Group Analysis Paper

Personal Analysis of Group Work

In working with my discussion section, I was surprised by what I had discovered about our strengths in working as a group. Before beginning, I had assumed that it would be difficult to start discussion or find a common ground between all of us. But after Delilah Khalaf and I had sparked a bit of conversation, everyone began participating and giving their ideas on what feminism was and how we could apply that to an event open to anyone. Even Daniel Kelly, the only boy in our discussion section and someone not interested in Women's Studies, was involved. It was a very productive session because everyone contributed their ideas and gave our event a feel of organization and unison work commitment.

Before concentrating upon the actual event, we determined that it would be most helpful to determine our collective definition of the word feminism. This conversation instigated so many different ideas that we brought together to begin organizing our event to promote it. We each said one word that we thought of when we were expressed the idea of feminism. Each word reminded us of social issues and injustice in many fields for women. After putting everyone's ideas together I came up with the thought that feminism, to our group, was a practice of cultural and social equality between genders in society. After expressing this to the group, they all agreed in using that as our definition. We also determined that after expressing that on our event flyer we would elaborate how this definition would relate to our event through the ideas and causes we would be promoting to the students at UMCP through an outdoor baseball game and an outdoor screening of A League of Their Own.
After finalizing what our group determined to be the definition of feminism, we began brainstorming ideas for what we could do to promote feminism, through this event, for both sexes. In deciding who did what exactly, everyone did participate in discussion, but specifics are as follows. Alicia Misci presented ideas about involving not just women but men also, as well as becoming involved with the discussion of the event and what feminism's definition was, as well as the presence and importance of food at our event. Daniel Kelly suggested involving the Title IX law which helped to ground equality for women in all sports, he was also apart of the overall discussion and determination of feminism's definition. Krysten Eshelman was partially involved with the idea of a co-ed baseball game to promote equality and its presence at College Park. Delilah Khalaf recorded information we discussed and determined together as a group, created a rough draft of our flyer while we discussed our ideas, and she was heavily involved with the discussion overall. Rosemond Boateng was involved with Daniel's thoughts on Title IX and the discussion overall in determining what feminism was and how it would relate to our co-ed baseball game. Rhea Torreon gave her ideas on where the game should be located as well as the outdoor screening providing a campus map to discuss convenience and how the location might grab attention. Anne Zhao was heavily involved with the determination of the definition and discussion but she will mainly be responsible for composing our group's detailed description of our event and meanings of feminism determined to fit. Lauren Kessler had attended discussion for the first time on the day that we had talked about our group project. I feel as though she did not involve herself at all except when she asked what she could do to save her grade. As a group we decided that she will be responsible for finalizing the flyer and editing the details to fit our event and definition for a final draft. Brenda Njinjoh presented a lot of ideas to the group before we had determined should be our main cause for the event. I determined the rough definition of feminism, the idea of an outside event to bring everyone together, the movie, and I was profoundly participated in discussion and idea sharing.

I felt as though everyone indeed was involved but that the three of us were producing the most in terms of this actual discussion group. I believe that, in the culmination of this project, we all did our part to complete the assignment fully and properly. Our idea of a baseball game and outdoor movie screening had a unique feel to it regarding the detail we placed into the event itself. In critiquing our work together, I believe we did a great job incorporating both sexes and feminism into a constructive idea that would present feminism and what it really is versus what society has us thinking that it is.