The passages present arguments for and against voting rights for those convicted of a felony. Write a response analyzing the arguments in both passages and determining which argument is stronger. Use relevant and specific evidence from the passages to support your response. Take approximately 45 minutes to write your response. Be sure to plan, draft, and evaluate your writing.
Passage 1
Don't Disenfranchise Felons
As of 2010, an estimated 5.85 million U.S. citizens cannot vote because of a felony conviction. This is a horrific number, greater than the total population of Wisconsin. Twelve states deny voting rights to felons after prison, parole, and probation are over: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, lowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming. The laws in these states need to be reformed. No citizen should be denied voting rights after completing their prison sentence. It creates an unjust, permanent restriction. Once a citizen has completed a sentence, that person's rights should be reinstated. The U.S. justice system is far from perfect. While racial minorities make up approximately 30% of the U.S. population, they comprise 60% of the prison population. Disenfranchisement laws denying felons voting rights unjustly target minorities. As the Washington Poststated in the editorial "A Lifetime Sentence for Felonies"(July 29 ,20 ), "In Virginia, Kentucky and Florida, felon disenfranchisement affects a staggering one in five African Americans." A prison sentence is a term of rehabilitation determined by a court. At the end of this term, a felon has paid the debt that society dictated. Denying civil rights after this term is unfair and undemocratic. It is demoralizing to former felons, who can no longer fully participate in democracy. Felony disenfranchisement laws should be overturned.
Passage 2
Let States Decide about Felony Voting Rights
Felony voting rights are governed by state laws, and each state should be allowed to determine the best policy. Two states have no restrictions, and even felons in prison can vote. Twelve states have at least some restrictions after parole and probation. The majority of states fall somewhere in between. In each state, the voters and lawmakers have made a determination of appropriate voting rights. Opponents of voting rights restriction often state that almost 6 million American felons do not have the right to vote, but in truth, almost half of those people are still in prison. Most Americans agree that it is not unjust for felony prisoners to lose voting rights while in prison or on parole. State laws reflect this reasoned belief. States that maintain voting restrictions after parole are not unreasonable. In the February, 2013 National Review article "Eric Holder's Call for Felon Reenfranchisement." Roger Clegg, JD stated: "The right to vote can be restored, but it should be done carefully, on a case-by-case basis, once a person has shown that he or she has really turned over a new leaf." The completion of a sentence is not the same as rehabilitation. It should not necessarily mean an automatic lifting of reasonable restrictions. A felon has shown criminal judgment, and that is a rational reason for restricting voting rights.
When your talking with your friends, with your family, or with your colleagues, your speech and tone will change. When your with your friends and the most relaxed out of all of them being able to use some different more racy speech with them. Talking to your family you may be more relaxed but you still have to watch what you say. And talking to your colleagues you have to make sure you seem appropriate for your situation. Say you’re at work. Your co-worker May say something like “how was your day” instead of going into depth about it, naturally you just say “It was nice, how was yours” and then you both carry on with what your doing. In this general example it is just common curtesy. Now, say you’re at a charity event with your family. Your want to seem more proper, but also sociable and not stuck up. So people are more willing to talk to you about what is going on and share there opinion. There are many different way of speaking calmly, and appropriately in the social gathering you have attended.
I have no clue if you are allowed to use “you” but that’s the only way I could think of doing this. I don’t know if it’s up to par but I tried
Millicent is a girl of small stature, black hair and always dressed in red, has a great love of money, she always finds opportunities to do good business selling items or changing other objects. His idol is Scrooge McDuck, Uncle Donald, trying to find whenever visit his nephew Donald Duck.The author uses indirect characterization to describe how Millicent looks.Millicent would rather do a difficult thing she believes is right than the easy thing.Characters in this story are both static and dynamic, round and flat. Millicent: At first Millicent thinks she needs to be in the sorority in order to have friends and be in the "in" crowd, but later realizes she can do all these things all on her own if she just talks to people (dynamic).
