Poli Sci

Part I:
      The three Woll reading presentations that I did this year were Democracy in America by de Toqueville, The Power to Persuade by Neustadt, and Bowling Together by Robert D. Putnam.   Since some of the readings, specifically Democracy in America, were hard to understand because of the style of writing, it helped to read it earlier then read it two more times prior to making the power point.   It helped to read it multiple times because if I didn’t understand a part, it would take a while for it to sink in, and the next time I would read it, I would find information that I missed the previous time I read it.   Every time I read it, I would write down important information that I could use in the power point.   Then when I read it for the final time, I compiled the information I found and started to create the power point.   My group and I used the main ideas of the reading for the objectives.   The rest of the explanation consisted of elaborating on the objectives to make it easier for the class to understand.   I felt that the presentation and our plan on working the presentation were very effective.   But because it was a group project, we had a hard time getting together early and putting everything together.   Ultimately, the only time that we had together, was the night before the presentation.   If I had the chance to do things differently, I would try to meet with my group earlier to try and get the presentation done early so we wouldn’t be in a rush to get things done.   It might’ve been more efficient if we just collaborated ideas and emailed the power point to each other to add what we found ourselves and then pull it all together to finish it up.   Even though the working part was procrastinated, I still was able to learn from the readings.   From Democracy in America I learned that the federal Constitution of the United States better represents individuals.   I also learned that the U.S. took the good parts of small nations’ and big nations’ policies to...