Passion Project

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https://twitter.com/Dave_Koester/status/593170245449166850

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I chose my topic because I believe that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a threat to national security and to the rest of the world and need to be neutralized. However, I also think that the approach that the United States is taking is not the right. This also begged the question of should we be risking American lives for a war that might not solve anything? (Provide brief background info on my topic) As much as I would like to go out and defeat ISIL myself, I feel that would be a little to risky for my personal liking. However I came up with another solution and that is educating others about this topic. This will not have a direct or immediate effect on this issue, however considering that my generation will be the future of America and as we become able to vote, we can make informed and proper decisions about this topic that will hopefully have an immediate and direct effect on the destruction of ISIL.So what I have done is I created a Twitter page and asked questions, gave information, and created discussion topics for others to think about and re-evaluate whether we should be fighting ISIL or if they are even a threat. Also I created a survey and shared it with my peers and got 23 responses and I created the survey in such a way to test and re-test peoples knowledge of this topic. I asked questions about ISIL and then at the end of the survey I asked them to read the information I provided and then I asked them to re-take the survey. The results from the before and after were drastic.Before for question #1 most people responded “B” and after most people responded “A”. Before for question #2 most people said “B” after half of the people kept their answers and the other half change theirs to “C” or “D”. Before for question #3 almost everyone responded “B” and after everyone responded “E”. Before for question#4 everyone responded “YES” and after most people held their response of “YES”. Before for question #5 most people responded “A” and after half of the people responded “C”.Before for question #7 most people said “A” and after a third of the people said “B”.The point of this Passion Project is to inform the Public about issues that I think are important. I am not trying to change peoples political views, however I am trying to get people to re-evaluate their system on making decisions that are very important. Again this will not have an immediate or direct effect on the downfall of ISIL, however in the long run I hope that those people who took my survey can now make informed decisions about this issue later and then that will have an immediate and direct effect.