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Daysia New York

Abortion

Do you really find it acceptable to kill an innocent child ? Yet you find it okay to kill a human for murdering another human .

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Maliyah New York

What Bullying Really Does

Bullying is a big problem in the United States. 14% of high school students consider suicide and 7% attempt, but who knows how many actually succe...

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Chenia New York

Unneeded Education

Some classes have gone out of date.

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Carrie New York

LGBT

People of every sexual orientation: bisexual, straight, gay, lesbian, transgender came together to show support and pride by marching in the Pride ...

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Nik New York

Massive Immigration: Detrimental or Suitable?

Start thinking about you and your family. By doing something good, don’t expect to be paid same way back.

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Tiffy New York

Rape Culture Must Be Stopped

Rape culture in our society has it forced into our heads that only females are victims of rape, when that is inaccurate. Yes, females are sexually ...

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Daniel New York

College Athletes Deserve Pay

College Athletes are focusing more on sports rather than their education. College Athletes spend 40 hours or more per week on their sport; with thi...

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Razan New York

How is college important to you?

As this funny quote says “ their is NO elevator to success. You have to take the stairs." What I am trying to point out is that education is the O...

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Luis & Tafari New York

Racial Profiling

A police officer stops you because of your skin color? Because of the car you drive? Even because of how you dress... how would you feel?

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Jerzy New York

Abortion

Abortion is a spiteful solution to a fixable problem; it’s taking the life of an innocent child.

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Jordan L. New York

College Debt, The Killer of Young Lives

College Debt is a huge epidemic that plagues millions of students in America. A pastor in Colorado allegedly stole $392,000 from his church to pay ...

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Matthew New York

PEDs Will Ruin College Sports

Why PEDs shouldn't be allowed in sports

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Amaru D New York

Racial Profiling

Create outreach programs for urban communities and police officers to bond.

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Lorelei New York

Abortion

Abortion isn't murder; abortion can save a life.

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Rufus New York

The Problem with Abstinence-only Education

A fifth of the youth in our country are being misled by Abstinence-only education. This broken system of education is leaving them vulnerable to un...

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Daniela New York

Abortion

A thirteen-year-old Mexican girl was raped by her uncle and was refused an abortion. Abortions are illegal in Mexico unless someone is raped. ...

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Julian L. New York

College Tuition

College tuition seriously needs to be reduced. College tuition needs to be lowered to reduce the amount of student debt. In May of 2013, 61,762 peo...

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Itrice New York

Legalization of Marijuana

Marijuana should be legalized in every state because it could help many people in so many different ways. It is already legal in several states but...

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Ethan S. New York

THE US ECONOMY

The U.S. Economy is not in terrible shape, but it’s not in good shape either. I would say it’s merely just stuck. It will be hard to get out out of...

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Andre New York

Gun Control

Gun control is an issue on which Americans are deeply divided, and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump couldn't be farther apart on it. The fact that...

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Shaima New York

Walk A Mile In My Hijab

The news media needs to focus on the positive things that Muslims do, and not only the negative actions of a few. Recently, There was a social expe...

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Soleil New York

Student Choices and Career Based Learning

We can’t be expected to know what we’d like to do in the future if we’re not exposed to careers. All high school students should have access to div...

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Joseph p. New York

Unfair Tax System

There is essentially a “Private tax system” for the wealthiest Americans that lets them lower their tax bill by billions, while working families pl...

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Antonia A. New York

Let's Stop Racism

Racism is a big problem, and it needs to STOP. The United States must to treat everyone equal and not treat people differently.

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Detreck New York

Protection of the 2nd amendment

I believe the second amendment is important and needed. If it is taken, then we lose a great and important part of the United States.

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Stephen New York

Let Them Know about Rape

Rape education should be brought into middle schools and high schools. We need to teach kids how to prevent being raped and how to deal with it. 13...

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Arnel New York

Unnecessary Police Brutality

Police brutality needs to stop because it is wrong, and innocent people are dying just because of the color of their skin.

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Shalona New York

ABORT MISSION ON ABORTION

People that are Pro-Choice believe that giving birth to an unwanted child can cause depression. According to healthsearchfunding.org, women who hav...

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Alyse New York

Give the Students a Say in Their Education

According to Edudemic, letting students choose the topic they want to learn about can cause less stress on a student and make them happier and more...

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Olivia New York

LGBTQ+ Equality

In my image, I painted on my skeleton, the same one every single one of us has, and depicted the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender flags in t...

