Description:
To go along with my theme of football concussions, I decided
to create an object that depicts how every traumatic incident you get contributes
to the development of cognitive impairments and other negative outcomes. To
show this, I chose to build a brain inside of a football helmet that showed how
each impact to the head could break away at a part of your brain. With an iron
rod stuck through the brain, I glued two popsicle sticks to the top of the rod
to hang the deteriorated parts of the brain using tooth floss. To attach the
tooth floss to the popsicle sticks I hole punch 4 holes in each of the sticks
and tight four strands of floss to them. The toothpicks were placed around the top
of the helmet with red strips of paper on the tips of them; to indicate that
there was an impact that caused the brain break apart.
Materials:
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Popsicle sticks
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Iron rod
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Football helmet
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Pink Play-doh
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Tooth floss
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Hole puncher
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Red paper strips
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Toothpicks
Based on the description/drawing of your object, I get the feeling that you are arguing that the sport is not currently safe, and there could be more done to increase the safety in the sport of football, especially reducing head injuries. The message that I get, and that I think others would get as well, is that football is not a safe sport for people to participate in, due to the number and magnitude of head injuries that can be sustained while playing football. The part in the description that really made me get the negative argument is the part about the traumatic incidents causing negative outcomes, such as cognitive impairment and broken/deteriorated brain parts.
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