The Declaration Of Athletic Sex Discrimination

For this unit, "1776" is based on arguing for independence. This course is called Argument and for this action project I was assigned to choose a topic that I would like to issue as a course in GCE. The topic I chose was on Sports Ed, obviously cause I love sports and I also love playing them too. I am most proud of learning from this topic and learning more about Title nine that I have never in my life heard of until I continued to go deeper into this topic. The most challenging is to really understand the Title nine, it seems so serious. The purpose of this action project is to think about topics or issues that will be courses that can be taken in the future at GCE and learn more about.
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I declare an independent study focused on exposing girls to traditionally male dominated sports. This is necessary because a lot of teenage girls are being discriminated in male sports, more in high school, programs and colleges. This is also necessary because Title nine defends all women from being rejected from any events in schools, programs and activities. We shouldn’t be denied to participate, no matter what. The course would be on an “Sports Ed”. It will be teaching students about different sports and about sex discrimination on girl and male sports. This course will be issued on the first term of sophomore year to get the students started in sports and how to treat their teammates in games. Playing fair should be the number one rule mentioned in the class, it’s a difficult task to take in hand and honestly people forget to play fair. This will be a steam & a humanities course. Women have the right to participate in any activities, programs that receive federal financial assistance. Title nine, gives us the protection on each principle mentioned above. “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

Sex discrimination is the argument to this upcoming independent study. This should be pursued because sex discrimination is awful and it should be learned and discussed to young teens so that as they grow older they know how to be respectful to others in sports and teach others to be nice. I think this should also be talked in high school for future purposes like, any sports or any sports after high school. The premises that support my argument is: (1) No co-ed football in some colleges or in any public open programs. (2) High school women athletes are higher than college women athletes. (3) Football not being a girl sport. (4) Males sports for just males.

My desired outcomes are for people to understand that sex discrimination is horrifically wrong and that it should stop because we as women have the defense against anybody or anything trying to reject us from any events we might want to be apart of or anything with the federal financial assistance. Students who are interested in sports and learning more about Title nine and making a change. This will be a great course for student with high interest in sports. I am an athletic girl and I love playing sports and being active. Whenever I play, I get discriminated a lot on my gender because I'm "supposedly" not good or I'm weak, because I'm a girl. I chose this argument because it's something I've been through and it's something hard to face alone, especially when you want to achieve in something you love doing and engaged in a lot and also being apart of a team and show people that even if you're a girl or women you're not weak and you're capable of doing what a man can do and be as strong as a man too. This argument began because it's a big issue in our age and generation. I've experienced it, seen it and also done it too. I am not going to lie, I sometimes do discriminate other girls for not being so athletic as me or for not putting the same effort. I know what I've done and I try to stop and make better decisions and show other girls that they're not alone and they can also be athletic like me. The structure of my argument is no matter what gender you are, you're capable to achieve, succeed and be better than anyone else. As long as put in your time, effort and commitment, then your good. If you practice you'll become more better and you'll be less seen as weak or not good as for others. For example, when I play catch or play a football game with guys. I get the look like "She can't throw", "Let me move on up, cause she might not throw as far", "She's a girl", "She doesn't know anything about Football". WRONG! Yes, I'm a girl but because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't be good at something like a man can. It's sad to know that others put you down without even speaking, but as soon as I throw the ball I make them run and look at me like "Dang, how you do that?", "How you know how to throw?", "who taught you?" I get all these questions and compliments right after and it's okay but you still discriminated me because of my gender and that's why I want it to stop and change the way women are looked at in sports in our generation.

Here is a video that will help you understand more about Equality, sports and Title Nine. Enjoy!

