Monday, 29 December 2014

Coaching

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Coaching


According to John Wooden, “success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming” (112). I think Wooden meant that success is not achieved through exerting much mental and physical tension to achieve a huge goal at once, but through successive attainment of small goals. Therefore, one should not be compelled by unrealistic forces to achieve all what he or she expects at once, but to observe a controlled and systematic achievement of goals that are broken into smaller units.
Wooden implied that once someone becomes obsessed with attaining huge goals at once, he deprives himself of peace of mind. Such attempts of struggling to achieve huge goals lead to self-dissatisfaction since one does not achieve them hence starting to blame himself for underperforming. Therefore, he lacks contentment with what he has achieved hence generating mental distress that would impair performance rather than promoting it. Moreover, the person starts doubting his ability to achieve his goals hence getting demotivated from making further efforts to achieve them.
However, when one sets realistic goals within a favorable timeframe, he ends up achieving them hence getting motivated to progressively advance them towards achieving the huge long-term goals. This aspect promotes self-efficacy whereby one begins to believe in his ability to achieve his goals hence leading to improvement of performance. It also provides a favorable platform for one to evaluate the factors that have led to either achievement or failure to achieve previous goals hence reviewing them for better performance in future. Therefore, one is provided with amble time to evaluate every step of his progress towards achieving the set goals hence making changes where necessary. This aspect is observed because there is no straining that is experienced due to pressures of achieving huge goals within a short timeframe.
I can apply Wooden’s quote in my coaching style through encouraging my athletes to set short-term goals that would make them focused towards achieving them and at the same time avoid excessive straining. For instance, an athlete who wants to achieve a sprinting speed of 100 meters in 15 seconds, I would recommended him to progressively reduce his current total time by one second in a week. This goal is attainable and would progressively become challenging as time goes by. Therefore, during the time it becomes almost unachievable, the athlete will have gained adequate self-efficacy that would be making him to strive towards achieving it.
Moreover, I would also apply the quote in order to keep my clients motivated towards securing high performance and also to have intrinsic reasons for exercising. According to Wooden (202), when athletes have not found any intrinsic factor that could make them willing to exercise, they will always be bothersome to their coaches. This aspect results due to development of a notion that they exercise to please their coach rather than to secure personal gains out of it. However, when I introduce the aspect of exercising to achieve self-satisfaction and progressively aim towards achieving greater successes, my clients will be motivated to exercise harder in order to achieve their level best. This would be an effective strategy that would trigger improvement of performance of the athletes.
References
Wooden, John. My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

The Feminist Perception



According to Goodman (2010), the ancient feminist ideologies that considered women as being weaker than men have helped them to take good care of their bodies. Women have been keen to protect their bodies from any form of health risk due to the perception that they are not as strong as men to overcome life challenges. On the other hand, most men have continued to lead reckless lives due to the notion that they are not vulnerable like women. This perception shapes my thinking regarding the difference in behavior between men and women in the society. Women are always adhering to the recommended health precautions by their physicians and visit health clinics frequently for check-ups unlike men. They bear in mind that their weak bodies might not be able to fight against various infections hence failure to acquire medical consultation might expose them to critical health problems (Hewlett, 2012).
On the other hand, most men see visitation to medical clinics and seeking of medical consultation to be wastage of time (Richard, 2012). They believe that their immune system is superior and able to fight against many infections. This perception can be held responsible for triggering the multiple cases of ill-health, acquired disability, and mal-nutrition among men in the society. The case of women is different from that of men since they are always cautious to avoid any activities or life traits that might pose a threat to their health. Moreover, this feminist perception has also led to different interests of sports between men and women. Men are mostly interested in the most physical sports such as Rugby, American Football, and Cricket in order to prove how strong they are. Unlikely, women find fun in the sports than involve less physical contacts between the opponents such as Table Tennis and Lawn Tennis in order to protect their bodies from harm.

                                                                     References
Goodman, R. (2010). Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hewlett, S. (2012). A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America. New York: Morrow & CO.
Richard, J. (2012). The Sceptical Feminist. Cambridge: Harmondsworth.

