An Acadeca essay I wrote that was rather compelling. Basically, we got a prompt to write an essay on, we had to use all of our skills to write a full essay in 50 minutes with no preparations or aid of any kind. This is mine for the state competition.

Finally, an important U. S. representative has visited Myanmar (Burma) where she is presently meeting with members of that country’s military dictatorship.

A commentary on forced sterilization in North Carolina.

Second Amendment Rights in Jeopardy.

The world news bomb today: Colonel Gadhaffi was shot to death today.

Governments seem to be very keen to go to war these days – especially against us, the people who elected them. We have had the war on smoking, the war on carbon dioxide, the war on anti social behaviour and the war on drugs. The war on alcohol is in full swing, now they are talking about a war on obesity.
And what is the purpose of these wars? An excuse to raise taxes of course. A fat tax is one of the poroposals being considered.

A look into what tyrannical actions our government participates in.

The man behind the myth of Dracula, and the tactics he used to rule until his death.

Are we losing our rights. The government is making decisions about my life that affects nobody else. Why do we let the government do this?

Karl Marx, philosopher, historian and revolutionary viewed all of history as a progression. First the rise of the middle class and the economic influences that facilitated the rise of the "intelligencia". Now, the rise of the "proletariat" or workers, based on similar economic factors. Culminating in Marx’s stateless, classless society. Within this transition, Democracy would facilitate the proletariat. A united working class, both in culture and identity, would always sway a real democracy in its favor. This stage is called the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat".