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Loss Of Freedom Through Apathy - College Papers

Loss Of Freedom Through Apathy

We do have freedom in this country but we simply choose to ignore it. We live
in a democracy, the most just kind of government, where we the people hold
supreme power. It is an institution that is a culmination of revolutions, wars,
philosophies and heroes. It is the greatest and proudest government in the
world. One reason for this is that Americans have a right citizens of Iraq and
China and North Korea only dreamed they could have. It took one of the greatest
military epics in history for our Founding Fathers to receive this right. It
took the marching of thousands for women to achieve this right. It took 400
years of abuse for blacks to finally to win this right. It is the ...

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my hours made me feel
like I was part of something important.

Mostly my work consisted of random polling. I would call people up between the
hours of 7 and 9 P.M. and ask them a few questions about the election. With
every call I hoped for the best, but it seemed that I was calling people at the
time they were most irritable. Most would simply hang up, leaving with a polite
"Oh, I'm not interested." Others acted militantly to my calling, slamming the
phone in disgust. It startled and in a way disheartened me, the way many of the
people I polled seemed totally apathetic to the political world around us. To
me, spending a minute answering questions about the future of politics did not
seem like too much to ask at all. Yet it continued.

"Hello I'm calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. I'd like to ask
a few questions."

"I'm sorry I'm really busy right now. I can't talk." *click

"Hello I'm calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. I'd ...

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Added: 1/17/2005 10:14:58 AM
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 967
Pages: 4

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