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Illinois

Christopher M. Illinois

Police Brutality

Police brutality should be controlled

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Anthony Bray Illinois

United States Debt to Other Countries

We need to stop letting our debt to other countries build up because other countries might want to take their money back if we don't start doing so...

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Jeremy L. Illinois

Income Inequality

How will we reduce the gap between the rich and the poor so we can promote the middle class?

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Ray K. Illinois

Gun Violence

we need to focus more Gun Violence.

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Emily Burcal Illinois

The National Debt

The national debt keeps getting higher and higher, Americans think that their country can't and never will become the next Greece, but never say ne...

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Xavier M Illinois

GUN CONTROL

Guns don't kill people , people kill people

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Trenton V. Illinois

Immigration, our illegal problem

Immigrants make a good portion of the US population and some of them are illegal. The illegal immigrants deserve a chance to be legal citizens. The...

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Elma M. Illinois

Hate Speech Against Muslims

A 'hate speech" exception does not exist to the first amendment. This intends that everyday people are bullied because of what they are, or what th...

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Rosie V. Illinois

Terrorism is invading our streets.

We need to address terrorism and its effects

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Geraldine Illinois

We need awareness about disabilities

People who are handicapped are being treated unfairly.

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Daniel B. Illinois

Student Debt

The student debt for colleges is something that will affect our generation and our next, and it needs to be solved.

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Joseph R. Illinois

Obesity in America

We need to curb the obesity epidemic in America.

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Gina T. Illinois

Stopping Terrorism

We need to put an end to Terrorism in the U.S.

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Vincent G. Illinois

Economy

Bad economy is stopping kids for doing sports and other clubs and there are bad roads

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Will K. Illinois

Terrorism: A Deadly Act

Terrorism is violent act that is causing families to leave their towns and even their own country.If terrorism can start it can stop.

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Mayra Illinois

Immigration and Deportations

When deportations were at record levels approximately 152,000 children who were citizens had a parent taken away from them.

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Anthony H. Illinois

Poverty

We need to help the poor to live a better life.More than 1.3 billion people are poor and we need to help.

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Sofi Illinois

Immigration

How becoming a U.S citizen should be easier.

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Valentina M. Illinois

Immigration

Did you know that The US citizenship process can take less than a year or several years

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Justin F. Illinois

Right to protect

The second amendment is needed to protect people from threats, and must not be repealed.

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Jaylin G. Illinois

Give Them A Chance

Abortion Should Be Illegal.

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Carlos O. Illinois

Global Warming

Global Warming is a big issue it is making our planet more warmer and why we should do something about it.

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Michael M. Illinois

Terrorism: An Issue That Must be Handled

9/11 terrorist attacks, Boston Marathon bombing.

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Julia W. Illinois

Making College More Affordable

College tuition has tripled over the past three decades, so we need to find new ways to make college affordable for low-income families.

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Linda C. Illinois

Anti-Abortion

Planned Parenthood and other abortion associations are not the only answer to accidental pregnancies- not only are you ending someone’s life before...

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Shane M. Illinois

Abortion: It needs to stop

Abortion is a problem that only the president needs to solve. With the help of the Senators and Representatives I believe we can solve this problem.

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John A. Illinois

Buying Firearms Is Too Easy

Gun control is an extremely important topic. 26 States have a metaphorical F in gun control laws. Things need to change.

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Nick J. Illinois

Increasing College Costs

With college costs increasing, the debt gets bigger. We need to change that.

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Savo V. Illinois

Edward Snowden stance and evidence

My stance on the edward snowden case and why he should not get the sentence that espionage gives you.

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Matea A. Illinois

Immigrants

The legalization process should be made more effective and easier for the people coming into the U.S.

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Logan Illinois

Immigration What We Need To Do

Immigration is hurting our country but here's what we can do

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Austin B. Illinois

Animals need protection from zoos

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Christina B. Illinois

Animal Testing

Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are kill...

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Cesar N. Illinois

Giving schools the materials they need

Schools need materials

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Charlie B. Illinois

Terrorism In The U.S

Terrorism in the U.S is increasing and it is affecting our country tremendously. We must find a way to stop it.

