Organized Crime In The Jail System

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I was very happy working with the people that I worked with and enjoyed my group very much. Everyone always seemed to get along well with one another and the only argument that took place was choosing a topic we were all comfortable with.

Everyone in the group chose a subtopic to speak about. I chose organized crime in the jail system. In my personal opinion the hardest piece of information to obtain was the actual information on the reason each gang came to be and who they were allied and enemies in the complicated chain rivalry. Being an active member of the group I learned how hard it is to get others to agree to an idea or even align schedules enough to rehearse the speech.

The overall project was simple and fun to complete. I enjoyed working with people I know personally and are hard workers. Each individual in the group did their best to make sure everything was running as smoothly as possible. What made the project complicated was getting all the information to flow into one singular topic. Each subtopic could have easily been an individual topic, but working together it worked out in the end. …show more content…

I personally need to be alone to get any work done as I am easily distracted and have a hard time getting back into the work. Most of my work was done outside of the classroom where I was alone and could concentrate on my topic instead of worry about the whole speech in general. Although we tried we were not able to run through the speech before hand which was evident as we did not meet the time or ran as smoothly as we had hoped for. The major part that need improvement in the overall presentation was that I personally forgot a big chunk of my

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