Week 8 Comprehensive Assignment

After reviewing my work for this course, especially my first few assignments, it becomes evident that I am cynical as I do not trust large governmental entities. In actuality, it would be appropriate to say that I do not respond well to any authority. Additionally, it is evident that I am a socially conservative individual, looking at my last comprehensive assignment. My satire towards the purposefulness of gay marriages clearly indicates my conservative nature. This nature is mirrored in my fiscal and political leanings. I am very against the continuation of our national deficit and the accumulation of a national debt.

Unit 6 Blog

After reading a piece of gun legislation, I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that I did not disagree with what the content of the legislation. The Bills were about a reform and improvement of the functionality of the National Instant Criminal Backgorund Check System. This bill was only about improving functionality, and not about increasing the control of the government. After emailing both my senators and members of the House, I never recieved a reply, which makes me wonder if they actually read the correspondences. I will continue to practice my duty as a responsible, informed citizen and provide my input to the men and women that we elect.

Unit 7

This cartoon points out the inability of homosexual marriages to further the human race through procreation. People of the same gender cannot consent to sexual acts with one another and expect to reproduce children.

It should be noted that there is a rainbow color theme in this cartoon, a door hanger that warns "Do Not Enter", and that these two men are on their honeymoon. The "Do Not Enter" hanger indicates homosexual marriage should not be entered into as it is in a taboo area.

Week 5 Comprehensive Assignment

Week 5 Comprehensive Assignment

I look at the list
I realize I'll swing and miss
Is there even a point?

I hit submit
where does it even go?
Does anyone actually know?

Ive heard the electoral college
But of this I have no knowledge
Who picks the professors?
Who submits my work?

It is said that electors give the electoral votes
But the people do not elect the electors
so who knows that I even help elect who I select

 should i just give up
there was no point in me leaving my house
i should have just stayed at home knowing i was a louse.


This poem explores a voter's curiosity into the American Electoral College and the defeat that the voter feels when an answer cannot be derived. The poem asks questions that point toward tyrannical ideas voters try not to contemplate for long, as the answers can easily depress the voters. I exhibit this in the poem both through what I say and through the grammatical conventions that I employ. I begin to stop capitalizing the first word of every line, which is a habit that I see as being lazy or communicating, "I don't care." Additionally, I stop using punctuation at the end of the sentences or in conjunctions. It is not until I feel truly defeated at the end of the poem that I employ a period, which indicates that I am forever done with voting in the political system as I do not believe there is a point in me continuing to vote.