Mental Health Support For Black Athletes By Matt Hemmert Intro- Hello, My name is Matt Hemmert. I am a sophomore student-athlete at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Now you may be asking yourself, "What is the point of this?", but what I am here for today is to inform the leaders, coaches, and mentors of sports in this blog about the lack of mental health support given to African-American Athletes. This happens at all levels of athletics with both genders involved. there are problems for male and female African American athletes at the collegiate, professional, and olympic levels. My goal is to put an end to this by starting this campaign to give these athletes more support. Mental health support for these athletes is very important as it betters them as a person off the field, and a player/competitor on their respective pitch. All over the United States we see these athletes facing harsh criticism for sitting out of play for "personal reasons" or me...
Race and PTSD in Media Introduction This page serves as the catalog for my Creative Social Action Project (CSAP), which focuses on the representation of PTSD in media (real with newspapers and fictitious with movies) and how race affects said representation. The intended audience is the general American public, preferably those without much exposure to veterans or service members with PTSD. This page contains a fictional short story demonstrating how damaging inaccurate and/or unnecessarily negative media portrayals are to those suffering with PTSD, shown through an ever-shifting viewpoint of the single-entity Veteran. Beyond this page, the short story will also be shared on Wattpad, a free publishing website for independent writers, where it can shared with readers and found by hashtags. This method of displaying my research plays off of PTSD representation in film – I'm using a form of fiction to display what I've found recurrent in fiction; Someone looking for a m...
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