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SELF-REFLECTION
“All things are possible. Who you are is limited by who you think you are.” This is one of the quote or proverb translated from Ancient Egypt’s Book of the Dead. And this is one of the quotes that I try to remember every single day, every time I doubt myself that I can’t accomplish anything. This quote helped me opened my mind to all new experiences and life lessons. And this quote helped me get out of my comfort zone. I am an introvert. I hate working with other people especially if my grade is on the line. After learning that I needed to work with different people in my art class terrified me. After Professor Fischer announced that, I was screaming on the inside and wanted to just run …show more content…
But the only thing that made me not do it is learning that I’ll be able to work on one of the topics that I really love, Ancient Egypt. I then realized that if I really dropped the class, I wouldn’t be able to work with 4 very creative and intelligent people. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy having a group of classmates that I can share my passion with. And I wouldn’t learn that working with other people is not too bad at all. The one thing that I find common within our group is the shared interest in Ancient Egypt. We were all very dedicated to be able to show the entire class how unique, amazing, rich, and important the Ancient Egyptian Culture is. I was lucky to have worked with a group of individuals who was able to share their opinions and knowledges about this topic. We used all our resources, our opinions, and our brains, and sure enough, we were able to create what I think is an amazing Art Canon …show more content…
We looked at the symbols and representations of these art works and how it impacted the culture of Ancient Egypt. The plan of our group was to first create individual art canons on what we believed was the works of art that represented this period. After that task, we met with our groups during one of our in class sessions, and from there we were able to discuss what our final art canon will be. We looked at each art pieces and determined its importance and value, and how it impacted, symbolizes, and represented Ancient Egypt. Out group have even and fair contributions to the project. Each one of us put in our own researches to each art pieces and combined all of them to be able to show the class. JT was able to help the group by creating the introduction, put in his researches, and was able to represent the entire group during the presentation of our project. He also helped with the slide presentations. Astrid helped me with putting in pictures in the slides. She was able to put in her researches as well in some of the slides. Keith was able to provide the group PDF copies of the books required for the project. He also researched and put all those information in our project. Joe, just like everyone else in the group, was able to put in all his researches in the project and he was the one who turned in the project for the group. I, on the other