Christian is on the move

Hey guys,

Well now that I’ve finally figured out what my paper is going to be about, the research has begun. But one thing that I did realize is that this paper is due in two months, so I hope everyone is getting their work in!

So I made the center of all my research the Voting Act of 1965 and from there branch out into the social and political climate of that time. Of course we always think about the social movements of the 20th century to be those of civil rights for women and african-americans or the discontent with the Vietnam war. What I did not realize was that these events actually had an influence on getting the Voting Act passed. I sort of had this idea that I would find that the social events of that time to be self-compartmentalized and disassociated from each other but clearly they are not. In a couple of sources that I found, there also seems to be contrasting opinions that either believe that the sixties was a revolutionary period or that that time period was insignificant in American history.

Part of my research paper is also about comparing the 60s into the events that are occuring today. It seems to me also that voter discrimination has been a fluid event since that time, in the sense that periods in the decades that followed, such discrimination can be seen. As I do more research, it will become more evident the strength of those voter discriminations compared to as it is today.

And more on a perceptive level, to compare today to yester-years almost seems contradictory to me. It sort of like how do I take myself out this current period in time and be unbiased when I am living in this moment in time. Its a little psychological and interesting. Its kind of like talking about myself, from my own point of view, and having everyone to accept that point of view, when in reality, its really just self-delusion that is accentuating that point of view.