Blog One
Learning how to critically read and or analyze/summarize a piece of work is cleanly a very important topic for P1 and for the rest of this course. Learning to do this action not only will help is the class later down the line when work per say on P3 when we actually have to do research but also in other classes and coursework. Having this critical reading ability will further help me especially going into medicine and continuing with biochemistry. Making those long boring textbooks much easier to understand and to digest rather than just a read and pick up nothing. Like riddle me this what would be the point of reading 100 pages out of a complicated text if you couldn’t even grasp why you are reading in the first place. These skills will greatly benefit me and my career choice I am most certain of it.Learning that “text” can come in different forms, have become very informative. I never thought a blog or a tweet or a post on Facebook was really a text or that it could really be seen as a reading; Or that “text” could be taken far beyond the realm of reading/writing, with the assignment of analyzing bumper stickers it opened up to me that that text had a much broader meaning than just a reading. That text could be used in our everyday lives to analyze situation even people.
Secondly, I have chosen to do write about the Seth Davis article for P1. This article was about the never ending argument in college sports whether or not student athletes are getting paid enough for what they do. Davis made a lot of good points in his article and I very much enjoyed how he supported all of his claims with facts. The article also conveyed a lot of emotion, as Davis seemed very passionate about what he was writing and the purpose he was trying to get across. I am also choosing to write about this article because I agree with Davis’s purpose for writing as well. I don’t feel like much if any college athlete should be paid extra on top of the tuition, food, and housing they are already getting. In my own opinion college sports are like a job… an athlete got recruited or in other words hired to do their job. They are getting paid(via tuition, food, housing, tutoring) to do their job. At the college level of play that is their pay. Once and if they go pro that’s when they should get paid hard cash. Another part that I don’t feel Davis touched on at all but should have, If college athletes want to be paid for doing their job then they should also suffer consequences for not doing their job. Case in point am I heated about the football performance on Friday? You bet yourself i’m triggered. Why are we building a multi-million dollar stadium for a team that can’t put up a score until the last quarter of a football game.
Better yet why haven’t the “pay” of the athlete's been hurt… all things to think about but I do not and I repeat do not think college athlete need any more money for what they do… and that's coming from a former one.
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