APATHY

"Enculturated" is a term I use to describe how the majority in the public have become. It's about an apathy toward misplaced priorities. My articles are meant to shake you out of that apathy and make you think about what is important in life.

Is Canada still a democracy? We are superficially, but there are warning signs that apathy is threatening our heritage.

I was considered to be in the bystander apathy effect because I believed that the other observers would have done something to aid the victims involved in the car crash.

A whole generations of minds are being destroyed by apathy, indifference, and complacency. Generations X and Y have little regard for social progress and spend more time complaining and placating themselves than thinking about and working for change.

An opinion paper on the issues facing our society in America, and much of the free world.

This is a poem about apathy.

Bystander apathy is what happens when we fail to help someone who is an emergency situation. Are we in shock, too busy, or simply do not care? This paper explores the possible reasons behind this phenomenon and what we can do to avoid it.

The statistics are staggering in the case of voter apathy. Although the right to vote is one of the American citizen's most treasured rights, there exists in our country millions of non-voters.

Voter apathy is an understandable thought yet can be very dangerous at the same time. The biggest effect that voter apathy presents is the lack of voter turnout at the polls.

A look at Bystander Apathy, what it is and how to stop yourself from doing it!

How will the theft of ALL personal information from the Davidson County Election Commission affect voter regsitration, voter turn-out, and voter "apathy" in the upcoming election? Will people still register to vote bbefore tomorrow's deadline? (Nashville, TN)

This is an article describing the philosophy of optimism/selective apathy

There can be no doubt that apathy as a result of the mass media has increased in this age of entertainment. As more and more students are educated in a culture that has become exponentially more reliant on the internet, it is likely that apathy will begin to diminish.

A movie review of David Fincher's "Se7en" starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.

One upon a time, I wore clothes for style and comfort whereas now only for comfort. Am I getting older or just apathetic?

In reaction to a news article, the realization that emotions in people with "mental illness" can be subdued to a life threatening impairment, spurs revelation and education.

The Deputy Sheriff's Association vote comes light, numbers and all to give us a little more insight to the situation, but not much.

Has this epidemic been forgotten?

Certainly we see this example of oppression and censorship through our own western eyes. Our concern in the United States is mainly centered on cheap Chinese products and creating a world much like our own country.

We all have experienced the student that doesn't belong or doesn't wish to be there. Yet, that person shows up everyday, and on time even. Do they simply arrive to make your day a living hell? Perhaps additional reasons should become a motivater for teachers.

1972 was the first time those 18 and over could vote. That year, 50% of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots, according to American- Demographics magazine. That number is astounding, considering in 2000, only 32% cast their vote.

Why did roughly 40% of eligible voters fail to exercise their franchise on Election Day?

Bill Cosby has me thinking

Too many Americans feel that politics are not important to their lives.

College students have a bad reputation for being apathetic when it comes to politics. Obama's candidacy was supposed to change all that, but on my campus the status quo still reigns supreme. This article explains how politics become irrelevant.

Written in the Spring of 2005, this is what the Mitchell Report would tell us two years later

If the typical number of registered voters who stay home during most election cycles got out and voted, they would decide the outcome in most elections

Voter Apathy is a far bigger problem than people realize, and if we want to keep living comfortably in a nation with values that we believe in and trust, we have to wake up.

In response to recent comments by Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, a retrospective on republican policies over the last eight years that expanded executive power in the US.

"What title have you got in heart breaking, a BA or MA?" That sarcastic remark she added in such apathy that quite astonished him, while she kept scrutinizing his face with a stern look of her green eyes.

Apathy is so dangerous for everyone. This is a write to say how the good can come and why it should.

Love is gained through kindness and persistence, love is lost through apathy and selfishness.

Apathy can creep up on us and, seemingly by stealth, rob us of dreams and ambition. Only when we rediscover discontent do we start to step into hope and live. It is in that rediscovery of discontent that the challenge lies.

We once again need the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Perhaps, this collective will has been exercised by Obama winning the nomination. If he is elected he may turn the tide against the arrogance of the ruler and the apathy of the ruled.