Friday, April 24, 2009

Death by transition

Currently I am working on the transitions in my paper. I have so many good ideas of how I want my paper to sound it is hard to put them down on paper. I have to find a way to bridge the military's use of performance enhancing drugs to civilians to high performance athletes to teenage athletes and then to teenagers.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

jr Theme intro

“When I went upstairs and I found him, and it was like, a mothers nightmare.”(http://www.connectwithkids.com/tipsheet/2004/188_aug04/ster.html) Gwen Hooton found her 17 year old son Taylor Hooton hanging from his bedroom door with a belt around his neck. Taylor was only 15 years old he started taking steroids. During his withdrawal from steroids he decided to take his own life. Suicide or thoughts of suicide is only one effect of steroid withdrawal. Steroid abuse among teenagers has become more common due to body image issues and the accessibility to the drug.

I really don't know how to finnish this please help.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Conducting an Interview

The Taylor Hooton foundation was started after the suicid of Taylor Hooton. I am interviewing the vice president of the foundation.  Today I going over my interview questions and I realized how hard it was to ask questions that I could use in my paper when I don't even know what direction I want to write my paper. After this interview I am going to conduct my future interviews.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Altering my topic

This week i changed my topic a little bit. My original topic was why dose professional baseball care more about steroids than any other sport. I changed the topic to why do some high school athletes take steroids. The main reason I changed my topic was because I am really not interested in baseball at all. I really don't get why it is americas past time no offense to anyone who is a huge baseball fan or plays baseball I just don't  get it sorry.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Finding the perfect quote

While reading my Jr theme books I was having difficulies findings quotes that work with my subject. None of the books in the library seemed large enough to provide me with information. The one book I was really looking forward to reading that could provide me with a lot of information was the one book that we couldn't find.  Other than that I am finding Jr theme to be tough but enjoyable.