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·         Introduction

o   How we got here

§  Revolutionary war

·         - many people fought and died so  we could live in a nation where we choose the leader, and not have one born into the position

§  Civil rights

·         - more people died /fought to ensure their right to vote

§  Women’s suffrage

·         - the amount of effort that was put in to have women be recognized as eligible voters.

o   American Idol

§  # of American Idol voters recently.  (Explain Inflated number)

§  Vs. number of voters for 2008 Federal election

o   Decline of Voting in established democracies

·         Thesis__________________

·         Body

o   Statistics

§  Recent American voting turnouts

§  Countries with vs.  countries without

§  Countries with both   

o   Possible Consequences

§  What has happened in other nations

§  What could happen in America if used.

o   Ways to use Compulsory voting in America

§  How the ways differ

·         Types of punishment

§  Pros and Cons of using each way

·         Conclusion

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The issue I am trying to resolve is the lack of voting in America in our history which continues today. I am proposing that American mandate a compulsory voting act that would make voting required by all citizens of the United States. This I believe would increase voter turnout and therefore have everyone exercise their right, not privilege, to vote.

Thesis: Theirs lays an issue in America with voter turnout, and something must be done to increase the turnout at each election. I believe mandatory voting should become an American ideal to increase voter turnout.

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1. The issue being discussed is the positive and negative impact social media has on the current generation, generation y.
2. THe four perspectives being used are the following: a.young people (generation y) b. The parents of Gen. Y c. Marketers d. and education heads.
3. The introduction is phenomenal, it gets the readers attention and forces them to think about the issue. The conclusion however, seemed rushed.
4. The author does a great job at not creating a bias, and effectively offers both sides to the reader and lets them choose. However, the whole essay seemed extremely rushed like it was written hours before turn in.

Outline For Paper III

·         Introduction

o   What is compulsory voting

o   Where is it implemented

§  How is it implemented

o   America and Compulsory Voting

·         Body

o   American Voting turnout

§  Facts and figures of American voting

·         Is our voting turn out sufficient enough where we don’t need compulsory voting

o   Countries with vs. Countries without

§  If applied does the result constitute a significant increase in voter turnout

o   Effects of Compulsory Voting

§  Liberal View

·         Does it have an impact on the liberal chance of being elected

·         All inclusive views

·         Demographic of liberal voters

§  Conservative view

·         Traditionalist- keep ways the same

·         Shift in chance of election

·         Demographic of conservative voters

§  Anti Compulsory

·         Demographic

·         Infringement of freedom

·         Not democratic to be forced to vote

§  Pro Compulsory

·         Demographic

·         Why pro?

·         Conclusion

Section III of In class Writting

3.When I researched key words "Asian American" and "sport"  a lot of the articles were about the uprising of Asian American basketball player Jeremy Lin. Other articles were focused on Asian Americans in baseball, and lastly their was a sole article on women Asian American sports players.

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N/A. "National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960-2010". www.infoplease.com. 2011. 03/14/2012.
          http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
This site did not offer any information regarding whether or not voting should become mandatory in America. However it offered staggering, cold cut statistics of the voting turnout in Federal elections from 1960 up until America's most recent Federal Election in 2008. With the facts laid out it became very visible that the turnout for American elections are serverely down. 2008, which was the highest voter turnout in history in any American Federal Election only had 56.8% of the people of legal voting age come out and vote. These statistics prove that something must be done to increase the voter turn out.

Riley, Cam. "Compulsory vs. Voluntary Voting". http://www.southsearepublic.org. 11/2011. 03/14/2012.
          http://www.southsearepublic.org/article/317/read/compulsory_vs_voluntary_voting.

This article, written by an Australian living in America displays the positives and negatives of Compulsory voting (mandatory) vs voluntary voting. The author, who's from Australia which is a nation that has a Compulsory voting intact has first hand knowledge of the positive and negatives of this type of voting. The author lives in America now, and has access to what are the apexes and downfalls of voluntary voting. His first hand accounts of each type of voting is very powerful towards my paper because, instead of being facts, figures and hypothetical situations his knowledge suggests the actualities of both sides.

In Class Writting: 03/12/12

1. The main argument of the essay is that baseball had been considered for a long time to be the American sport and when Ichiro Suzuki entered the game Americans thought a Japanese player could not play a predominately American sport. Also, he goes on to suggest that American generalize any Asian person as the same race and ethnicity, even if they are really Chinese some tend to ignore their Chinese background and just call them Asian.

2.  The author's perspective on Baseball being the American sport suggest that Americans think they should be the best at the sport of Baseball simply because they are American. To have a Japanese player come in and succeed in the "purely" American sport skews the norm for most Americans and their viewpoints on baseball. Kang argument is clear on his topic of  Baseball being viewed as the sole American sport. However, there lies a problem with using the term "American" sport because their is  a lot more to being an American than what Kang suggests.

3.When I researched key words "Asian American" and "sport"  a lot of the articles were about the uprising of Asian American basketball player Jeremy Lin. Other articles were focused on Asian Americans in baseball, and lastly their was a sole article on women Asian American sports players.