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Neil Sanders

Public speaking

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STRETCHING:

•  I wanted to talk about this because being an athlete my whole life, it’s something that I overlooked till I got to college. Along with getting older I’ve had to move on from being stubborn about stretching and doing more before games and practices to stay healthy. Stretching has become pivotal to my process every day. Some people wouldn’t consider it a skill but to me I take it very seriously and it’s something that you can get better at.
• Before any athletic situation you are going into you need to stretch.
• Stretching for 5-10 minutes can be crucial to your outcome on how your body will react to being pushed and tested physically.
• Stretching will help your joints and muscles to be able to have a full range of motion, along with blood circulation throughout your muscles.
• Without stretching your muscles can shorten and become tight, not allowing your body to have a full range of motion, causing the muscles being used to become weaker and have a higher risk of tearing or pulling.
• Everyday stretching outside of sports is also vital to human health, waking up in the morning and stretching can help your brain and body connect easily.
• Along with in the morning before falling asleep or getting into bed at night a 5-minute stretch can help you fall asleep faster if you struggle to fall asleep.

****show ankle PT stretch with band, gas pedals, and no moneys for shoulder work. ****

Neil Sanders

Public speaking Outline

Speech 2

STRETCHING:

•  I wanted to talk about this because being an athlete my whole life, it’s something that I overlooked till I got to college. Along with getting older I’ve had to move on from being stubborn about stretching and doing more before games and practices to stay healthy. Stretching has become pivotal to my process every day. Some people wouldn’t consider it a skill but to me I take it very seriously and it’s something that you can get better at.
• Before any athletic situation you are going into you need to stretch.
• Stretching for 5-10 minutes can be crucial to your outcome on how your body will react to being pushed and tested physically.
• Stretching will help your joints and muscles to be able to have a full range of motion, along with blood circulation throughout your muscles.
• Without stretching your muscles can shorten and become tight, not allowing your body to have a full range of motion, causing the muscles being used to become weaker and have a higher risk of tearing or pulling.
• Everyday stretching outside of sports is also vital to human health, waking up in the morning and stretching can help your brain and body connect easily.
• Along with in the morning before falling asleep or getting into bed at night a 5-minute stretch can help you fall asleep faster if you struggle to fall asleep.

****show ankle PT stretch with band, gas pedals, and no moneys for shoulder work. ****

The essay I chose for my significant writing project is the essay we just wrote on reparations. I believe that this topic is the most important and the most talk about topic that we have had to discuss and work on this semester. I believe this is the most important topic because of the current events that we are living through, social justice is is at the top of the list. the time for reparations has come, and if its not the action then the conversation should be Brough to attention at the highest level of our country.

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Final draft:

To me I believe that this topic brought to us by Ta-Nehisi Coates in her article “The Case for Reparations” might not seem relatable to anything else in class that we have read or worked on, but I found that after thinking about the topic at hand we could easily relate this topic and the takes on it to Dweck’s talk about fixed and growing mindsets in people.  The question we have is “what our country might gain from the discussion” and what is the reasoning as to why this topic has yet to be talked about. In our world we have people who can move forward with time and ones who can’t the ones who can have growing mindsets along with the ones who don’t who are the “fixed mindset-ed” of our population. During the talk Dweck talks about learning in classroom and how your environment your born into or grow up in can attest to your success.

In this paragraph I connected Coates and her article to the concept of Fixed and Growth mindsets presented to us by our first article of the semester on Carol Dwecks TED talk. I explain how the case of reparations towards groups of people that were marginalized in our country’s past. While in Coates article she talk about how reparations should be paid towards these people and groups but she also explains the process of why people wont agree. When I noticed this I thought that it was closest to having growing or fixed mindset, the ones who have a growing mindset are the people that believe that things that happened in the past were wrong and things need to be fixed or made right. The other side of that argument is that some people who I would explain to be labeled with “fixed mindset” Are the group of people that would say that thing in the past should be left alone and how nobody now in time was alive or experienced the days or treatment that those others felt or went trough so why should they be the ones to receive the reparations.

HR 40 is a bill that approves the funding of money or help to the families that were discriminated against in the future. I don’t understand why this bill has yet to been passed but I understand that there is a grey area where you’ll have the “slippery slope” effect. “If we conclude that the conditions in North Lawndale and black America are not inexplicable but are instead precisely what you’d expect of a community that for centuries has lived in America’s crosshairs, then what are we to make of the world’s oldest democracy?  The article by Coates connects with Scheuers point on thinking critically go hand and hand these people want departations for hundreds of years of problems created by people made as equal as them so if we were to think critically and place all of ourselves in those shoes wed all want the same from one another. They may not make things even, but they will show that we care enough about making things right with each other.

HR 40 is a bill that approves the funding of money or help to the families that were discriminated against in the future. I don’t understand why this bill has yet to been passed but I understand that there is a grey area where you’ll have the “slippery slope” effect. “If we conclude that the conditions in North Lawndale and black America are not inexplicable but are instead precisely what you’d expect of a community that for centuries has lived in America’s crosshairs, then what are we to make of the world’s oldest democracy?

The article by Coates connects with Scheuers point on thinking critically go hand and hand these people want deportations for hundreds of years of problems created by people made as equal as them so if we were to think critically and place all of ourselves in those shoes wed all want the same from one another and wed want to be repaid for things of the past. they may not make things even but they will show that we care enough about making things right with each other.

The whole topic of Coates was to tells about If restorations should be paid and the out coming decision made by the author was yes. it goes with our first article and how the students that weren’t doing well didn’t necessarily get help but they got to a point where they were being supported in a different way and was able to start to do better in their field. If we are able to help in an uplifting way then we be able to resolve problems that we may still have to this day wether we like it or not.

Original introduction:

Every school district in the United States goes by different rules and regulations. but one thing they all have in common is they meet five days a week and their job is to educate and teach students from the ages of seven years old in kindergarten to 18-year-olds in their senior year of high school. The difference is that schools teach you to try and learn how to be taught, while other schools are teaching you for their schools’ reputation. With all these different teaching styles in different ways of teaching which one could possibly work best? Do students do better being taught to or do students do better when the end goal is not about what they learned or how they learned, but the school’s reputation? While reading through Jeffrey Scheuers article “Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts” he states that all schools in the country should find a way to adapt liberal arts into their curriculum. Also, another article written by Sanford Ungar named “7 Major misconceptions about the Liberal Arts”, he explains how he like Scheuer, believes that liberal arts play a huge part of a student’s success. 

Revised introduction: Every school district in the United States goes by different rules and regulations. However, one thing they all have in common is that they meet five days a week and the teachers job is to educate and teach students from the ages of seven years old in kindergarten, to 18-year-olds in their senior year of high school. The difference is that some schools teach you to learn how to be taught, while other schools are teaching you for their schools’ reputation. With all these different teaching styles which one could possibly work best? Do students do better when being taught to or do students do better when the end goal is not about what they learned or how they learned, but the school’s reputation and how the students that go to that school place on testing? While reading through Jeffrey Scheuers article “Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts” he states that all schools in the country should find a way to adapt liberal arts into their curriculum. Another article written by Sanford Ungar named “7 Major misconceptions about the Liberal Arts”, he explains how he like Scheuer, believes that liberal arts play a huge part of a student’s success. Throughout my paper I will be talking about my experiences in classes throughout my years of school and comparing it to how Scheuer, Ungar and the UNE core handbook speak on their view of liberal arts in a schooling system. 

In my first draft of my introduction I had a strong intro into my essay but I failed to have a thesis statement to close my introduction paragraph. I added a thesis to my last sentence of my introduction, also with fixing grammatical mistakes and then took out a few sentences and added new ones.

