After reading a first-person account of a fictional fellow student's experience of overcoming obstacles to vote, university students were subsequently more likely to vote in a presidential primary election. this best illustrates the impact of:

Awareness can begin for many different forms but empathy cannot exist first without it. In this case of the students, they came across an article that before it existed to them its message was unknown in their world. After reading the passage the value of voting clearly came from a level of empathy based on the obstacles the writer had over come. These students clearly had an open mind to begin. The thoughts in their mind may have been something in the realm of " This person nearly died for the right for something I can do at ease", " I would be irresponsible to not take advantage of my rights" and so on. We all live off of the backs of those in the past rather positive or negatively and those with an open mind more than likely will rise to the occasion.