Steve Lucin | Parsons MFA CDT

Voter Registration Form
Hand Out For First Time Voters
Why We Vote
Debate Watch Guide

www.CelebrateMyBirthday.com

I have implemented the rock the vote banner on the main page so that it is one of the first things that our traffic sees. When they click the banner, it pops up a voter registration form. I can track how many forms get completed and how many do not, and also if they are male or female and their race.

I already got one latina to register to vote through the celebrate my birthday site! yay!

Screen Capture of the site below...

6 Frame Storyboard for Nike commercial assignment

My slide presentation can be seen here: http://a.parsons.edu/~lucis270/interface/research.html

Since the crowded subway cars led to population control which led to something that simply didn't interest me anymore (not that serious), I decided last week to take a completely different approach to this project.

I have recently started a nightlife promotion company called www.CelebrateMyBirthday.com. I have used many things that I have learned just from Bootcamp and in my current Co-Lab class, Internet Famous, to make this a very popular site (at least thats the goal).

It would be rather interesting to promote these weekly parties with a political twist. Many party go-ers are young. There are plenty of crowds of people, but how do you know if they are registered to vote? This next month so very important because of the elections going on, therefore I would like to get everybody that goes to these parties to register.

Since the neighborhood that my current parties are mostly Latin, I can target this market and have voter registration forms in english and spanish while they wait on line to get in.

So registering to vote is one thing, but what about the other political issues? So how about I ask everybody that books their birthday through our site what political issues they care about? I can then have some of the proceeds of their party go towards that cause that they care about!

Subway cars are crowded because there are a lot of people in the city. But why are there many people in the city? does it have to do with population control?

Some countries that practice population control would be China, India, Iran, and the U.S.

China does the one-child policy where having more than one child was mad socially unacceptable. "It has come under criticism that the implementation of the policy has involved forced abortions and forced sterilization. However, while the punishment of "Unplanned" pregnancy is a fine, both forced abortion and forced sterilization can be charged with intentional assault, which is punished with up to 10 years' imprisonment. The Chinese government introduced the policy in 1979 to alleviate the social and environmental problems of China" (wiki). Four hundred million births were prevented according to the government.

In India, only people with two or fewer children are eligible for election to a Gram panchayat, which is a local government body in any given village.

Iran has mandatory contraceptive courses for male and females before getting their marriage license. The government also encourages small families and tells everyboddddy the benefits of having them.

In the U.S., "Title X of the Public Health Service Act" was enacted in 1970 which provides access to contraceptives, especially for those in needs and with low income. It also helps couples and individuals whether an when they should have children. It has allowed millions of American women to get contraceptives and avoid abortions.