Thursday, December 5, 2013

Kirsten's Reflection Blog

Reflection Blog.

Throughout this project I have overall enhanced my researching skills. With such a broad topic of Ancient Roman Spectacle we did hit the problem of being specific and picking a certain time period. Once we did some initial research and discovered the amount of political influence put onto spectacle we found our starting point. With that we chose the time of peace in Rome where spectacle and entertainment could take precedence in the life of the empire. Connecting with the Roman Empire we tracked to see if the huge concentration on spectacle had a significance influence on the fall of the empire.


Overall I did prefer this sort of final project rather than a final exam or paper.  It gave us time to make sure our argument and research was specific enough. I did like the group I was working with, we got our information done and met when we could. We did stress the importance of individual research because our busy schedules. Something that I did find rather difficult was fulfilling the amount of text needed in the blogs. Sometimes I would run out what I wanted to talk about in fear of being repetitive each week. With us ending the project I can say I took plenty of positive and helpful researching and presenting skills from this.

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