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Tanya Franco

Block 2A

Schools began to let girls play on teams of the opposite gender if there is not a team for girls of that sport. In my opinion even if they give girls the opportunity to play on a team it is still hard to fit in with the guys. As a girl, guys see you as someone weaker than guys. They think girls can’t do the same things guys can. It is hard to fit in a team that is full of guys. Just like it is hard to go into a class where you are the only girl. So even if they allow you to play on the team it takes a lot more to actually feel like you are part of a team.

Coaches should encourage the guys to help girls feel apart of the team. The team should be a team. My cousin told me about her experience when she was the only girl on the baseball team. She said she almost got to the point where she didn’t want to play anymore. The guys wouldn’t make any interaction with her. They would constantly leave her out of conversations about the games or pep talks. She said not until they realized she was a very good player but also a very great friend.

Everyone should not only allow girls to play on teams but also treat them like they are part of a team. A team is a group of people who come together to form a team. Every single person from that group should be able to feel like they really are in the team. Both girls and boys.

jackie robinson

Why is Jackie Robinson a hero?

Jackie Robinson is a hero up to this day because he was the first black person to break the color barrier and the first to be the vice president of chock full o” nuts.

Jackie Robinson helped people to get passed the color barrier. The played in the major leagues when people did not want to. He stated at first base on April 15, 1947 as the first black guy since the 1880’s. The dodger’s ended racial segregation that rejected players from joining a major baseball leagues. He helped in the civil rights move movement. He played in six World Series and contributed to the dodgers in 1955 World Series champing ship. He won six consecutive all-star games and awarded MLB rookie of the year award and won the national leagues most valuable player award.  

                                                Does his legacy live on?

His legacy lives on because every one plays baseball and not by color of there skin or how the look. Whites and blacks and others play every sport and not by racial color or any thing.

How did his actions result in changes in America that were far beyond baseball?

His actions resulted in all sports to baseball to football that every one has the right to play and to do what he/she wants to do. He helped girls and guys play the sport the truly love and not by what people say.

        How did he shape sports for the generations to come?

He changed the shape of sports for the next generations to come by distorting the color barrier so the next generation could not feel what they felt when you are not allow to play sports or to play with other race of  people.

Jackie Robinson

Miguel Garcia

11/3/14

Why is Jackie Robinson a hero?

                        Jackie Robinson is known for playing baseball but he is a hero because he broke the color barrier. This means that he was one of the African Americans who made it into a professional all white team.  Jackie Robinson’s legacy carries on because he is in museums and he’s a hall of famer.  There is a movie about Jackie Robinson called 42 that came out in 2013 showing stages of his life and how he started playing baseball and how that experience was or him. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier on April 15 1947. Jackie Robinson was also one of the 1^st who got his job for his mental toughness because the person who hired him was looking for someone who could handle all the stress. After Jackie Robinson retired he made sure to not end his story of baseball and became vice president of chock full o’ nuts and served 10 years on the board of the NAACP.

How does his legacy carry on?

                        Jackie Robinson’s legacy carries on to this day because of how he changed baseball he helped others from the negro teams get onto professional teams. Jackie Robinson made many things possible for athletes mostly black athletes. When Jackie Robinson played on the field he asked the people to respect him as a human being because baseball at the time had been segregated for over 50 years. Jackie Robinsons 1^st season was full of a lot of raciest comments from white fans and players.

