Modern Day Goddess Research Paper

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Modern Day God/Goddess Project Reflection
I found this project educational and enjoyable. We were able to learn while keeping an open mind to creativity. This allowed me to really engage in this project since I felt it was interesting. It was a very neat way to learn about a specific god or goddess. Overall, more projects like this should be given out in all of my classes. I know these types of projects work very well with me as a student.
The goddess my group had chosen was Aphrodite. Each of us were blooming with ideas. This project allowed us to work on our collaboration skills. We listened to everyone's ideas to ensure our final product turned out just as we imagined. We took the effort to brainstorm and lay out all of our ideas. This …show more content…

I think it was easier to gain knowledge this way than it would have been if we had to simply write an essay on the goddess we chose. The group I was in worked very well. One of the ideas we had was to interview our modern day goddess. We put that in so we could incorporate more information about her onto our video. It also turned out quite funny. Another idea we had was the makeup studio since Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty. We all immediately fell in love with the idea so it ended up working out perfectly.
It was very neat how we were able to find a good balance between information and creativity. We found many clever ways to slide information into our commercial. After lots of collaboration and teamwork, we all agreed our final product was very similar to how we wanted it to turn out. We went into depth with learning about Aphrodite because of this project. We are able to relate information on her to aspects in the
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modern day world. Finding this connection really strengthens our understanding of this knowledge and how much we are able to gain from it.
We accomplished and learned many things throughout this experience. I would not have changed the way I approached this assignment because I am quite proud of the final product. All in all, the best project are the ones we learn from and enjoy at the same time. I would definitely

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