Good Luck Strategy

I can identify one thing that I used to do to ensure good luck during my lacrosse season. I would always wear the sweatband of my cousin on my left wrist. The story behind it is that my cousin was 3 years older than me and he died at the age of 18 in 2005. He was a big part of my life, and he always played football when he was growing up. He wore the number 52, and after he died I had my varsity number changed to 52. My aunt ended up giving me his sweatband that he wore that had he number 52 on it in the Colchester Lakers School colors. This means a lot to me, so I put it on before every game and wore it hoping it would give me the extra boost if I needed it.

My Contact Zone

To be honest, one of my favorite things to do in life is to workout, and I love being in the gym. When I was asked about contact zones, it was first hard for me to think of a place where I contacted with other people every single day. But now it comes to me, one of my largest contact zones is in the weight room. It may seem a little "out there" to other people, but you start to connect with people and have a little community while you are working out. I know that I go to the gym every day with Peter Mindnich, and that right there is our own little community. In the weight room you get to learn about people, and learn from what you see them doing. Out of no where you can have a conversation with someone you just met about your workout routine, or a diet or a supplement that he/she is taking to enhance the workout. It is a great place to interact with people, and a place to learn more things about working out.

King's Point

I think that the main point is this is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s reaching out to the man in Birmingham Jail. As King states in this letter, "and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town" (p.180). His point is that he is personally reaching out and touching the lives of others in all of the different communities surrounding him. King is a man that believes in direct contact, and that is how he made a difference. He has stated before that, "the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly." That is a direct quote from our handout that we were given in Concepts of the Community. So i truly believe that King's main point is once again direct contact is the answer to our problems. We have to reach out and touch the lives of others to get our point across.

"Entangling Roots" by Jeff Lessard

I read "Entangling Roots:.." by Jeff Lessard and I found it to be quite interesting. One part of this essay that I found to be a "good" thing is that it seemed to me that he had done quite a bit of research on the gaming community, and he was not basing this whole essay on a hunch. Many people today talk about the gaming community, and point out how some members are not as social as non-members. But Jeff Lessard seemed to have done the research, and went passed purely observing. This is the biggest thing that jumped out to me while reading this essay, it was well researched.