Decision Making

I felt that I personally used collaborating to handle the potential for chaos during the class decision making process. I knew that it would almost seem impossible to just get it one’s way. Everyone had different wants and not all can be implemented in a decision making process. We all needed to come together and bargain and negotiate and come with a reasonable solution that would satisfy everyone in one way or another. Everyone’s multiple insights helped narrow down choices as well as combine certain options so that we can all benefit.

In my opinion, collaborating is an effective method in handing conflict. It provides an opportunity for everyone to have a voice to share their approach on the situation. This permits everyone to have an open mind for new ideas shared. Acknowledging everyone’s opinions helped the class to find a successful decision that affected us all in a positive way.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

Our group failed at building an effective egg protector because of our design. We came up with several different blue prints of how we can create an egg protector than will prevent the egg from cracking. Unfortunately, the design needed to be simple and effective but we focused too much in protecting the egg with lots of straws all around it.

The we carried out all the steps required in the "Planning Process." We defined our goal and objective, we determined resources and current status, developed two alternative strategies, made a tactical plan, and implemented the plan and evaluateed results. I believe that possibly we were weak in carrying out the step for implementing the plan and evaluating results because time was running out and we needed to get the egg covered with the straws asap though we did not bypass any of the steps.

I personally believe that we all worked together and shared our ideas to see what would work out best and my team's overall performance was positive and active in trying to complete our goal. If we had the material during the planning phase, then I believe we would have achieved a better design that would most likely have given us a higher chance in coming up with a more effective plan in protecting our egg from cracking.

Cultural Shock

Divorce is very common in America. If I ever see signs for lawyers, their specialty is usually handling divorce cases. Couples in America either fall in love or have kids and realize that they are ready for a marriage. Being married do not necessarily mean that the person you are with will be with you till the day you die. From friends and co-workers I was told that divorce is an obstacle in person’s life that they must move past. It isn’t usually uncommon when marriages fail because either they realize that they are with the wrong person or that they don’t want it anymore for personal reasons. Society will not frown or feel pitiful for couples that face divorce but only provide support so they can recover and continue on with their lives. In Bangladesh, the concept of divorce is almost taboo. Marriages are arranged by parents. It takes a lot for a Bengali couple to finally choose to divorce. Usually they stick it out and remain to stay with each other even if they desire to leave. One of the major reasons as to why it is not frequent because of what society has to say about them. Fingers will be pointed at and rumors will be spread that can completely destroy the chances of a person that is divorced trying to live his/her life. Divorce puts more weight on a woman to ever be able to live a normal life or even possibly be re-married again. The views from both cultural view opposing views and in my opinion as an American raised Bengali girl, a marriage should be thought through so that divorce does not need to be necessary but should be an option if needed.