I think that to date, (I have a few leftover catch up blogs I need to post up) the most interesting assignment we did was week 7 where we had to explain democracy to our stuffy buggered aunt. I have been in this situation a many a times, and always wanted to prove myself and impressive my intellectual superiors. This assignment was real, and it took the conceptual elements we have been studying- the principals and the theories and place it in real life value and importance- which is quite frankly what this course has been teaching us to do. To visualize democracy in all forms, and shapes in the world, operationalize our conceptual knowledge and tell our aunt bitsy what democracy truly is and  also how democracy exists in society. I also, think it was my best post because I received a pretty approving comment, and question following my post. As such, I was able to literally take my knowledge and apply it accordingly and I think this was the most beneficial exercise to round out my knowledge and create an situation where my ability to verbalize what democracy is and how it is measured.

The most interesting post I read was sort of along the same line- It was Sammy’s post on the percentages and rates of celebrity marriages and divorces. It was very interesting, because it helped me understand the measures of democracy were have been reading, and applied it in a real world situation, contributing to my guilty pleasure of celebrity gossip.  It was well researched, and her comparative percentages between celebrity divorce rates, and marriages while implying that based on the research she read- some couples should still be married based on the data- rather then being divorced. In lieu of this discovery in the data she asked us why the data presented itself this way…Sammy operationalized the data very thoroughly.