Reasoning

The career path that I want to go into is a career being a physical therapist for a sports team. That would be my dream job, but recently I've been noticing some traits in me that I didn't have before. I've learned recently that I've become more of a person showing leader type qualities and taking charge. So it actually made me think of getting into the whole sports business aspect. I've recently applied for an internship where I would have to work with the business surrounding sports such as calculating the best thing for the sports team, ticket prices, statistics, and find the best use of money. I think the reasoning that will help me in this is knowing all the facts surrounding the team in order for me to help make the best choice for the team. I would need to know how many tickets we would be selling so I can make a decision on what to do. For example if we sell lots of tickets then I wouldn't have to change that many things, but on the other hand if i see that we are not selling tickets I would have to make the decision to advertise better or plan certain events and specials to make people come out and watch.

Team Leaders and Members

The topic I decided to focus on for this chapter is the relationship between Team Leaders and Team members. The team leader in the group has to organize the members to work together in the working environment. The main focus of the team leader is not only to get the job, but to get everyone working together as a team. The team members need to get along and build strong bonds because it will lead to a higher quality of production. The team leader will also be able to determine if it is better for everyone to work on the project at the same time, or if they should split up each task so every person in the group can work on their own assignment individually. Sometimes team members may slack off in production so it is the team leader’s job to help them become energetic about the project they are doing. When the team works well together, working comes naturally and they have a good time finishing their goal.

Novello

Dr. Novello was a Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first Hispanic and woman to acquire this position. Dr. Novello mainly focused on things that diminished peoples’ health such as AIDS, underage drinking, and smoking. She was really into stopping smoking and even criticized smoking industries blaming them for more and more younger people getting into smoking due to their cartoons of people smoking to make it look like smoking is fun. I saw that Dr. Novello used cause and effect reasoning because Dr. Novello saw that smoking statistics went up when the cartoon camel ad started playing on tv. She used statistics and quotes from doctors to try and strengthen her argument. She concluded that statistics showed that smoking went up in children due to the fact that the smoking cartoon camel commercials were gaining the youths’ interests in smoking. Novello protested and issued bans to try and prevent tobacco ads that was targeting kids.

Inductive

An inductive argument that I went through the last week was when I thought that my nephew was allergic to seafood. We recently went to red lobster and my whole family ordered seafood. While we were eating we noticed that my baby nephew started turning red and was producing rashes on his face and all over his body. We knew he was allergic to dairy products, but we were all aware that he did not have any diary products today so we had no clue what was wrong with him. We all came to the conclusion that the rash might have occurred due to the seafood because  right when he ate was when he started producing rashes. We all argued that he was probably allergic to seafood due to the breakouts he was having. We went to the doctors the next day, but surprisingly he said that my nephew wasn’t  So we came to the conclusion that something else caused the rash.

Concept: Effective Leadership

I chose to focus more on the concept effective leadership. In order to become an effective leader there are three factors that must be followed. You need to bring out productive or successful results, credibility in the group, and has to inspire group members. I was once a group leader early in my high school career when I was just starting out in cross country. I was one of the fastest runners for our jv team, and usually the team leaders in the group were sophomores like me. We were the leaders because we have had a year of experience running in cross country so that helped our credibility. The hardest part were trying to get the new freshmen to be motivated to run because some people slacked off during practice and always made excuses. We confronted them. but not in a harsh way since our cross country team was sort of a family so we did not want to scare them off. We were able to encourage them to try harder and we each gave the runners new goals to accomplish for next races. We brought out desirable outcomes in not only the new freshmen, but for the leaders also because each of us dropped our times in the two mile run. Being a leader not only helped the freshmen out, but also me.

Death Penalty

The death penalty is prohibited in countries and even in some states around the world. Many countries and even a few states in the United States have not allowed the death penalty to happen. The United States, China, and Iran are some countries that still allow death penalty unlike the European union because the charter of human rights prevented the death penalty from happening. Other countries that oppose the death penalty are New Zealand, Australia, and Puerto Rico. They all follow the Christian passage and the teachings of Jesus. They follow this passage not only because they feel it violates human rights, but because the advancements in DNA testing has proved the innocence of many criminals in death row. It would be unfair and unjust to kill a man who did not commit any crime. Many Christians disagree with the passage, but I on the other hand agree with it. We should not return evil for evil because the world would end up becoming a never ending circle of hate. The United States should use the values used in England and eliminate the death penalty.

Sherlock Holmes

In the story “Silver Blaze”, Sherlock Holmes told Watson that many people believes on other people’s opinions when they say something instead of looking and researching deeper to find the truth. They rely on what other’s say instead of looking at the facts. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t take other’s advice, but also to do some of your own research about a certain topic.

From my personal experience, when I was thirteen I got my first gym membership. I went into the gym not knowing what to do at all. I ended up doing a couple leg presses. While I was doing leg presses I saw my friend’s uncle. He went up to me and told me “You’re young, you do cross country, you don’t need to do any of those leg presses just go to gym everyday and do upper body workouts.” I proceeded to do this for a whole month. Chest, back, and arm exercises were the only workouts I did for the next month. Worst decision ever.  After a while I realized that I was barely getting stronger. I was getting a little bit bigger, but then I noticed my legs and they didn’t look in proportion with my body. I quickly went home and went on bodybuilding.com in order to do some more research. I learned all about splitting up my workouts for each day, doing compound movement exercises, changing up my diet, and yes, different leg workouts. I realized that just because my friend’s uncle was bigger than me doesn’t mean he knows that much on what workouts are the best to do. I always look at the facts before I try to prove my point.

Concepts Chapter 2

There are many characteristics in groups, but the characteristic I chose to focus on was interdependence. An interdependence group simply means that everyone in the group is given an assigned role and task that is to be completed. If one person in the group messes up then it leads to the whole group failing. The effort put in each individual’s work will determine the effect and outcome on the group’s work. For example: If you have an office with a boss and employees, and the employees fail to send the boss their monthly reports, then the boss will not be able to represent the department in meetings because he has no information on his employees. This could work both ways. If the boss fails to tell the employees what they should be doing; how would they know what task to perform. Interdependence group reminds me of a conveyer belt somehow because you need every person to do a certain task in order to move on and get good progress within the group.

Standing Your Ground

Fortunately for me I have never lost a job or friend over an argument where I had to stand my ground. This is mainly because most of the times when I stand my ground the topic are usually revolving around sports such as arguing which team or player is better. The only serious argument I can kind of think of was when my girlfriend and I were arguing over the issue of euthanasia because she was doing a project about it. I argued that it should be allowed due to the fact that it puts people out of their misery and pain while she argued that it’s murdering someone. I got pretty mad at this argument because I had a cousin named Sunny who lost both of his limbs and was kept in a hospital for the last few months in a hospital living with pain every second of his life. He always told my family and I that he wanted to die so the pain would go away. He eventually died after a few months in the hospital. I strongly believe in euthanasia because it could put a person out of the pain they suffer through each day. I argued this with my girlfriend for about an hour to which she finally replied with “ok night.” Which is pretty much her code of saying “You messed up.” I didn’t mean to get her mad, but it was just an issue that I actually felt strong about. We ended up getting over it and laugh about it each time we bring it up.