The 16th Man

Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. 
- Nelson Mandela

1. At the 16th Man ESPN films site
1. Read the Director's Bio and the Director's Take
2. View the clip on Justice Bekebeke [1:27]
3. Write a ‘good’ knowledge issue question relating to one of the clips.
2. Review Mandela’s quote on the power of sport
1. Choose one of your CAS activities of the year (Creativity, Action, Service)
2. Examine your CAS involvement from a TOK perspective, relating to the Mandela quote. 

Knowledge Issue Question:

           How have past experiences and knowledge of other sports affect how we learn and view other sports which we have no previous knowledge of?

CAS Activity:

            World Challenge: World Challenge is an organization based out of the UK which sends high school students, to developing world countries for a number of weeks, where they spend several days backpacking around a location of their choice and then spend a few days doing a service project for one of the more impoverished towns in the area. For my particular expedition, there is a group of twelve students, ten from East, and two from West, who will be coming together to go to Ecuador for two weeks in June. We have spent the entire year preparing for this expedition by conditing our bodies so that we will be able to carry our packs around for four days in very high altitude, working together as a team so that we will work well as a unit in Ecuador, and preparing ourselves for the poverty that we will see. This expedition may not have the power to change the entire world, but it does have the ability to try to help out one small group of people in one small area of the world. This expedition could be the start of the domino effect that will convince other nations around the world to help out in any way that they can. Therefore, in a way, although what we will be doing on this expedition may be a very small gesture, every little bit helps in trying to create peace around the world.