Mayfest

Mayfest. Students on campus love it, other college students envy it, public its questionable. Everyone knows Syracuse University is a party school. But many people question whether a school event that basically promotes a day of drinking and fun activities is a good idea. The school only allows students who are 21 and over go into the drinking section. This day does promote drinking at off campus houses, fraternities and castle. If the chancellor stops giving out the free food on walnut, I believe that the day would be so much worse for the university and its students. Many students wouldn’t eat leading to drinking on an empty stomach. Overall the day of mayfest is an opportunity for students to celebrate the hard work that they have done throughout both semesters and enjoy the beautiful weather.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

My Reseach Essay

My project deals with race and gender and how they relate to politics. Many different factors affect politics but I feel with the fairly recent election of Barack Obama and the running of Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin, race and gender are being talked about a lot. I wanted something that I have always been interest in but never really had the time to look into. I think that a better research essay would be a PowerPoint enhanced essay. There would be an audio file of me reading the essay with timed PowerPoint slides. This way there can be pictures and different things that can enhance what I am trying to say. I can illustrate my point through pictures and not have to take up space trying to explain it. I think my intended audience would be people who are interested in elections and of the younger generation. I want to speak of more recent elections in which might be more interesting to a younger generation. Race and gender in politics has not really been an issue in past election. Older people have something to base their opinion off of while younger people don’t. Race and gender have only really been a topic of the past two elections. Also if you don’t have an interest in politics then you are most likely going to hate reading about it. I write research essays in a very logical way. I am a person who is very logical and things need to make sense, at least to me, for me to enjoy them. I want to write about different aspects of politics and how race and gender effects each aspects according to the research that I did.