<p>Prompt: Many people believe that our government should do more to solve our problems. After all, how can one individual create more jobs or make roads safer or improve the schools or help to provide any of the other benefits that we have come to enjoy? And yet expecting that the government - rather than individuals - should always come up with the solutions to society's ills may have made us less self-reliant, undermining our independence and self-sufficiency.</p>
<p>Assignment: Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>Although several people believe that the government needs to take action in improving our nation as a whole, one must realize that the government is run by people just like them. Thus the people need to become more responsible in maintaining their nation and improving it to prepare their nation for the future. Several actions, from small to big, from helping to clean streets to planning a construction project can be taken to make this happen.</p>
<p>The actions of the people are what count most for improving a nation such as the United States as a whole. Just one seemingly small action such as a desire to keep air cleaner could lead to a big movement to help the environment. This could include large-scale research projects or small movements in communities to arouse awareness of helping the environment in others. Another example of this would be an issue going on in a community one has thought of that nobody else has thought of. In a community, only so many issues exist that officials would probably only think about the most serious and apparent problems. A seemingly small, yet serious problem, could only be addressed if one were to voice their opinion regarding this problem to a local official and get it on the agenda at a town meeting. The solutions to issues that can affect our nation thus aren't only dependent on local/state governments, let alone the federal government. They are mostly dependent on us, as citizens, to voice our opinions about their seriousness in the first place.</p>
<p>Currently several problems exist in our nation including unemployment, infrastructure problems, and environmental issues. Although our government is well aware of such issues, we need to take steps ourselves to solve such issues. Actions can be small scale, such as keeping trash off natural lands to large scale such as planning a construction project and creating jobs.</p>