Well, I guess this blog post is a little bit late. Oh well. I definitely had a lot of other home work to do, and then forgot about it until now. The whole process was very educational. I have written more papers than I care to try to recall since I've been in college. I have never written one quite like this one, though. The research process for the IP was the biggest difference. I have always had access to all, or almost all of my sources when I've started actually writing. There aren't a whole lot of scholarly articles, however, on the cult of personality of the POTUS. Almost all of my sources were actual books, and I had to wait for them to be available at the library, with the exception of one of them. One of the books even had to come in through Inter-Library Loan from Washington State University. As a result of this, I had to take notes from the materials as I received them, analyze my notes in regards to the overall paper, and then work each piece of notes, quotes, and analysis into the whole paper. I even had to cut out 2 pages at the end because I had too much. That never happens!
As far as how I changed my perspective on my topic goes, I realized that the problem of the president overstepping his bounds and the media and nation turning a blind eye has been a nearly perpetual issue from the start of the 20th century. It is a bipartisan problem and it will undoubtedly require bipartisan effort to overcome it.
As far as how I changed my perspective on my topic goes, I realized that the problem of the president overstepping his bounds and the media and nation turning a blind eye has been a nearly perpetual issue from the start of the 20th century. It is a bipartisan problem and it will undoubtedly require bipartisan effort to overcome it.
