Article "Civics Lesson for Students in Vote Drive" <http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20021104monday.html>

Dear Sir{1}

I have read with interest the article "Civics Lesson for Students in Vote Drive", which appeared in your magazineWChoice on November 4, 2002. Since you touchesAgreement on a very serious problem, I would like to add my comments on topicArt.

I very much appreciate the idea of nationwide activities with the aim of convincing young people to vote in elections. Unfortunately, it is a large and evident problem that the young partWChoice of the population is veryWChoice little interested in the field of politics. This fact does not seem to be a phenomenon occurring only in the US. I have the impression that a similar political inactivity among young people can be found alsoWOrder in many European countries.

I fully agree with the author of the article concerning the necessity of early political education in schools. People who are responsible for the education of the young generation, such as parents and teachers, should start to provide young people with information on politics as early as possible. Only thatWChoice can we hope for satisfactory results. Therefore, an accordingWChoice civics curriculum in schools is a good idea, provided that the information and education is offered in a neutral anSp impartial manner. Moreover, school education should especiallyWOrder driveWChoice the kids' attention to the serious problem of the increasing number of non-voters and point out the consequences of such a development for the future.

At the same time, all adults should be aware of their function as role models for the young generation. Children and kids often imitate theirWChoice behaviour which they observe around them. Such anCount/Non-Count imitation may also be inconsciousWForm. Thus, adults should give an example ofWChoice their political awareness. Otherwise, there is no use ofPreposition trying to convince the kids that it is important to participate in the political fieldWChoice and then not to vote yourselfSentStr. That is not a convincing methodCollocation at all.

Furthermore, politicians could also contribute a lot to the improvement of the present situation. Firstly, they should try to represent their voters' interests more effectively than itGrammar has been the case byPreposition now. Secondly, they also should create more opportunities to contact??? young people. Today, we have certain media, such as the Internet{***}Punct for instance, at our disposal, and thus politicians could easily stay in contact with young people and find out about their fears, opinions, ambitions and plans. Only than will politicians be able to represent young people and gain their trust.

Finally, nobody should forget that the kids of today are the adults of tomorrow. Therefore, all possible steps toward a compete education of the young generation should be taken. They should be able to make their own choices and influence politics in aWChoice way they want, and thus to be able to improve their future living conditions. (20.5 x 100 / 463 = 4.4%)

Sincerely,

2. Translation (~200 words) www.mdmorrissey.com/Massive-3

The antisocial and irrational activity of the capitalist market s evenMissingW {***}WChoice reinforced by obvious criminality. Kenneth Lay's (Enron) robberies are today well-known in California. But similar activities contributed to the present blackout.

On Friday, the "Wall Street Journal", certainly not a opponent of the free market, wrote: "At the beginning of this year, the head of the North-American Energy Reliability Council (NERC), which was founded after the blackout in 1965, warned the Congress that it had observed andSp increasing number of cases and more serious casesPunct in which rules had been broken, while the economic and political pressure on electricity providers was growing and power providers split up their functions."SentStr {***}???

The population of California, the US, and more and more of the whole world is paying for the deactivation of earlier public controls and regulation of theArt capital. The break-down of the capitalist system in the 1930s convinceVForm the far-sighted representatives of theArt US-Punctcapital that a certain gradeWChoice of control of operations of industrial monopolsWForm and banks is necessary to protect the profit system ofPreposition its own destructive impulses and the always present danger of a social revolution. That is why stateWChoice authorities were introduced for the sectors:Omit railways, truck transport, banking, stock exchange, and radio and TV. (208)

Total: 31.5 x 100 / 671 = 4.7%