The final assignment has been begun, the CTW race is coming to a close soon, however, there is still a significant amount of work that needs to be done for me to finish out this course. 

My paper about the internet and computer use in higher education is coming along nicely, with a few small bumps in the road, but overall progressing in a positive direction. Recently my professor sent me a link to an article about links between technological literacy and poverty, which I am going to strongly incorporate into my final essay. This essay by Cynthia Selfe is the perfect connection that I need, as it allows me to better find my own niche for my argument, something we are striving to do with these essays. I found my niche to be how the internet is vital to being successful in school, so therefore any group of people unable to access the internet, such as a group with large amounts of poverty, are not going to be able to be successful academically which then sets them back as they attempt to enter into the modern workforce.

This trend draws itself very strongly upon racial lines, which makes this an issue beyond just poverty, which would be bad in of itself, but because of this revelation it becomes a part of a much larger problem of institutionalized racism, something that needs to be actively combated to get rid of. I then am going to offer the idea that if governments provided some sort of base technological education or supplement to Americans who can not afford computers on their own, then millions of Americans would be able to live much more financially successful lives.

Nate Miller