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Im Joshua Chorneyko, and I wanted to start off by writing to say thank you to Dr. Kyburz for being an outstanding and intelligent professor. Over the course of the fall semester I came into this class nervous thinking that there would be endless papers, and crazy assignments due every week. I was surprised yet at the same time grateful of course to realize how much I truly learned over the semester. I have always wanted to be a law enforcement officer, and I have recently started to work in the field so I have that first hand experience and knowledge. This course strengthened my barriers and made me look at issues in a different conceptual way, and understand things from different points of view. This class has done nothing more than strengthen my rhetoric skills as well as taught me vital aspects dealing with police report writing. I enjoyed blogging weekly, and that was my favorite part of this class. The blogs were always so fun and exciting to do, and they really got me involved in finding interesting topics to provide feedback on and share with the class as a whole. I came into this class thinking I was a strong writer (other than struggling with grammar and punctuation) I am able to format a paper and not struggle with it. The one assignment we did was a documentary project. I chose to watch the movie Cartel Land and write a summary of the movie. This summary was different than I had ever done before because it was analyzing what actually happened step by step in the film rather than my own opinion. I was able to learn how to write a well developed summary leaving my personal opinion out of it. I enjoyed coming to this class everyday and learning new things. I had a lot of fun in this class and met some wonderful people. The class got side tracked a few times during the presidential election, but I did not mind it. I actually enjoyed talking about current events and implementing the course into them because no matter what the topic was it always had a connection to law enforcement in some shape or form. This class has made me a better individual overall, and I think one of the biggest things I learned from it was to accept others opinions and learn from them. I have always been hard headed and set on myself and my mind, but this class opened a new door for me, and I am glad I got to experience that. In all honesty, I do not care what the course objectives were or what the course wanted me to learn because I am completely happy knowing that this course has improved me both in the field of law enforcement and rehotorically. I really did enjoy the blog aspect. Other classes professors will make you write papers every week, but just being able to blog and share current events to the class in itself is its own class. Just by blogging I have learned so much about my fellow classmates, and I have learned so much about current events and topics that are big in the media that I had little information about. Sharing my experiences with law enforcement to both the class and Dr. Kyburz was awesome because I got to teach them about contemporary law enforcement issues I see first hand in real life. To end, I wanted to say thank you to my classmates and Dr. Kyburz once again for making this semester one to never forget! I had an absolute blast getting to know everyone, and I am definitely going to give Dr. Kyburz 5 stars on rate my professor, and hopefully sign up for future classes with her.