After the election....

So as everyone found out in class on Wednesday, I was really side-swiped by President-Elect Donald Trump's win. Before anyone has anything to say (which I am more than open for critique), I want to share why I am so against the idea of him being the next president of this nation. Firstly, I want to point out that I cannot look past the racist and discriminatory remarks this man has said and used to get elected. Without a doubt he used and promoted misogyny, sexism, and hate in order to win the votes of those who pride on the same values. I am not saying that ALL Trump supporters are bad people, or are misogynistic, racist, or sexist. I am saying that the reason why Trump won was because he appealed to a specific ideology of people that believes minorities, the disabled, and women are lesser in a world that is intended to be equal. As a woman, I honestly don't know if am safe in Trump's America. If anything, his slogan, "Make America Great Again", should have "Make America 1950 Again". A lot of the people who voted for Trump do not realize that he is going to be a prime example to moving backward in time: when women "were seen and not heard" and objectified, the  races remained "within their own kind", we bombed and warred in every nation for absolutely no reason, where the rights of LGBTQ+ were not even considered because it was wrong to not be "normal". Please, do not tell me that his economic stance is a great idea. Cutting taxes to the wealthy in hopes of it being given back to the poor is really not going to work. Trickle down economics has never worked, and will never work. When you look back at "Reaganomics", President Reagan had done the exact same thing and promptly plummeted the classes into a more serious divide. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. Maybe it'll be okay, only time will tell.

On the class as a whole..

After enrolling and having taken almost a whole semester of this class, it is pretty easy to say that I know look at english and writing in a way that is different than how I used to. This class as has exposed me to a new way of thinking and has expanded me as a writer and creator. While looking over hollistic rubric in this course last week, I realized that the major components haven't only been reflected in my multimodal and microtheme project. Something that I think was most prominent from the rubric was the emphasis of creative thinking. I have always liked to think that I was a creative person, but after having the documentary project, along with the other blog posts, tweets, and multimodal/microtheme; I discovered that I am more than capable of being a creative person than just how I used to see myself. I can use pretty much anything with my language and turn it into a work of art. I've gained rhetorical knowledge as well, and I am confident that I can see it everywhere now that I know and understand what it is. It's actually quite cool! I would have to give myself an A for enthusiasm in this class! I am enjoying it much more than I thought I would.