Proposal 1

Zane Waddell

English 15

Professor Marks

8/31/2011

Proposal 1

            The reason I am writing about this topic is to inform people of the time my doubles partner and I lost the district finals game. This topic is worth caring about because it was the first time in my school’s history that a tennis team had made it to team districts, let alone making it to the finals. This issue is especially important to any tennis fan or any player, present or past. The on-going discussion I am entertaining is how tennis, which most people think to be a singles game, is most dependent on the team as a whole in high school. I am contributing my person experience to this conversation. My intended audience is anyone who has played any competitive sport, enjoys the game of tennis or plays tennis. My audience will share the same passion and love of competitive sports that I have. I want my audience to reflect on past experiences they had with competitive sports and remember the love they used to have and the emotions they had when they lost. I hope to present why in high school it is important to play as a team on a tennis team. I also hope to change anyone’s opinion who thinks tennis is just a single person’s game. I will establish my own credibility by giving my own personal experience and my own history of the game. I hope to connect with anyone that has made it to the “big game” and been on the losing side, because almost everyone competitive athlete has came out on the losing side of the game. I will bridge this divide by talking about the high school competitive scene. The best way to identify my cause with the interests of my reader is to take them back to when they were in the same position I was in. 

Why are you looking at me that way?

Why are you looking at me that way? Do you have some kind of staring problem or is there something wrong with me? Is there something on my face? Is there a stain on my shirt? This kid is really starting to make me angry. If he wants to start a problem, we can but I would recommend them to stop their staring. That is one of the most annoying a person can do. Continue to stare at a person after they already know that you are staring at them. It has been at forty five seconds and this person is still staring at me. This is starting to really concern me. There has to be something wrong with me. The only confusing part is that this person has a blank look on their face and their eyes are all glassy. That’s when it finally hit me. This person is not staring, they are day dreaming. Lost in their little world and having no idea I was stupid enough to think they were staring at me this whole time. They finally come back into the normal world with an extremely embarrassed look on their face. I laugh lightly and walk to see what other interesting things my day has planned.