The Use of Quotations and Paraphrases in Youth Voting

The paper I chose to read was written by Jeffrey Bivin who talked about the issue of youth voting. This paper explains the reasons why most young citizens are disconnected from political area.
In this paper, the writer uses a lot of paraphrases and quotations to support his main ideas of the paper. One of the most successful paraphrases I think is “Voter turnout for those aged 18-24 reached a record low of 28% during 1996 presidential election (Delli Carpini 342)”. The sentence I just mentioned appears in the second paragraph of the paper. Here, the writer wants to catch readers’ attention because most readers will be surprised when they learn most young people in the U.S.A. do not care about the most important vote--- the presidential election.
For explaining the reasons why young citizens do not involve voting, the writer uses three quotations to explain. One of the three quotations is “Additionally, youth are “Less likely to read a newspaper or watch the news. Thirsty-six percent of young adults…say they follow the news every day, as compared with 52% of those between…30 and 45” (Delli Carpini 342)”. Here, the writer just wants to use a truth to tell the readers that young people do not focus on the news. However, I do not really the way he explains here because he uses a lot of quotations in one paragraph. However, I have to say that I can understand his idea here very well. Thus, it is a good example of using quotations.
Form my own perspective, the writer uses quotations and paraphrases very well because he tries to catch his readers’ attention step by step. Such as, he uses a paraphrase which has figures to attract. Later, he uses many quotations to explain the reasons why young citizens do not like voting. In addition, the writer also uses paraphrases and quotations to talk about the older people’s view about the issue of voting. Here, the writer wants to use the different views to highlight young voters’ value about voting.
All in all, this is a really good paper because the writer uses limited sources to explain his idea effectively.

We should Be Wlear When We Study History!!!

In fact, I am a person who does not support wars, so I never focus on the issue of wars and the history of wars. Thus, this topic is a little bit tough for me. However, China has a long history. I guess I can pick up some famous instances to develop my topic.
In the ancient time, there was a rule that the current dynasty must write the history of previous dynasty. Not only did the current dynasty recover the history, but also the dynasty wanted to use it to alert its emperors that did not lose their countries in the same way as the last previous emperor of the last dynasty. I have to say that the real history has not been recovered totally because the winner writers wanted to show off their remarkable histories. They might highlight their positive aspects; however, the shameful aspects may be covered as the same time. They never mention how many people they killed for gaining the country. They never focus on the issue which how many innocent women were violated by their soldiers. However, the loser writers always claim how terrible the current dynasty is. For example, Taiwan’s Kuomintang, the most powerful party in Taiwan, often claims that the Communist party of China did nothing for fighting against the Japanese Army during World War II. Actually, the Kuomintang tells the truth because the Communist party of China had no weapons to fight at that time. However, the Communist party of China amazingly won the Kuomintang and established new China in 1949. As we can imagine that the party of China never admits the real history. In our history books, they tell students that the party fought for a lot battles for fighting against the Japanese.
History is always a controversial issue. We cannot change the so-called real history, but I hope people can be clear when they study it.