CAS 100 Reflection

For these next two assignments I have some specific goals for what I wish to accomplish in paper. My main goals are to pick a topic that is original and actually controversial. In my CAS 100 class when the class was assigned with to do a policy speech I aimed to find a topic which I was fairly ignorant on, in order to challenge myself. I decided to chose the topic of gentrification, since I felt it was a topic that many, including myself, weren’t very aware of the occurrence. Others on the other hand decided to pick topics which were, in my opinion, a little too easy. Topics such as global warming can easily “persuade” an audience with, considering this is an overwhelmingly liberal college. Other topics like sex trafficking were too easy for