Hello, I am Elyssa Engler. In this blog I will discuss what I am doing in my college English (121) class and its application to my area of interest: nutrition and fitness/wellness.
There are a lot of stereotypes about fitness nutrition, training, and what to do to see the best results (as far as muscle gain and fat loss goes) that are extremely false or actually unhealthy. In my blog I will attempt to address the most accurate truths on how to maximize health, muscle gain, and fat loss and correct the falsely believed stereotypes through knowledge I accumulate through the usage of multiple online tools.
**Ted Talk Video Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en
In my first English 121 class period, my peers and I watched a Ted Talk (**link above) about "single stories," or the stereotypes we most commonly believe as a result if a lack of exposure to, in this case, different cultures. The speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, uses the argument that this ignorance because of a lack of exposure to different realities causes us to believe that the "single story" is the "only story," making it hard to imagine anything but that story. She uses experiences from her life to support her argument.
For example, when she came to America to attend college, her roommate asked where she learned to speak English so well and assumed she did not know how to use a stove because she was from Africa. Clearly her roommate was unaware that English is the official language of Nigeria, Adichie's home country. Additionally, she was not in any way unfamiliar with stoves or any other type of technology we have in America, as she had them where she lived, too. But, she is probably not the only one who would assume such things, as we all have a stereotypical idea about what certain people and places are like.
There are single stories for practically everything, and my blog will identify some of these single stories for the fitness world. It will also show my growth as a student in learning multiple stories from the writing and education world along with learning about my discipline of interest.
Currently, my single story for education is that one needs a quality, formal education to be successful in life. I understand that there are exceptions to this, but I am not sure how these people go about becoming successful. Using this blog will hopefully teach me that there are other ways to be an educated, successful professional without an extensive formal education and how to do so in any discipline.
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