Kimberlee's+Project+Proposal

Project Proposal My main focus of my project is gender in sports. I’m going to specifically focus on differences between softball and baseball. Although they may seem like the same sport, there are many differences. I chose to focus on this because I play softball and I have noticed many differences and similarities among the sports. I feel that softball is seen as lower than baseball. For example it seems like professional baseball players get paid way more than professional softball players. Also baseball seems to be more watched than baseball, and there is also a difference in beauty where it seems to matter to the women than to the men. My essential question is why are female softball players treated differently than male baseball players? This is my main question, but under this question there are going to be multiple different aspects I am going to research. I am going to focus on differences in pay, image, and differences in amount of time each is played on TV and which one is watched more baseball or softball. The process I will go through to do this experiment is first research the obvious differences between the sports. Then I will focus on various different professional softball players and compare them to baseball players. I will use various aspects such as pay, beauty, and the role media and advertisements have on each.
 * PROJECT COMPONENT || DUE DATE || DONE? ||
 * Overall topic choice || Friday, March 4 ||  ||
 * Completed Proposal || Thursday, March 17 ||  ||
 * Have at least 3 sources(Continue to add sources as needed), think of possible products || Tuesday, March 29 ||  ||
 * Decide on Project || Wednesday, March 30 ||  ||
 * Product Description || Friday, April 1 ||  ||
 * Expert Source Identified || Friday, April 8 ||  ||
 * Have some parts of product finished || Friday, April 15 ||  ||
 * Conduct interview || Wednesday, April 13 ||  ||
 * Annotated Work Cited Draft || Thursday, April 28 ||  ||
 * Majority of Project completed || Friday, April 29 ||  ||
 * Project Update || Thursday, May 12 ||  ||
 * Project Completed || Friday, May 13 ||  ||
 * Final Annotated Work Cited || Thursday, May 19 ||  ||
 * Presentations || Friday May 20-Thursday 5/26 ||  ||