My social action project progress

I am still figuring out who I will interview. I might not be able to interview my high school coaches because I will not be heading home before November 10th. I think I will stick to my friends and family that have major sport back rounds and that have played school sports. I actually like the idea with interviewing friends because their high school experience is more fresh and up to date. I will also try to mix up where my friends came from to get different perspectives. Some people might have had better experiences because they lived in a better town or a town that loved school sports. I still might plan on talking to the ISU baseball coach but since this is a D1 school im not sure if he will have time because im sure D1 schools practice more often. He will also be busy with alot more then other coaches that coach at a lower level.

Job Description

The jobs i reviewed were a PE teacher and a Athletic Coach. These two jobs interest me alot because they have to do with my major. I also love sports and both of these have to deal with sports. Back in my hometown i used to umpire little league and help out little leaguers with baseball. I really enjoyed doing this and PE and Atheletic coaching relate to my help with these kids.

Major/Job Paragraph 10/26/10

Some jobs Ive seen on the website for physical education were PE teacher, coaching,and trainers. Ive also seen some interesting ones like a proffesional sport scout which caught my eye because this seems like a fun career to thrive for. I also like the coaching jobs which will most likely be my top goal. I would want to because a PE teacher and let that lead to a baseball coach because many people who are coaches are also gym teachers.

Ed Equality

1. There is no way a blind person can be treated normally which is why Sally thinks this is problematic. Sally wants people to accommodate with her blindness. She wants the help and attention to get her through her days with her disability. Blind people will not use the same methods to complete work.
2. To start off her tone was positive talking about how her teachers would help her. She sounded very happy and enthusiastic in those paragraphs. She then talks about the negative side. She feels this way because it is really frustrating seeing how society is shaping up. She explains how people used to be more helpful and now just worried bout them selves.
3. The early paragraphs talk about results from certain studies and it shows that minorities are placed in these classes twice as much as white people. They also talk about how many minorities come from bad families which don't allow them to gain any knowledge at all. Some students cant even read not because they are dumb but because their family back round.
4. The ADA and IDEA made great changes to Americans because now this is a documented law. People will now look at is as a more important issue if it was acknowledged to become a law and it has.

Interview thingy

You are being invited to participate in a primary research project for ENG 145. The educational purpose of this research project is to provide an opportunity for students in the Writing Program to design and perform primary reasearch. Because students will devlop these materials themselves, the topics and themes of the projects will be varied. For this project, I am investigating the importance of school sports/PE towards society. The purpose of this research is to gain knowledge and gain others opinions on my topic. As part of the study, you may be asked to complete an anonymous survey or questionaire, or to participate in a confidential interview or a focus group.
Because we will nevwer disclose any personal imformation or names that may identify you, the risks to you are minimal. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and confidential. You do not have to participate and you will not be penalized in any way for choosing not to participate in the study. Also, you may choose to stop your involvement in this research at any time.

Interview Questions

1. What is your views on the importancy of PE?
2. What influence do school sports have on the students?
-Positive or Negative
3. How does school sports influence the community the school is in?
4. If there wasn't school sports, how different would school be?
-Positive or Negative
5. PE should be a important class to have for health reasons, why do you think PE is declining in society?
6. How do school sports influence each individual player?
7. Do you think school sports bring more violence and drinking (after games) to students or a healthy event to show up to?

Shitty First Drafts

I liked this article because she explains a nice way in getting out good information and how to create drafts to create better papers. She says that the first draft is a down draft, just used to get all the thoughts out and down on paper. She uses this to find ideas and leads she likes to create a good paper. She explains that most writers dont just sit down and start writing nice papers, you have to use drafts and jot down any ideas with your shitty first draft. Its unique to me that she has so much problems with confidence and such every review she writes.

Finding your own voice

I think voice in writing is like your own special way of writing and making your own paper interesting. Some writers have a more funny or chill style of writing and others have a highly educated way of writing with all of these big words and such. Your voice will be your own opinion on certain issues and how you will elaborate on that. Discovering your own voice is just following your opinions and writing in a style that is comfortable to you.
Lamott quote means that don't just follow everyone's opinion or ways of writing. Open up and reveal your opinions and your ways of writing because you can create something outstanding that no one revealed before.

Asian Lesbian

A visible minority is like major groups of minorities like African Americans and Hispanics. Invisible minority means that they are a group of minorities with a lesser amount of people.

Sticking to your own kind means to basically stick to your own kind. If you are African American dont be ashamed or if you are white dont set your standards too high. Believe in your self for who you are.

She is a Asian and is a lesbian and she feels that she doesnt fit in because she is the only Asian in the school and she is a lesbian, getting over this problem will take courage and self esteem.

No, I rarely even acknoledge my ethnicity and such because I look at my self as being American, I was born here so I'm an American.

Sexism

A good example is when you are hanging out with friends and you always hear comments on how sexy this girl was, or how big this girls butt is. This happens all the time in society and sometimes the girl hears, especially when your calling her ugly. Some guys get jealous of other guys and girls and the words start flying that way. People always judge gay and lesbian people too just by looking at them or hearing them talk. You can overcome this by not talking about these things with your girl friends or when they are around. I think talking about girls with all your guy friends is fine because its all guy talk. The judging of gay and lesbian people pops up with my friends occasionally and to stop that you just cant judge people on what they like.