The Electoral College

It is possible to win the popular vote but have another candidate become president because some of the electors are not required to vote based on the popular vote in their state. In 2000 the vote went according to the process established by the constitution, because not all the electors have to vote according to the popular vote they did not. However in some states the electors will have to pay a fine if they do not vote according to the popular vote in the state they represent.

I think that the Electoral College is not a valid way to run our elections; it may have worked for the government when they first established it but it no longer works for us. Because the electors are not obliged to vote as their state did we can end up with a false vote like we did in 2000, the 2000 election upset many people because the popular vote lost to the vote of the Electoral College. In my opinion a group of corrupt electors is the equivalent of a corrupt government.

Although this system may have worked for us when it was first established, it no longer does, we have the technology necessary to count the popular vote correctly, so why don’t we use it? I think it is because people are afraid of change, we get to know one system, on way of life, and we become afraid of trying something new. It is in the human nature to dislike change but sometimes we need to think less about what would make us more comfortable and more about what would benefit our society. I know we have the capacity to learn about our candidates and to make a good decision; we are capable of more than we think we are. I know it is not something people want to hear, but we need to start making some changes if we are ever going to better our society, even at the cost of having to do a bit more work than before.

Perfection is not something we can reach, but with a bit of work we can better our government and make our system work for our life now, and I think the start is getting rid of the Electoral College.

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"The dark and terrible antithesis of nature was Kurai. The force that drove men to hack at the sheltering forests, and leave deep gashes, long in healing, in their mother, the earth, was Kurai. The thought that drove some elves to disdain men as inferior, and leave them to hurt others and die in ignorance, was Kurai. It was the most evil, vile, terrible, ruinous force in the world, and at this time it was strong. It brought the ceaseless winter, and had turned the wolves and coniferous trees to its cause. Its demons were horrid things that razed anything they found, heartless, merciless embodiments of evil."


An excerpt from the still-in-progress tale of Frostbound
written by Liam Lloyd

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"I need a weapon," Valkyrie muttered
"You're an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world," Skulduggery pointed out. "I'm fairly certain that makes you a weapon."
"I mean a weapon you can hold. You have a gun, Tanitha has a sword...I want a stick"
"I'll buy you a stick for Christmas."

Skulduggery Pleasant, Mortal Coil
Derek Landy

The Pearl

I think that the last line means that the trouble is gone and the pearl will bring no more grief or evil. I think that the symbolism of this line is that the greed is gone for the family, but in truth the greed and evil is not gone for good it will come back maybe in another form, but it will be back. The music of the pearl has been used through out the story in good and bad situations, when it begins to fade away I figured that it means that it is over and done with. The pearl has destroyed the small family and they are finally rid of it. The pearl has had a huge effect on the society because they have discovered what the greed and evil in a society can bring to a family like Kino's, but they know it will be back and when it is they can think of what it did to Kino and Juana and Coyotito and remember that it was an evil thing that destroyed them. Although the evil may be gone for the small family so is the hope and opportunity that they too could have a better life and I think that because Coyotito was killed and the pearl is gone they may never have the good life they hoped to have. The society that they live in may never be the same again.