Being a Winner

Being a winner means that you are in first place in a competition. Even coming in second and third place is considered being a winner. A winner is someone who tries really hard at something and works so hard on it that when it comes time to compete, they give it all they have and let the judges know it. Even if they don't come in one of the top places, they still know that they did their best and work even harder so they can get better. In my eyes, a winner is someone who tries their hardest at what they want the most and they have the end result that they want in mind. When they already have in mind what they want, they know how hard they need to work to achieve it. A winner, to me, is someone that does the very best that they can. Even if they don't win first place, they know that they tried their hardest, and that itself makes the person feel good about themself.

Olympic Commitment

Olympians make a serious commitment when they decide to be in the Olympics. They are dedicating themselves to hours and hours of practice each day and to keeping their schedules open when they're needed to practice more.

A commitment I've made that is most like the Olympics is to become a prancer. Being a prancer means that you need to dedicate yourself to practice during the school day and after school during your free time. When I became a prancer, these dedications were made clear to the whole team so that every girl would know that by becoming a prancer, they are making a big commitment. Prancers practice for an hour and a half each A day and after school every Wednesday. Sometimes extra practices are needed, so we practice even longer on Wednesdays and sometimes after church on Sundays. If a girl knows that she's behind everyone else, she'll need to practice even more on her own time. With all of these practices, the team gets better and better. By game night, the team looks great at half time. Being a prancer is a big commitment.

Persuasion

Persuasion is a valuable technique to know. I use persuasion often to get my way with my parents and my friends. When I'm persuading, I usually appeal to some one's emotions. I can make them feel bad about not letting me have what I want, or I can make them pity me and then they'll let me have what I want out of pity. Persuasion is a big part of my life becuase without it, I wouldn't be able to get what I want.

I witness persuasion on television everytime I turn it on. It's in many of the commercials ran on the channels I watch most often. The channel I frequent the most is Nickelodeon. On Nick, most of the commercials are aimed at young children. They promote new toys and make the kids want them by telling them that the toys are cool. As I know that by seeing these commercials the kids will go beg there parents to get them, I'm sure the writers of these commercials know that the parents will be bugged until the kids get what they want. In this way, persuasion is used twice. It's used to persuade the kids that they want the toy and it's used to persuade the parents to buy the toys for the kids.