Alex David
Persuasive Speech
Do you think kids should get participation awards for something they aren’t really good at? Kids shouldn’t be given awards that they don’t deserve, there should only be one winner and one winner only, instead of everyone winning wins. My reasons for thinking this are: people who think they are good at something tend to do the same thing, people who think they are good at something don’t try to get better because they think they are good already, and the real winners of the award don’t feel as good about their accomplishment since everyone got an award just like them.
The first reason that I think everyone should not get awards just for participating, people who think they are good at something tend to do the same thing. When you get awarded for something you don’t deserve, an award still makes you feel good. Awards are supposed to make someone feel good about their hard work and all of their time that they put into their sport or …show more content…
When an older sibling gets something at the age of 10, likely, the younger sibling will get that same thing at the age of 8. This is a kind of example of what I’m trying to say. When someone that wins something and gets the same award as someone that didn’t do nearly as well, that’s a problem. This makes the winners not feel as good about what they have done. The people that work the hardest at something should get the most out of their hard work, not feel at the same level as someone else. Another example would be this: if a teacher says, ¨the person who scores the highest on the next test gets to have lunch with me and I will buy.¨ The test comes along and the person who scores the highest gets that, but everyone else in the class gets to have lunch the teacher too. This situation does not make the person who got the highest score feel as good about
Persuasive Speech
Do you think kids should get participation awards for something they aren’t really good at? Kids shouldn’t be given awards that they don’t deserve, there should only be one winner and one winner only, instead of everyone winning wins. My reasons for thinking this are: people who think they are good at something tend to do the same thing, people who think they are good at something don’t try to get better because they think they are good already, and the real winners of the award don’t feel as good about their accomplishment since everyone got an award just like them.
The first reason that I think everyone should not get awards just for participating, people who think they are good at something tend to do the same thing. When you get awarded for something you don’t deserve, an award still makes you feel good. Awards are supposed to make someone feel good about their hard work and all of their time that they put into their sport or …show more content…
When an older sibling gets something at the age of 10, likely, the younger sibling will get that same thing at the age of 8. This is a kind of example of what I’m trying to say. When someone that wins something and gets the same award as someone that didn’t do nearly as well, that’s a problem. This makes the winners not feel as good about what they have done. The people that work the hardest at something should get the most out of their hard work, not feel at the same level as someone else. Another example would be this: if a teacher says, ¨the person who scores the highest on the next test gets to have lunch with me and I will buy.¨ The test comes along and the person who scores the highest gets that, but everyone else in the class gets to have lunch the teacher too. This situation does not make the person who got the highest score feel as good about