Travis's+Reflection

 I believe that the biggest thing that this project has taught me about democracy is that our democratic system allows change. This project help to tear down the roadblock for change that laziness has created for our modern society. It showed me that change can be implemented to our modern social system; it just requires effort on our part. I have found that it is often that case that people in our modern society who disagree with what is taking place or a particular law or rule hide behind the excuse that there is nothing to be done about it, that they don’t have to authority, power or connections to implement change. If nothing else this project showed me that the democratic system in which we live allows us to at the very least try to implement social change, our democratic system leaves the door open for those who a passionate about an issue to research and change the policy on that issue.  I am not going to lie and say that this project illuminated some significant and enlightening secret about my inner soul; truthfully I was unimpressed with topic chosen by my group members. In my opinion our time could have been better spent with a more relevant issue, that has a greater impact on the wider scope of life, but I accepted the topic chosen and did my best to complete the tasks given to me. I guess I learned that I am able to work well even with a subject that has next to no importance to me. I learned to push myself past the fall back to laziness, the excuse that if something is not important to me it is not worth me time or energy, to fully apply myself to a task even if I am not particularly passionate about it.  In working on this project I learned that group projects are not always easier than working on an assignment alone. I used to believe that working in groups is easier than working alone because the work can be distributed among the members making each person’s role smaller, but this project made me question that assumption. I found that this project was more difficult to complete than I anticipated because of our large group. For one thing the fact that we had a group of six forced us to complete additional sub-assignments. Also the large group made it more difficult to get the group organized and on task as well as to coordinate what each person was doing and when it needed to be done. This project forced me to realize that it is not always easier to work with others.
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