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Scholarly Article Review



Part 1: Article Summary
According to Wright (2011), the Sesame Street developed a television show, which was premiered on the public broadcasting service, to test its effects to the young viewers. The show was developed after conducting more than one thousand experiments and studies, and also involving a research. The hypothesis of the research was that carelessly developed television shows affected the attention of young viewers and subjected them to poor cognitive and social behaviors. This impact prolonged even to their old ages hence affecting their families negatively. The researchers used two methods in testing the impact of the Sesame Street television show. The first method was a formative research that involved in-house investigation and laboratory-based tests in determining whether the show was attractive to young viewers.
The formative research utilized the concepts of behaviorism theory; which is a psychology movement that   provides reasons to various behaviors in the society. The researchers combined all the necessary recommendations which would make the show attract the attention of young viewers effectively. They performed studies on the earlier children shows that had been programmed in order to discover their faults and avoid them.
The second method of research was independent summative evaluation. This research was conducted by Educational Testing Service, and it was done over a significantly long duration within which the show was being aired. It was aimed at testing the educational impact of the show on the young viewers. The researchers invented attention testing tools for young viewers in order to monitor their change in behavior due to influence of the show. All the data collected during this research was analyzed by the researchers as the study progressed hence making the necessary recommendations to the producers on the areas which required improvement.
The research generated findings that the effectiveness of a television show to children did not depend on the expense incurred in the production. The researchers revealed that the segment entitled ‘The Man from Alphabet’ did not attract attention of most children despite its high expenses of production. However, the other segments scored above 85% in attractiveness to children within the fourth season of the show. It was also revealed that children learned effectively when actively engaged in singing or speaking the content of the show. Careful watching made them improve their mental ability hence performing well even in their academics. During the fifteenth episode, the academic performance of viewers and non-viewers was tested and compared. Few differences were noticed during this period. Another comparison was done three weeks later and revealed more differences in performance between the viewers and the non-viewers. However, it was discovered that the viewers could only remember few letters or words from the show. According to the multiple-intelligence theory, the producers were forced to change the show to encompass short films and animation in order to boost children comprehension on the single topics developed.
Part 2: Review
The researches were conducted comprehensively in order to test multiple aspects of children attention and also behavior influence due to television watching. However, there are several challenges that might have been incurred during the data collection process hence making the researchers compile biased data. Children do not like being subjected to tests hence when such an incidence occurs they get scared. They generate mental tension hence making them to forget most of the things they have learned. This aspect could have been an influential factor to the findings collected. Moreover, children are generally uncomfortable while interacting with strangers. The researchers were new to them, and they did not take adequate time to familiarize with the site of study. They also failed to involve one of the most conversant persons to the children in order to make them free while responding to the research questions.
Despite the few faults in the methodology of the research, there are three aspects that are inspiring about the research. First, it was conducted comprehensively while observing the faults which were made by the earlier children show producers and avoiding them. Its concepts were related to the already published theories such as behaviorism and multiple-intelligence in order to generate reasons behind various aspects noticed. Secondly, the independent summative evaluation was conducted over a long period. This aspect awarded the researchers a good opportunity to monitor change in performance by the viewers and compare the performance with that of the non-viewers. They were able to show a clear trend in performance difference between the participants hence convincing their audiences on the impact of television watching on children. Thirdly, the research was conducted by qualified persons who had adequate experience in the field. The formative research was conducted by Edward Palmer and Shalom Fisch; who had long-term experience in conducting child and development studies. On the other hand, the independent summative evaluation was conducted by experts from the Education Testing Service whose credibility was promising for a quality research.
The research implies that child development should be guided carefully since the content that young people get exposed to affects both their social and cognitive behavior. Its findings can be used by other children show producers for referencing regarding the most appropriate content to develop. The research holds a potential impact of revolutionizing the Children Entertainment Industry to become more educative and supportive to the societal welfare.
















Reference
Wright, J. (2011). The Early Window Project: Sesame Street Prepares Children for School. Journal of Child and Family Development, 121-142. Retrieved from APUS Online Library.

