Self Reflections due Monday, 10/20
Dear class:
Your self-reflections are due on Monday, 10/20 on CI Learn (no later than 11:59 p.m.).
Episode 4
/in /by colleenThis episode begins with the twist that occurred in Coyopa’s elimination of John Rucker, who had been blindsided by the rest of his tribe. Although most of them were glad to be rid of him and his aggressive nature, Dale feels secluded as he thinks that he is to be the next target.
After John from Hunahpu earns his tribe another win, he is forced to send his girlfriend to Exile Island. Along with her, he decides to let Drew accompany her. In doing this, the pair work together and Drew quickly confesses on his idea to throw the next challenge in order to make his tribe vote someone out. He firmly believes that he is the leader of the group and is the one who has been ensuring their survival. His actions prior, however, contradicts what he says. For example, in the last episode, he is seen sleeping rather than helping the group repair their shelter. He is also noted for being cocky and simply showing off his strength to the group, rather than actually working with everyone else.
According to the Big Five Personality Traits, we can associate carelessness and disagreeableness to Drew. The tribe knows that he does not pull his own weight around, but Drew is under the impression that he does. This makes him very disagreeable to work with as his group members do not think he is a great team player. When he purposefully throws off the second challenge, he attempts to convince everyone to vote Kelley off. No one agrees with his idea as Kelley is actually a positive player for the group. Drew, however, continues to push his want of eliminating her.
Drew intentionally threw off a challenge to make his tribe eliminate one of their members. Although he believed he would be able to eliminate someone he saw as a threat, the episode ended in Drew, himself, being voted off.
Episode 3
/in /by colleenIn this episode of Survivor, we focus on the conflict within the tribes and between the tribes.
The Hunahpu tribe faces an internal group conflict with one of their members, Drew. When they all decide to work together to fix and repair their shelter, Drew decides to take a nap instead. His excuse is that he simply cannot complete the task and resides to sleep in the middle of the group’s work area. By deciding to brush off the group’s task, Drew focused on his own needs and wants rather than the groups’. This could be looked at as an affective conflict, as Drew shows the group how lazy he could be compared to how the rest of the group is hardworking.
In another example of conflict, there arose a problem between the groups. Jeremy from Hunahpu and John Rucker from Coyopa had created an alliance to protect each other’s significant other. John, however, backs out of this agreement and allows his group to vote Val, Jeremy’s wife, out. Jeremy explains that he feels betrayed by John’s actions and therefore, there is a procedural conflict. When John decided to break his alliance with Jeremy and allow Val to be eliminated, he also put his girlfriend, Julie, from Hunahpu in a bad spot. Julie, now at risk of elimination, also feels betrayed.
The tension between the two tribes arise when during one of the games, Coyopa decides to play dirty and aggressively push and shove the members of Hunahpu. There is also some group hate against John Rocker when the Hunahpu tribe finally learns about John’s bad reputation and bigotry. When he is called out, John simply responds in a way proves his aggressive nature. Here, there is affective conflict due to their conflicting beliefs and moral values.
