Grayson’s American lit

  What strategies have you and your group used to ensure that all members are actively contributing to group assignments? Explain how you communicate, divide responsibilities, and hold each other accountable throughout the process. Prompt Response:  To ensure everyone is pulling there weight dividing work evenly is the best way to ensure everyone is contributing. We communicate through talking to each other and explaining what we are best and worst at. To hold each other accountable we discuss how it effects all of our grades. Summary:  Ensuring everyone is contributing and balancing the work is essential when completing a group project. Reflection:  Going forward my group needs to continue working together and thoroughly communicating. 

  What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements. Prompt Response:  My group faced a few challenges while selecting and analyzing sources because of the wide variety of sources surrounding the war on terrorism. Even individually I had some trouble with deciding how recent or how long ago the examples should be from, and I overcame this by putting more effort into just collecting extra sources and picking which was most relevant throughout the whole timeline major and lesser events. Summary: Deciding what sources where applicable was an interesting discussion with my group. Reflection:  Going forward we need to continue working together as a group.

Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research.     Prompt Response:  My research topic being the War on terrorism is a very problematic and controversial topic because of course a very common agreement would be "Terrorism is bad". However, the real problems and arguments arise when it comes to what and how to handle terrorism. I find this extremely interesting because of all the different types of terrorism and solutions people come up with the topic is much larger than it seems and is full of issues. For example, the US has gone to war in countries like Iraq to target terrorist groups being harbored within the nation. Many saw this as good while others had many concerns with why we where in Iraq specifically. US soldiers also struggled to not kill civilians because that...