I think that his good start has been a fluke and that he will soon drop off to the poor talent level that he’s played at his entire life. Tony Romo was the quarterback of the Burlington Demons his junior and senior year of High School. (Flores, 2) Romo could not lead the Demons to a winning record in either year. He did however, make the all-county team, and was an honorable mention for all-state basketball. (Layden, 1) So he was almost good in High School, but not really at all.
Although English is not my second language, I feel that “proper” English is. From Amy Tan’s essay and my own life experience, I believe that too many people in America are treated unfairly because they do not speak “proper” English. I remember growing up with my aunt and having trouble with my English because the school system was so poor. I had to be taken out of my normal classes in third grade and put in a class for kids who had trouble with their English. On career day my teacher asked me what I wanted to be, and I told her I wanted to be a lawyer.
Thirty-seven of the people surveyed agreed that dance is classified as a sport. [View appendix 2,3,4]. These responses are close to what I had expected. I knew that most people would have been involved in dance because of school Heath & Physical Education. However I thought that there would be far more people who believed dance is NOT a sport.
With each action is the thought " I'll do this for you, if you do something for me in return." This idea may scare people because with all of the other commitments they have, they don't want to add in any favors they must do for others. The article in the Wichita Eagle says almost the opposite of the teens and young adults in the communities today. The survey was done on 1,700 students nationwide, and the results were amazingly contradictory to the theories Putnam provides on the issue. Over 36% of teens surveyed had volunteered in their community, which is the exact opposite of reciprocity.
Evidence of Discrimination Against Ernie Davis Ernie Davis had experienced a lot of discrimination in his lifetime, although to be fair Ernie’s life took place during the action of the Jim Crow laws so there is a small reason as to why Ernie was discriminated against so much, but this was still no excuse. Most were conducted by the hate of his skin color, many times in the book Ernie described the hate as useless and unethical. Much of this discrimination can be referred to during the very beginning of Ernie’s freshman year at Syracuse University. Many of the fellow teammates (the white ones) used to push him around and patronize Ernie for being one (out of three) of the black people on his team. When asked by one of his fellow teammates why he doesn’t retaliate, Ernie simply answered by saying “I do my talking on the field’.
She will stand up to anyone and anything, warrior-women Ugly Girl, as she puts it. She ends up dropping off the basketball team after not doing well in a game which also tells us that she is afraid of getting humiliated and be a laugh to others, but that is not her major problem. Her major problem is that she also overheard what Matt says and she is the one to convince the principal that Matt should be forgiven and allowed to return to school. What she does not count on is that she begins to actually be attracted to Matt, and for a girl who is been operating independently of what other people want and think, it is sort of a hard thing to deal
I was treated differently, most of my classmates considered all the teachers that actually made you work for a grade as evil. If they could not breeze through a class without much effort on their part that was exactly what they wanted. Teachers made special accommodations for sports jocks and the druggies. I believe there are valid cases of class discrimination in high school. Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace - I find it hard to believe that in this day and age, you can tell someone in most states – sorry you are gay or lesbian so I am not going to hire you.
Statistic #2 from the first question effects me personally because I remember in middle school when I took PE for one year that a lot of people just stood around did nothing and most of the teachers didn’t care. I had my own group that actually ran the miles, played basketball, did our stretches with the proper technique and cared. Even know in high school, where we have the option to take online course for Physical Education people just take it so they can pretend to do the work. Honestly if I had the option to take only Personal Fitness at school I would do it. Not that I have anything against doing it online, where I will actually do the things that you instructor tell me to do and not just sit around and pretend because honestly I think that is stupid but many people actually do that.
I had assumed that most kids would be like me, first-time tennis players. However, I was quickly proven wrong as the top varsity player hit speeding balls that flew by me. After the end of that practice I felt horrible as I realized that I was probably the worst player on the team. Heading inside to return to the locker room, Coach Smith gave us his annual "first day of practice" speech. He told us that he was not going to make any cuts.
There is a popular television show called Toddlers and Tiaras that documents what goes on during these child beauty pageants. There was one episode where these seven year old girls had to do a very provocative dance routine at a pageant. At the beginning of the episode the pageant moms were completely against it but their daughters dance coach convinced them that they would have to do if they want to win. The girls ended up winning the pageant. These girls had on barely any clothing and a lot of makeup and they are only seven.