Rodeo Critical Analysis

Critical Analysis/Issue Paper During the spring semester of 2016 I volunteered with the Murray State University Rodeo Club. The rodeo club is dedicated to helping student athletes compete in rodeos while getting an education. The rodeo club raises money for scholarships, practice equipment, and puts on the annual rodeo at MSU every year. The rodeo club is also involved in community projects such as the Calloway County Santa Project, food and toy drives, and even puts on a fundraiser for St. Jude’s. During my volunteering last fall I got to help out with the 40th Annual Racer Round Up Rodeo. Each year the rodeo club puts on a special rodeo day before the college rodeo starts. During the special rodeo, students in the special education program in Calloway County come for a fun day of rodeo games and fun. The club has put on this event for years and the students really enjoy it. It is something that the club members always remember and cherish. Because the rodeo club is not particularly involved in any large scale public issue, I would like to focus this paper on the issue of public awareness of children with disabilities. Growing up with a mother that worked in early childhood development, I was fortunate enough …show more content…
Aside from school programs there are not a lot of opportunities to go and learn about what it is like to have a disability and how those people would like to be talked to. For instance, it would help people to know about autism and how to talk to a child with autism. Understanding the disability is the first step to accepting it. Once people understand how a person’s disability affects them, they can make a greater effort to include them. It would greatly benefit the lives of many people with disabilities to understand how they think and how we can better socially accommodate