For a while now, I’ve always noticed that countries with totalitarian Governments like the Soviet Union and North Korea,...
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The Negative Effects of the Death Penalty
There is a lot of statistical evidence as to why abolishing the death penalty can be good for society....
To Leave or Not to Leave

Immigration and refuge have always been part of America’s history. There is not a person in the US that...
Uplifting All Minorities
American values include the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of The Black...
How does Literacy affect people’s lives?
The book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich takes you into the everyday life of lower income families and...
How The Green Mile Exposes What’s Wrong With the Death Penalty in America
The Green Mile by Stephen King is a book about death, both in life and on death row in...
The American Dream and Social Equality
The U.S. has long been known as a country with a perfect constitution providing liberty, equality, and the pursuit...
School Funding For Low Income Schools
Money has been misplaced in communities that are high income. Schools in the mid/low-income community are suffering due to...
Reflection of My Digital Activism Project
Hi, my name is Rachel. From the span of February to my group and I had to find a...
Marijuana Project

Hello everyone! Me and my classmates recently created a project about Marijuana, that proved to be widely successful. Our...
My Multimedia Presentation
I have completed a presentation about why planned parenthood clinics should not be shut down. This presentation is a...
Skin Color
Are colored people given a fair chance in our world? Or does their colored skin speak out for them?...
Digital Activism Topic
I want to fight for better LGBTQ healthcare. Prejudice and discrimination is everywhere but when it endangers someone’s life, it is unacceptable. I have friends in the LGBTQ community and they should...
Poverty In New York City
This video was created by me and I discussed poverty rates in New York City. The rates are increasing...
Social and Economic Inequality
In our society today and especially all over the world; there has been a deeply concerning problem with the...
College Admissions: Discriminatory Affirmative Action?
Around this time every year high school seniors all around the world are hearing back from the colleges they...
Have you ever walked around town and lookedObserved how people actHow they are as a personWhat they do in...
“Experts estimate that 50 to 100 girls, many of them underage, line the city’s International Boulevard each night” (Logue)....
Diego Casillas Ms. Portugal Humanities December 21, 2018 Redlining is Present Imagine a game. A game with a...
Oakland
Oakland Oakland is a sanctuary city which means it helps protect immigrants from deportation. This is good because...
Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep??

Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep?? Have you ever wondered why marijuana has such a big stigma?people...
Oakland is becoming unrecognizable
Calvin Dao Humanities 9 Ms. Portugal 12/21/18 Oakland is becoming Unrecognizable because of Gentrification Recently Oakland has been...
Why do we cast out those different than us?
The overall issue of accepting those who are different than us has been around for a while now. We...
Income Inequality
As our generation begin to enter society fully as adults, we face a large number of societal problems, some...
School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Labeling Theory, Socialization
The Labeling Theory states that individuals “behave in ways that reflect how others label them” (Crossman). For example, if...
I believe people shouldn’t be judged or treated differently because of their skin color. You shouldn’t feel embarrassed because...
Rags to Riches

My independent reading book, The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball’s Greatest Players by Clayton Geoffreys, talks about LeBron...
What Defines Us As American?
One thing that defines people as American is freedom of choice. America is built upon the idea that...
Police Brutality in Our Country
The fictional novel, All American Boys, written by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, focuses on the topic of police...
One American value that always seems to show up when talking about these things is equality. So why is...
What Values Define the People of America?
There has been a lot of discussion about what “American Values” are. What the things are that make us...
Dress codes were first implemented in America during the 1960’s when most families began to make enough money to...
Policing Immigration
Immigration may well be the hottest issue in the United States today. Some people want to build physical walls...
Economist Alan B. Krueger (2012) writes that “the rise in inequality in the United States over the last three...
I think that robots will one day take over the world and we need to put a stop to...
I think that robots will one day take over the world and we need to put a stop to...
Everyone should be EQUAL: The message of “This Is America”
I believe the video “This Is America,” by Childish Gambino represents how America is today in 2018. This...
Feedback request on Human Trafficking thesis :)
Dear Youth Voices Community, My name is Bladimir Gallegos and I am a Junior at Fremont high-school. I feel...
Foster Care System (Can I get feedback on my thesis statement)
Dear Youth Voices Community, Hello, my name is Christy-Lynn Lagula. I am 16 years old and I am an...
What It Meant and Still Means To Be American; White
For the larger part of American History, to be an American meant to be white and to view those...
The MeToo Movement
The MeToo movement sparked my interest because of how it is revolutionizing the way we talk about sexual violence...
Women = Men
The issue of sexism is a very relevant issue today. It is a very broad issue, and there are...
Racial Stereotyping and Profiling
Unit 3 Project Well, I focused on racial stereotyping and profiling for my project. Although the issue doesn’t directly...
Middle East: The Opression of its Women
The issue that is discussed in the video is the oppression of women residing in the Middle East. I’m...
LGBTQIA+ : Respect is the Gay Agenda
The LGBTQIA+ movement has become more well known throughout America. This movement fights for more acceptance of those in...
The issue I am discussing in my video are the Myanmar refugees. They are a group of refugees from...
Racial Discrimination and Gender Inequality
Too many people are being treated poorly and unfairly because of their skin color or because of their gender....
Discrimination in the Job Industry
The issue iIfocused on was discrimination in the job industry. The focus was more on pay and hiring...
Unequal Pay
Unequal pay has been a severe conflict since forever. Many people thought that by 2018, this would not be...
Workplace Discrimination for the LGBTQ+ Community
The issue I discussed about was the LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination. I am passionate about this issue because I believe...
Education: A Right for All Girls
Link to Video: 14CD7A4D-51F8-4ED0-9945-83CA7D744032 I first found out about the lack of girl’s education in developing countries by reading...
I am passionate about the gender pay gap because it is an issue that affects the economic bridge between...
I am passionate about sexism because I have seen so many women put through so many horrible things. There...
The Problem that is Wealth Disparity in America
The issue of discussion is wealth disparity in America. The passion for this issue comes from seeing the effect the problem...
Students S(it)tanding Together

