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During socratic seminar, I have made decisions that I knew was the right decision. Although there was also a few decisions that I thought was right, but resulted in being completely wrong. One decision that I made was Thinking the main person to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death was Friar Laurence because of the ways that he encouraged Romeo and Juliet to lie and not listen to their parents. Although soon after, my decision was changed by information spoken by peers of mine. I soon saw that what I think to be the right decision is not always ultimately correct. Throughout the socratic seminar there was a lot of controversy changing how I felt and thought about the topic, and still never proving that my decision was ever fully right. The decision that I concluded to by the end of the socratic seminar was that the person most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death was Lord and Lady Capulet. This decision was led off by the Capulets expressing selfishness …show more content…
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