My Personal Refection........NHD

As a freshman at Constitution High School, there were a lot of expectations of me.

The pressure was on to do my best as far as good reputation of this school was in my

hands as I started the project. Our topic was Italian Mafia...Joey Merlino, we choose

this topic because personally I thought it was very interesting. So I decided that I

would work on an exhibit, it was right up my alley; my partners wanted to do it to so


it was a date. The research and the project was stressful, but the resources were the

most annnoying part of it. It toke a little while to kick start the project, as we


work on the exhibit. Korin Lassiter, Adriannah Severio and myself set up appointments


and attended the National Arvies to visit documents and see different parts of the

Italian Mafia. My partners and I ran into a lot of problems along the way, but we

stuck together through the process. As a result, the project came out beauitul and we

learned so many differnent things, we bounded and I connected with new present and

future friends. I learned that I souldn't work with friends because it can break up

close relationships. But I also learned that it can be a good thing to work with them

in the long run because, when you get stressed there is a shoulder to lean on to keep

you up when your down. During this process I learned that the Italian Mafia is more

than what they claim they are, they are a disfuctional family. I think I really gained

a fuctional family at the end. That is MY PERSONAL REFLECTION on my National History

Day Project on the Italian Mafia...Joey Merlino. What was your National History Day

Project about?

P.S. I would really appericate it if you came and seen Korin Lassiter, Adriannah

Severio and Silmarie Aguilar's National History Day Project. We worked really hard on

this exhibit; THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!