Timed Writing

Timed Writing
12/5/07

My topic was on comprehensive sexual education, and the importance it plays in preventing diseases, and pregnancies in the youth today. Doing my research really opened my eyes to the eyes to lack of education people have on sex and information. Those who oppose comprehensive education, and support abstinence only education are not acting in the best interests of the youth, with the lack of information has been shown to have a huge negative effect, so why they continue to do it is still very sad to me.

There were several methods used to expose this new information as well as increase my own knowledge. By using the Internet in way of bogging, I was able to send out my information in an earth friendly way to anyone who had access to the Internet. The blog was a useful tool to instant success, because it was posted right away and I did need to wait on anything. The down side is, anyone can write anything, true or false, so it taught me an important message to research my sources, because information may not always be 100% true, all the time. However, with this said, the blog also opened my eyes to so many new ideas, and different kinds of ideas that may not be published in the world of published articles and journals.

The letter writing process was very new to me but it showed me how easy it was to express my opinions. Many times I think we tend to think someone else will say something or do something, and that “normal people” especially college students don’t have say. The writing process allowed me as a student, and a concerned young adult the ability to question and seek information on a topic that I value. Many times writing your thoughts and feelings out is a great stepping tool, to generate more ideas that could possibly lead to more action in the future. Whether I get responses back from any of the organization, by sending the letter in the first place I am sending the message that this topic is important. Everyone has to start somewhere, and I think that this was a good way to start thinking about ways of change.

The fable was a good way of rewriting the information that may be complex at times. The fable narrows down the important facts of an issue, and makes the basic ideas behind the issue understandable. This helps when you start out research, because you tend to get bogged down by all the information available for any topic. This can be a deterrent from getting to the source of the issue, because there are too many ideas. The simplicity of the fable can hopefully teach a lesson, which can be understood by 5th and 6th graders, and help them to gain the basic knowledge for their future. This knowledge will hopefully help to change the way things are run in the future, especially when it comes to sexual education

For someone trying to teach a controversial issue like sec education, fable can help to find a basic message, and make it simple enough that children can respond to it and take something away.

Overall I would say project three is an interesting method of exploring new facets on technology, as well as new ideas of way that we as people can voice our opinions and get our ideas out. There is something to be said to be able to write what you want to write without fear of restriction. This project increased our knowledge on one subject, opened our eyes to ways in which we could be proactive, and the fable allowed the us the ability to minimize the information and make it simple enough to teach younger populations