Today 6/4/2007

For today, I finished up my key terms in what I am going to use through out my project, they are:

Key Terms:
Diversity- the variety of opinion, color, or style.
CCM – Canada Cycle & Motor Co.
Minority – smaller group part of a much larger group.
NHL – The National Hockey League.
Stereotype - An Oversimplified conception of a person or group.
Racism – prejudice against another race.
Willie O’ Ree – First black player in NHL history, also developed diversity programs in hockey.
Prejudice – to prejudge some one whether be their ethnic back ground, race, religion, gender.
African – Canadian – a person of black descent that was born in Canada.
African – American – a person of black descent that was born in America.
Garth Brooks – country singer who started own program called “Teammates for Kids.”
Pittsburgh Penguins – NHL team from Pittsburgh; supporter of Hockey in the Hood.
Howard Smith – Coach for Carrick Ice hockey, co-founder of Hockey in the Hood.
Hockey in the Hood – hockey program for less fortunate kids to play hockey for free as well as teaching moral values.
Georges Laraque – African – Canadian hockey player on the Pittsburgh Penguins, volunteers himself to diversity programs on his free time.
Ice Time – enables people to be on the ice; hard to get; expensive, and does not cost a cent for people in this case.
USA Hockey – Founded in Colorado Springs, CO, made rulebook for hockey, runs 600,000 players a year throughout U.S.A.
Discrimination – to describe another person in a rude, obscure way to offend them.
Reverse – discrimination – to discriminate on some one else because you discriminated on another person just to “balance” things out.