10th,11th, and 12th grade students at Jefferson HS in Portland Oregon.
This is what I feel about the wage gap.
College tuition has always been a constant struggle for our generation. We need to make the price realistically affordable.
Innocent blacks getting killed by police.
What effect it has on the people and how to stop it.
Abortion should continue to be safe and legal for all women across America.
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...
Unconstitutional regulations on abortion are making women unable to exercise their right to choose. These regulations are unconstitutional.
How can you balance the inflation and minimum wage to create a healthy lifestyle for the minimum wage workers of America
Poor treatment of Native Americans and Alaska Natives is evident in education, poverty rates and job earnings, physical and mental health, substanc...
Refugees are people like me and you who deserve to have a place to live here in the United States.
Poverty in America. Can it be even be looked at?
This paper goes over the possible changes that american schools could have done to improve student experience and educational qualification while r...
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
Dear future President of the United States of America.
Dear Future president,
We need to stop the unsustainable farming of palm oil because it dramatically affects the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere.
A look at what needs to be done across the country in the coming years
The shooting has to stop.
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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 ...
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 we can prevent terrorism, why you should be more aware of it.
I belive the next president needs to address the cost of public universities.
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...
police brutality
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...
In this letter I discuss issues in our world today such as racism and police brutality.
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...
We need to start paying attention, and sacrificing things we don't need, for things we do, like oxygen, and a place to live.
Misused firearms
Safety for all children
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 ...
An essay exploring what it's like growing up as a queer student in school in America.
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...
This country deserves equality for all.
My letter is about Police Brutality and how it's only favoring whites, and how the justice system isn't equal to everyone
The pros of it being made and the cons of it being made
its about how nothing changed since way back in the day
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...
my letter is about how blacks are untreated in america and things need to change.
Homelessness is a huge problem in America that needs to be fixed. Future president, what will you do?
Animal testing is extremely cruel, and yet they are hardly protected. This is something that needs to change.
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Undocumented immigrants are treated unfairly and are not represented in the way they should.
Things need to change, and you can make a huge impact being the person you are.
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...
"Nobody can give you freedom.Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.If you're a man, you take it ~ Malcolm X
How long until another death causes a protest?
This talks about immigrants and how we need to help them.
The importance of color is displayed poorly in our country.
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...
Gun violence has taken the lives of many undeserving American citizens, and it needs to end.
An essay from a concerned high school senior on the garbage in the ocean, how it affects animals, and the garbage problem in general.
"In order for America to be "great", we need to hear from different types of people. White is not the default."
How climate change is really important and how if we don't do anything we could suffer big consequences.
Every woman should make her own choices with her body. That's why I believe in pro abortion.
The burden of being raped, sexually harassed, or sexual abused is not understood in America, leading to problems with our justice system and rapist...
Abortion should stay legal
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.
Institutional Racism in the U.S.
The safety net of the American mental health system is failing, and thousands of men, women and children are suffering the consequences.
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...
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...
College is expensive, and college debt takes over.
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...
A solution to end it
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...
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 ...
police brutality and racism needs to end
Police brutality has been an ongoing issue for a while now, its time we do something to change it.
