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  1. Nov 2015
    1. But if you... If you believe in yourselves and maybe more importantly, you find a way to believe in each other, in your teammates, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

      The coach's development of the athletes psychosocial developmental stages from an adolescence, being focus on their own identity instead of being a community, into the early adulthood stage, where they become caring and intimate with one another where they reciprocate it to their partners. What if Mr. White had kept them focused on the Adolescences stage? Would the athletes have created such a tight bond?

    2. When I went out in the field that day with you Diaz kids, I'll be honest with you, it was a... It was the worst day's work I ever had to do in my life. And I said to myself, "Whatever kind of crappy job I end up in, "it'll never be as tough as that." You kids do it every day

      Coach White is speaking about the work that he did out in the field with his athletes. Every time a coach or teacher is with their students outside of the school arena then a relationship can be created that will bond the students to their teacher. How do you think it affected the relationship between the athletes and coach white?

    3. They don't get up at dawn like you and go to work in the fields. Right? They don't go to school all day and then go back to those same fields. That's what you do. And then you come out with me and you run 8 miles, 1 0 miles, and you take on... You take on even more pain. These kids don't do what you do.

      This group of individuals have created or become enveloped in a cultural mediation system because they take the actions of each other and internalize what each one other have become to believe. Prior to their team formation, how much of their lives were internalized by each other?

    4. Best in the state, right? Every team that's here deserves to be, including you

      When you read this section you find that the coach is putting them into a discomforting position by making the competition appear almost intimidating, but he continues by stating that this team deserves to be here at the state meet too. The students were in discomforted and were seeking to understand but the coaches response gave them that equilibrium they were trying to conceive.

    1. "But if you... If you believe in yourselves and maybe more importantly, you find a way to believe in each other, in your teammates, it won't matter what anyone else thinks."

      The coach's development of the athletes psycho-social developmental stages from an adolescence, being focus on their own identity instead of being a community, into the early adulthood stage, where they become caring and intimate with one another where they reciprocate it to their partners. What if Mr. White had kept them focused on the Adolescences stage? Would the athletes have created such a tight bond.

    2. "When I went out in the field that day with you Diaz kids, I'll be honest with you, it was a... It was the worst day's work I ever had to do in my life. And I said to myself, "Whatever kind of crappy job I end up in, "it'll never be as tough as that."

      Coach White is speaking about the work that he did out in the field with his athletes. Every time a coach or teacher is with their students outside of the school arena then a relationship can be created that will bond the students to their teacher. How do you think it affected the relationship between the athletes and coach white?

    3. "They don't get up at dawn like you and go to work in the fields. Right? They don't go to school all day and then go back to those same fields. That's what you do. And then you come out with me and you run 8 miles, 1 0 miles, and you take on... You take on even more pain. These kids don't do what you do. They can't even imagine it."

      This was not a scaffolding of their training for working but it was building up their understanding of how they became the hard working group of individuals that the state is about to see.

    4. "They don't get up at dawn like you and go to work in the fields. Right? They don't go to school all day and then go back to those same fields. That's what you do."

      This group of individuals have created or become enveloped in a cultural mediation system because they take the actions of each other and internalize what each one other are becoming to believe. Prior to their team formation, how much of their lives were internalized by each other?

    5. "Best in the state, right? Every team that's here deserves to be, including you."

      When you read this section you find that the coach is putting them into a discomforting position by making the competition appear almost intimidating, but he continues by stating that this team deserves to be here at the state meet too. The students were in discomforted and were seeking to understand but the coaches response gave them that equilibrium they were trying to conceive.

  2. Oct 2015
    1. why are you laughing?

      He is laughing because it is funny, even though he denies it here

    1. I became third generation. They beat you so you won't break. They are my family.

      When it says that they are her family, even though she is already third generation into the gang from her own actual biological family, it makes it clear that when she is need of anything or has to approach someone first then she will be going to her gang family before she approaches her biological family

    2. Dozens of police

      Like 12 or 24, heck it could even be 36 or 48!?