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Miguel Perez

Professor Batty

Subject English

29 May 2019

Reflection paper on essay

For this essay I changed a lot of the information I provided and basically changed up the

whole essay. To start of I did end up staying with the same topic which was football student

athletes. In my first essay I was all over the place trying to argue the point that athletes should

get a degree because football is not everything and that education is more important than football

but I wasn’t actually answering the prompt which was asking us to explain a specific struggle

that a college group of students face and how they could overcome that with help. The struggle I

went with for college football Athletes is that they struggle to manage their time and to stay

focused on what is important. Also I argued that having moral support from like a family

member or friend or coach can motivate a student to continue going if they ever have doubts

with everything they are asked to manage.

In my revised essay I focused more on the issues that football student Athletes have a lot

on their plate to manage for example with having to deal with going to practice, going to class,

studying for class, going to work etc. For that issue I proposed a solution by offering them advice

to use a agenda to manage their time better. In that agenda they will have laid out there plans for

the day for example like in the morning I will be in class then I will study until 2pm then I will

have practice and have to clock in at work at 7pm after practice.at least this way they can play

out their days better and avoid stressing.

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Some athletes tend to lose focus on why they are where they are and get caught up in the

other college life. Being on the football team comes with having a bit of fame around the school

for being on the team and with that comes stuff like parties and girls and drugs etc. Advise we

offer for situation like that is to not makes friends with people who live that lifestyle and hangout

with people that want to meet up in a library and study or with some that wants to go to the gym.

Surround yourself with good energy rather bad energy. You advice the athletes that it Is not

worth throwing away all the work you have put in to school and the sport to go partying and do

drugs as that “fun” all eventually ends. Also I argued that sometimes a athletes enters a difficult

stage in there life where they probably feel overwhelmed with everything going on and simply

having a parent or friend or coach to provide moral support can motivate a athlete to keep going

and not give up.