Group Deliberation: Topic, Anyone?

Professor Aguilar assigned us our groups and I got teamed up with Samantha Kercheval, Bita Hodaei, Duke Rescola and Stephen Sabetti.

We sat around for what seemed like hours and in a circle, we each revealed to one another what our ideas were concerning our group project. We all knew that we had to pick a topic that we would feel strong about up until the end of the semester. After much deliberation, the two topics we were leaning toward were: fashion and the current war in Iraq.

Samantha seems to have a strong connection to this topic, hailing from Twenty-Nine Palms, a military community. Her fiancee, Tim, is also a Marine.

I have to admit, I'm having reservations about covering such a serious and sensitive subject. After hearing some of the other groups ideas, I especially felt kinda hesitant to tackle this topic. I guess we'll see how it goes.