The Future Holds Many Opportunities Group Presentations. -Grace Thompson

 Grace Thompson

Tues/Thursday Class

9:50a.m to 11:05a.m


In this set of presentations, our group was the first to present and our subject was the pandemic. I really enjoyed covering this topic, as it is such an important part of our lives currently and will be a big part of our history on a global scale. With that being said there are so many facets and issues to talk about with this pandemic, that it was a bit difficult to narrow it down and create a presentation that would flow however we pulled through with some leadership on my part and group effort. Lorena and I started the presentation with the introduction of what the virus exactly is, how it enters and affects the body. And we discussed the issues we are facing with it from post COVID-19 secondary medical issues to new strains and second waves. From there, Susej and Andy covered the history and overview of the coronavirus. Susej did an amazing job in giving us a history recap of the virus and how it may have come to be as well as a look to our last pandemic of 1918. Andy spoke on the evolution of the virus and how the vaccination works to help fight off this virus. We then looked at the public and personal recounts of this pandemic, which were provided by Andrei and Claudia. Melody and Christian brought us a global view of the handling of this pandemic and they did a great job and showing the good and bad. Sade and Anniet brought it home in closing out our presentation with national and local resources. They covered vaccination sites and spoke on government food programs as well as distribution sites. I loved the topic and the information given to our fellow classmates from the medical information, to opinions and helpful locations sites. My only complaint is I feel as a group we lagged a bit and some did not bring their fullest potential to the project but I did see others in my group bring their best and it was awesome! However, we still pulled through to educate our fellow students and ourselves in the process on this pandemic. Sofia and Lisette were as always ready to help us and offer us encouragement! 

The second group to present was group 2 and their subject was Education. They did an amazing job at covering this topic, it was a very clean and almost issue-less presentation. They spoke about all the issues we are facing today with education from an outdated curriculum to pandemic related issues and setbacks. We learned about the importance our country places on standardized testing and how it hinders students more often than it helps and how funding, culture, and religion play a big part in our dated curriculums. They also spoke about virtual learning and gave us the pros and cons of and how we can adopt some of the flexibility of online learning to in class learning. We got a look into how the pandemic has affected public school funding and how those in the lower class have been affected more so than higher-class schools. Ultimately how students have been affected mentally and emotionally from the impact of the pandemic with the education system. It was an eye-opening presentation where I also learned how students who were living in dorms and out of the country students were impacted by COVID-19 and what assistances student body and universities offered students. 

The last group to present was group 1 and they covered racism, a very controversial issue. Group 1 definitely had some technical issues and it seems they went a little over the time but with such a big broad subject, it can easily be overlooked and forgiven, especially when they did such a great job with informing us on so much history and current events. It is a very sad and angering subject but they gave us a thorough look into slavery and although we learn this in school, we are usually spared the ugly truth of it. I re-learned quite a bit and took in new information on current issues with police brutality and systematic racism. It is an unfair and racist world out there but we all have to do our part to try to break the chains of racism finally. If we stand together and remember we are all humans as they said in the presentation, we can be better and prosper towards a brighter future. 


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