Fat Phobia vs. Eating dissorders

After discussing the topic and the problem America has on fat phobia, I realize how we have two major issues with body image and creating stereotypes depending on the situation. For those who are considered overweight and show it with their physical appearance we tend to think of them as lazy, slow, careless, dirty individuals. We often ask ourselves questions like; do they not care about their health or physical looks? Is all they do eat? Do they not think about their needs to participate in activities that can improve their health? These questions are genuinely stereotypical because little do we actually know their medical health records. They might be perfectly healthy. But because they are fat, we as a society fear becoming overweight. On the other hand studies show that people with eating disorders who suffer from anorexia and bulimia are at a far higher risk of death and deaths in life, and those who are heavier actually live on average longer than those in normal weight class. My theory behind this is that people who are overweight are the ones who are looking for help while the ones who suffer from eating disorders are in a far deeper level of depression and neglect looking for help which is probably why we don’t hear too much about these issues but we do when it comes to those who are overweight.

College vs. NBA

Call me what you will but I firmly believe that college basketball is more interesting than the NBA. Before you call the cops on me hear me out. I've heard arguments that the NBA has the best players and that the level of play is far above the college levels. I'm not going to dispute that the NBA players are the best and they could beat a team of college players. I do understand they play on a different level which is why if you refer to my initial statement I said "more interesting". I find that college basketball requires more investment in following and has a far larger pay off. For the NBA there is always the regular season then playoffs and for college there is the regular season and the tournament. The NBA season is around eighty games (exception going to seasons where the season doesn't start off on time for various reasons like a lockout for example) and for a good majority of those games teams that are playing aren't interesting match ups. Watching a team like the Lakers beat up on a team like the Knicks isn't a big deal and for Knicks fans when they do upset the Lakers its not like their entire season has become a success. In college basketball it is a very likely possibility that a team beating a single ranked opponent can make their entire season. If Duke were to lose to our very own Long Beach State team, it would be the talk of the rest of the season. For the students playing in college basketball there is so much more on the line, it isn't their profession , they aren't getting paid to play and they put in close to the same amount of work as a professional player would. So while the skill level may be entirely different the player's effort will be completely different. In college basketball the players are changing with a frequency seldom seen in the NBA, having to constantly recruit and build up new players makes the coaches at the college level that much more impressive. Watching Coach K or Tom Izzo go out there and compete successfully year after year even though they may have lost three starters and a solid couple bench players means so much more than watching Phil Jackson coach legends like Micheal Jordan and Kobe Bryant. In the NBA players prove themselves and stick around, in college they have a few years to show everyone what they are made of before they leave. Down the stretch NBA playoffs have just as much intensity as the clinching games for the tournament. Watching the NBA finals is just as fun as watching some early match games of the NCAA tournament but watching a story like Georgetown unfold is an unmatched phenomenon that any sport can compete with.


Ryan Plunkett Kin 332I

College vs. NBA

Call me what you will but I firmly believe that college basketball is more interesting than the NBA. Before you call the cops on me hear me out. I've heard arguments that the NBA has the best players and that the level of play is far above the college levels. I'm not going to dispute that the NBA players are the best and they could beat a team of college players. I do understand they play on a different level which is why if you refer to my initial statement I said "more interesting". I find that college basketball requires more investment in following and has a far larger pay off. For the NBA there is always the regular season then playoffs and for college there is the regular season and the tournament. The NBA season is around eighty games (exception going to seasons where the season doesn't start off on time for various reasons like a lockout for example) and for a good majority of those games teams that are playing aren't interesting match ups. Watching a team like the Lakers beat up on a team like the Knicks isn't a big deal and for Knicks fans when they do upset the Lakers its not like their entire season has become a success. In college basketball it is a very likely possibility that a team beating a single ranked opponent can make their entire season. If Duke were to lose to our very own Long Beach State team, it would be the talk of the rest of the season. For the students playing in college basketball there is so much more on the line, it isn't their profession , they aren't getting paid to play and they put in close to the same amount of work as a professional player would. So while the skill level may be entirely different the player's effort will be completely different. In college basketball the players are changing with a frequency seldom seen in the NBA, having to constantly recruit and build up new players makes the coaches at the college level that much more impressive. Watching Coach K or Tom Izzo go out there and compete successfully year after year even though they may have lost three starters and a solid couple bench players means so much more than watching Phil Jackson coach legends like Micheal Jordan and Kobe Bryant. In the NBA players prove themselves and stick around, in college they have a few years to show everyone what they are made of before they leave. Down the stretch NBA playoffs have just as much intensity as the clinching games for the tournament. Watching the NBA finals is just as fun as watching some early match games of the NCAA tournament but watching a story like Georgetown unfold is an unmatched phenomenon that any sport can compete with.


