in class writing 10/06

I would like to talk about political issues that I feel very strongly about like gu control and limited government. I want to talk about these issues because I am very interested in them and feel that this interest will reflect positively in my writing as opposed to if I was writing about an issue I was interesting in.

An Issue I feel I need to talk about is the American Dream and to advocate how working hard and being shrewd and savvy allows people to transpose classes. Many times people who oppose capitalism or the American way of life often incite a false portrayal or it, establishing it to be a plutocracy, where people are more or less cemented in their socio-economic status. I would like to disrupt this false portrayal.

I think I should talk about the American dream to refute a common trend amongst many people in the Academic community, who tend to demonize it and portray it as seriously flawed. I feel it is much easier to disavow a lifestyle or economic structure when people are secure in it.

I can address these issues (the American dream) by telling the story of my family and how they were able to rise up from poverty through the means of hard work and determination, ultimately establishing a comfortable life for themselves and their family. I could also use my life how I am working full time and going to school full time to help set up a more financially comfortable future. I look up to my dad’s quote “Those who take the easy route first always end up leaving the hard way”

Lack of power
Explain how technology has somewhat rendered society powerless. Talk about how the all Seeing Eye so to speak, and how all of its good intentions has led to some inconvenient consequences. I can talk about how I have gotten in trouble with the police before and my experiences with them. I can explore my latest run in with the law and how the police used technology to their advantage in order to track me down. Also I can refute the intrusion of speed cameras and red light cameras on public roadways, and how even though they are on publicly funded infrastructures, their presence was never legally voted in. I’m not sure how I can tie this in with being technology rendering society powerless, other than talk about the ticket I got from the cameras last year

Cinematic scene
I need to talk about the night this summer when I was lighting off fireworks with my friends, and ran away from the cops (3 miles) and finally got home, only to find the cops arrive at my house 30 minutes later. I need to talk about how the police were able to use technology to track me down, exposing me, and my feelings towards it.