Proposal Topic

For my proposal essay, I am going to be focusing on ADHD.  My little sister has ADHD and she takes medicine each day.  If she didn't have the medicine she gets super hyper and out of control.  It's hard for her to focus and she gets very moody.  One second she will be fine and the next she is angry and upset with everything.  I think that it is a good idea to medicate children in need of it.  But I think that it's uncalled for people having children who are jittery and have hard times focusing on things.  Especially little kids, that's what they are suppose to do, life wouldn't be the same with out it.  I also think that it's wrong for people to judge children with disabilities.  They are just like everyone else, except they need medicine to help them out.  It's wrong to think that they are so different from everyone else, they get special attention at school sometimes and they need more time to do some stuff, but they are just like everyone else in the world. 

The Colbert Report

I watched the episode where Stephen Colbert talks about migrant farm workers. He started out the episode by saying how he was going to go testify against congress.  He also says how Gretchen Carlson was upset by him and saying that he was going to testify saying that was wasting our tax payers dollars. He also made fun of how Elmo dressed up in a suit going up against Congress.
Next, he dresses up as a farmer and goes to a migrant farm to work for the day.  He gets there and he has make boxes to put corn in, then he has to put the corn in them as fast as he can. He starts taking corn out of other people's boxes and he tries talking to them. Then he goes out into a bean field and he has to pick beans.  This whole time, he is making jokes out of it.  He asks if there's any place that he can pick beans in the shade.  He also asks if he gets paid by the bean or by the hour.  He was just trying to make a joke out of it the whole time. At the end, he asks if he would be accepted for the job and he was told no.  Now personally, I think that if another white person was to come and ask for a job that they would be told no also. During the episode, you saw all these people in the background and they were all of another race.  There were no white people in the back ground, and I think that it is wrong to not accept others of different races.  Through out the nation there are so many people with out jobs and the news is always talking about unemployment.  So I think that they should accept anyone to work, as long as they do the job right.

ADHD

http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/22/adhd-a-global-epidemic-or-just-a-bunch-of-fidgety-kids/

I read an article on ADHD becoming an epidemic, which I truly don't think it's becoming one.  It is a normal thing for children to be figgity and squirming around.  I think that if the children weren't squirmming around and figgety that it would not be a normal thing.  That's what children are suppose to do.  Now if parents see that their kids are getting that way, they have the doctors check them out, but it's not necessarily the case. Now that parents and doctors are getting less patient with the kids doesn't mean that you need to medicate them and tell them that they have ADHD. That's not always the case, but sometimes it is.  My little sister who is 12 years old has ADHD and a severe case of it.  She is medicated, and if she doesn't take it she gets very hyper and she can't sit still for a second.  She always has to be playing with something and constantly doing something.  If she wasn't medicated then it would not be very fun. I agree that children with an actual case need to be treated, because honestly they can get out of control if they don't have it each day.  Otherwise, I believe that all children are squirmy at times and that is what children should do on a daily basis.  With out it life wouldn't be the same.  Even older people are like that at times.  I know I definitely get like that when I'm waiting for something or having to sit through a class or something.

Start of My Paper

 For my paper, I am going to be writing about basketball.  From 5th grade all through out high school because it had a big impact on my life. We definitely had the ups and downs from year to year.  The first year of basketball our coach was terrible and everyone can remember it.  He was never nice, always rude, and yelled constantly.  It taught us how to be stronger people.  All of us from the team still remember the first game, we were at LaFollette and we lost 45-2.  It was embarrassing for all of us. Also, I went with my friend Caitlin to the game,  we were suppose to tell her mom that we needed to pick up her grandma but we totally forgot about it.
  Then in 7th grade, we played in tri-country.  We went that entire year with out winning a single game.  Then, we got to the tournament at MATC and somehow we ended winning the entire tournament, getting first place.  Then came the high school years.  My freshmen and sophomore years went great, but then junior year came and it all went down hill from there! I had made the varsity team and practiced with them for the first few weeks of practice, until I got hurt.  I injured my shoulder and was out for two weeks.  I got back and found out that I had to play on JV and all my family was home for Thanksgiving and I felt terrible.  But, I started every game and was the leading scorer.
My senior year was yet another tough year.  I was on the varsity team, but I had a lot of hard times during the year.  My mom got divorced for the second time, my dog died, and my grandma was very sick.  I had to learn to get through each day and to believe in myself.  My coach always thought the least of me, he didn't have confidence in me, or so I thought.  It was hard, I sat on the bench for the first few games.  After the first game, I told my coaches if it was going to be like that all year that I want to quit.  But, I stuck with it and ended up starting the last few games of the season.

Topics For Our Paper

The three topics that I chose were basketball, cross country, and homecoming.  I chose basketball, because I have played since I was in fourth grade and it has taught me a lot about myself.  I had the ups and downs in basketball, I was terrible to begin with, I made the second team most of the time, but in the end I ended up starting for varsity.  I had many coaches throughout the years, and they taught me many skills to use in the game and ones that I can use in my life.
Cross-country also was one of my thoughts for our paper.  I ran cross country from 7th grade and all through high school.  I had a lot of accomplishments throughout the years and I learned a lot from it.  You make friends for life, learn a lot of things, and have respect not only for your self, but for others too.  We made it to state 3 of 4 years during high school.  It is a great accomplishment and it also brings all sorts of emotions and times of learning at the same time.
Homecoming is a big thing at my high school.  We dedicate a whole week to it and it's a lot of fun.  It gets very competitive, but in the end it really is about the football game Friday night and then the dance on Saturday night.  It brings together not only your friends, but also your classmates.  The entire school gets involoved and it's a great deal of fun.

What defines Me

What defines me would have to be sports.  I have been around sports literally since I was two days old.  I was at a hockey rink where my dad coached at two days old.  I have been going to hockey and all sorts of sports through out my life. 

Wisconsin Badger football and hockey has been with me forever.  My grandma has had season tickets to them both forever, since hockey was played at the Colliseum.  My dad's best friend played football at Wisconsin on a full ride scholarship and was also drafted into the Major Leagues at the age of 17. 

Throughout my life I have played soccer, volleyball, basketball, and I ran cross country.  I ran cross country for six years.  During high school, we went to state three of the four years that I ran. My freshmen year I got 4th place at conference, I had ran well and beat out one of the varsity girls times and should have made it to sectionals, but because she was a senior I didn't get to run.  That upset me but I learned to get through those times.  My sophomore year we went to state and got 6th place and my junior year we went to state again and won it!

Basketball was always my favorite sport but was also difficult. I remember on my birthday in 7th grade we found out if we made the "A" team or "B" team and I was on the "B" team and was so upset, but it made me work even harder to get better for the next year, in which I made the "A" team. High school was another story. I was the ordinary girl, I played on the freshmen team my freshmen year then the JV team my sophomore year, but my junior year was different. I had made the varsity team, but two weeks into practice I tore part of my rotators cuff and was out for two weeks.  Then, when I came back I was told that I had to play JV for the rest of the year.  I was upset, but it really helped me learn, because I started every game and was the leading scorer. My senior year was alright, I was on varsity, but I sat the first half of the season.  The coach really didn't understand my skills.  He always told me that I was good at the sport but I wasn't ready for the varsity level.  Well that upset me and I worked really hard and by the end of the season I started every game and averaged about 6 points.  Sports and all of the constructive criticism I have gone through has made me a better person and I have learned how to deal with things.