Escape Workshop Relfection
1. Reasons to Escape
– bad treatment
-violations of rights
Risks of Escaping
-don’t know anything outside of the plantations
-actually not a very high chance of escape
-no real disguises, easier to be seen
-extremely difficult to get all the way from sourthern states
2. I really liked the activity we did in the Learning Center, it was extremely interesting and I feel that I learned a lot from it. I liked getting to watch the woman act out the entire thing, instead of just having people tell us the information. It was really interactive, and I liked it a lot.
3. I really wasn’t aware that there was still slavery, these activities opened my eyes to what’s actually happening in the world today. The experience definitely made it feel more real.
4. People are held back form escaping slavery mostly due to threats, fear, and the fact that they don’t know where to go outside of where they’ve been kept.
Earthquake-Resistant Building Project
This is a picture of what our completed building looks like.
I think that from this project, I learned that working with a team, especially when you have a limited “budget” can be quite difficult. It was challenging to agree on things as a group, like what to spend our money on, or how to design the building. Eventually, we had to compromise a little, so that everyone’s design idea’s were combined as one. It was also tough to work with limited resources. We had to be extremely careful to ensure we weren’t accidentally snapping the spaghetti sticks, tearing the minature marshmallows, or cutting the tape too small. Because our budget was so limited, we couldn’t afford to damage any of our materials, especially since we decided against purchasing the insurance options. I think if I were to do this project over again, I would’ve been more careful on the last day of the project, and to not have messed with our building. This is because when we walked into class the day we’d test our buildings, one of the posts went missing from the bottom of our building. Instead of removing the other three posts from the bottom, we tried to take off an extra piece of tape from the top, but all we accomplished was breaking one of the spaghetti noodles, which was extremely difficult to fix in the 5 minutes left before presentations started. In the end, this was an extremely interesting, and also quite difficult project.