Critique on Juanita Jean

I decided to critique a blog article written by Juanita Jean, titled “Stoopid Sumbitch”. Even thought this blog was a short blog, it grasped my attention on her mindset of voter fraud. In her blog, she accuses the governor Greg Abbott about gerrymandering the state of Texas. I found it rather amusing of her calling the governor out and blaming his political party in committing fraud in the state of Texas; it is a Republican-driven state. I do agree that the Republican party is committing fraud in the sense of discriminating those citizens who do not possess  a voter ID. However, one thing that I can not wrap my head around is how a College ID with a picture is not considered a voter ID. To me, this is absurd because this eliminates those students who are going to college outside of State or even city. 

Being identified as an independent towards the political parties, I do wish she would have added more facts or given information of recent investigation of voter fraud in the state of Texas. Adding this information and including the amount of money taxpayers have spent to investigate voter fraud, would have given her blog more power.  

Another recommendation for this blog would be to include information about the gerrymandering boundaries in the state. Giving examples of how different counties in the same district do not share the same needs would help to convince new readers of the power that the Republican party has over Texas. For example, Texas 10th Congressional District includes “the northwestern portion of the greater Houston region stretching to the Austin area” (Wikipedia). We can clearly see that the needs of these cities differentiate between one another and favor an ethnicity group. 

Work cited

Jean, Juanita. "Stoppid Sumbitch." Juanita Jean's Th Worlds Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. N.p., 19 Oct. 2016. Web. 23 Oct. 2016.

http://juanitajean.com/page/6/

"Texas's 10th Congressional District." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.

Critic on Testing Policies at UT

In this post, I'm going to be critiquing the article "Testing policies must reflect campus conversation on gender," written by Ethan Elkins.  This article is about a professor from UT named Brian Lendecky who teaches a managerial accounting course at UT, and instructs its students to sit in "alternating genders when taking a test". Elkins emphasizes how the professors of UT should reflect on their classroom policies and take to consideration on the gender standards they implement. He explains in his article varies solutions to this problem.

 Elkins makes great points in regarding how inappropriate this professor is acting against the UT's policy. He addresses the strain for students who have a difficult to identify as a male or female. This is difficult because "transgender individuals have to go through a rigorous process to legally change their gender", thus making some students appear out of place when being placed "as their birth gender rather than the preferred gender.

Another point with which I agree in his article is the solution Elkins brought forward for testing in professor Lendecky managerial accounting course. For example, one of the solutions is that  the professor can make multiple tests, such as Test A, Test B, etc.  Another solution that Elkins recommends is that the professor can book a larger room in order for the students to take the test, and  reformat the test by asking open- ended questions on the test.

I found this article very interesting in many aspects. However, I do think the author needs to implement a study or reference of students of the same gender who are more likely to cheat. Implementing this data would have made his case stronger, and possibly make the professor change his testing policy.

The following article can be found at the link below.
 http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/10/05/testing-policies-must-reflect-campus-conversation-on-gender

Work Cited
Elkins, Ethan. "Testing policies must reflect campus conversation on gender." The Daily Texan., 5 Oct. 2016. Web. 9 Oct. 2016. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/10/05/testing-policies-must-reflect-campus-conversation-on-gender