On March 14, 2018, students all across the country walked out of their schools at 10:00 AM in order...
“Legal Good, Illegal Bad”
Recently in the news, we have seen a lot about the arguments between parties and members in the same...
How much do you expect to be paid once you are hired for a job? According to the federal...
Confronting Illegal Immigration to Make It Easier for the U.S. and It’s Immigrants
In order to confront immigration and it’s problems, we must identify why most illegal immigrants come to the U.S....
The Misconceptions of Illegal Immigration
In my recent research for my topic on whether or not illegal immigration benefits society, I found a few...
The Price of Being a Woman in Prison
In the United States of America, even the toughest criminals have basic rights protected by our country’s Constitution. The...
“Is Illegal Immigration an Economic Burden to America?”
I read a few fascinating articles on how illegal immigration into the U.S. has many benefits, which is what...
Are We Setting Up Our Students for Success or Failure?
“Nearly half (49%) of all students reported feeling ‘a great deal of stress’ on a daily basis and 31...
Oakland’s Police Department Untold Story

Oakland’s Police Department Untold Side “Did you know that African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be...
Changes
You may have thought I didn’t see, Or that I haven’t listened to your problems or lectures you’ve taught me...
A Letter to the Policeman
My people don’t like you badge wearing knuckleheads, that’s just where we at. Screaming “ All lives matter “...
DACA
DACA is an acronym that stands for the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals. It is a program put into place during the...
“China plans to implement a social credit system by 2020”. In short, every one of the 1.3 billion citizens...
Injustices of United States’ War on Drugs.
The war on drugs, the supposed “public enemy number one”, established under the Nixon administration and intensified under Reagan...
The Achievement Gap
The achievement gap is the measurable disparity of the socioeconomic statuses and educational performance of different groups of people...
The Juvenile Justice System: Deeply Flawed
In privileged communities across America, the phrase “kids are the future” is sung to remind children that they matter....
Is Immigration into the U.S. an Actual Problem?
There is a rise in immigration into the United States, and there has been in years’ past. With Trump’s...
Adultification of Black Babes
Are Black Children Forced to Grow Up Faster Than White Children YES Black kids are forced to grow up...
Is Monogamy Natural for Humans?
It seems strange to question this social norm we as human beings have conformed to for the majority of...
What is happening to America?
What is happening to America? In the past few decades, our country and all of its inhabitants have made...
Not Allowed To Fight For Our Rights?
I feel like the athletes that are kneeling during the national anthem are right as far as the motive...
The Hired Girl and American Values- Are They Connected?

The Hired Girl, by Laura Amy Schlitz is a perfect example of how American values are different for each...
History passed, but discrimination hasn’t
Recently, I have noticed that certain parts of society still have a hesitancy to accept people that are “different”...
Kneel Down to take a Stand
As Americans we have a lot of freedom. One of those freedoms being to peacefully protest. Kneeling during the...
Why Should Expressing Your Beliefs Come At A Cost?
Rather people should kneel during the national anthem or not should not be the question. The question should be,...
Dear Leaders of America
Dear Leaders of America, As we all know the United States of America is a great country, however we...
Are Americans Living the American Dream?
All Americans should have freedom, equality and rights. Many people moved to America to live the American Dream. But...
Requests and Reflection after Charlottesville
Dear Leaders of America, My name is Amanda. I grew up just off of Lake Saint Clair in the...
The Lower the Social Class, the Lower the Opportunities
Think of all the inspiring movies you know about a rags to riches story; Someone that came from nothing...
Do people congregate with people who are like them?
The Telegraph states that, “Earlier research revealed that the lower portion of a brain region called the “medial prefrontal...
Asian American Activism
High School textbooks don’t have anything on Asian Americans during the civil rights era. There were a lot of...
Learning From the Past
As a society, we have failed to learn from our past mistakes. We are still repeating the past, in...
Every year, we get closer and closer to true equality. Wages are going up for minority races and for...
While radical free choice is not something kids get often during the school year, this question remains broad enough...
Neocolonialism in Africa
To Whomever Cares to Listen, “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third power,”...
Hunger Media Through Memes
These are memes that Tuan and I made about hunger stats and people starting to care about the topic....
Causes of Hunger
Food is the most important resource other than water for us, humans. We need food to survive through each...
Education Reform
In today’s society it seems that getting an education is necessary and inevitable. The law tells minors that we...
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