Jamestown Reflection

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To survive in Jamestown, it was had to make some decisions in choosing and ranking fifteen equipment from the most important to the least important. Also, it challenging to choose six people who should survive and select nine people to live from the fifteen people on the space station. Couple weeks later, I had to make the same decisions for both the Jamestown equipment and the metro strike people survival individual but the decisions were made as a group. I chose salted pork and hard tack to be the first on my equipment sheet because it is an easy and ready to eat to keep the survivor away from hanger for a few days. On the other hand, my group thought that the flint and striker, the ax, the musket, and the 15meter rope were a little more important than the salted pork and hard tack and rank it as number 5. My group chose the 15meter rope as number 4 because
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The values that take priority in this lens are: integrity, justice, courage, and civility. The core value of the reputation lens focuses on equality and sensibility over rationality which means I use my emotions and feelings in making specific decisions. I was having a very hard time choosing the six people who should survive. I felt like none of them deserve to die or eliminate. Even during the group discussion, I felt that Max, Michelle, Kerry, and Alexandra should survive regardless of their age or health condition but at the end we had to choose what is best for the entire human being. The strength of the reputation lens is compassion. While completing the Jamestown equipment sheet, I was thinking about what is good for all the survival in the Jamestown which influenced my decision and picking the flint and striker, the musket, and the magnetic compass to be on the top of my list. I chose these items because they can be used by all survivals for protection from wild animals, hunting, and safe return to

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