"Most students that participate in club sports go on to lead better lives. The clubs impact their future in ways that increase emotional health, as well as leading to a 15% improvement in total income earned on average."(Campbell 7)


The participation of club sports lead to more successful lives, both financially and emotionally.
Club sports can cause up to a 15% increase in wealth.
Club sports lead to happier lives for those people that are in them.


"The dropout rate of students who participate in club sports or academic clubs shows a 7.4% decrease in the dropout rate of students."(McNeal 8)


Clubs in high school reduce the drop out rate of high school students that participate in them.
Members of club sports are less likely to drop out of high school.
Being in a club sport leads to greater achievements in life.


There are many advantages to being in club sports, whether they be an emotional impact, or a physical impact on their lives directly. The participation of club sports lead to more successful lives, both financially and emotionally. So something as simple as attending a club sport whether it be something as small as chess club meeting once a week, or KEY club, which would consume much of your time in it. The fact is that by simply going to these meetings or events, it can lead to greater achievements in life.

Source A: Bingham: Psychological and Social Benefits of Playing True Sport

This source agrees with the Sources E, and D. It agrees with them in that it shows that playing sports in high school create a better psychological output unto its participants.

Source B: McNeal: Extra Curricular Activities and High School Dropouts

This source agrees with sources C and D, with its idea that participation in high school sports causes direct correlations in a reduction in the dropout rate of students.

Source C: Morris: I Have A Plan Iowa

This source agrees with both sources B and D in that it allows for both with the ideas in that high school dropout rates as well as inceased grade point average and several other factors that have direct correlations.

Source D: Campbell: In-School Clubs

This source agrees with sources B and C in that it focuses primarily on the academic impact of high school club participants.

Source E: Watsky: The Importance of High School Clubs: How to Approach Your Involvement

This source primarily agrees with source A in that the major impact of club sports in high school was a psychological improvement to its participants.

Annotated Bibliography

Bingham, Arthur. "Psychological and Social Benefits of Playing True Sport. Psychological               Association of Education Vol. 7, No. 2. 6 March 2012. Jstor. 26 March 2015

This article dives into the psychological impact of playing sports in high school. It not only examines how its affects the student at that exact moment in time, but it sees what the impact of sports can cause for the students futures who participate. It shows how certain aspects of life are improved by playing sports that otherwise would have been ujtapped potential for high schoolers. This article is key to showing the impact of sports in high school not on one level, but on every single level of a student’s life and future, and I believe that this will be one of the key articles that will reinforce my papers power and reliability as a source.

 

McNeal, Ralph. “Extra Curricular Activities and High School Dropputs.” Sociology and    Education Vol. 2, No. 3. 11 Jan 2010. Jstor. 27 March 2015.

 This article explains how studies done to examine the impact of extra-curricular activities on students effects the dropout rate. While this article may be a little narrow minded in that all it focuses on is the dropout rate, I believe that it will benefit my paper in that it takes into account real evidence of how extra curriculars do impact students and gives actual percentages as to what impact it can have. Along with this evidence I have other articles that focus on more than simply the decreased dropout rate, as well as some that more exemplifies this data and gives it a deeper meaning.

 

Morris, Robert. "I Have A Plan Iowa ™."National Eduaction Foundation Vol. 3, No. 6. 16 Apr 2007. Jstor. 24 Mar. 2015.

This article primarily focuses on club sports and how they are able to effect people directly through statistics and claims made by college boards who select who gains admission to their respective colleges. While this article may lack the individual impact on each participant on an emotional level, it does go in depth about how club sports create increases in grades, attendance, responsible acions by its participants. The article also delves into how people from all across the United States as well as other countries are examining the schools that offer these club sports and realizing the importance of these programs in their schools future success. While this article is biased in that it is targeting a certain area of the country, I does show evidence that not only do club sports decrease dropout rates, but other aspects of its impact on students.

 

Wallace D. Campbell “In-School Clubs.” American Secondary Education

Vol. 11, No. 4. 23 Oct. 2007. Jstor. 24 Mar. 2015.

This article examines what exactly an in-school club is, as well as how it differs from other ideas. Basically it speaks of an in-school club being a club that is not mandatory, a club that if the student wants to get better they have to find it within their own power to physically go and get better. It also shows the different perceptions of mandatory sport attendance and club sport attendance, and how it can impact the students involved. This article will be a key point to examine what a club is in terms of all of the other articles, as well as describe how the club works before delving into the other topics of the research paper.

 

Watsky, Michelle. "The Importance of High School Clubs: How to Approach Your

Involvement." Psychology and Education Vol. 5, No. 8. 1 Oct. 2013. Jstor. 25 Mar. 2015.

This article speaks of the impact on a student’s current life that participating in a club sport can have. These impacts include better time management, perserverance, as well as increased happiness, and a healthier lifestyle. This article goes into not only the physical impact on the students like how their time must now be better managed in order to continue to do what they love, as well as how it can psychologically impact how a student can get happier, which would cause many other aspects of their life to change for the better. This article will benefit my paper in a way that it analyzes the direct impacts of high school clubs on its participants, as well as how it can unknowingly impact other aspects of their lives.

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Passage-Based Focused Freewrite for MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

A Passage from Letter From Birmingham City Jail: “The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations. He has to get them out. So let him march sometime; let him have his prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; understand why he must have sit-ins and freedom rides. If his repressed emotions do not come out in these nonviolent ways, they will come out in ominous expressions of violence. This is not a threat; it is a fact of history. So I have said to my people, “Get rid of your discontent.” But I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled through the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action.”                                                                                        Throughout his letter, MLK speaks of his actions as positive, and tries to explain them to anybody who could be confused about it. He explains what his four step process to success is, as well as how it has worked in the past, but this passage is unlike the rest of the letter. In this paragraph from the letter, in this portion, his words of wisdom begin to turn into words of fear, much like a small portion of his “I have a dream” speech. MLK’s words turn into that of a discontent among his people, as well as a warning to what this discontent will lead to if not fixed. His words may not come across as a direct threat towards people, nor may that have ever been his intention with the words that he used, but to me they came off particularly threatening. His sentence of “they will come out in ominous expressions of violence” speaks of the pent up emotions that come with not having equal rights as a citizen who should. This “ominous expression of violence” seems to be some kind of way to say that there will be consequences if nothing is done, whether they are burning down of towns on a much more serious end, or simply angry letters on another end of the spectrum, but both of these could be something that could be imagined by somebody reading, or hearing this letter. The potential hazard of this statement is one that I believe should have been treated much more lightly than it was, because this sentence could have been one that had the power to change the outlook of the people looking into this from an outside perspective. While a majority of this letter may have been encompassed around the positives that they strove for, and the happiness that they want in the end, this passage was far from any of that.

Sentence Types in The Declaration of Independence

Simple Sentence: "He has affected to render Military independent of and superior to the Civil power."
Compound Sentence: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and send hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
Complex Sentence: "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
Compound-Complex Sentence: "He has forbidden his governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."