This week I went and rented two movies to watch that are associated with our topic. The two movies that I picked up were "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" and the Frontline feature "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" So far I have only been able to watch the Frontline documentary. The documentary spent almost all of its time focusing on two key points.
As a group I feel comfortable with the project. So far we have completed an extremely detailed outline that will significantly help us on our white paper. The only issue I see is making our paper too long because we had about 1300 words in our outline alone. But this will make it simple to write the paper because we did put a lot of figures in our outline that will be directly posted in the paper. We have met twice and have not had any issues because each person is pulling their fair share of work and we are really making headway on this assignment.
So far this week, there has been alot of researching going on by all members of my group. We met on Thursday at 5:30 to create our outline of the project. Everyone had their research ready, and we just put everything together in our outline. The outline came out very well, as we have extensive information on our topic. (There may even be too much information!) I did my share of research, and typed up some of the outline. Also, after we met, I revised the outline so the format looked good, and there were no grammaratical errors.
After the second week fo working in a group, it is safe for me to say that is one of the best groups I have been in at Purdue. Usually I am just in a group with my friends from class and we just sit and talka nd stuff rarely gets done, but this group is focused and cooportive. We compliment each other nicely. I have decided to take up a main role in one of our solutions. I come from a union family and I have decided that Unionizing Wal-Mart will be my main focus. It is a big solution and I already have a ton of information to express.