No Backbone

Being the best i can be

Michael Lynch

Flash fiction

                You want to be great at track and push yourself to be your best. You need to take the next step and keep pushing yourself, so you can strive to be a great runner. Pushing yourself in the weight room or on the track while sprinting is going to be very key to be the best runner that you want to be. You need to have a positive attitude about things you do, even if you lose at something, you got to pick yourself up and keep going. Positivity will help you in your races and in life in general, it’s a very great way to be. Also sticking to a healthy diet does very well help keep you energized and ready to put in the work you need to, so you perform your best in practice or races. It also helps you feel better during the day and you don’t feel super full and exhausted. Just all and all if you do the right things you will succeed at what you want to do. Staying focused on your goals is the main key.

Artist Statement

                I choose this picture because it represents what I want to do and what I want to accomplish in this sport. It shows when I look at this picture that is all I think about is my goal, which is to get better at it and perform my best. It connects with my text because I say how and what I need to do this. It gives me the steps and things to do. It describes me a lot because I want to strive to get better and I am taking these steps to do that. They work together because the text explains what is happening in the picture, of how I know what to do to get to my goal. I think my work so far this year has been very good, and I am understanding the material. I think I could maybe write them with more info but other than that I am understanding it great.

Self-Reflection

*They:                 People think about bias as like someone should win even know they probably shouldn’t because they like them better or they prefer them more. That is an example of bias. This is what makes them bias towards someone. I think some people bias is not good because it could sway something and not make it fair. Also, some people think they aren’t bias in anyway which is wrong. People will want to be like this because if they are wrong about something, they will not feel good and might get in a bad mood. But the truth is people do have a bias for something even if they think they don’t.

*He/she:             I have listened and read a couple texts about bias, and what I have heard from them is people do have a bias. One podcast I listened to said things about bias referring to people thinking they don’t have a bias, but they really do. They said in the podcast, “people ignored test when it challenged their views”. This quote shows that people don’t want to believe that they have a bias towards something, but they do towards some things.

                                Another podcast that I saw was “How do we overcome bias”. It shows people have a hard time overcoming that problem. One thing they said was, “I leaned on a bias that I didn’t even know I had”. People even have bias they didn’t know they had because they don’t think they have any, but they show it when they don’t notice.

I say:                      My argument towards this topic is that people do have a bias, because there is always something that people do like or don’t like which creates a bias. It even says that in the podcasts that people really do even if they don’t notice it at all.