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Emily W. Illinois

Animal Cruelty Should Be Taken More Seriously

There is a way you can help these animals in puppy mills, dog fights, and animal hoarding.

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Marcelino. C. Illinois

Abortion

Abortion should be illegal

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Stefan P. Illinois

Immigration between United States of America and bordering countries

The United States of America needs to secure its border with Mexico and Canada in order for our country to be more protected.

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Benjamin K. Illinois

Terrorism

Terrorism and how it is ripping the world apart by the second.

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Brendan H. Illinois

National Debt

We need to find ways to reduce our government's rampant and unnecessary spending to make our 19 trillion dollar debt shrink rather than grow.

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Lily S. Illinois

Gun Control

Gun control should have stricter laws

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Alex Sasinka Illinois

Gun Control

Gun control should have more strict laws.

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Kameia R. Illinois

Reducing Homelessness

Homelessness needs to be reduced.

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Abigail G. Illinois

The Real Cost Of College Tuition

Why we should lower the cost of college tuition.

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Lucy W. Illinois

Refugees should come into the US

Refugees should be admitted into the US to have a place to call home. In the past, no refugees have committed any acts of terror.

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Spencer S. Illinois

Gender Neutral Bathrooms aren't needed.

We don't need gender neutral bathrooms because they are unsafe and we have more pressing matters to deal with.

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Damian G. Illinois

Reducing immigrants and terrorism

We need to reduce the amount of immigrants and check their back grounds because we might be letting dangerous people in we don't know if they are t...

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juan c. Illinois

Minimum Wage

Increasing Minimum Wage

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Ricardo R. Illinois

gun are to easy to get!!!!!!!

Guns are to easy to get and kill lots of people.

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Abby M. Illinois

The United States Needs to Ban Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ Community

People in the LGBTQ+ community aren't always being treated as equals and we need to fix that.

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Cesar S. Illinois

The abuse of OTC medications

I want to ask you something. What do you have against drugs? I ask this question because many people have been taking overdoses of medication and m...

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Victoria Z. Illinois

Homelessness in the United States of America

We as a nation to work harder to reduce, or even eradicate homelessness in America.

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Luke M. Illinois

Animals Have Souls 2

The overview of animal cruelty

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Lezlie N. Illinois

Illegal Immigrants Benefit the Country

Illegal Immigrants Help the Country in Many Ways.

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Mariah B. Illinois

The minimum wage is NOT enough to live on

The minimum wage is certainly not enough to live on, resulting in impoverished areas across the US.

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Jonathan H. Illinois

illegal Immigration

The government should spend more money to stop illegal immigration.

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Zachary F. Illinois

Gun Laws and Mental Health

Mentally ill people are being blamed for gun by politicians and media violence when the real problem for gun violence is poverty.

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Charlie K. Illinois

How to Stop the Apocalypse

Climate change is a problem that if it continues, will have devastating consequences. Alternative energy is the solution to this apocalypse.

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Britnimarina Illinois

Immigration

How immigrants should be treated in the U.S .

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Dillon Illinois

Increases In Gun Control

My topic is about gun control and how it should be increased

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Vasil Illinois

Immigration

Immigration is very important topic in U.S.

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Danielle S. Illinois

Work Together To Keep Students Safe From Bullying.

One program or assembly will not prevent bullying. Schools and communities must work together to recognize the causes and consequences of bullying,...

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Ashanti A. Illinois

"Racial Inequality Needs To Change"

Everyone should be treated equally.

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Priscilla C. Illinois

College Tuition

In today's world, there are many students that are not able to pursue their higher education and pursue their dreams because of the high costs of c...

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Joan M. Illinois

Terrorism and How it Will Affect the U.S. Economy

Terrorism is definitely a big problem all around to world and it does effect to the economy in every country. While 61% of Islamic terror attacks a...

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Neftali .M Illinois

Animal Cruelty

Animal cruelty should be banned. Humans have anger sometimes even the dogs don't have nothing to do with it. You can help by a small donate.

