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Bought; Maybe, Brought Home: A GOAT and COCK TALE

  As the meal was splashed to the ground, I could sense it wondered what kind of meal it was, right before its eyes is a ready to eat meal. Nevertheless I realized it wouldn’t eat, maybe so. Another unnecessary job for me: ‘cleaning it up will be easy but annoying’. Then it made a few steps closer, oh!    It might eat. Closer as it got, the time between making the first peck and when the food got splashed kept increasing. Then it looked right, left, right again, still not made the first peck! What was wrong? It kept wobbling, going back and forth; looking sideways as if trying to protects its territory. Then I recollected a scene of feeding poultry birds. In fact it was always a struggle for the meal among these hungry birds. Does this bird feel other birds are there to have the meal with it? Is the bird trying to protect the splashed meal that I know could be enough for two of its kind (not your regular bird) I recollected a lot of opportunities I have had in the past wh...

BOGC’s Takes: When It’s time to work in groups

 Can you recollect a group assignment scene and what comes with it. Were you the bystander or you were the active participant? How did you take the results after presentation. It is quite evident that during most group projects, we are influenced by the group leadership. More often than not firm and resolute leaders are influential in whether or not we become bystanders or active participants. Their finesse, dexterity, utterances and resolve determine the level of involvement that is brought on board. Most often laissez faire results in under participation. Followers are often made to work by the choices of their leaders. With these group assignments in mind you can easily understand how we grow into adults that feel if something can be done by others, why get involved in the first place. We forget the experience we may acquire, the inputs that we probably are the only ones who can bring them up, the  connections we can establish and finally that we forget we can always be som...