Monday, January 14, 2019

Gannery on the Imagination

Imagination in Everyone's an Author (Gannery Htoo)


“remember that intuition and imagination can often lead to great insights” (pg.13).  Reading this topic, many of us can relate to the times when we were being imaginative lead us to great projects and many successful doings. In “Be Imaginative” a student athlete takes on a task in which he has interest in. From his interest he studies about the mass media coverage on the Olympics. The student athlete than figures that a magazine that has a huge role in promoting the Olympics is Sports Illustrated.  This would lead him to gather information and write his topic on how Sports Illustrated is a promoter for the Olympics.  As described in the reading, the student athlete researches older magazine and discovers that over a period, the magazine cover seems to have a change that questioned his thinking to create an argument for him to be creative and open minded to do more research. The students discovery was that “over the decades of its Olympics coverage, Sports Illustrated had slowly but surely moved from focusing on teams to depicting only individual stars”. His creative thinking leads him to write a much more interesting and a more persuasive essay.  Writing this essay has allowed the student athlete to capture the attention of his instructor, fellow students and local sports magazine. If we be imaginative, it may just end us up in finding out things we may have never done if we just kept our minds plain and simple.



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