Pageflakes

http://www.pageflakes.com/wendelll/

Similar to many other internet sites, pageflakes is a good way to have your favorite internet sites accessible at the click of the mouse. In my case, I am covering the difficulties in gender and athletics and sports psychology. As a whole, my pageflakes covers the various sites where one could find a large range of different types of gender and athletic issues and news.

The first thing to see are the 10 different RSS fees that all relate to the issues on gender in athletics and sports psychology. Several feeds cover the importance of structuring athletes at a very young age. The importance of sportsmanship, hard work, and determination often appear as headlines and latest news. Others are often opinionated websites that just cover the recent news in the world and in sports. The last couple few deal with the issue of sports psychology. Most try to give advice everyday on how to be a better athlete and how to deal with the pressures of being an athlete. As an athlete, a majority of these articles help with the everyday stresses and complications in athletics.

The next two flakes that are present are the search flakes. These flakes refresh everyday with current news in the same field. One search system is called the Universal Blog Search in which blogs under the same field are found everyday. In that search engine, sports psychology was entered so there are blogs related to this subject everyday around the world. The next box is the Universal News Search in which current news is updated everyday also. In this box, I entered gender and sports, so both are covered in recent news. For example, the recent brawl between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock is a headline that asks if the perception of the female athlete is changing which has been an issue since women began playing sports.

And lastly is my bibliography of my search for journals and books that are related to my subject. All of the research was found in the USC search system that provided me with scholarly journals and books. It is also an annotated bibliography which gives the reader a brief description of each document that I found.

Soulmate Stardom

In my findings, my social bookmarking soul mates cover an aspect in athletic psychology that is one of the most popular subjects in today’s society, drug enhancers. The study was taken in the Lorraine region in Eastern France where investigators handed out a questionnaire to one high school’s athletic program. In addition to finding out the different substances the athletes have taken, the surveyors wanted to the psychosociological factors that were accompanied with the substances. In all athletics from high school to the professional level, athletes are often tempted and sometimes pressured into being the best by their parents, peers, or coaches. As a result, the athlete feels inclined to absorb some substance to make them feel as adequate as other athletes. These types of changes in a young athletes life can began to alter their personalities, physical and mental structures, and expectations. The drugs can also cause the athlete’s body to either develop to quick or decay rapidly which transforms the athlete’s career in whatever sport they want to succeed in.

In the results from the investigation, the surveyors found that the athletes have used substances that range from cannabis to creatine to alcohol to steroids. The students felt as if they were then accepted socially and athletically and could now be considered “cool.” As an athlete, this can be a career determining factor for certain people. The perceived outlook on an athlete can be very negative and altering that stereotype can also be a struggle. Even though the athlete needs to feel the need to add substances to their body, they also want keep a clean name if at all possible.

In the conclusion of the investigation, the testers found that the athlete’s actions and personalities began to alter and the parents often referred to their children as “unbearable” and “hard to live with.” The surveyors simply wanted to prove that the used of steroids and extra substances to increase athletic performance has a negative effect on athletes and their mental and physical structures.

The authors had over 50 tags that all related to sports psychology and the difference in gender and sports. The authors were also heavily bookmarked from other bloggers that had a sports emphasis. I was not sure how many pages the authors has bookmarked but from the various professors that they quoted, it seems that they are very proficient in their findings.