Assignment/Activity Title 1960s Interdisciplinary Year Freshman

Skill Research Portfolio CategoryEthics

For my 1960s Interdisciplinary, I used Animoto in order to create a slideshow containing my research
pertaining to animal cruelty in the 1960s and now. This required me to look at the treatment of animals in the
1960s and then proceed to see how animals are still treated today. I had to look through countless pictures and
detailed descriptions of how animals have been wronged and abused by humans. Although I was proud of the heart-
wrenching feeling I received from seeing these pictures and readings these descriptions, as it proves that I can feel
human empathy for others, it also inhibited my ability to look and read the documents objectively, without feeling
emotional attachment. Such a violent and traumatizing topic is a good topic to use in order to gain objectivity for
further research topics. Although this objectivity is helpful to look through articles and photos to find what I need, I
need to consider for presentation what focuses in my presentation will cause the more emotional outbursts, in order
to appeal to my audiences emotional side so I can persuade them to follow my path of thinking. This means that in
order to create a quality slideshow for an audience I need to access both my right and left brain, my objective and
emotional thinking so that I can research the right things which need to be included and so that I can find emotional
content so that I can persuade an audience to my side of thinking.

Among the difficult things to do that I found in the research, if found the comparison to animal treatment
today especially hard. This was difficult because it required me to not only find legitimate, credible sources for
animal cruelty fifty years ago, I also had to relate this to animal cruelty today which meant finding animal cruelty in
America, something that is talked about in excess but without any variety. This made me sort through countless
repetitive stories of cruelty to find a variety of different types of cruelty still performed in America. I had to dismiss
stories, no matter how tragic, if I found they would not be to my advantage. These actions I committed for research
have made me a much better researcher than I was as I am able to understand what I need and I can see and research
what I need to in a positive and effective manner.











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Assignment/Activity Title YearFreshman, Sophomore
SkillWriting, Media, Research. PortfolioCritical Reasoning, Ethics.

Metacognitive ReflectionThe following questions ARE NOT A SCRIPT!! Use the ideas
within the questions to reflect on the assignment and its significance to you.

Your reflection MUST use Times New Roman font, size 11, single spacing
How does this assignment reflect your growth in the category in which you are placing it?
How have you changed as a result of this assignment?
Why is it important to include this piece in your portfolio?
How and where does this fit in with your prior knowledge?
How do you think that others will react to this product?
What process did you use to complete the product?
What did you learn by doing this assignment?
How does the portfolio product illustrate the connection(s) you've made between yourself and
the course material?
In what ways would you do things differently if you could do it over again?
What did you discover about yourself?
How does it relate to your future?
How does it illustrate your strengths and/or weaknesses?
What obstacles and challenges did you have to deal with, and how did this struggle change you?
How does the portfolio product show that your perspective on the world has deepened?
How does it relate to your understanding of the world around you?
Which of your accomplishments makes you feel most proud?








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