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Final Reflection

Reflecting on my project experience, I think I learned several things that can help me next time I work on an activity like this.

The first thing I learned was that blogging is really helpful. Hearing feedback on your ideas is really great and really helpful. The comments I received were encouraging and actually motivated me to complete my project. I also liked commenting on others' blogs. It's fun to see how my peers are going, and how they're projects are coming along. I think the mandatory blog posts really helped me to stay on task and to be on top of things. It helped me not to procrastinate as much especially.

I also took away from this project that summarizing is important. When you focus on three objectives and an essential question, you gather a lot of information. However, I realized that when working on my poster board medium I have limited space. This is of coarse also metaphorical, as when I address an audience about my topic I only have their attention for a few minutes so I can't make my poster overflowing with info.

Primary sources were probably the hardest to put on my poster. I wanted to only include pictures as primary sources, but then I realized that I had to vary them because I wanted to stay extremely relevant to my topics and there were only so many pictures that did that. In the end, I used a picture of government propaganda and two bills.

In conclusion, I liked using my creativity and the help of my classmates to put my project together and think that this assignment effectively made me learn about history.

The Bricks for My Pyramid

So I decided on a pyramid to display my information. I am going to write all of the bills on the bricks of the pyramid in the order they happened to show how the government became too powerful. They will look like this

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So I was looking for primary sources, and I think I can use this poster to demonstrate the influence of the government on individual rights.

Presentation Format

So I have no clue how to present my final product. I was thinking a poster titled "The Domino Effect" where I'd have a bunch of dominoes with events that occurred, and the United States' response to each of them.

My other idea was a Prezi, but I'm not sure how I would make it interesting and engaging.

And I have a PowerPoint for my third idea, however I just put that down because I needed three on the sheet.

Also, what are people using for the primary sources for this? Like that actual bills themselves?

Essential Question

My Essential Question is: Did the second WW allow the power of the United States government to grow too large?

When building our constitution, the government being too large was a huge issue, and so I wanted to weigh the outcomes of WWII and see whether eventually our government became larger than initially desired.

I will be focusing on the responses of the United States to the violations of human rights that occured during the Holocaust and what laws and bills they passed to protect human rights.

Eurafrasia

The reason my title is Eurafriasia is because one time in history class Ms. Roy told us to draw how we think the world should have been divided after world war one; and I basically had this vision of Europe, Africa, and Asia joining together to accept everyone's cultures and live happily ever after. I strongly believe in this theory.