Why Everyone should Vote or die!<-Myth Project

1)Choose a part of your project and perform a tagmemic analysis about it—attempting to inquire into it from three perspectives: as a particle (define and describe its qualities right now), as a wave (look at how it has changed and will change over time), and as a field (how it’s connected to larger cultural changes). For example, the tagmemic analysis we did in class about “a college degree” would have been a good fit for an essay about the myth that “everyone should go to college.” Post the results of your inquiry to your blog.


A)By voting for a president in this case would mean that you would be voting for your rights, dying is not literally dying but is having your beliefs and rights get taken away.
-I think everyone should vote because your voting on what you beleif is right for this country, the only way is going to change is if you see a difference, and that's if we all vote, and yes it will change over time because the person who will win is the person who thinks like you, and will act the way you would want him too.
-I think everyone should go vote because that's the only way were going to see changes, we are all different from each other in every way, but a lot of similarities we all have is the way we think this country should run along.




2)Write a dialogue between yourself and a fictional person who believes in the myth you are inquiring into. Have the speakers explore each other’s beliefs about this myth. Post the dialogue to your blog.

Luis-I hate how things are going in this country, I don't know what to do
Shanayne-I know men, there's really nothing we can do except to vote.
Luis-Vote? what happen if we don't vote.?
Shanayne-Yes vote, or else were all going to die.
Luis-Die? no what are you talking about.
Shanayne- Not literally dying, but your beleifs and rights are not going to be the same. The only way we can make a difference is if we all vote, and pick a leader with the same values, and beleifs as us. Nobody is really going to die physically but your beleifs would die.
Luis- I still don't get it. So your saying if i don't vote somebody is going to kill me.
Shanayne-Stop been stubborn. That's not what I'm saying. By voting your picking your preference, your picking the leader that would best suit this country. Your picking a guy who stands up on what he beleifs, and if you beleif in him then he is the right guy for you. And by dying is meant in other words loosing. Your going to be very disappointed when you feel like you couldn't make a change.
Luis-Oh i get it now, By voting Im picking somebody who will stand up on what i beleif but as a society, and dying means that if i don't vote Im not going have somebody to hold those beleifs.?
Shanayne-Correct.!


3)Interview one or more people about this myth. For example, I could easily go out and ask people about whether they believe everyone should go to college and why they believe as they do. Post transcripts (the interviews word for word) or a summary of your findings to your blog.

A) I interview a couple of my friends who i sit in lunch with and they all agree with me that everyone should vote because that's the only way we can make a difference in this election. If we don't vote were not going to make a change at all, and this country is based on changes. My friends beleive that everyone should have a least a little saying and by voting is the way to go. They laugh when i say "Or die" because last election famous people like Paris Hilton, P. Diddy made shirts saying that, but it's true in a way a little part of us would die if don't pick the right guy to lead this country.

4)Find a piece of published writing related to your project (in a magazine, newspaper, or blog, for instance). Analyze the author’s position toward the myth and compare/contrast it with your own position.

A)http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/03/27/Opinion/Collin.Beck.Make.An.Informed.Vote.Or.Die-3286111.shtm

This person who wrote this article beleives that everyone should vote, but it shouldnt be about peer pressure. You see it everywhere people saying "Vote or die", bumper stickes, posters. It shouldn't be a popularity contest and voting cause everyone else is doing, you should do it cause you feel like doing it.

In a way i got to agree with the author of this article because it feels like these campaigns elections are becoming more of a popularity contest rather than an adult situation. People should vote if they really want too, not because couple of famous stars asked you too.

One thing i don't agree with him is the important of voting. Yea we might not vote now, and maybe we do get the wrong guy in the white house, but whose fault is going to be when that happens. There shouldn't be any pointing fingers at all because it was those who voted, those who care to put him in there. Yes, we might be one vote, but that one vote can be the one who changes things for everyone. Nobody really sees it like that, but voting is very crucial when our president doesn't turn out the person we all taught he was, and the good guy lost.