Political Input Exercise
Identify an issue that concerns you, and attempt to input that concern into the political system through communicating with at least FIVE people that relate to your
specific concern. Your concern can be anything- from getting a stop sign on a street corner, attempting to control health care costs, to ending global poverty. The
exercise is basically identifying five people or institutions for your concern and attempting to input (communicate) your concern towards those people. A minimum of
three people (out of the five total) must be ‘political’ in nature, such as an elected political official (or someone indirectly linked to the electoral cycle
including those appointed, employed or hired by the elected official). After the completion of your efforts, write (type) a short overview of the exercise that
includes a discussion of the kinds of responses you received from each of your specified targets, evaluate the exercise in general, including what you learned (if
anything) from doing the exercise, and finally how this impacted your thoughts about government and citizenship. The written portion of the exercise is due by the last
day of class (typed, 1 page). By the middle of the semester (either week 3 or 4) I will be requesting a short paragraph that explains your progress on this specific
class exercise (worth 10% of the total grade possible).