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Op-Ed student blog 5

 Is distraction self inflicted? The process of reclaiming attention  In today’s world, as a society we have been built on being reliant and comfortable within the hands of everything being easily accessible. Imagining day to day life without a phone in sight seems unrealistic and slightly comical. Too much of anything can’t be good, and this is shown in the overuse of technology, in teenagers lives. These effects trickle into necessary tasks that come with getting older and entering early adulthood.  When the need for genuine human connection and conversation is taken away it become tricky to have a want for it anymore. There are key fundamental skills in having a face to face interaction, such as social cues, the practice of expressing emotions, and gaining opportunities through active listening. These skills are stripped away from upcoming generations, teenagers, and young adults. The distraction from real world problems is now enhanced!!  Addicted to distraction ...
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Op-Ed 4 (Lexi)

Alexcia Scheinman  Op-Ed 4:  https://share.google/G6n3p5EUuXQDUog4T https://share.google/xaul1rmERU2xRzBxO    Are you aware that what you are consuming daily is subconsciously leading you to a negative bias and making you close minded?    The media has led people to join groups and mindsets that revolve around stereotypes, extremely negative ones at that. Individuals that often are stereotyped upon are black Americans, particularly black men.   There are heavy weighted stigmatism’s around men, as well as people of color. When there is a man of color, discrimination and stereotypes are wrong enforced.   This is a cycle that continues on and continues to reinforce inequality and injustice. This cycle is not being broken, because of the daily media, film, television, and music. These so-called outlets fuel fear and create anxiety to individuals who believe said stereotypes and are surrounded by stereotypes.    What the media portrays, what ...
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Lexis Op-Ed 3

Alexcia Scheinman  9/23/25 Op-Ed 3 The left wing and the right wing have one thing in common, the problems that they have in the country that they share.  Where is the common ground?  Politics are originated to gain and hold. These two words carry a lot of power in a government. Politics can influence and provide an outlet to make decisions. When voting for a president, the vote can remain anonymous if chosen to do so. The feeling of your opinion, remaining anonymous can make a decision easier, but can also cause for less thinking revolving around the decision. On the flip-side, your opinion on who you choose to vote for can be vocalized as loudly as you would like.  Civil liberties provides us with the stability and access to basic human rights and guaranteed freedom. On paper, civil liberties allows for the ability for people to have their own opinions, and should remove heavy sense of judgment.  Individuals have the human right to participate in political and...
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Lexi’s Op-Ed 2

Alexcia Scheinman  Checks and Balances  Corner stone, Choreographed, Constant remains of American democracy. In other words, an accurate describition of the format and system of checks and balances.  Checks and balances is deep rooted, mostly out of fear of concentrated power.  Checks and balances revolves around three branches of government, those being legislative, executive, and judicial. In hopes to prevent any one of them becoming more powerful than the other.  Checks and balances is a structure of the U.S government, the main main purpose being and should be protecting citizens rights and liberties. Each branch of government has certain factors that contribute to protecting and controlled right.  The legislative branch has the power to impeach, remove the current president in office of federal judges, pass certain laws, override presidential vetos, and control the budget. The executive branch has the power to veto laws passed by congress, appoint fede...
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Lexus Op-Ed, The voting age should be changed.

Alexcia Scheinman 9/1/25 Why the voting age should be 25 and NOT 18:  Following what you know, gaining control, clinging onto the familiar, and often straying from the peculiar.   A few short words provided, that distinctly describe adolescence.    Parents have the impact to sway and children have the power, amongst a certain age to stray.   When teenagers stray, the information that has been collected from people they have been surrounded by still remains. This is overlooked when power given to teenagers is greater than their individual knowledge.  This is why I believe the voting age should be changed to 25. The article titled, Parents attitudes and beliefs : “Their impact on children’s development”, from the encyclopedia on early childhood development goes into detail about the emotional regulation given by parents, often naturally, and how parents attitudes and beliefs are contagious to teenagers who haven’t been given the amount of time to cr...
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