This website is home to Joseph C. Elliott's e-portfolio. You will find a wide range of work during my undergraduate career at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including, but not limited to, writings on American political institutions and the motivations for why I write and my experience with writing in general.

Within this e-portfolio, as in my life, you will see contradictions that vary in measure. It would be crude to shy away from these antagonisms, so I leave them open-ended for you to see.

Feel free to look around and give any feedback on the site or pieces of writing you read.

(Note to the reader: Text in orange is linked to either one of my pieces of writing or sources, or it is linked to a different section of the site or the internet.)

Compliments of Steve Jurvetson, Flickr

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"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else."

-Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie