Research Exploratory Blog II: Research Prospectus

There has always been one problem that we have in the world today that I have always thought about. The problem that I am referring to is obesity. This has always been on my mind because I did not grow up around people who were obese. The people that I always hung out around when I was younger was always into sports and was never home playing on the different types of game systems all night. I chose this topic because obesity has become a real problem in the world today. There are now young children that are obese, and I want to know why there are so many young children are this way.
My thesis statement is has the decline of physical activity in schools increased obesity? In order to support my thesis, I have to find evidence that states many reasons of why and how the decline of physical activity has increased obesity in the world today. In order to do this I would like to find more articles that go through a child’s ordinary day. I would like to take it upon myself and do my own personal researching, going out an interviewing young children in the neighborhood where I live at in Jacksonville to find out how they feel about the schools taking out physical education. I want to know are they happy that they will not have to do any physical activity in school or are some of them mad at the fact that they will not have a chance in school to have fun and exercise while they are in school. I think that this is the main reason why children are obese and unhealthy. I believe that this problem needs to be fixed and physical activity in schools should more important.
I believe that the only counterargument that I will have is that the parents may say that their kids are getting hurt while doing the different activities in physical education. I would say that if their children were in good shape and knew what they were doing while participating in these activities they would not get hurt as easily.
While doing research, I have found many articles that talks about how the decrease in physical activities in schools has caused many young children to become obese. I have looked at articles on the ESPN website, two articles on google scholar, which include, Childhood Obesity: future directions and research priorities, and Childhood Obesity: a new pandemic of the new millennium. While using those sources I will also use my own information from the interviews that I am going to do.
I believe that this is a good research for me to do because I would get to know what the children think about the schools taking out physical education.

Blog 3: "The Achievement of Desire"

While reading the story, "The Achievement of Desire" I could relate to this story a lot. Some parts of it has happened to me personally, and others I have seen it happen to other people. The one thing that happened to me was that I was always reading some type of book. When I was younger I always got picked on by other people because I was always reading in school. One time I went to the toy store and my cousin told me that I could pick out a toy to play with, and instead I picked out a book to read. They still talk about this today and it happened when I was about 8 years old. My family always encouraged me to read but never made me, I think that is why I enjoy it so much. Another thing that I have seen id that some kids do not have the privilege to get help at home with homework like I had. I feel blessed now knowing that whenever I needed help on homework or something to do with school it was always available to me. There are some kids out there who did not have that same privilege because their parents did not know how to do it. There are some kids out there who does all of their homework on their own with no kind of help from anyone in their home.

Blog 2: "The Pain Scale"

While reading "The Pain Scale," by: Eula Biss I found that she is a very interesting author, and her mind wild. This story was very interesting and there were many things that stuck out to me while reading this. She had a very interesting way of pointing out her pain or the ways of choosing how much you were in pain by the numbers on the scale. That one thing that really stuck out to me was the way that she headed each different section. For instance, when she was talking about the level of zero pain she had a zero at the end of the line with an arrow going in the positive number direction, but when she went on to talk about the level of pain 1 she had a number 1 with arrows coming from both directions. I found that to be very interesting because I thought that there was no number under zero when it comes to the pain scale, so that one thing had me thinking a lot.

Blog 1: "Why Bother?"

While reading this article "Why Bother?", I found it to be different from what I thought this article was going to be about. i had no idea that this story was going to be anything about saving energy, basically going green. But once you think about it that is the right question to ask when talking about going green. The author stated what if he turned his life around and started to do everything to conserve energyl, like walking to work, not eating beef, hang his laundry on a line, and go completely local. But then there is someone out else out there who is doing the complete opposite, what sense does that make to change his ways while outher people are not changing their ways. I think that is a good question to ask when it comes to going green and saving energy, "Why Bother?" I got a lot of information out of reading this article and I found it to be very interesting to read and would like to read more about it.

Blog 1 : Research Ideas

There are many things that interest me. But there is one thing that sticks out to me that I would like to find out more about. That thing is the topic of obesity. Since I am an athlete this topic really interests me because all of my life I have grown up learning ways to stay fit and not to gain that much weight because of the sport that I am in. I would like to research the reasons why people are obese, I want to know if it is a genetic thing or is it because they eat whatever they want and not care what their body looks like. Those are the questions that come to mind when I think about obesity. So, that is why I want to look more into obesity in order to see why the people that are obese are that way.