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Nibras New York

Cost of College

Students in the United States want to go to college to succeed in their lives, their communities, and their futures, and they want to achieve their...

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Yoaliz New York

POLICE BRUTALITY, a dreadful situation that's tearing America apart.

As the next president, you have the ability to help resolve this by creating a rule or a law on police officers wearing body cameras at all times. ...

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Abdel New York

Islamophobia in the US

Muslims live in fear that they will be attacked. Americans live in fear that Muslims will attack them.

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Jazmine W. New York

Our Income Isn't Enough!

The minimum wage needs to be raised to $15 dollars. One cannot raise a family with anything lower than that an hour. Let's fix this problem.

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Samy New York

Muslims In America

There are no equal rights in the United States. American Muslims are being treated bad in their own country that they fought for.

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Zulendry New York

Are You Really Against Abortions ?

There are reasonable reasons as to why abortion should be illegal and that is understandable. People argue that abortion is killing an unborn child...

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Alexander New York

Animal testing is wrong

Animal testing; Animals are being tested every day and are harmed in these processes. Animals can’t always defend themselves. There are over 26 mil...

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Lauren New York

Welfare?...More Like Unfair

Welfare is a corrupt system run by the government.

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Giavana New York

Abortion

Abortion is wrong.

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Daniel P. New York

Immigration

Is any type of immigration really a problem in the United States of America?

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Charles New York

Unfair Sentences

It's guns and bullets /and some cops take advantage of that they do want they want / shoot when they feel like it / arrest who they want to / and t...

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derrick.c New York

Ban Gun Bans

Why gun bans won't work in our world today and why it's not the answer to gun violence.

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Cecelia New York

Gender Inequality

Everything should be equal for EVERYONE. You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace.

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Yeicob New York

Drug Use in Sports

Taking in drugs during sports can ruin the chances of being great.

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Manny New York

The Other Side Of Police Violence

I think we need to work together to solve this problem. Not just go around killing and hurting each other just because we’re getting back at each o...

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Aries New York

College Tuition

College tuition is too much money.

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David New York

Gun Violence is on the Rise

There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. If you are on a no fly list in the U.S., you should not be ...

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Frank New York

All Play, No Pay

College athletes should be paid. They put in about 40 hours a week to play their sport and don’t get compensated.

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Destany W. New York

Careless Abortions Should be Stopped

The killing of a human being is wrong, even if that human being is yet to be born. Fetuses feel pain during the abortion process. A 2008 peer-revie...

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Malcolm D. New York

Make Abortion Illegal

Abortion is a very serious matter and is just being pushed to the side or being ignored. Abortion should be illegal no matter what the circumstance...

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ayishatu New York

College Tuition

College tuition is getting in the way of other students achieving their education and life goals. I believe that the government can help make a bet...

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Roslayn New York

Police Brutality Must Be Stopped

In the first three months of 2016, 250 people have been fatally shot by police officers. According to the Washington Post near the end of the year...

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Dylan New York

Legalize Marijuana

Alcohol is involved in about 40% of violent crimes. Whereas marijuana use was only accounted for 3.1% of violent crimes. As you can see, things ju...

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Thomas New York

Animal Abuse

Abusing Animals is wrong and disgusting.

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Arianna New York

Make Teen Immigration Great Again

It’s not fair the way these immigrant teens are getting treated in their countries. I say yes, to keeping our borders open. Not every immigrant is ...

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Elida New York

One Way the American Economy is Being Destroyed

College debt is a very serious problem because it is increasing yearly, leaving students swimming in debt when they get out of college. With this b...

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Shannon New York

The War on Drunk Driving

Nine thousand nine hundred and sixty seven lives were taken away during alcohol related accidents. Out of those nine thousand nine hundred and sixt...

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James New York

If America Doesn't Fall from a War, We Will Destroy it with Our Guns

I made this drawing to show how we as individuals are destroying the U.S, whether it be by homicide, suicide, or committing some other acts of viol...

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Devenaire New York

Gun Control

Gun laws are the cause of much violent crime in America and need to be changed so that it is difficult to obtain guns and a person owning an illega...

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Darrell New York

Vocational Classes

Many schools across the US have removed many of the things students actually wanna do and enjoy going to school for.

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Grace New York

Abortion

Abortion is an argument that is debated frequently. I believe that abortion should be legal, but only under certain circumstances.

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Kyle New York

Nuclear Energy is Clean Energy

"Nuclear Energy, the ability to utilize the almighty power of the atom itself."

