My discus speech

Creating demonstration speeches is an interesting dilemma.  Does one go towards the easier speech and do some cooking or go towards a more difficult topic like athletics?  I chose the latter and tried my best to teach the class how to throw discus.  This created yet another dilemma for me as I am a perfectionist when it comes to discus.  Whenever I am coaching I always force myself to use perfect form and force others to do the same.  Teaching discus in five minutes does not allow for nearly perfect form.  Being in a sling did not help me show this perfect form either.
While watching my speech I saw many, many things wrong with it.  The biggest thing I noticed was how I kept turning my back to the camera.  It would have been very nice to have had the clicker to advance my speech and not have to break eye contact.  I was also talking very rapidly and not enunciating properly.  I could have slowed down and not have slurred any of my words.  I also did not explain things as much as I should have and also should have used more repetition.  I basically only went over how to throw discus once without repeating any of the steps.  I ended with absolutely no conclusion.  My speech just ended, I easily could have added in a conclusion going over all the steps again.  This speech would have been much easier if I would had been out of the sling.  I would have been able to show the steps instead of requiring pictures, making the speech flow better.  If I could, I would redo this speech with many changes.

Response to Nicole's Blog

I found Nicole's blog post to be very interesting.  The blog she had found is very interesting.  Normally, I would never have looked at such a blog, but when I did, I found it to be very interesting.  The videos were amusing and informative and some of the topics covered are also very neat.  They did nothing but add to the plentiful amounts of information on the page.  It was very neatly laid out and very professionally made.  I liked the blog she had found and was glad I looked at her posts.
The post's topic is very in depth and interesting.  It is a topic that is both very controversial but that could also be very helpful one day.  I really liked how this article was written.  I liked how they cited their sources instead of just stating random facts.  I really liked how much hope this article could raise.  It really shows truly positive signs in the stem cell research department.  This is a great hope to a great number of people in the country.  Those who are disabled or have degenerative diseases now have hope for the future.  This site is laid out less professionally than the other but I still like the way it looks.  It was a very good find of a post.

My technorati search for yet more information on Nutrition.

I was using this search and found a very interesting article on what else; athletic nutrition.  It is titled Optimal Health Resource Blog.  It is written by John Phillips who has a lengthy list of credentials.  It was started back in March of 2010.  He is an avid blogger posting between 15 to 20 articles most months.  Some months he has even posted up to 27!  He seems to just compile many articles from different blogs in one spot.  The articles are very interesting all relating to nutrition in one way or another.  He uses many hyperlinks but those are just back to where the articles are originally posted.  It seems that all the articles he finds are in other blogs found on technorati.  He uses many pictures but they are just generic pictures.  He doesn't use very specific pictures just the generic photo of a doctor holding a chart here and there.  Sometimes he uses photos of foods as well.  I also found a very neat post about the health benefits of fish.  It is from EurekAlert! and was written by Marcia Woods.  It is an article from the agricultural research magazine.  It was written very recently, October 8th, 2010.  This post is written in a much more direct style than my paper was.  It just stated the facts and stated what they found in their research.  My paper was gathering many places of research where their post was just one line of research.  It was a very interesting blog and then a very neat post to read.

Response to Madison's Blog

Madison's article was a very well written article.  I personally disagree with her ideas.  Yes, some people in the world are nice enough to donate organs, but in reality the majority are not.  There are millions of people on the waiting lists for organs all just hoping that kindness in the world will pull through.  I do not believe that many people would just voluntarily offer up their organs.  If people really were that kind, the U.S. would not have such a long list of people waiting for transplants as is.  There are too many people in the world waiting for transplants, the countries should do anything possible to help those in need out even if that means they allow people to sell their organs.  Putting a price upon the organ would be done by the market, not by the individual.  The government could even impose a tax upon organs and make more revenue for the country.  Her post did make me realize the opposite viewpoint.  Where would the money come from?  Would it be the person recieving the transplant?  Or would it be the private insurance company?  This would be an issue that would have to be thought over.  I believe it should be like any other procedure covered under insurance; it should be partly covered by insurance but the recipient should have to pay atleast a small amount.  I think it is a very controversial issue, that if dealt with correctly, could help many people and even bring more money in for the country.

Organs For Sale?

I truly believe that one shoud be able to do whatever they want with their body.  If someone wants to sell their own organs then so be it.  I don't believe that the law should be able to tell them, "No, you can't sell something that belongs to you."  Would you want your brother telling you that you can't sell your own property?  I think that someone should be able to sell it to whomever they want.  They should not be restricted on how they sell their personal property.  I realize this would bring about much controversy with many people saying that it should only go to those of the highest need but this is, after all, a capitalist country.  Even if the government said that people could not pick and choose who they sold their organs to, people would end up selling them in backdoor dirty shops to those who could pay.  Insted of making these people go to backdoor shops, I would allow them to sell them to whomever they wanted thus making it a cleaner process.  This would help the whole transplant process in general because there would be more organs available.  These days, the only organs in the system are those who come from dead persons.  I believe that allowing people to sell their organs would create an influx of organs and make them much more readily available to the public.
The article makes me agree more with my initial thinking.  I really think it is a person's own choice with what they want to do with their organs.  It is not anyone else's place to tell them no you may not sell your organs.  I thought the article was interesting and I am still sticking with my original thinking.