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Jocks

            
             Being a student athlete has it's many pros and cons. The pros about playing the sport is that you can excel and be great at it, yet the cons are you have to know that books come before sports. You have to be able to cut it in the class to be able to participate in any sport. Out of all the sports, football is the sport most individuals look at, and say that most of the players are not well educated. People think that just because you play football that you don't care about education. The thing that has put me out of sink of not being labeled as a "dumb jock" is my mother, who has taught me that education is first, and everything else wold work out after that.
             Attending Fairfind High was an experience I will never forget. At Fairfind I played football for four years and went through many ups and downs, not only on the field but in the classroom. Before Fairfind became a school, there was a plan to eliminate sports and have a school were education came first. Some how sports were able to go on but it would be hard to deal with the criteria of the work and play sports as well. Before school began my ninth grade year my mom told me how Fairfind had a vote, deciding whether there was going to be sports or not. Already knowing that I was going to play football, my mother had extra concern on my education. She told me that education is the key to becoming successful in life. She has instilled that in me ever since I was little, but she wanted to really let me know since my school really didn't want sports. I went to school on a mission that my mother had instilled in me about education, that I will work hard on the field but work even harder in the classroom. During my freshmen year I played junior varsity and kept a low profile not letting my teachers know that I played football. It wasn't until my sophomore year when I started varsity and had to work very hard on the field because it was a big boost from junior varsity to starting varsity.


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1. Stereotypes

... school, having no morals, and only caring about their athletic achievments. Statistics prove that the media is not always correct when it comes to jocks being steryptyped as dumb. For example Duke prides itself as a college that has all of it's athletic basketball players who stay four years to ... pride in this statistic because they are the only college to do this. One of their basketball players being a shenendehowa graduate Greg Koubek. All jocks are not as dumb as the media perpetuates them to be. Another example of this is the average GPA of student atheletes at Seattle Pacific Univ...

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2. Teen Violence

... :30 am. Two boys stormed the school with guns blazing and bombs exploding, wearing long black trench coats. Witnesses said that they first targeted specific people especially jocks and ethnic minorities. The bloody rampaged spanned for four long, terrifying hours (Obmascik 1a). "I saw a girl get shot because she was praying to God,"" ... most cases it is the popular kids who make fun of the outcasts (Barovick 44). As of Columbine High School the confrontation was between the jocks and the Trench Coat Mafia. The clique of the Trench Coat Mafia was simply kids who were crying out for help (...

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3. Students and High School Stereotypes

... hang out with, and many other things. A lot of people avoid others because they are different. We label each other as freaks and geeks, snobs and jocks, and the floaters. People think that as teenagers get older and become adults in college that things would change and school would not be as cliquey, but as ... life, they are there to work. They never get along with the popular kids. Most fights you see in high school are between freaks and jocks because the jocks have the attitude that they are better and cannot except their differences. Another thing I have noticed among the freaks an...

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4. The High School Clique

... The "in crowd" had various sub- groups in it. The "in crowd" was comprised of the jocks, the cheerleaders, the dancers, and the regular "in crowd" popular people who, did not participate in anything in particular. The jocks were of course the best-looking guys that every girl in the school wanted to date. Most of ... the guys at my school participated in more than one sport, in the course of the year. The jocks were the prom princes and kings, and the homecoming kings. Then you had the ever-popular cheerleaders. Of course they were the pretty girls that the ... jocks wanted to date. Che...

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5. Whale Talk

... and Rich Marshall. His idea was to get some of the misfits of Cutter High including Chris to get them all letterman jackets to get even with the super jocks of the school. I felt the sense of revenge like I was T.J. making up these ideas and ways to get revenge. When they went to swim meets I ... Coughlin's brother was an extremely nice, intelligent, super athlete that tragically died in a rock climbing accident. All Chris had to remember him by was he letterman jacket. The jocks of Cutter High were all jerks about it though saying there was a no tolerance rule about wearing a letterman j...

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6. The Travesty of the Columbine Massacre

... their entire high school career. Their affinity for dark clothes, satanic metal music and overall "outsider" vibe insured that they would be rejected by the ruling class of jocks that adhered to more traditional values. ​While not entirely different from other high schools around the country, interviews with former students after the attacks have shed some light on the ... the school through intimidation and humiliation. This was as true for the girls as it was for the boys, although the techniques of intimidation and separation were quite different. The jocks were not afraid of using...

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7. Definition Essay

... economic well-being. Don't these kids feel like they are better than other people? After all, isn't that the whole reason that they hang out with each other? There are jocks that hang out because they are the best in the sports. The Preps are said to be the rich people, they dress really nice and wear expensive clothing. And the ... or white. But in thought, it is still the same concept. I personally have had many experiences in my life. Dealing with this in my high school I was a member of the Jocks. I hate to tell people this but when they say that football players get special treatme...

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8. Columbine High School

... to feel like the outcasts and didn't really fit in with any group. They wore combat boots and trench coats and began to be aggravated by the teachers and the "jocks" of their high school. Eric seemed as though he didn't want to fit in, which is odd to me, people that were his friends before high school didn't make the ... mocking during their years in high school. Eric, which people thought didn't even want to fit in, endured more ridiculing than Dylan. He was constantly made fun of by the "jocks and bullies" of Columbine. He was called a "fag" and had things thrown at him on a daily ba...

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9. Styles

... style of dress, attitudes, speech patterns, and grooming. Even though they are all students of the same school, they all have different classes or groups. They are bangers, kickers, preps, jocks, and nerds. Bangers or head bangers dress in dark colors, usually black. Their pants are more likely to be baggy and sag, while their small and tight shirts are fitted ... advanced. Being often stereotyped, harassed, and criticized by their classmates, they are often loners and have trouble making friends. These are the students who will one day rule the earth. Jocks and athlete's look as if the...

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