<p>Question: Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general? (419 words) </p>
<pre><code> People should take more responsibility in dealing with problems that affect the nation in general rather than their communities because the problems that affect a nation are often more widespread and foreboding. Several examples from history and literature strongly demonstrate this viewpoint.
The ratification of the U.S. Constitution demonstrated that people should be more responsible in dealing with national problems. After the United States freed itself from the manacles of the British in the American Revolution, American politicians had the duty of writing a constitution. The pre-cursor to the current Constitution, known as the Articles of Confederation, was too feeble to sustain a growing nation such as the United States. Too much political power was vested into state governments, as many citizens wanted direct control of the problems in their community. The Articles of Confederation caused drastic problems for the nation, as debts could not be paid off and the nation was losing the trust of foreign countries. Prominent politicians then convened in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 to write a new Constitution that would vest more political power in the national government, thereby allowing more national problems to be fixed. The new Constitution was a huge success and demonstrated clearly that if national problems were not corrected, individual communities would also be negatively affected.
The actions of Victor Frankenstein in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley also demonstrate that people should be more responsible dealing with problems that affect a nation in general. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein is a scientists who wishes to learn the secrets of life. Using human body parts, he concocts a monster that wreaks havoc on his community. The monster kills Victors brother and demands that Victor make him a spouse. If Victor complies, the monster vows to leave Victors community forever. Although Victor is tempted at first and initiates the project, he realizes that creating a spouse could impact the whole nation and wreak an immense amount of havoc, as the monsters could reproduce. Victor stops the project, knowing that he need to take more responsibility when dealing with problems that affect a much larger amount of people.
As demonstrated in history and literature, people should be more responsible when dealing with problems that affect a whole nation because problems that affect a nation usually affect a greater amount of people. Also, problems that affect a whole nation usually also directly affect smaller communities. As a venerated philosopher once said, The more you impact the whole, the more you impact its parts.
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