Website Critique and Journal



Highsocieteanj.com is a website that advertises on a beverage; tea that is offered to the high socioeconomic class people. This website targets the high income earners in the society as its primary audiences. Although it does not contain a subject statement to indicate that its major concern is the high income earners, its title indicates both its subject and purpose. The title specifies it to be advertising on a high-society tea house, and images of luxurious facilities portrayed on its homepage. The term “high societea” refers to service for the economically stable people who can afford luxuries in their lives. Therefore, they are the primary audiences of the website since the can afford the services being rendered.
However, despite targeting the high income earners who are associated with the urge for perfect sophistication and attractive presentations, the website contains a poor design. The developers of this website did put into to consideration the effective features of a good website design. Its homepage contains a lot of blank space which makes it to seem empty. An effective website design focuses on putting adequate content on the homepage which clearly portrays what is contained in it. The website is filled up with pictures on the homepage without providing an explanation about their origin or the main purpose of putting them there. There is no subject statement that states its main purpose hence making the audiences to rely on the suggestive terms in discovering its purpose. For instance, an interested audience would only rely on the term “tea house” within the website’s title in order to know that it is advertising about tea beverages that are being served within its outlets.
The website’s color scheme is effective since most of its colors rhyme. They provide adequate contrast that enables its audiences to view its contents clearly. This is an effective feature of its design that makes it to reveal all its contents to the viewers without being strenuous. Moreover, its letters have been written in a medium size font that makes them clearly visible and able to pass message effectively. The developers can also be congratulated for actively using images to portray the real picture of the tea outlets that are being advertised on website. Its homepage does not include unrelated advertisements hence enabling the viewers to gain confidence in exploring its contents. According to Nielsen (2001), a website design that involves excessive advertisements on unrelated contents discourages viewers from exploring its contents. They feel that they are being tricked to fall trap of scammers or malicious software hence avoiding further exploration.
Its homepage is also free from dead links. This aspect makes it able to cover most of its weaknesses hence proving the credibility of its developers to the audiences. Involvement of dead links in the homepage of any website makes the audiences to start doubting on whether the website’s content if often updated (Niederst, 2001). Therefore, they fear they may spend much of their time view content that talks about non-existing facilities or services. The developers also made it free from blue links which in most cases are placed near the main topics or at strategic positions within the website that may cause the viewer to click them accidentally. The blues links direct the viewers to useless or remote pages hence making them to feel that exploring the website content is simply wastage of time.  Its audiences are made sure that all the links which are available on the website would direct them to the required content hence being willing to spend more time examining the advertisement.
The website also contains appropriate graphics that fit well on the screen. They have alt labels and free from extremely large thumbnail images. All the graphics which are included are meaningful and do not take a lot of time to load. Macotte (2010) says that websites that contain meaningless graphics or ones which take long time to load discourage viewers from viewing much of its content. The Internet community is aware that there are very many related contents within the websites hence there is no need of wasting time exploring unresponsive websites or the ones that contain meaningless graphics. Bearing in mind the effect of this fact, developers of societeanj.com included responsive graphics that hold a meaning concerning the website’s content hence making it worthy to be viewed by its audiences.
Despite the several good website design features that have been included on the website, they are not effective enough to make it to be regarded as having an overall good design.  The website does not exercise continuous styling within its homepage. Different styles of text formatting have been used. For instance, its title is not italicized as its content within the bottom part of the homepage. A different font type has been used for its title from the one used to structure the rest of its contents. The developers can be termed to have had worked too hard to make the website different from others hence failing to observe the concepts of a good website design. A good design should have a continuous styling which makes it to seem official and worthy to be viewed by its primary audiences. According to Niederst (2001), Internet users depend on simple aspects in determining whether a website is worthy exploring or not. For instance, excessive use of different formatting and font styles make them to doubt the credibility of its developers. The experienced website developers do not spend much of their time making unnecessary decorations in order to improve the attractiveness of the websites. They depend on effective arrangement of content, proper color schemes and useful links to make the websites unique from others and attractive to explorations. Moreover, most Internet users bear in mind that the companies that can afford to hire well qualified developers to design their websites, value their contents and see it to be worthy advertising. This notion makes them to use the design features in determining whether the website’s content is worthy viewing or not.
The website also lacks personality. The developers did not consider incorporating explanative sections on the website which explain deeply about its content and purpose hence failing to elude a sense of self. Its homepage is comprised of information that is too general to make it convincing to its primary audiences. A good website design includes various sections that explain about the websites content deeply hence making the viewers to notice the uniqueness of its advertisements. Internet users access different websites in order to obtain specific pieces of information. Therefore, if they fail to notice relevant sections which would guide them towards the interested content, they get discouraged from continue to view its content. Developers of highsocieteanj.com should have paid attention on including specific sections which describe the unique services which are offered by the outlets being advertised.
For any website design to be effective it should be convincing to the viewers and directive in making them discover its uniqueness from the other websites. It should exercise comprehensive description of the websites content within its homepage without making it excessively crowded (Oleksy, 2001). Moreover, images should be used to provide supplementary information about the content being described. They should not be relied upon entirely to explain the website’s content as it was done by developers of highsocieteanj.com.
Conclusion
There are several features which can be relied upon in judging whether a particular website contains a good or bad design. The homepage of any website contains the most crucial aspects of design that guides viewers in making decisions on whether to continue exploring its content or not. Therefore, it should be developed carefully encompassing all the most important sections that explain its purpose and awards it a sense of personality.
Highsocieteanj.com contains ineffective website design although there are certain good features which were included by its developers. The website is free from unresponsive graphics, and blue or dead links which might make the viewers to get discouraged from continuing to view its content. However, its design is made poor by several features which include; too much blank space on the homepage, lack of personality, and lack of continuous styling.













Website Journal
Highsocieteanj.com was established with the main aim of advertising tea beverages that are offered by the company’s tearooms located in 20 Old Newark Pompton Turnpike. This location can be described as an historical township of Wayne. These tearooms can date their origin back to the year 1895. The website explains about their existence and gives customers information about the services render, and the exact directions which would lead them to the outlets. It also contains information about the series of events which have taken place since establishment of the tearooms and the development which has been experienced.
The website uses a formal tone entirely to present information about the services which are being advertised. However, it does not make full utilization of its homepage to describe about the major sections encompassed by its content. Audiences are forced to make persisted efforts in clicking several links before tracing the necessary information of their interest. This aspect is among the several features that impair information relying to the audiences hence making its design to be poor.
However, despite the weakness of the website which include; improper styling, emptiness of its homepage, and lack of personality, the website contains some strengths which make its content worthy viewing. Content within the homepage has been effectively arranged and proper color scheme used hence making it easily viewable. Texts have also been written using a medium size font that makes the audiences to read them without straining.


References
Macotte, E. (2010). Responsive Web Design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Niederst, J. (2001). Web Design in a Nutshell. New York: O'Rielly Media.
Nielsen, J. (2001). Homepage Usability. New York: New Riders Publishing.
Oleksy, W. (2001). Web Design. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group.


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