Blog Assignment 6: Youth Voting by Jeffrey Bivin

“Voter turnout for those … presidential elections (Delli Carpini 342)”. This paraphrase by the writer, Jeffrey Bivin is used to show the reader how he came to know about the issue of the youth having a lack of "civic engagement". It provides a base for all the other evidence of lack of civic engagement by the youth of the USA. This piece of information provides support to the statement made by the writer later in the second paragraph where he say that youth should be reinstated with the sense of public responsibility to make sure that country remains democratic and has a bright future.

‘He reports that young people are, “Less knowledgeable … the ages 30 and 45” (Delli Carpini 342).’ This is one of the three quotes the Jeffrey Bivin has used in the fourth paragraph. The writer choose to present hard evidence to support his point in the paragraph that most of the youth between the age of 18 and 29 are not aware and even more are “less engaged” in public life than their “older counterparts.” This research gives the reader background information about the average American youth’s involvement in political issues. This research shows the severity of the situation of “civic engagement in the American youth even though they are in the receiving end of the best education relative to the what their older counterparts got.

Blog Assignment 5

An instance that comes to my mind where winners writing history is the victors of the World War 1. The victors of the war were Britain, France and Russia. Being victors they blamed the trigger and every effect of the war on Germany. The victors therefore demanded compensation for their losses as a peace treaty between the victors and the losers. As we all know this lead deep resentment with the Germans with resulted in the birth of Nazism with Hitler as its leader eventually leading Europe to the next war that is World War 2. If the losers had wrote the history, they would have agreed with their defeat but wouldn’t put the blame of the hostilities of the war at either the victors or the losers since both had an equal part in causing destruction to each other. If the losers had written history, the public of Britain and France which were both democratic states would have cancelled out the compensation Germany and the other loser had to pay in the Versailles Peace treaty. This could have prevented the deep resentment of the victors in Germany, thus could have stopped the birth of Nazism and could have probably stopped the World War 2 from ever occurring, therefore saving countless lives.