Journal Dec. 17

1. Team 1's major arguement was that colonialism generally made the country better. It improved the people's well-being anlong with proviene them with better health options. It also gave them better oppurtonities and made them more intelligent.

2. Team 1's major evidence to back up these arguments was that there was a writing saying that African men were taller after colonialism. Taller men meant healthier men. They also kept focusing on the fact that the countries GED had raised after colonialism.

3. Team 2's main arguement was that the colonizers had taken away the African culture. They also argued that the British were showing off African arguements as trophies. 

4. They didn't have much evidence to support there arguement. One peice of evidence they had was that Alex had been to the British museum and got the impression that they were using the artifacts as throphies. Another peice of evidence they had was when Dr. Jafar said that Nigeria lost tons of artwork.

5. Right now I think that team 1 won the arguement based on the fact that they seemed more prepared and had stronger evidence. However at the time of the debate, I thought team 2 had won. That was probably because team 2 did very good in the Grand rebuttal by contradicting Team 1's points. Now I feel like Team 2 did better in the whole debate not just in the Grand Rebuttal. Also writing this blog helped me see that team one actually had more evidence.