Instructions
You are a lobbyist for an issue that you find important. For example, you would like to see the banning of smoking in federal buildings (Note: This policy has already been enacted.) You are going to make an informational pamphlet to highlight your points to prominent members of Congress. Research members of Congress that you will target in your lobbying. Explain why these members are critical to your goal. Make a plan of action and produce a pamphlet supporting your cause. Who will you be reaching out to? Why? Write a cover letter to a Congressional member and include your reasoning for reaching out to them in particular in the letter. Remember a lobbyist is only as good as the information they provide. A lobbyist who provides incomplete or unreliable information will soon be unemployed, or lose access to officials.

Cover letter should:

Follow a standard business format
Correctly address your Congressperson
Use the correct postal address
Explain your choice to write to this representative in particular, and provide your pamphlet. For example, maybe your research showed that this representative sponsored legislation on this issue in the past.
Pamphlet should:

Define the problem. Tells us exactly what the problem is. Detail its urgency and provide data. Be objective.
Analyze the problem. Provide relevant data. Tell us how to make sense of the data. Provide any findings
Offer a recommendation. Do not generalize. Be specific.
Must be persuasive.
Cite four scholarly sources
Submit your cover letter and pamphlet for grading.

Writing Requirements (APA format).

Length: Cover letter to Congressman should be only 1 page
Pamphlet should be 5 pages in length
1-inch margins
12-point Times New Roman font
Reference page (minimum of 4 scholarly sources)

1.
As you have seen, Rousseau goes into detail about his early childhood, including information about his parents as well as his weaknesses growing up.

Having read his confessions, how do you describe Rousseau as a person? Do you sympathize with him as a flawed human being, or do you see him more of a hypocrite? You must provide evidence from the text to back up your response. Also, provide page numbers within parenthesis when you refer to certain lines from the text.

2.Tolstoy writes: “Ivan Ilyich’s past life had been very simple and ordinary and very awful” (689).

What do you think Tolstoy means by that?

And how does Ivan’s life differ from that of Gerasim?

3.Pick any two of the three stories you read for this week (“Punishment,” “Kabuliwala,” and “Separate Ways”) based on a common theme, and discuss the theme you found in both stories with examples.