Race

Today in class we talked about race and we watched the video about the blue eye/brown eye experiment. The test was done back in 1970 on a group of third graders. One of the questions that was brought up was would we be able to do this experiment today. We also talked about whether race was still an issue.

Thinking of the question of whether we would be able to do this experiment today, I came up with a reasons on why it would not be able to work. One of the reasons was that it a different time than it was in 1970. What I mean by that is that there is a lot more media coverage of different events than there was back in the 1970. Kids today watch a lot more television than kids then. There not as much lack of understanding of the other races. They have more of their own opinion than what their parents have. In the 1970s the kids probably only knew about the other races from what their parents have told them. The other reason that this experiment could not be done today is because of the reason we talked about in class and that is because of the new laws. The kids would need their parents consent to be part of the experiment, and some parents would not let their kids participate in the experiment.

Playing with Disabilities

In class on Thursday we talked about people who play sports with disabilities. We had to come up with players that we know that played sports with a disability, the only one that I thought of was the track star that tried to qualify for the Olympics. People believe that he had an advantage over everyone else because his "leg" gave him spring in his step. The only other person that I had heard of was Jim Abbott.

The other part of the discussion was how would your sports experience differ if you were a person with a disability. My answer would have been that I do not know if I would have been strong enough to go out there and compete. It is hard to say that I would not have been strong enough to do it but being able to go out there and having to work twice as hard just to have a chance to compete is probably very hard to do. After every defeat, it would be continue because you know you probably work twice as hard as the person you just faced and to lose has to be heartbreaking. It takes a very strong person to do that. The other part of that question was would there be a difference if you were male or female. I believe that there should be know difference because it still going to be hard no matter what gender you are to go out there and play.