Group Assignment

We began our assignment by coming together as a group and discussing the idea of feminism. Everyone seemed to have a slightly different idea of what the word feminism meant to each of us. To many, feminism meant equality and to others feminism meant community. However, we all managed to combine our thoughts and beliefs to establish a workable definition of the word. We all listened to each other’s opinions and ideas, ultimately combining and eliminating certain aspects until we all agreed. Everyone played a different yet significant role in contributing to the final outcome of this project. Andria Bowman, Rhea Torreon, Rosemond Boateng, and Brenda Njinjoh helped formulate our final definition of feminism. Andria, Alicia Misci and Krysten Eshelman came up with idea of our actual Feminist event, a co-ed baseball game and movie relating to an one particular aspect of feminism. Once the idea was established, we all contributed to the discussion, composing a detailed description of our event and all that we wanted incorporated to promote a better understanding of feminism. We decided to focus our definition of feminism on the idea of women in sports. Once we chose to relate feminism to sports, Daniel Kelly contributed the idea of stating Title IX, which we clearly detailed on our flyer. Title IX was established in 1972 and clearly states that no person, based on their sex should be excluded from the participation in activities, including sports. Including this aspect in our project was very important. It allowed us to pinpoint our definition of feminism to one particular aspect that we believed to be of great importance. I also contributed in various ways to help our group. Throughout our discussion, I chose to contribute by looking up actual definitions, adding details to the actual event and recording our ideas throughout the discussion. It was much easier to form our flyer, using my laptop during our discussion so that we could contribute as a group to the format and details of our flyer. Once we had a rough draft of our flyer, Lauren Kessler was assigned to review and edit our flyer. She formatted and added details, allowing for a more appealing final product. Anne Zhao took the role of putting together our final description of the event, which was necessary to hand in. All in all, I believe my group was successful in producing a final outcome. Though we did have a few minor altercations, we managed to come to agreement and settle for what we thought was best in portraying our beliefs as a group.