"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her." ~Benjamin Franklin

It is very simple as to why I made this blog: it was a class assignment. I am a Theatre and Dance double major at Muhlenberg College and, for my Human Behavior Studies requirement, I am taking Introduction to National American Government. Within this class, I was asked to do three projects from a list of many. One of the projects was to write my own political blog. So here it is.

Now, I am going to be honest and say that I voted in the last election. I am also going to be honest and say that I really have no idea why. This is because I am probably one of the least informed and the most inactive person politically. I usually only care about what plays I get into, what dance steps I have to learn, what drama is issuing around my friends, my homework, getting a job, AKA I am your average 21 year old. But this is all about to change.

The reason why I took this class was because I knew I wanted to know about the government. I wanted to learn, not only how it was run, but what was happening within it. I am not so self involved that I can't see that we are living in an amazing and influential time for our country. Therefore, I took this class to become informed and grow to influence the country just as much as anyone else. As a Theatre and Dance major, I enjoy to create. I feel that the arts can communicate many things that the average word cannot. In other words, I believe that if you are going to create something, you should say something within your creating. Hopefully, after taking this class I will have strong enough opinions that I will want to create dance or theatre pieces that have a political points.

So, why? What's the point? What's the reason why I am making this blog? The reason is very simple: I think that I am one of the many average, uninformed people of the 18-24 demographic. And, with that in mind, I am ready to learn, ready to reflect, and ready to write my own opinion about National American Government and it means to me today.