10th,11th, and 12th grade students at Jefferson HS in Portland Oregon.
Abortion should stay legal
How long until another death causes a protest?
We need to stop the unsustainable farming of palm oil because it dramatically affects the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere.
This paper goes over the possible changes that american schools could have done to improve student experience and educational qualification while r...
Poverty in America. Can it be even be looked at?
College tuition is overly priced. Every year It increases by 5%. Colleges have more than enough money to give to students for scholarships. For the...
The pros of it being made and the cons of it being made
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Poor treatment of Native Americans and Alaska Natives is evident in education, poverty rates and job earnings, physical and mental health, substanc...
"In order for America to be "great", we need to hear from different types of people. White is not the default."
We need to start paying attention, and sacrificing things we don't need, for things we do, like oxygen, and a place to live.
Black people in America are treated like trash and you as the next President need to make an effort to change how people in our country are being t...
Refugees are people like me and you who deserve to have a place to live here in the United States.
Undocumented immigrants are treated unfairly and are not represented in the way they should.
Animal testing is extremely cruel, and yet they are hardly protected. This is something that needs to change.
What effect it has on the people and how to stop it.
My letter is about Police Brutality and how it's only favoring whites, and how the justice system isn't equal to everyone
A solution to end it
I discuss the issues that face all schools from elementary to college. It has facts and personal experience/views. It also has a few ideas on ways ...
An essay from a concerned high school senior on the garbage in the ocean, how it affects animals, and the garbage problem in general.
Things need to change, and you can make a huge impact being the person you are.
Misused firearms
College tuition has always been a constant struggle for our generation. We need to make the price realistically affordable.
Yes the deaths in our country have been controversial but is it fair to say black and white peoples deaths are different when they are the same not...
I belive the next president needs to address the cost of public universities.
If the United States made it illegal for women to get safe abortions then there would be thousands of unsafe, illegal abortions leading to women hu...
Dear Future president,
Dear future President of the United States of America.
Police brutality has been an ongoing issue for a while now, its time we do something to change it.
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Institutional Racism in the U.S.
A piece of my mind about the choices that we have to make every single day. Through a quote from a video game I played, This is what I think about ...
College is expensive, and college debt takes over.
In this letter I discuss issues in our world today such as racism and police brutality.
How we can prevent terrorism, why you should be more aware of it.
this is what came to do in the united states, but most of our opportunities are taken away because of what we are, where we came from, and the colo...
Gun control is a growing problem in America with increasing cases of mass shootings, we need more control and background checks in our country to e...
police brutality
Unconstitutional regulations on abortion are making women unable to exercise their right to choose. These regulations are unconstitutional.
"Nobody can give you freedom.Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.If you're a man, you take it ~ Malcolm X
Abortion should continue to be safe and legal for all women across America.
Every woman should make her own choices with her body. That's why I believe in pro abortion.
The foster system has many faults. If done well, it can do a lot of good. But if done poorly or not managed, can be a living hell for all people in...
Innocent blacks getting killed by police.
My essay is about how we should allow people to come into our country so that they could live a better life if that is what they desire.
Its about things that are problems in the use that nobody cares about and nobody is changing
As difficult as it is for poor people to start and finish college, the current school system only drives them further into failure. We need everyon...
A look at what needs to be done across the country in the coming years
Many people are judged not by the continent of their character but by the color of their skin and it creates problems when people want to do things...
African Americans are now afraid that they will get shot by a cop for no reason. Black people are treated unfairly and accused of many things. All ...
This country deserves equality for all.
Homelessness is a huge problem in America that needs to be fixed. Future president, what will you do?
its about how nothing changed since way back in the day
How climate change is really important and how if we don't do anything we could suffer big consequences.
Safety for all children
Anyone in the United States should be able to go to college and not worry about how they are going to pay for the tuition and the debt they will be...
The importance of color is displayed poorly in our country.
This talks about immigrants and how we need to help them.
Gun violence has taken the lives of many undeserving American citizens, and it needs to end.
Prisons in the United States are cruel and undemocratic. They take people's votes, right to government assistance, ability to land a job, and explo...
There is a huge issue surrounding police brutality and would like to know what the future president will do to help stop this racial discrimination.
How can you balance the inflation and minimum wage to create a healthy lifestyle for the minimum wage workers of America
An essay exploring what it's like growing up as a queer student in school in America.
The shooting has to stop.
The burden of being raped, sexually harassed, or sexual abused is not understood in America, leading to problems with our justice system and rapist...
police brutality and racism needs to end
Guns are becoming one of the biggest issues to our societies safety and there needs to be major changes to this countries gun control laws.
my letter is about how blacks are untreated in america and things need to change.
The safety net of the American mental health system is failing, and thousands of men, women and children are suffering the consequences.
The creators of our existence is about the fairness of paid maternity leave. Only four states in america have a paid six weeks off and this writin...
This is what I feel about the wage gap.