Personal Politics
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What interest did he/she have in politics over the years? Choose this Topic for different writing ideas at different points in his/her life to highlight how his/her political views and activities changed over time.
Was he/she interested in politics as a teenager?
- Where did his/her political interest begin? Did he/she take a class or have a family that discussed politics often?
- Did he/she begin voting as soon as he/she could? Which election did he/she fist vote in? Did his/her candidate win?
- Did he/she have a favorite political personality, such as a president or senator? Why did he/she look up to this person? What influence did they have on him?
- Was he/she involved in school government? Did he/she run for student council or another office? Why or why not?
- What influenced his/her political views when he/she was young? How did they change as he/she matured? Did he/she become less idealistic about what government could accomplish?
Was he/she interested in politics as a young adult?
- What political views did people of his/her age group hold in this era? Did he/she agree with them? Why or why not?
- What was his/her political affiliation? Did he/she always vote for a particular party's candidates? Why did he/she agree with their ideas?
- Did he/she begin voting at this point in time? Why or why not? Was he/she not interested? Was he/she not legally allowed? Did this change over time?
- Did he/she have a favorite political personality, such as a president or senator? Why did he/she look up to this person? What influence did they have on him?
- Did he/she belong to any political organizations? Which ones? What activities was he/she involved in?
- Did he/she run for an office such as city or town council? What were the results?
- Was he/she an armchair politician? Did he/she enjoy talking about politics with others? Did he/she have solutions to the nation's problems?
- What did he/she believe were the government's responsibilities to its citizens? What kinds of limits should the government have on itself?
Was he/she interested in politics as an adult?
- What political views did people of his/her age group hold in this era? Did he/she agree with them? Why or why not?
- What was his/her political affiliation? If he/she voted did he/she always vote for a particular party's candidates? Why did he/she agree with their ideas?
- Did he/she have a favorite political personality, such as a president or senator? Why did he/she look up to this person? What influence did they have on him?
- Did he/she belong to any political organizations? Which ones? What activities was he/she involved in?
- Did he/she run for an office such as city or town council? What were the results?
- Was he/she an armchair politician? Did he/she enjoy talking about politics with others? Did he/she have solutions to the nation's problems?
- What did he/she believe were the government's responsibilities to its citizens? What kinds of limits should the government have on itself?
- Did his/her political views change over the years? In which direction did they change? Why did they change? Did a specific event influence his/her views?
Was he/she interested in politics in his/her senior years?
- What political views did people of his/her age group hold in this era? Did he/she agree with them? Why or why not?
- Did the political views of people of his/her generation differ greatly from those of the younger generations?
- What was his/her political affiliation? If he/she voted did he/she always vote for a particular party's candidates? Why did he/she agree with their ideas?
- Did he/she have a favorite political personality, such as a president or senator? Why did he/she look up to this person? What influence did they have on him?
- Did he/she belong to any political organizations? Which ones? What activities was he/she involved in?
- Did he/she run for an office such as city or town council? What were the results?
- Was he/she an armchair politician? Did he/she enjoy talking about politics with others? Did he/she have solutions to the nation's problems?
- What did he/she believe were the government's responsibilities to its citizens? What kinds of limits should the government have on itself?
- Did his/her political views change over the years? In which direction did they change? Why did they change? Did a specific event influence his/her views?