Final Blog

To rebuttal against Deford's statement that we should embrace the fact that professional athletes are not role models. For one, many people watch and are influenced by sports, especially the younger audience. If we let athletes get away with things, such as Ben, we are showing are youth that it is ok to do whatever you want when are a high profile athlete and that you are above everybody else, This is not the mesage that is needed for today's generation. I think you can look at Michael Vick's case and people can learn from that. He was a high profile athlete but was still punished which is how it should b. That shows kids that you cannot get away with whatever you want.
The thing that made the most sense to me from our class was the social class issues. Talking about Marxist ideas made sense to me because I had a class about those issues. The topic that was hard to appreciate at first was hegemony. The most powerful or memorable part for me was learning about the first women to run a marathon. That really stuck out to me and helped me realize what they went through.