Ryan Plunkett Kin 332I

NBA Lockout Resolved

This past weekend, the NBA came to an agreement over the lockout. While I am very excited to see the Laker's play on Christmas day, I am disgusted by the reason for this entire lockout. The NBA players are greedy and don't deserve to be payed as much as they do. Yes, I do feel like they should get a decent wage but I do not think they should get paid more than a surgeon who saves people's lives. The way this world is run seems corrupt to me. While the NBA provides much of society's entertainment and brings in a large sum of money, I do not feel they should get paid the amount they do. If the player's were smart, they would realize how much money they lost in the month of games they have let go. Not only have they lost revenue, but they have also lost the respect of fans and spectators. This lockout just goes to show how unfair the world is run. A surgeon who spent years in school is making less than an NBA player who maybe did not even get a college degree. This type of thinking makes no sense to me. Maybe the entire season should have been cancelled to show the player's a harsh reality.

Kristin Taylor 007293453

Distant assignment

The media focused on the students rioting and the disappointment that their coaches and faculty were being fired. It brought little attention at first to the seriousness of the crimes Sandusky had committed. It also didn’t make it very clear why the head coach Paterno and other faculty were being fired. It also neglected the feelings of the victims. The PSU scandal has been portrayed by media as a series of immoral choices that went about to protect their prestigious community.

Sandusky has a large amount of power because he has a prestigious organization behind him and is working with underprivileged children who have less support from trustworthy adults. The social media spreads a dissenting viewpoint by expressing various outlooks such as the students outrage at the loss of their coach and the disappointment that Sandusky was able to get away with child abuse for so long. This is a good example of how power can allow deviance to happen while their power structure was trying to be kept intact. When sports become more powerful than its value these situations are bound to happen.

Coming from a constructionist framework I would blame the way the power structure was set up. Because no one sought to go outside this power structure and call the police. This is based on over conformity. In this case people ignored innate reactions to such immoral behavior and followed rules of their interior power structure.

I personally think this scandal could of easily been avoided if someone stepped up from any position who was aware of Sandusky’s wrong actions and called law enforcement. I believe there is no excuse to ignore his wrong behaviors and people should be punished for their actions and not be excused for their position in power.

Brittany Hayden

kin 3321, sec. 310767

Athletes and Positive Self Talk

One of the hardest barriers for athletes to overcome are the negative thoughts that go through their minds when facing adversity. Athletes tend to use negative self-talk that often prevent them from staying optimistic during demanding situations. The use of positive self-talk are daily ongoing conversations that individuals use to keep themselves motivated, these affirmations assist them in consistently keeping a confident and hopeful outlook. Athletes must encompass and instill in themselves a positive mental mind-set. They are accountable for guiding themselves and developing a better sense of positive self-talk. Many athletes may lack this important technique and will never fully develop an understanding of positive self-talk without consistent practice. Someone who is thinking positively is capable of staying regularly focused and determined to handle different situations. Positive self-talk is a great technique that allows athletes to change their state of mind to persevere through the hardships and improve their performance. Athletes who practice positive self-talk is an individual who carries great confidence and has no doubt in his or her abilities to achieve there desired goals. The athlete who sees things positively will tend to look for the good in every situation and allow them to succeed.

http://www.performance-media.com/thoughts.php

distance learning assignment

Sandusky is sick in the head. I dislike the fact that he is not admitting that he is a pedophile when questioned during an interview. One of the key things about pedophiles I learned from my Abnormal Psychology class is that they are in denial and they have a strong belief that what they are doing is not wrong. Sandusky admits to horsing around in the showers with the boys, but does not see anything wrong with his actions. At this point, I don't think he's trying to save Penn State's reputation or even his own, he seriously has some sort of abnormal psychological disorder. Social media is interpreting this scandal as it should be. It's showing us that Sandusky, along with the others involved, were morally wrong and should be punished. Although media is doing the right thing by exposing this scandal, it also gives the actual sport, school and faculty a bad reputation. It gets me a little worried about other colleges and the kinds of sketchy things that could be possibly happening. It even gets me thinking about our own school! YIKES! You never know! This scandal is raising many suspicions and paranoia amongst the college sport community and are slowly losing trust from the people. I'm sure Paterno and others did not take the correct actions to stop Sandusky because they knew it would have ruined the football team and all their power would diminish, which is what's happening right now. The sport deviance in this case is not normal and should not be tolerated. These faculty members of the football team that knew about Sandusky's horsing around enjoyed the power and money they received. They got lost in the greed from the benefits they were getting and only thought about themselves instead of the poor boys going through these incidents. Of course they are not going to snitch out Sandusky because they did not want to lose what they were receiving through their work with the sport. It is not okay with what happened to these young boys and it's sad they have to live with this their whole lives. Everyone involved in and knew about this scandal should not have the privilege to keep their position with the school and should be punished.