Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Finally getting the hang of being a blogger

I have known what I want to write my paper on ever since we were introduced to the idea of writing this paper. Everyday it goes and comes. I cannot seem to find a firm grasp on exactly what I want this paper to be. it drives me crazy. everyday i find some way to make little changes, which i understand is not bad, but it is not the way i like to do things. I like to know what i am doing and go full blast and get it done. Here is my summary from my proposal, tell me what you think!

I am finding it very hard to find the right words to explain just exactly what I want to do in this paper. Everyday my idea gets clearer and clearer, but it is still not quite there. Every day it evolves into something bigger and better. Basically I want to research and examine why fans bail on their teams during the rough times. I want to find out why owners of teams bail on their fans during the rough times. My biggest question is why fans and owners cannot work together to achieve the ultimate goal, which is victory. I am going to use sports talk radio and interviews of people that are very close to sports as my main forms of information. One of the ways I want to express my findings is through a newspaper article once my paper is complete. I know it sounds like I am very biased, and that is not true. I have been on both sides of this situation. I completely understand the rationalization from both sides. I just want to find out why these problems cannot be resolved in constructive and useful ways.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

My Nelson Reaction

Every teacher wants to feel that they will make a tremendous impact on the students academic career. Many teachers feel that if they teach the right way, they will reach out to every student and impose their teaching style on that student. They have a way that they do things and they expect students to follow and comply with their on ways. Research papers are one assignment that will more likely than not fail in a teachers eyes. Most of the time the topic is given to the student. It is a topic that they could care less about. Like why Jim Rice deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. They will be disinterested in the topic and therefore simply go online, find information, and spew it back on the paper. There is no rhythm to the paper, nothing that connects the reader to the paper.