Brooke Blizzard: A Life Changing Experiences

She could have stopped everything from happening. She could have left Brooke’s father and got a job. She could have got all of her children out of the situation. Brooke may have very serious problems in the future and have miss-trust by her love ones. Brooke has it all to thank to her worthless and terrible mother for not stopping it in the first place. The first time that Brooke tried to tell the social worker that her father was abusing her, her mother could have had it stopped. She didn’t want to because, she didn’t want to get a job herself and make money. They solely depended on her father for income. The concept of not wanting to break up her family is very understandable, but not a good excuse if they are being violently abused. I think her mom just didn’t want to think about it all. This was the reason why they argued about it in the car on the way home from the police station. The argument in the car of the way home should have never happened. A good mother would try to fix it all. The first thing that should have happened was to leave the house and move somewhere that no one would know about. Then, the next step should have been compile all the evidence they could for the lawyer in court. I can understand why Brooke did not want to live in that house again. I don’t see how she could even when her mom and other aunt went to go to get all new things to try to mask over the truth about the house. It was a crime scene of domestic abuse and rape. I wouldn’t want to have lived in a house after I was violently raped in it. It would be too hard to have all the memoires coming back about the events. It was the cause of major psychological issues with the victim about the event, if they continued to live at the scene of the

Initially, I had a negative view on group working because of the challenges that I had. When I was in high school, my five other friends and I used to work together in a music competition. Although we were supposed to get together to practice

Overall, this group project went very well and was completed on time due to the fact there everyone including myself assigned ourselves with a task role, relational role and from the start had individual roles present such as leader, compromiser, and gatekeepers in the group that made it

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

Although, I hate group projects and my group members are procrastinators we were able to pull it all together

In this group project, I had a major role in ensuring that it came together in a unified way. Generally, I usually take a leadership role in group projects so I was the central person coordinating group meetings and ensuring sufficient communication. To begin the project, we divided up the work by assigning people to work on the case study, find literature, summarize the textbook, and talk to key informants. My assigned part was to summarize the textbook, which also ended up lending itself to finding some additional sources to build on what the textbook was lacking. In regard to the group literature and informant summary, I ended up writing most

The Brooke Ellison Story is a very moving story. It is very inspirational and eye opening. One would think that this is a highly praised story that would inspire others, but it is not. While many people may not know the story, those who do, feel inspired by how steadfast Brooke was and how everyone should be. Brooke was proactive to her situation, balanced her ongoing problem with other parts of her life, and maintained her sense of humor all throughout her life.

Our group consists of Asmaa, Kelly, Sasha, and me, and our project is entitled, "Mental Health for Male Prisoners in the United States." It took several weeks to work on this research, and the project went very smoothly. As a group, we worked together well. Everyone was on time for our scheduled meetings, and we divided tasks so that each person had a clearly defined role within the group. There were no issues or problems during the times that we worked together. Although we were not personal friends at the time we began the project, we developed strong working relationships that highlight some of the positive aspects and outcomes of teamwork.

Haupt describes Brooke Ellison’s story to provide emotion and appeal to her audience. Brooke Ellison was “struck

This project has been a very enlightening experience on how you have to sometimes let go of the control and let someone else take over. My grade will be based on a group effort instead of my own individual work and that really did leave me feeling uncomfortable especially since we were not allowed to choose who was in my group and who shouldn’t be in my group. I am lucky to say that after really speaking and interacting with my group members, Luna and Lasheika, I felt a lot more secure in my grade for this project. That is not to say we did not have any problems. At first, we had some technical difficulties that resulted in Luna not being able to communicate through group text but she

With her story, it kept reminding me more and more of my relationship with my dad. It’s really not that similar to Brooke’s relationship with her dad, but the word “dad” kept triggering me to feel irritated and annoyed. I didn’t know where to go with it but that’s what I felt in that regards.

While processing through Brooke’s story, I was thinking of what I wanted to say. I was asking myself, “Do I want to say what Brooke said last week bothered me?” I waited until the last minute, but I got myself to say that it bothered me when Brooke said, “I think you like me…?” and sort of ended that with a question mark. As soon as I said the word “bothered,” I saw Brooke’s expression and immediately wanted to take back mentioning anything. And in order to cover up “my mistake,” I went on the affirm her (which I was planning to do), but I kept on going. I found myself rambling a little bit, so I was glad that Dr. Hollins stopped me to walk me through the process.

In my undergraduate work, almost all of my classes that were directly related to my major required at the least one group project. In the beginning this was not something I was very fond of mostly because I had some bad experiences when it came to working with others on projects. Usually it was the problem of people not pulling their own weight, and doing their parts to help with the tasks. When it came time to have the assignment complete it was even harder to give a grade to those people. I did not want to be the guy who caused someone to throw someone under the bus. However, after I thought about it, I did want to be that guy because in the real world on a work project if there was someone who did not pull their weight in the job projects would not be successful. So, when it came time for grades, I was always honest, and usually if a person did not do their part I told it how it was.

Being involved in a group project was a challenge for me, due to the fact that we had some communication problems between our group members in the beginning. First of all, we started with a brainstorming, analysing the opportunities of companies around Hendon Central. More than this, we agreed on the same firm and started our work. Within a teamwork, there are some challenges that occur such as remaining focused on a direction, splitting equally the work and choosing a good leader. Bearing all this in mind, I might say that we did our best during the presentation and we coped with the minor communication issues. From this experience, I realized that I am a good leader and I can manage efficiently a project.

I used to believe that I did not perform very well in groups. I am an observer who likes to learn alone. I thought I learned best when I worked on my own. Even though I always knew group work had many positive values, I was more comfortable with the lecture-based approach and resisted group work merely because it involved change, not because it had a collaborative learning approach. However, during the learning community project, I came to realize that I learn more effectively when I work in groups. Working in a group was like an adventure for me; there were both exciting and challenging times while preparing for the learning community project.