This object represents my parents' stickers they received from the 2016 presidential election. After both my parents had voted they received an “I VOTED” sticker and I had stuck a bunch of them all over my notebook. I was eight years old and pretty uneducated when it came to politics; however; I agreed with whatever my parents and family believed in because those values were the only thing I was ever truly exposed to. These ‘I voted’ stickers that I stuck to the bottom of my notebook represent the biases and personal knowledge I believe we all carry from a young age. When I was eight years old I couldn't entirely grasp the concept of what the values and morals consisted of in a democratic party or a republican one. I believe our biases stay with us our whole lives until they are forced to change through new experiences. Even now 9 years later I am 17 years old and I still agree with the political views my parents have and I have grown into learning more about politics and my values have not changed much. This experience is personal knowledge because not everyone shares the same experiences, beliefs, and backgrounds. I have grown from this because I'm now able to differentiate how I know things and if it's because of knowledge that everyone was exposed to or knowledge that was personal to my life and my upbringing. 

– Sadie Gibberd

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