Thursday, February 10, 2011

Reflection.

From the group presentations, i learned that the 1920's gangsters were all masterminds. All presentations presented by my classmates were unique and informative, and i found the process of finding information for this project very fun. My gangster was Kate Ma Barker and she was unlike any regular gangster. She was sort of undercover or in other words hiding from punishment because of her four sons. Her four sons were well known for the crimes and some of them even spent time in jail for it, but there is no record of Kate being part of these crimes. They were the perfect criminals, they tricked everyone into thinking they were innocent because it was a mother with her kids, the perfect disguise. From what i heard from my classmates, most of the gangsters actually knew eachother and even worked together in some crimes. All these criminals were not stupid, they thought beyond what regular people thought and succeeded at what they did. Not all were evil, some actually became friends with the people they assaulted. These group presentations were very helpful. I learned a lot more from working together and listening to others opinions and research than to find information by myself.