What I Learned In Groups

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While I was working in my group I learned a lot about talking with other groups. One major thing that learned was that compromises were and still are very important in almost everything that we do. I learned that working in a group with a big project like that is very important so that we could all have different inputs and ideas to go off of. When each group member gives an input it will be better that if only one person thinks about it. Than it may not have all of the information needed. Going back to compromising. When my group had discussions with other groups it was all about compromising when we make deals. Also when we were talking to other teams we had to really think about what we will say before we just start to talk. Our group had to take break to really think about the issue that we were dealing with. Also when you finish …show more content…
The factions that we were in impacted the voting in many ways. One way is the number of votes. This is because when the factions were divided almost everyone vote the way that the rest of their faction did. If there were no factions then everyone would vote for themselves. Another way that having factions changed a lot of the convention is that when one faction wanted something they most likely had to make people want to vote with them. This caused factions to compromise. If you wanted another factions vote on something then there is good chance that both factions will have to vote on something that they were not planning to vote on in the first place. Something else that factions did at the convention is that they divided people into sections based off of where they worked or if they were a slave. This impacted the convention by splitting people. This is because every faction had at least one thing that another faction was against. This cause a change in the convention. This is somethings that the factions did to change the Constitutional

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