Pinhole Camera

For this course "Light, Sound and Time" This unit is called light, it’s about the history behind light and how light works, how we perceive light and how light travels. We learned the different principles that have to do with light. My class and I learned how to measure waves, crest to crest and crest to trough. We also learned what is refraction and what refraction does to light and objects. This course was mostly about light, we were assigned to make a pinhole camera to see how light works on a pinhole camera and how the camera works by itself. I learned a lot of math and the differences on light and how it can affects what we can see and what we cannot see, because of refraction on light. The most challenging thing was the math part in the process on making the pinhole. Putting the math in it's right places was the most difficult and looking for the tangent.

My pinhole camera is made to take pictures, how my camera will take pictures is by letting the light through the pinhole that was made in the front. My pinhole camera will not perform refraction because it only happens when light is on one medium to another and my camera will be surrounded by air therefore, there is no refraction when light tries to go through the pinhole. How the camera will take a picture is by having photo-sensitive paper inside the pinhole camera, how it will be developed is by a dark room so that the picture doesn't ruin. It will also be developed in some special chemicals and then you have your pinhole picture. The reason why I covered my pinhole camera with black paper was so that the photo-sensitive paper wouldn't shine light to it and ruin the photo-sensitive paper.

JR. (2016). Pinhole Camera

My camera demonstrates light which equals energy, I chose this principle because the photo-sensitive paper will be get the light from the pin hole and it will develop right after it gets in the dark room. I measured the pinhole to the back which was 4 inches, pinhole to the bottom was 2.5 inches and the complete height of the water bottle was 10.5. 

JR. (2016). Pinhole Picture

When I placed my pinhole camera in front of the brat doll with the lights, I uncovered the pinhole and let the light go through so that the photo-sensitive paper can develop once I covered the shutter. The shutter speed was 3 minutes and covered it with duck tape and took my camera into the dark room so it can develop. This is the results that I got with the pinhole camera. If I could do something differently would be the time, because maybe if I left it longer my picture would've developed better and it would look more clear. I would also know the angle I would put my pinhole camera because as you see in the picture above it looks sort of slanted.

Discrimination On Women

The topic that I chose was Discrimination on women/girls, this is for everyone to know and hear. These are most of the topics that came to mind about discrimination on women and girls.

- Color

- Gender (sexuality, sports)

- Personality

- Style

- (Judgmental)

"George Allen Football." N.p., 12 Dec. 2014. Web

I know I made more than one topic but the one that stands out the most to me is, Gender and more related to sports. I am an athletic girl and I love playing sports and being active. Whenever I play, I get discriminated a lot on my gender because I'm "supposedly" not good or I'm weak, because I'm a girl. I chose this argument because it's something I've been through and it's something hard to face alone, especially when you want to achieve in something you love doing and engaged in a lot and also being apart of a team and show people that even if you're a girl or women you're not weak and you're capable of doing what a man can do and be as strong as a man too.

This argument began because it's a big issue in our age and generation. I've experienced it, seen it and also done it too. I am not going to lie, I sometimes do discriminate other girls for not being so athletic as me or for not putting the same effort. I know what I've done and I try to stop and make myself better and show other girls that they're not alone and they can also be athletic like me. I want students and people to look up to me for being a girl and facing reality and that it's possible. I want to change the stereotyping and the discrimination on women and girls. I just find it very uncultured, uneducated of students and people and the most important the blunt expressions and sayings that are heard and given to these students/people.

The structure of my argument is no matter what gender you are, you're capable to achieve, succeed and be better than anyone else. As long as put in your time, effort and commitment, then your good. If you practice you'll become more better and you'll be less seen as weak or not good as for others. For example, when I play catch or play a football game with guys. I get the look like "She can't throw", "Let me move on up, cause she might not throw as far", "She's a girl", "She doesn't know anything about Football". WRONG! Yes, I'm a girl but because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't be good at something like a man can. It's sad to know that others put you down without even speaking, but as soon as I throw the ball I make them run and look at me like "Dang, how you do that?", "How you know how to throw?", "who taught you?" I get all these questions and compliments right after and it's okay but you still discriminated me because of my gender and that's why I want it to stop and change the way women are looked at in sports in our generation.