1. I believe that Abraham Lincoln, who has been called our country's greatest president, was an amazing leader becuase he was able to do something very important for our country. It was president Lincoln who was able to preserve the Union during a time of war and crisis and brought hope to many, especially slaves in the South. I also believe that Susan B. Anthony was a great leader because she was willing to stand before people who did not know or respect her and fight for what she believed in. Many women and men felt empowered by her and because of her, felt they could fight for the cause as well. I also believe Ghandi was an affective leader because he accepted all followers and was not cruel or abusive to his power. With his policy of nonviolence, he was even kind to his own enemies.
2. I wish to be able to identify problems and be able to identify strategies to solve them, much like the way Lincoln was able to solve the problems occurring in the Union. I also wish that I had the strength to start a revolution for my own cause no matter how dangerous it may be, much like the way Susan B. Anthony fought for women's rights. Also, I wish to have the patience to deal with my enemies the way Ghandi did; through acceptance and nonviolence and to never abuse my power.
3. My definition of leadership is the ability to use sense and reason to solve problems while maintaining honesty and justice towards followers because what is most important is not your own needs or your own power, but the well being of others.
4. From this course, I hope to be able to speak up when I have ideas rather than let other people always take control because I think this is a very valueable skill to have in life. I know that if I try, I can make a lot of useful contributions to the group and I hope to be able to accomplish this in this course.
5. In initiative #1 I am not sure that I contributed as much as I could have because I did not sugguest many ideas. In the beginning I was not as tangled up as some of the others and therefore I didn't have as much of a need to participtate, though I probably should have because I could clearly see some of the knots from where I was standing. Later on, I began to take the advice of other people even though I had doubts about it myself and it ended up not working. I should have spoken up more and tried to solve some of the problems myself rather than let everyone else think of strategies and tell me what to do. I know that it is hard for me to do this with a group of people that I don't know very well, though I can't just use that as an excuse for not trying becuase that is the very thing I need to work on. I think as a group we should have worked together more because it seemed to me that after some people got untangled, they stood off to the side and didn't try to help or make suggestions to the people who were still stuck. Being able to work together as one giant group no matter what size rather than a bunch of little groups is probably something we need to work on, even though we don't know each other very well yet.
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