Should girls be allowed to play on boys’ sport’s team? I

Kimberly Mata

Should girls be allowed to play on boys’ sport’s team? I believe that girls should be able to play on boys’ sport’s team because girls can be as good as boys when playing sports just because we are girls doesn’t mean that we are weak and don’t know how to play any sport that’s meant for boys. Girls can sometimes play better that a boy and if a girl like to play football then we should all have the right to play the sports that we like to play without anyone having to tell us we can’t play because it might be tough for us. According to the article “Girl allowed to play football on Catholic team” it says “Caroline Pla has played football since kindergarten. But was told last fall the no-girls rule would be enforced in her Bucks County league.” I say that girls should be allowed to play any game because its what we like to do. In the article it also explained that “This week, the 12 year old girl and her family asked the Liberty Union Thurston school board for permission to play with the boys on the middle school team.” “In a decision questioned by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and an Ohio High School Athletic Association official, the school district said no.” At the end they explain how “our attorney said it is very clear the school district does have the right to determine whether girls participate in contact sports,” Mathew said. The federal law, known as the Title IX, does allow girls to be banned from boys’ contact sports.”

Sports in Schools

Itati Becerra

October 31, 2014

Block 2A

     In my opinion, I believe that sports should not be banned from schools. I believe this because it will give students a chance to become active and have something to focus on other something then just class work. I mean of course students should have to have good grades to participate in a school sport. If students have failing grades and cannot participate in a school sport anymore, then that will motivate them to do better on their work so they can participate in a school sport that they really enjoy playing and being part of. It will get more students to become more active and have them playing outside, instead of being inside on electronics damaging their eyes. “Athletic programs offer a simple and powerful solution. Kids need physical exercise. Kids like to play games. They want the kind of social interaction and adult mentoring that comes from being part of a team. Athletic programs give students a direct incentive to attend school, keep up their grades, and graduate with their classmates.” (http://sportsinschools.org/) Lots of people make athletes role models because athletes are the good guys and they don’t do anything bad that ruins their reputation. All young adults look up to an athlete. They make them their role model and inspiration because that’s probably what they want to be in life. If athletes commit crimes or do something bad then their fans will probably be very disappointed and upset. However for the athletes, it will probably ruin their reputation and will stick to their name. Our country cares lots about sports. They basically put the athletes in the upper level where everyone can notice them. There are good things that we place the athletes above everybody else. Some of those good things are that it will persuade someone to go try out for a sport that they really want to go for and it will make them have confidence in them.

Atheletes & Our Society

Athletes play a big role in our society. Athletes are leaders, their someone younger generations look up to.  What they do on and off that field or court reflects on someone else.

A athlete should be a role model because as many people in this world that look up to them and want to be like them they should want to set a good example. No one wants an athlete as a role model and their out here going to jail for drugs, abuse or anything their no supposed to.

A athlete going to jail is not an unusual thing nowadays. For example, “Jayson Williams was recently convicted of accidentally shooting and killing his limo driver. Williams use to play in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets.” When an athlete goes to jail no one really looks up to them anymore. When someone looks up to someone, that means they want to be like them, who wants to look up to someone that killed someone?

These athletes need to step up cause younger and younger generations look up to them , whether they like it or not. They need to start setting a better example to people, their making it seem like going to jail is okay to kids who don’t know any better that look up to them. Every athlete professional or not should set a good example in the school , community and any where else.

Girls in Sports

Girls should be allowed to play on a boy’s team because there may not be a girl’s team for the sport. This is my opinion because in the article “ Girl allowed to play football on Catholic team”, states “there are some girls that may be as good or better at the sport than the boys.” Also I think this because in the article “ Girl, 12, asks to play football with boys; Liberty Union says no” by The Columbus Dispatch, states “ Title IV allows equal opportunity on sports teams”, which means that if there is no girls team for the sport, they should be allowed to try out for the boys team. Then, I think that boys could learn to deal to work with different people. There are many coaches that are up for the idea of girls being in the team. Another reason I think girls should be allowed to play on a boy’s team is that girls should be able to speak up for their rights to be able to play the sport they like to play since in the article “ Girl, 12, asks to play football with boys; Liberty Union says no” by The Columbus Dispatch they didn’t want her to play. However, there may be some difficulties and fees in this. For example, girls would need a different kind of uniform, their own locker room, and their own coach. The other bad thing in this is that boys may not want to go play hard on the girls and may go easy on them. Finally, boys would probably sexually harass the girls in the field.