Checkpoint 1: My First Blog Post

          My name is Justin Aranda and I am a 17 year old student athlete that attends Summit Public Schools: Shasta. I like to think that I am very active person because I have a played a wide range of sports during the time. I have spent on this Earth. I have played basketball, soccer, baseball, cross country and volleyball. Currently I am enrolled in a AP U.S. Government class and in this class we were tasked with figuring out our political typology.

         For AP Government, my class learned about political typology. From what I have learned, political typology is a system that categorizes people based on their political beliefs and values. To determine my political typology, I took a survey where the questions that I had to answer helped me understand how I viewed certain political issues. After completing this survey I was placed into the category of Next Generation Left.

         According to the website, the Next Generation Left is describes as someone who is, "Generally young, well-educated and financially comfortable, the Next Generation Left have very liberal attitudes on many issues, including homosexuality, abortion, the environment and foreign policy." Personally I believe that the description of this person describes me. I see myself as a young teen who wants to make a lot of changes to this "corrupted" world but I don't have the power nor the knowledge to make a change. I stand by the category it gave me and I was able to read about certain issues and see how I would react to them based on the answers I gave.