Rock the Vote recently held a call out to recruit a number of correspondents to Rock the Trail. As part of the application, I had to write a series of essays and produce a two-to-four minute video package on Our World: My Country as I see it. This is the piece that I put together with a musical backing that I added after posting my original application (the music is from Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I which has been released for free, but I m not sure if the rights include using the tracks in other media and I didn t want to send MTV an entry that possibly infringes on any copyrights). My 300 word essay on Sustaining young voter participation beyond 2008 is after the break (more )
