<p>Prompt: Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general?</p>
<p>Essay:</p>
<p>People fight for freedom. From the uprisings in Egypt to the conflicts over the Gaza strip, there is no middleground. Yet as freedoms are gathered, people begin to lack the initial fire by which they were driven in the first place. It is this action or rather lack thereof that is the root of all problems we face in the world today and it is almost incontrovertible fact that private or individual action precipitates in changes that are unprecedented and often for the better.</p>
<p>Take for example the masses of the United States of America--the electorate to be more specific. The government instills in the population all the power it needs to create change, and yet still we see shockingly low voter turnouts. Just in 2008, we experienced a 64% voter-turnout. This translates to approximately 120 million individuals who complain incessantly about the apparent problems that plague their lives yet refuse to take even the simplest action towards change.</p>
<p>Just a century earlier, we experienced perhaps one of the most dreadful processes to ever take place in history stand without opposition--the holocaust. Hundreds of millions of jews were persecuted due to the sole fact that they were of a certain heredity. Though it was brutal and though millions oppossed such actions, inaction pervaded through the hearts of civilians. They refused to take action because they were intimidated by the threats Adolf and the Nazi Party attempted to instill. Had the sympathetic Germans and the empathetic Jews banded together there would have been at the very least a largely significant change in the outcome--one that we could be more proud of.</p>
<p>Yet individual action is not limited to the reformation of heinous crimes. Harry Kai stands as an individual who stands at the front of a line of citizens who have propelled the human race into the golden technological age. His advancements in the development of exoskeletons has allowed hundreds of test individuals who were previously unable to even walk to be able to run with their grandchildren and lift heavy objects. </p>
<p>Truly there is no lack of individual in the world today, but there certainly is no surfeit. Every single individual can make a difference--whether it be preventing harms or creating goods.</p>
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<p>Upon reading this, it seems really REALLY bad... Nonetheless, let me know how it would rank. All feedback is greatly appreciated!</p>
it’s too bad the regular essay readers can’t spare their summers :P</p>