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Nefertia New York

College Tuition 2016

The world is becoming smarter and the only way to survive is if you're educated; without that you can’t have a career, and you would go through the...

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Zachary New York

Educashunal Sist3ms a Prablem

The U.S educational system has been having a hard time over the last few years, with unprepared students, high priced colleges, and many lousy teac...

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Tyler New York

Gun Control at its Finest

Guns. Guns have been a part of our culture since this country was formed. We were given the right to own these guns when the U.S Constitution was m...

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Will New York

Running Out of Time

I strongly believe you should make it your primary effort to eliminate pollution from this great country. I say this because I don't want our futur...

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Hannah New York

Marine Pollution: How Plastic is Ruining Our Oceans

These animals deserve better living conditions than the dump that is supposed to the ocean; all of the plastic that we use is so useless. Plastic s...

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Aedean New York

Abortion For Women

Abortion is not a matter for strangers to decide. Think about the woman not the unborn fetus.

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Isiac New York

Misunderstanding of Police

Police get a bad reputation because of the media. They put a video for example and make the cop look bad and people think that's all cops are -bad....

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Shantei New York

Gun Control In The United States

Just because you have the power to end a life doesn't mean you have to use and abuse that power. People are out here buying guns then selling them...

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Shakir New York

Are Video Games Healthy?

Research shows that ages 12-17 are playing games like Grand Theft Auto and that’s 97% of them playing those types of games and the rest are playing...

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Nba New York

Imagine The Life Of A Syrian

The Syrian civil war has been going on since 2011. More than a quarter of the Syrian population has been killed in this ongoing civil war. We're g...

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Nahjae-Nichol New York

Preventing Child Abuse

I believe that child abuse is a serious matter and that the government needs to do something about it to stop it from happening. Some people may ca...

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Emily New York

The Foster Care System

The Foster Care System is corrupt at the moment, it's actually been that way for many years. Not only are the children being abused, but they're mo...

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Tatiyanna W. New York

Gun Violence

Every day, 306 people in America are shot, Every day, 90 people die from gun violence, 31 are murdered. If we go back to 2015, there were 12,086 ki...

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Morgan New York

Marine Pollution

Marine pollution affects the climate, environment, and animals. When you keep throwing pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, detergents, se...

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Mel New York

Profiling and Black Injustice

Racial profiling and black injustice is becoming more common. In order for us to achieve equal rights, we need fight the law because the law is not...

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Samantha New York

Drunk Driving: Too Many Lives Lost

There needs to be more solutions and stricter laws to prevent driving under the influence. People are losing family members unexpectedly. The next ...

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Anthony New York

We Must Fix The Adoption System

The Foster Care System is broken, and children are being put into broken homes. This system needs more government funding.

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Jada New York

Education? How About Rape Education

Thirty-two percent of the abused children had attempted suicide, and 43% had thought about suicide since they were sexually abused.” Imagine a you...

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Isaiah New York

Success or Failure

Have you ever wanted to go to college, but feared at the expenses it would cost? Why should college be so expensive to the people who can't afford ...

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Layana New York

Taxes Ain't Fair

I agree that taxes are a big deal in our society. Wealthy people pay 20% in taxes while middle class pay 40% in taxes. Some wealthy people don't ev...

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Jada New York

Abortion Rap

Abortion is the act of taking away a life, taking away a life is murder. So i believe that abortion should be illegal.

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Paola New York

Knowledge is Strength

17.7 million women have been raped or someone has tried to rape them and that is a lot . 17.7 million women should not go through that not even 1 f...

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Sapphire New York

Animal Rights

I believe that animals should have rights that they deserve; we as people are also animals.

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Timothy New York

Black Lives Matter

My name is Timothy and I would like for Hillary to read this and help solve this number one issue in our country today. As we all know innocent Bl...

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Brianna New York

Welfare ain't fair

The welfare system has been around for many years now, and thousands of people are using it. But is it necessary?

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Aivie New York

Our Lives Matter Too

Let’s be clear we did not say only black lives matter; social media said that. We know that all lives matter but right now we have to focus on the ...

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George New York

Ocean Pollution

Human waste, litter and chemicals are being thrown in the oceans which are causing animals to die and some to go extinct.

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Kyla M. New York

Is There Really Justice For All?

Currently, in 2016, rapists are not getting their well deserved time, or for some any time at all. Back in January of 2015, Brock Turner was indict...

