The Iron Heel Group - My Contributions

I was initially in the 1984 group, but switched over to The Iron Heel group, and I was glad that I did because I really enjoyed reading a book I had not read before (I had already read 1984). Our group held a few meetings where we discussed the direction in which we wanted to take our presentation. Since I read the entire Modern Social Imaginaries book, I made a couple of suggestions to my group members that included correlating and contrasting The Iron Heel and Modern Social Imaginaries. I wanted to mainly focus on the differences between the two, particularly how Modern Social Imaginaries highlights the shift in society from a oligarchy to a society where decisions are made for the "common good" and how The Iron Heel is the complete opposite of that theory; society shifts toward an oligarchy that proves to be detrimental to society. Although we didn't use my idea at the end, it was a jump off point to the type of questions that we wanted to come up with for our presentation. We met as a group a couple of times and together came up with several questions to ask the class. I contributed the three bonus questions that we have in our presentation so that we could have enough questions to have a lot of the class participate in our presentation. One other contribution that I made to our group was the powerpoint presentation that is included in our presentation. Since our presentation revolves around a game board theme and is based on Monopoly, I decided that a powerpoint presentation version of the game board would complement the entire presentation and make it more visually stimulating. I included the questions that we came up with as a group in the powerpoint presentation so that they would be easier to read on the projection screen. All of the questions on the powerpoint presentation color coordinate with the game board and are there to allow everyone in the class to see them. The only problem that arose was that we couldn't figure out how to project the powerpoint presentation on the projection screen but I held up and changed the slides on my laptop so that the people reading the questions at the game board had an easier time.