My Values
My top 3 values are …
Inclusion
Inclusion is a very important value to me as I believe that everyone has a right to be included in everything no matter if they are a different race, have a disability, or feel like the are being excluded in any way, shape or form. Even though I am proud of my disability many aren’t and don’t always feel included in our busy society. I face inclusion issues in my everyday life. I want to become a Paralympian in wheelchair racing. I face inclusion issues in that sense as no one knows what this sport is and there are not a lot of inclusive athletics competitions around WA. That is why inclusion is one of my values that I will follow for life and try to make people understand this value too.
Courage
Courage to me is stepping up and not being afraid to do anything. Obviously courage takes time to build. Courage is important to me because if you are not courages you will miss out on so many opportunities. I find that I show the most courage when faced with big challenges like trying to do a zipline course in trees. I was camping in Dwellingup and I had really wanted to do the tree rope course. We started doing it and I did get nervous but pushed my nerves aside and took the lead. I felt happy that I took the lead and was able to put that courage in my sister who was a bit more nervous than me.
Empathy
Empathy is a value which I didn’t know about until I came to All Saints, as I arrived the year they added the value to RIC so it was new to everyone. Empathy to me is understanding another’s point of view or situation. In my family everyone seems to have a different opinion about music. I believe that my music taste is the best and that others isn’t but I still know understand that everyone ahs different opinions and views about things. If you don’t understand else’s opinion and then disagree with them this can lead to arguments and disagreements which could’ve been prevented if you had just used empathy. That is why empathy is important to me.
Role Models
The Good – Madison de Rozario
Overveiw
Madison de Rozario is a T53 Paralympic athelete. She has competed in the paralympic team at just 14 and has since become a champion of the sport. She is coached by Louise Savauge another former wheelchair racer who has been inducted into the Olympic hall of fame. She is also a model
What behaviours does this person
demonstrate to show that they are healthy
Trains and exercises regularly
Eats healthily
Advocates for what she believes needs to be done in the community
What do they look like? Are they healthy? How
do you know?
Madison de Rozario is a very healthy pro athelete at the top of her game. She has very strong arms and shoulders from years of training and pushing her wheel chair. Yes, she in a wheelchair and knows that is the first thing people notice about her. She also has a bright smile on her face.
What message does this person promote? Why
is it inspiring and healthy?
Madison de Rozario believes that girls and people with a disability should find a way to take control of their own body and have a voice in society. She celebrates her one true self and is proud of who she is not just because she has won gold medals but the fact that she is making people view disability in a different way. She has even been made into a barbie. I find this interesting as Barbie has been criticized about the look of their dolls as it can effects young peoples body image. The company is obviously trying to be more inclusive about stereotypes and the uniqueness of different people. That is why they made Madi into a barbie.
Why should young people look up to this
person as a role model?
Madison de Rozario is an advocate for minority groups in Australia. She is a strong advocate for womens rights, disability
publicity and inclusion for people of colour. She encourages young people to push past stereotypical ways of looking or acting and tells them to be proud of who they are.
” It creates all of this work that you then have to do as a teenager and a young adult and sometimes as an adult to reverse in all of that. I grew up not having any particular feelings about it it was just a part of who I was and my family reinforced that a million times over and it was as I grew up that I started to resent that part of myself because I started not seeing myself represented anywhere.
And so you have to get out of that by relearning to love yourself and that’s so hard to do. I did it through sport – you cant be an athlete and expect your body to do everything that you do whilst also hating how your body looks. You need to have this respect and love for it and a relationship with your body and so that’s kinda how I came out of it.”
Madison de Rozario speaking about disability and body image.
Thinking back to your house of values activity, what values does this person demonstrate?
Courage
Determination
Comitment
Inclusion
The Bad – Lance Armstrong
Overview
Lance Armstrong is a former American cyclist. He survived cancer and then created an organisation called live strong to raise money for cancer treatment. He won 7 tour de France titles but had found to have doped in every single race. He then lied about this and encouraged his teammates to do the same thing. His tour de France titles were revoked. He then did confess using drugs in 2013 a year after his titles were revoked.
- What behaviours does this person
demonstrate to show that they are unhealthy?
Lie
Cheat
Encourage others to do bad things
What do they look like? Do they look
unhealthy? How do you know?
Lance Armstrong didn’t necessarily look unhealthy as he was a pro athlete at the time of fraud. He did look very unhealthy when he had cancer with a bald head from the chemotherapy.
What message does this celebrity promote?
Why is it unhealthy?
Lance Armstrong promotes the use of high performance drugs in professional sport, lying about your actions and encouraging others to do the wrong thing. These are unhealthy as drugs pose a big risk to your health. Lance Armstrong got cancer from the drugs he was taking. He also used blood transfusions to cheat on drug tests.
Do you think young people should look up to
this person as a role model? Why or why not?
In some ways yes he could be a role model as he survived cancer but also no because he lied to the world about winning and he cheated to get what he wanted. He used illeagal drugs to his advantage and then lied multiple times about using them.
Is everything you hear, read or see in the
media true? Discuss.
In the case of Lance Armstrong , he lied about using drugs in media interviews for ten years. What people were seeing back then in the wasn’t true but they didn’t know it yet. There is lots of fake news in the media now, but we now have strategies to further analyse this news and use our common sense to tell if it is true.
References
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lance-Armstrong
– YouTube. (2022). Youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNP7CeVc3c4
https://www.elle.com.au/health-fitness/commonwealth-games-madi-de-rozario-16267
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