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Laila T. Illinois

Eradicating Poverty

We can work together to help people get out of poverty

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Izzy Illinois

immigration

Immigrants struggling to come into the U.S.A is a very big problem. We can do something about it by changing the immigration situation in America.

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Danny E. Illinois

Fix Climate Change: Save America

The next president needs to address climate change because it is ruining our ecosystem, our forests, and our natural resources such as The Great La...

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Lisa Illinois

Immigrants Don't Have to Live in Fear

Immigrants shouldn't have to live in fear, they should have freedom to live just like all Americans. Instead of throwing them out we should be help...

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Ally M. Illinois

Why Illegal Immigration is horrible for the United States and is the most important issue of today.

The United States has been facing increasing problems with illegal immigration that have gone on for too long. Illegal immigration is the issue tha...

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Karla H. Illinois

Make It Easy

Did you know that more than 2.5 million people have been deported between 2009 and 2015? And many of those people just come to the United States fo...

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Allie P. Illinois

Guns are too easy to attain

The wrong people are getting a hold of guns. A result from that would be the outrageous amount of deaths in one year caused by firearms.

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Alexis T. Illinois

Health Care

We need to lower the cost of healthcare so more people can afford good healthcare, And we need to fix how we pay our doctors to make it far.

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Alejandra R. Illinois

Gender Neutral Restrooms

There is a new topic waiting to become a law, as well as one of the main points the new president needs to work on once they get to office. The nee...

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Jaime R. Illinois

Should we have strict gun control rules

should gun rules change or stay the same?

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Nick G. Illinois

Issues With Gun Violence

What are the issues with Gun Violence? And how do we put an end to it all around the United States

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Natalia T. Illinois

Abortion being illegal

All humans have the right to live and this includes unborn babies.

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Jake O. Illinois

Illegal Immigrants

Our efforts to push out illegal immigrants have been unsuccessful. We need to take action.

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Max B. Illinois

Better defense against terrorism

Do u know how many people died from terrorist attacks from 2001-2014? According to debating matters.com approximately 3,066 Americans have been kil...

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Adriel R. Illinois

Immigration

Many people in the United States have been wanting to enter the United States for a long time. Many of these refugees want to enter the U.S. are wa...

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Sarah L. Illinois

The Truth About Gun Violence

Only the true facts about gun violence and its effects on people.

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Jackson Illinois

Terrorism

Terrorism is the number one problem that needs to be addressed by our next president.

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Wes Illinois

FIX Gun Laws

Gun laws need to be more strict, buyback program and guns should be harder to get.

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Daniela A. Illinois

The Cost Of Our Future Should Decrease

The cost of college tuition is extremely expensive. The future president should work on dropping the cost. It's getting more difficult for people t...

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Sergio D. Illinois

Immigration

Immigration

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Xander V. Illinois

College Prices

College Prices MUST go down to get students out of student loan debt.

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Max D. Illinois

Gun Control

Guns and the 2nd Amendment have become a controversial topic in our country and we need to figure out how to deal with it before even more people a...

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Claudia M. Illinois

Abortion

Don't you think every child deserves a chance at life?

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Dominic S. Illinois

Animal Testing

This letter explains why animal testing doesn't work and why we should stop it.

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Keegan Illinois

Gun control in the USA

There needs to be more laws regarding gun control for safety of the people in this nation.

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JJ S. Illinois

Abuse, Violence, and Racism

Police are abusing unarmed civilians, especially those of color, and it needs to end. Now.

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Aiden H. Illinois

Immigration

Immigration laws in the U.S are a mess and need to be fixed now

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Jet R. Illinois

Gun control

Gun control has not been effective for several years and this letter talks about the deaths in america and also compared to different countries. An...

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MarielaL Illinois

distracted driving changes lives

distracted driving is never worth anyone's life

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Nina S. Illinois

Syrian Refugee Crisis: Time for The U.S. to Step Up

The mere number of refugees the United States has accepted is inadequate for the millions of Syrian refugees, worldwide, deprived of critical resou...

