Blog Assignment 5

In a letter to the editor at CapX.co, David Boaz wrote to gripe about the media's refusal to call Raul Castro by his rightful title, that which is 'dictator' or 'tyrant', not 'president'. Harping on how even the vaunted Wall Street Journal miscalled Rual Castro a president, he bemoans how people like Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, the dictator of Paraguay, are rightfully called tyrants but how the media nowadays refers to tyrants by their chosen name, instead of their correct one. Boaz goes on to point out how Stroessner even held election, and that though they were rigged, it made tyrants such as Stroessner and Pinochet more 'presidential' than the Castros ever could be. The article that he refers to is a Wall Street Journal article that refers to Raul Castro by his 'proper' title, president. Going into detail about the succession of Fidel Castro by his younger brother Raul, the article talks more about the political changes made to the communist economic system. Talking about how people have more economic freedom, but little political freedom, the author goes on to say that despite the fact that Cuba remains politically restrictive, it has changed.

Blog Assignment 4: My Relationship with Literature

Previously at my high school, we wrote about all sorts of things. In my 10th grade literature class we wrote essays on our personal interpretations on books such as Of Mice and Men. For my eleventh grade literature class I wrote about the judicial interpretations of the Constitution of the United States. Neither are things that I particularly enjoyed, but at least for the legal written work I gained a cursory understanding of the law and how it is made, as well as an appreciation of history of the United States that I did not have before. For me, I enjoy assignments that allow me to take my own position on literature, such as the persuasive assignments on the Constitution. It always interested me how unlimited the literature on such a finite document was. For me, a literary analysis is somewhat of a chore, because I usually don't get to pick the topic. I prefer to pick my topics, no matter what the subject is. Even if it is limited in scope, it still give me some variety. When I have a limited amount of choices, then I have a hard time doing the assignment.