I have always been very concerned with group projects or group presentations. The concern increases, when the professor assigns your group members. To me, relying twenty percent of my final grade on people I have never met, is a scary thought.
Some of the negative aspects of this collaboration, were similar to difficulties previously experienced. As in any group collaborative work, not every group member contributes equally to the work, the mark is however shared. I believe that the most positive aspect from this collaboration was managing to plan multiple conference calls and meetings that successfully took place online. Although, not everyone attended the conference calls we, as a group were able to use the technology available to us, to maintain continuous access to each other.
What I learned throughout this collaboration experience is the need to respect people’s strengths and weaknesses. I was able to use my strengths in writing and …show more content…
She continuous on, uttering how vulnerable we are to stories being repeated, especially as children. She very genuinely argues, that we should be taking the non-conventional way of viewing the world. Furthermore, Adichie maintains, that we should search for alternative books, films and images, in order to discover the overlapping descriptions that create the truth. Not be content with allowing ourselves to have a single view of Africa, due the continents description in western literature.
I believe Chimamanda Adichie, is such an ample individual, that no dinner party would be complete without her. Particularly, as our script focuses on showing language and humanity to a new species; and not allowing humans to become a lone entity. Adichie would uphold that cultural relativism is very important, especially when used to communicate with extraterrestrial life