but that it required me to print the form on number 40 cardstock. What a hassle? This seemed like a lot of effort for such a simple form. Secondly, I have to vote by absentee ballot and thus am required to let the el... ...ection." Encyclopà ¦dia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopà ¦dia Britannica Online. 22 Mar. 2004 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=115182>. Hobby, Bill. â€Å"So maybe low voter turnout isn't always a bad thing?† The Houston Chronicle. (7 Dec. 1997). 22 March 2004 < http://www.swt.edu/cpm/hobbyscorner/voter.html>. Removing obstacles to voting. (2001). In Moore J. L., Preimesberger J. P., & Tarr D. R. (Eds.), Guide to U.S. elections (Vol. 1). Washington: CQ Press. Retrieved March 31, 2004, from CQ Electronic Library, CQ Voting and Elections Collection: gusel1-152-7218-392799. Shesgreen, Deirdre. â€Å"Internet Could Upend Michigan Race.† St. Louis Post – Dispatch. 9 Nov. 2003, pg. A.7. Utley, Garrick. â€Å"Low voter turnout expected on Election Day.† CNN.com. (3 Nov. 2000). 22 March 2004 < http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/02/voter.turnout/>.

What Is Critical Thinking? Revisited

What is Critical Thinking? Revisited What is Critical Thinking? The definition of critical thinking is â€Å"aiming to make wise decisions and come to correct conclusions, and not being sidetracked by temptation, emotion, greed, irrelevant considerations, stupidity, bias, or other similar things. † (Moore, 2012) Therefore, to think critically is to think about what one is going to say or do before saying or doing it. When thinking before taking any action one is basically thinking about thinking and weighing the consequences of their actions before reacting to any giving situation.A perfect example of this would be that there is a couple who desperately wants to get married but after both losing their jobs they are living with the young man’s parents until they can get on their feet. The young woman secures employment and is now ready to go ahead with the wedding. The young man thinks about it and comes to the conclusion that they should wait until not only he gets empl oyed but until they are in a home of their own and then go to City Hall to get married since a wedding takes money that they do not have.This was thinking critically because if they were to spend her wages on a wedding it is quite possible that they would still be living with his parents and not have any money saved because she at the time was the only person with an income. This would have been a consequence of not using critical thinking. I do not believe that my answer to this question this time around is much different than when I answered it in the earlier part of this course. Although my answer seems similar, my new knowledge on the subject is not.I came into this course not knowing much at all about the subject. I never thought about thinking, unsound or valid arguments, deductive reasoning or any of the things that I now have learned from taking this course. Now I am paying more attention to rhetorical devices, having valid arguments, unstated premises and everything that go es along with these things. Works Cited Moore B. N. (2012). In Critical Thinking. New York: McGraw-Hill. ———————– What is Critical Thinking Revisited 1

A Worn Path By Eudora Welty And The First Seven Years

Love Case In the stories â€Å"A Worn Path† by Eudora Welty and â€Å"The First Seven Years† by Bernard Malamud characters persevere for love. In â€Å"A Worn Path† Phoenix Jackson, an old grandmother, goes through a long journey and overcomes multiple obstacles to get medicine for her sick grandson. Phoenix perseveres through emotional and physical trials because of her love for her grandson. Likewise in the story â€Å"The First Seven Years† Sobel perseveres for seven years of unfair pay to try and marry his love, while Feld perseveres to make his daughters life better than his own. Both of these stories exemplify that humans will go to great lengths for the ones that they love. Phoenix travels a difficult path filled with many obstacles to†¦show more content†¦Phoenix puts her grandson before everything even her own life. Sobel perseveres through seven years of hard work and bad pay because of his love for Miriam. Sobel worked overtime often running the shoe store by himself while the owner, Feld, would go â€Å"home after an hour or two†(Malamud 51). Despite Sobel’s hard work he received terrible pay to the point that even the owner told him he should leave and receive better wages. â€Å"Yet his conscious bothered him for not insisting that the assistant accept better wage than he was getting, though Feld had honestly told him he could earn a handsome salary elsewhere, or maybe opened a place of his own†(Malamud 51). Sobel knew that he was being paid unfairly for the hours that he worked, but he insisted on staying because he loved Miriam. â€Å"‘For the stingy wages I sacrificed five years of my life so you could have to eat and drink and where to sleep?’ ‘Then for what’ shouted the shoemaker. ‘For Miriam’†(Malamud 53). Even after working five years to try and be accepted by Feld and marry Miriam when Feld insists that Sobel wait two more years Sobel agrees in a heartbeat. â€Å"But the next morning, when the shoemaker arrived, heavy-hearted, to open the store, he saw he needn’t come, for his assistant was already seated at the last, pounding leather for his love†(Malamud 54). No matter the struggle or wait if it was for Miriam SobelShow MoreRelatedEudora Welty a Worn Path12166 Words   |  49 PagesA Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice  ©1998−2002;  ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design ® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license.  ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storageRead MoreEudora Welty a Worn Path12173 Words   |  49 PagesA Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice  ©1998−2002;  ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design ® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license.  ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storageRead MoreAnalysis Of Jack London And Eudora Welty s A Fire And A Worn Path 1406 Words   |  6 Pagesstories To Build a Fire and A Worn Path, Jack London and Eudora Welty tell the stories of two protagonists going on arduous journeys during the winter. Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of A Worn Path, is an elderly lady hardened by the trials of life as a black woman living in the Southern United States, prior to the Civil Rights Era. She is surprisingly limber, resilient, and healthy for her age and h as assumed the responsibility of caring for her sick seven- year- old grandson. She diligently providesRead MoreObligations1410 Words   |  6 Pagesfor my life, but yet for the life of my younger sisters. I knew that it was my responsibility to make sure that they were taken care of in every way possible. During my senior year in high school I was living with my father and two of my younger sisters. One of my sisters was seven years old, Lindsey, and the other was two years old, Neah. My father worked from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m., Monday through Friday. He had to work two jobs to make sure that we were taken care of financially. My obligation was