For my first idea, I wanted to explore the very broad topic of climate change which would fit into the environment category. I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer but I never knew what kind of law I wanted to pursue until around my senior year of high school. I took an AP Environmental class and I loved it and thought that environmental law would be great for me but I’ve changed my mind since then. Although this is not the type of law I’d want to practice in the future, I do have a very big interest in large-scale environmental problems like climate change and I’d love to explore other things such as the huge overfishing problem, the effects of poverty with climate change, and renewable energy sources. Within these subtopics, I’d love to get a little more specific in my posts, exploring overfishing specifically on the northern east coast of the US, looking into the effects that poverty in India has on their climate (especially in their cities), and specifically tidal power when it comes to alternative energy sources. Within climate change, I don’t have that strong of an opinion other than I agree that it’s certainly happening. I think this is a great position for me to be in because there are a lot of people mad at the world about climate change which would significantly bias any posts they wrote but this is not the case for me fortunately. Overall, there’s a whole lot going on with the environment and especially with climate change which would give me a lot of content to talk about in my posts.

For my alternative idea, I was thinking about doing a blog based on what’s happening with affirmative action under the race category. Last semester I did my English final project on affirmative action and I really enjoyed researching each “scandal” going on at different schools across the country. Similar to the environment, I don’t have a particularly strong opinion when it comes to affirmative action. I think that diversity is great, especially in learning environments, but sometimes forcing diversity has its consequences. One interesting point I came across when researching this topic was the consequences of affirmative action where kids who were admitted based on affirmative action policies were actually failing out of their colleges because they had not been admitted based on their academic merits but rather solely on their race so they were ill-prepared when it came to handling heavy course-work. I’m not sure how true this information is but I’d love to explore this more because if this isn’t actually the case, affirmative action could potentially be doing a lot more good than bad. I’d also like to explore more cases of affirmative action issues at specific schools that were not necessarily on the news. University of Texas and Harvard receive lots of attention when it comes to this topic but lots of smaller, lesser-known schools also have issues with these policies. Within this topic I wouldn’t be attempting to prove whether affirmative action is good or bad but rather I’d simply be exploring the facts and opinions surrounding specific school and student cases.