Arick D. Scott's Reflection

     This year, I was required to take a course called freshman seminar. In this class, we were expected to attend class every  Tuesday at 9:00am. When in class, we would often have a guest speaker that would usually present a lecture that was significant and informative. Along with that, the class also required us to complete a final assignment: a group research project. The project was intended to be a group effort that would involve sufficient teamwork. The team was expected to take the initiative of scheduling extracurricular meetings where they could work on the production of their project. The project followed the basic research question- In what ways is knowledge generated by various fields of study used to develop solutions to human social problems and challenges? My group decided that our human social problem that we would discuss was "the deficiency within the African-American community." In order to do this topic correctly, one would have to research the African-American community and the recurring trend that exists. We used the "Cradle to Prison Pipeline" article as a template for our research. After analyzing the issue that the article addressed, I concluded that the African-American youth seemed to be the most affected ones. From here, I concluded that the children are like this because of a lack of sufficient parenting and the absence of proper role models. Our project described the problems within the African-American community due to the inadequate leadership. The hardest part about this topic was the research and organization of the presentation because there was so many contributing factors and specific points. Once my group actually met up and began to work, the research project became much easier.