Alright. Onto my 5th blog post for junior theme! VERY SHORT!

QUICK UPDATE!

Well, i think i feel a little bit more relieved now. I have been working on my interview questions for a coach at LSU and i have come up with some good ones. Today in the library Ms. Eich helped me edit my questions and they are sounding better already! i am just nervous for the interview. I am not good on the phone and i am going to be embarrassed when i am asking him questions about my topic. The guy that i chose seems to be a really nice guy and he seems like he will help me a lot.
I wrote an intro and got it edited by Mr. O'Connor and I think it is sounding ok. I will post it soon, i just want to do the corrections that Mr. O'Connor told me to do. then i will post it and please comment and give me some advice. I'm feeling a bit more confident now and i think i can write more of the paper this weekend.

Number 4 For Junior Theme
Eating Disorders and Athletes

I have found a lot of information lately from sources online and from many good books that i have gotten from the library, but i dont know where to put all of this information in my paper. I tried to come up with a start to my paper over the weekend, but it didnt work for me. My thesis is not fully put together and i need help on trying to put everything i want in the statement and that is one of my problems. I have ideas on the main ideas i want to say in each body paragraph, but i have no idea how i want to start them. Im feeling a bit lost is what i guess im trying to say. I have some good information, i just dont know how to get put it into my essay?

Here is my start to my thesis and what i want to say in my essay...

Eating disorders are prominent in the sport of gymnastics because...
1. pressure from coaches
2. stress of competition
3. gymnastics has grown in the media/society
4. judges and the skimpy clothing
5. elite gymnasts

These are the main ideas that i want to talk about in my essay, i just dont know how to make it into a thesis or part of my introductions because i dont just want to list them out.

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

Alright,

I am a bit stuck...

I really don't even know where to start for my introduction. I have a lot of good information and i am still looking for more, but i just don't know how to start my first paragraph. I don't know what information to use in it, and i don't have a grabber either. I just feel a bit stuck. I need to find more information on y topic and that is what i am doing, but i don't know what information i need to use in my introduction. 

I have no idea where to start....

Does anyone have any ideas on where to start?

Has anyone else written theirs and can help me start mine?

Anorexia~Junior Theme

Ok well i have been having a bit of a problem. I have been working on my junior theme in school and at home and i have gotten a bit of information that will help me write the paper, but i am worried that i am not going to get it done in time. I have heard from my other friends that they have to get a certain thing of notes in time, and we don't really have that and that is what is making me nervous. It may be because we just started junior theme and stuff, but it is making me nervous. 

I have printed out a few articles and have gotten some good notes on a few things, but i am nervous that i am not going to have enough notes or not finish in time. I don't really know, i just am a bit confused and i don't know when i am supposed to have all my notes or like my book read and stuff. 

I also am not sure if my topic is the best topic, but it is one that interests me and i like it, i am just not sure if i can find enough information on it. I am doing anorexia and how it is different in the upper-class people and the lower-class people. But i also want to add in a paragraph about how sports can affect it and how environment can also effect it, i just cant find very good evidence for any of these. I am going to read the book Price of Privilege and i think that will give me some good info on upper-class teens. I need help...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Is anyone feeling the same way?

Does anyone have an better ideas for me to do with anorexia?

Junior Theme?!?

When i heard that we were starting junior theme on Monday, my heart started to beat faster and faster. I had heard rumors about junior theme from all my friends and siblings that it was a horrible thing and you had to do a lot of work for it. So i was nervous when we were told that we were starting it. But when i heard that it had to be a 4 to 6 page essay and on a topic that you want, i was pretty excited. I told my dad about this and he said that it would be fun for me because my brother, who is now a freshman in college, had to do his junior theme on a topic he didnt want to and he did nto like it.

So i started out with a few ideas and i narrowed it down to two. I wanted to do something on OCD or something on eating disorders. Then when i thought about it, i couldnt really do the topic on OCD because i would have a hard time relating that back to something in history. So i decided to go with the eating disorder topic. I went to see my teacher and he said that i could research eating disorders because i could look at the rates in the upper classes and the lower classes. I thought that this was a good idea and i decided to go with this.

So i was thinking about a "why" question to come up for this topic and i came up with,

Why are the rates for eating disorders different between the upper class and the lower class?

I think that this is a good question, but i am not sure if it is exactly what they are looking for. I looked at the book, The Price of Privilege in the library and i think that it would be a good book to choose because it is a story about upper classman teenagers who struggle with eating disorders.

I think this is a good start, and i am excited to do some research now.

Do you think that my "why"question can improve?

Do you have any other suggestions for books that i could read?