English 112 Blog: Morgan Montgomery

I began this thought of what exactly I want to do my research paper on with a very broad, open minded focus. I am interested in many things, including sports and surprisingly politics, unlike many college kids. Many ideas are important to me, including family values and friends. That would be entirely too boring and not too interesting to research about, with a lack of resources. Interests of mine, as I said included are politics, which I think would be a very interesting idea to research with the election and popularity of politics now more than ever. With the election year of 2008, much is open to dispute and research. Looking at sports, the baseball scandal and popularity of sports more and more has plenty of topics to look at. Both of these topics, politics and sports are probably one the most open topics and disputed daily on national television. Several different directions and aspects can be addressed with both politics and sports. As I have said, it is very popular and everyone seems to have an opinion on both of them. Some aspects that I can find interest in looking at these two topics are the decrease in popularity of government across the board in the United States. Obviously there is a growing distrust in everyday U.S., where people do not have confidence in their own elected representatives. It appears that people take less interest overall in elections and government institutions as well. Another issue that can be connected to politics is the lack of funding for public school systems. Especially here in the State of Ohio, funding is a serious issue and school systems from across the state struggle to keep facilities running and faculty paid. Another struggle is passing school levies, as tax payers do not want to add more costs to their taxes. That can lead to another issue, and that is the lack of work and job loss here in the State of Ohio. Ohio is decreasing considerably in big corporations, and overall is losing population do to the Midwest losing its backbone of industry. Effects of this could be NAFTA and CAFTA, with trade agreements leading to companies moving overseas. Many theories and arguments can be addressed in each of these topics. A topic I believe I want to choose is the job loss and ever going problem in the State of Ohio. It hits right here, close to home and effects people’s lively hood each day. Some can argue against the causes, but no one can deny the job loss and big companies moving out of the state. I am interested in this topic because it connects with political decisions, along with the economy and the people of this state. I have had the opportunity to work in a union environment for two summers, and see the competitive and ever growing competition that leads to decisions that are drastic to the people. My question to my audience, who will be the people of this State, is what in your life has been affected by job loss and the loss of the industrialized State of Ohio?