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Anel Illinois

Chicago Streets Are Not Safe Anymore. We Need Help!

The streets of Southside Chicago are not safe, and it is getting worse every year. What are we doing to help it get better or stop, because what we...

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Stella C. Illinois

Letter to President

Racial equality is an important issue that needs to be looked upon.

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Olivia M. Illinois

Gun Control

There should be stricter gun laws to prevent deaths from firearms.

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Alex J. Illinois

Racial Inequality

People are dying every day just because of the color of their skin. The United States is better than this; it has to stop.

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Melissa R. Illinois

Overpopulation of Pets

Breeders are over breeding dogs and cats leaving the mother and puppies/kittens in poor health, causing people to bring them to shelters, where the...

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Luis G. Illinois

Distracted Driving

Here are some ways we could end distracted driving

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Everardo Illinois

The Problem With Immigration

Dear Next President, Hate Immigration and this is a w...

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Jocqael T. Illinois

Sports

It's a lot of injuries in sports.

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Mateo E. Illinois

Americans Bear Arms

Gun laws should not be changed.

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Kley K. Illinois

Gun violence

I will talk about gun violence.

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Alex A. Illinois

Immigration

Letter to the future president

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Emma L. Illinois

Our Future President Needs To Make Changes Now!

Our next president should do something about the gun control laws in the United States of America in order to save people's lives.

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Jenna S. Illinois

Gun Control

Why gun control laws need to be more strict, and higher age requirement in order to get a gun.

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Selma B. Illinois

Education for Everyone

Education provides many opportunities and everyone needs education.

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Ivana Illinois

More Gun Control

We need more gun control in places that it is getting out of control, and where people are getting hurt.

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Jacob Zembower Illinois

Stop ISIS

We need to form a plan that is going to defeat ISIS once as for all

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Alex V. Illinois

Bringing illegal Immigrants

Why we need to bring illegal immigrants to the United States?

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Mary C. Illinois

Why We Need Gender Neutral Bathrooms

Transgender people all over the country need a safe place to use the restrrom and change clothes.

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Andrew K. Illinois

Police Brutality Problem

My letter is about Police brutality in the U.S. and how it is the biggest problem that the next president should focus on. The United States police...

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Franklin T. Illinois

Poverty

We should have a unique taxing way for each person, based on their monthly income.

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Jonathan P Illinois

how and why to make the immigration process easier

i talk about ways to make immigration easier and less complicated then it is.

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Anthony P. Illinois

Illegal Immigration

Illegal Immigration may be the downfall of our country

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Nick Illinois

A No Fly Zone Will Start a War

War has changed over the years. It used to be muskets and knives back then you could have a war without many innocent casualties. But that was the ...

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Samuel S. Illinois

No more gun violence!

I think guns are too easy to buy or get. My paragraph is shows numbers and stats of death by guns. In my paragraph I talk about people who are ment...

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Chloe G. Illinois

Wage Gap

There is a gap between how much the male and female species earn at their jobs. It is completely unfair and needs to be put to a stop.

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Grace M. Illinois

PARCC spelled backwards is CCRAP

Dear Future President, I would like tell you about why I feel that Common Core and PARCC testing should no longer be used in America. While there ...

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Jacob L. Illinois

Immigration

Immigration should be stopped and there should be less of it in our world. Our states should stop being filled with illegal immigrants. A fence or ...

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Bryan G. Illinois

The truth about the 2nd Ammendment

Gun control is a huge problem that is always talked about. It needs attention and something needs to be done.

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trase t. Illinois

Death Penalty Is Justice

The death penalty is justice itself. In this i discuss that you mr president should make the death penalty legal.

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Kate B. Illinois

Wage Gap in the Workforce

Future females in the workforce should not have to deal with the issues pertaining to the gender and cultural wage gap. You, future president, have...

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E. L. Illinois

Hate Crimes need to be stopped!

Hate Crimes in this country are terrible. Black men and women are dying everyday because these racist officers think they're dangerous or think the...

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