1. My preferred conception of the liberal arts is what Scheuer calls the integrated curriculum. Integrated curriculum, I feet like it was easier to apply skills from one class to other things. “Critical thinking is a key part of that shared epistemology, a set of skills that apply across the liberal arts curriculum.” In his text he talks about how liberal arts is good a creating a platform where you can take all of your skills in your classes and apply them to each other. for example if your an accounting major you most likley going to only take classes for that major at a regular college. if you come to a school like UNE where it is a liber arts school you are taking classes that have to o with all majors and all types of thinking and problem solving. I also believe that English is a big part in liberal arts because in every job you need to know how to read and write. “At its best, this comprehensive vision recognizes both the value and the limitations of such categories, along with the consequent need for interdisciplinary learning.”
2. Integrated curriculum I felt like it was easier to apply skills from one class to other things “Critical thinking is a key part of that shared epistemology, a set of skills that apply across the liberal arts curriculum.” made things easier to learn and to understand things from different angles. The view on the core handbook made things seem more valuable to learn about along with Scheuer’s views on intregated thinking . “At its best, this comprehensive vision recognizes both the value and the limitations of such categories, along with the consequent need for interdisciplinary learning.”

my first paragraph will be about major mishap #2

in the section of the second mishap the main statement is ” College graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal-arts degrees.” in the article it states that “A 2009 survey for the Association of American Colleges and Universities actually found that more than three-quarters of our nation’s employers recommend that college bound students pursue a “liberal education””. Although the stigma with liberal arts degrees is that they Arnt as important as a lets say business or nursing degree, they still help the economy and are a big part in what makes our country flourish. From our first reading I pulled this quote which helps the point of what Unger was trying to say. ” Liberal arts colleges seem an endangered species as curricula shift toward science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM disciplines. Students want jobs, not debt, and who can blame them?”

my second choice is the first misperceptions. the big statement here is how liberal arts schools are being too expensive for everyone to possibly go too. they talk about the number in the liberal arts field declining but they don’t see its because of the demand in jobs that don’t have to do with math and science but in the field doing Manuel labor and other things. ““Many families are indeed struggling, in the depths of the recession, to pay for their children’s college education.” Hes saying that its come to the point where people cant pay for a liberal arts education because its too expensive. they are seeing a decline in people attending these universities over the past two decades. “In proportion to all bachelor’s degrees, declined just 0.1 percent from 1980 to 2010, from 17.1 percent to 17.0 percent.”

1. I think this article will be about the main ideas of critical thinking and liberal arts. Also, I think that they’ll get into what they do and how they help us in our lives and why they are important to society. I think liberal arts means things that you may not be thought in your four main classes of math, science, English and history. But instead, art music, politics and things like that. 

• For the first section, what are liberal arts? 

After reading they go through the history of liberal arts and where they started. Liberal arts started over 2,000 years ago with the Latin’s and Greeks. Liberal comes from a word that means free minded. “In the beginning there were several liberal arts: the trivium of classical antiquity, consisting of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, combined with the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy”.  Clearly my thoughts of what a liberal art it was completely wrong, I only through the arts were one or two subjects when in reality they are the root of most subjects we learn about. After universities stared to stray away from the monistic and cathedral schools those seven were changed to philosophy, jurisprudence, theology and medicine. Toward the end of the section, it goes over how liberal arts, and the sciences are all somewhat connected or are distantly related to each other. 

In section 2; Why do we need the liberal arts? 

They talk about why the arts are important to our lives. “The liberal arts have traditionally been defended as instrumental to two key elements of democracy: critical thinking and citizenship”. I never knew that the arts layer a role in things as big as democracy something that runs our country.  This section talked a lot about the types of citizenships we have and how liberal arts ties into them. 

In section 3; What is critical thinking 

Critical thinking is not easy to describe but it is also very important in our lives. “critical thinking is about my thinking or yours or someone else’s in the here and now”. When you have to have a critical thinking period, you need to be able to pull that thought and then thinking about it as deeply as you possibly can. Critical thinking can help you with a lot of things from decision making to your work in school or your job. 

In section 4; the importance of critical inquiry. 

They talk about Wittgenstein and also reflected in certain organizing concepts that (like critical inquiry itself) transcend the various disciplines and unify the liberal arts curriculum. These concepts include truth, nature, value, causality, complexity, morality, freedom, excellence, and—as Wittgenstein understood—language itself, as the principal medium of thought. These concepts all are linked to critical thinking. In this they talked about how Wittgenstein understood and reacted to these concepts of capital inquiry