Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Major Course Assignment
I really have enjoyed working on my part of our second group assignment were we are able to look at a group organization and dig through it looking for certain aspects such as the concealed claims or the social issue that they represent. This also happens to be my part that I am working on for the paper, which is identifying the concealed claims and also identifying the social issue. My group and I chose to look at the organization D.A.R.E which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. I have never had the opportunity to look this closely at an organization before and I have learned a lot along the way. I really like the fact that we have a sheet of things that we are looking for in this project, i think this allows us all to use our skills that we are learning throughout the year and show them during this paper.
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Yay group member! I am glad we got to be in the same group again. Yes, I too, have enjoyed working on this assignment as well. It is fun when we get to see each other and meet up, instead of just emailing and stuff. I also thought this assignment was useful and helped sharpened our skills that we learned from the book. We have to apply what we learned and put it to use in real life. It's pretty interesting to be detective and search for all the information. There is a lot of information a lot of us do not know about social organizations and we finally know a lot about a social organization.
ReplyDeleteThe second group assignment was very useful to me as well. My group decided on doing the American Red Cross. Many people have obviously heard of the Red Cross but it was interesting to learn more in depth about what they do and how they go about running their organization. The concealed claims that the American Red Cross uses was probably similar to any other organization like the D.A.R.E. program. This assignment has really opened by eyes to the techniques that organizations use to make a good argument for what they stand for. The use of celebrities and famous people are often used in many of these organizations for a good purpose so that people will pay attention for the cause the organization is fighting for.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely AJ. The second project was way more interesting than the first one and you got to see aspects of things you never truly get to see. We do not realize that we actually use what we learn on a daily basis, but then again we are not really looking for them either. I also agree with you about how the project was designed so we had to actually look for specific things. I think that is what made it a little more interesting and a little easier to do.
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