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Dahkim New York

Animals are our friends

If I were the president, I would be ashamed of those who hurt a dog or a cat or even a monkey. Animal abuse is a total injustice and brutal to thei...

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LeAnn New York

UNJUST

Corrupt cops are abusing their power and calling it doing their job. Well news flash, killing a man because he’s selling cd's in front of a store ...

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Layla New York

Legalization of Abortion

Abortion should be legal for every family that feels it's necessary.

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Benay New York

Poaching: a Serious Issue

In the year 2012, 668 rhinos were poached in South Africa, and in January 2013, that number increased to 946. No one is really paying attention to ...

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Tony New York

Saving the Ocean

1 million seabirds die from plastic. The oceans are in danger because of the trash that people throw on the oceans.

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Daniel New York

Police Brutality

Police Brutality has been a big issue to this day. Many innocent people have had their lives taken away because of police brutality. It needs to co...

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Dockia New York

Immigrants

Everyone's problem in the United States is immigration. Let's talk about the cops, criminals, people with disease and more. They should improve bac...

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Shaari New York

Abortion: Is It a Crime?

Abortion, one of the biggest debates there is. Not only is it a debate, but it’s also a very important topic; the debating needs to come to an end....

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Melissa New York

Abortion

Abortion should be illegal because it's an act of muder. Why is mudering someone illegal but aborting a innocent baby isn't. They are the SAME t...

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Anya New York

Cyberbullying & Bullying

I’d like to address a problem that is a very important issue to me; it also is affecting many others.There is no federal law against cyberbullying ...

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Arianna L. New York

The Safe Side Of Medical Cannabis

Medical marijuana can be helpful. "It can cure many illnesses and symptoms". Although many people feel as if it is dangerous, I have been informed ...

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Riley New York

LGBT COMMUNITY

The LGBT community has been getting discriminated against by many people, and many people of the LGBT community live in fear of harassment.

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Alicia New York

LGBT+ Rights

From shootings, to the legalization of same sex marriage, to the barricading of this community's happiness and more, the LGBT+ Community does not g...

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Sarah New York

No Drugs

Today's athletes are looking for an advantage over the competition that will help make them winners. Unfortunately, the adolescents of today are ca...

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Percival New York

Police Brutality

According to the Washington Post, there was a count of 250 people killed by police officers in the first three months of 2016. They’re treating us ...

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Jewel New York

Many People Die

Everyday someone's sister, brother, mother, father, or child is a victim of drunk driving. In 2010, there were over 13,000 deaths due to drunk driv...

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JJ New York

Cops Are Suppose To Protect Us

Shouldn't you call the cops when you feel in danger? They should protect us, but what do we do when they start breaking the law?

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Brianna New York

These Wildfires Need To Be Stopped

Wildfires destroy whatever is in their path. Wildfires destroy people`s homes and animal habitats.

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Dakota New York

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Never let drugs and alcohol abuse control you and don't let it change who you are.

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brianna y. New York

Let Them Come In

Undocumented immigrants come for work to support themselves and their families. They impact the U.S. because they are a big help to our economy.

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Rana New York

Rescue Syrian Refugees

There is a risk of a lost generation of Syrian children who are living in limbo. Many will not see a classroom. Syrian Refugees are unwelcome in ma...

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Naszahliek New York

Stop Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling is getting outta control & it needs to STOP

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Zay New York

-Police Brutality-

Time to look at both sides. Do you think police brutality is a problem?

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Alivia New York

Sexual Assault/Harassment

Sexual assault is something that needs a more serious punishment. The person who is getting arrested for sexual assault on average only spends a ye...

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Jordan New York

Underage Drinking Needs to STOP

For 16 and 17 yr olds, drinking to get “drunk” is the goal for 40 % percent of them. Next is where raising the law will help...drinking to get drun...

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Joe C. (JaJa) New York

Lower The Drinking Age to 18

Out of 160 countries, 61% have a minimum drinking age of 18-19 years old; only the U.S and a mere 11 other counties have it set to 21.The U.S has a...

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Ousmane New York

The Popo and The People

The cops can't protect the people by killing the people, and the people can't expect the cops to stop killing people if we keep killing each other....

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Roshanna New York

Abused & Misused

So many children taken at this very moment that we will never find.

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Letters to the Next President 2.0 engaged and connected young people, aged 13-18, as they researched, wrote, and made media to voice their opinions on issues that mattered to them in the 2016 Presidential Election.

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