Graduation

We graduate a week from today. That's awesome. I can't wait for graduation parties and graduation and all night grad. The best part is that all of my relatives are coming up for the weekend and are all going to give me a lot of money. I don't want to have to leave all of my friends though. I have a lot of friends that I will likely never see again after graduation because I simply never see them outside of school. Hopefullly that feeling is replaced by the excitement of meeting new people at UF.

Stephen Strasburg

Stephen Strasburg, the new Nationals pitcher and major league phenom, was given the award of Natinal League player of the week for his first week in the league. He struck out 22 batters in his first two starts, winning both games. He set a record 14strikeouts for a game in his first appearance as a National. The article explains his stats and details of his upcoming schedule. I chose this article because I like baseball and I want to see a local team do well. Ever since Cal Ripken retired the area hasn't had any baseball icons. Ripken was my favorite player and I like the Orioles but they are really ba dlately. I still like the Orioles but I'm happy that the Nationals at least have some prospects for success. It was well-written and I enjoyed.

Senior reflection 2

All AP exams are over and I'm in 6 AP classes. the year should be over. I don't blame teachers for continuing to teach for the remaing month or so because that's their job. It is stupid to have the exams that early and expect students who know where they are going to college to care what is going on anymore. We aren't in school by choice, and we have already reached our goal of getting into college. Get off our backs about senioritis because the last twelve years have been preparation for colleg, well, we are either in college or not by now and AP exams are over so why do we have to keep being tortured?

Current event 2

I read an editorial pertaining to a boycott of Arizona based companies by large west coast cities in response to the severe new laws against illegal immigration in Arizona. Oakland, Seattle, and San Diego have claimed that they will boycott businesses that are headquartered in Arizona to show discord for the new laws. The edotorial says that these are just bluffs because the large cities would not want to spend more money by boycotyting the current companies. The main products that come out of Arizona are traffic cameras that the large cities would have to spend more money on were they to actually uphold their boycotts. I chose this article because the issue of illegal immigration is interesting to me. I think that everyone in America wants money over everything else and the principles that these cities stand behind are shadowed by the money they might lose. It was well written and thoroughly explained how much hippocracy and capitalistic most cities are. I enjoyed the article because it provides a good example for the stance of America: Money comes first.

senior reflection

I wish my senior year football season was better. I don't mean the final record, But rather the maount of fun we had. Freshman year was the most fun I've ever head playing an organized sport. This year, even though I played a lot, was too stressful. It reflects society. People with genuine potential realize their skill and decide that they do not need to work at it. America would be a lot better if everyone had more external motivation to perform at a higher level.

Blog Current Event 1

Lawrence Taylor was arrested last week for raping a prostituute in New York. He is accused of assaulting a 16 year old girl who had been forced to be a prostitute by a man named Rasheed Davis. Davis drove her to Taylor's hotel room, but she managed to text her uncle the details of the situation on the drive to the hotel. Her uncle called the police and they caught Davis and Taylor. Taylor got out on bail and claims that he didn't have sex with her. The article goes on to decribe the highlights of Taylor's Hall Of Fame NFL career and his multiple arrests for drug use and tax evasion since the mid 90's.
I chose this article because I like Lawrence Taylor as a football player because he was one of the best players of all time. I also chose it because professional sports stars are constantly in thenews for their wrongdoings. They are gifted with exceptional skill and are able to do what they love for fame and appraisal. They are obliged to do the right thing as role models for the community becuase they are some of the most recognizable figures on the planet. The article was well written, in my opinion because it wasn't biased and simply showed the facts. I didn't enjoy the article because it's about a terrible crime. It interested me to hear that a Hall Of Fame football player would do that.

Bart Stupak, Coward

The article I read discusses the problem of abortion within the new health care bill. It explains how the bill passed despite the section that allows abortion and for such abortions to be paid for by the American taxpayers. Stupak is a Michigan Democrat who, along with other house democrats, agreed to pass the health care bill knowing that the abortion clause was still part of the bill. These democratic representatives have been staunch pro-life supporters in the past but agreed to the bill anyway. Obama gave an executive order against abortion as a cover up, but his order does not have a higher power than the health care bill, which makes it a gimmick to assuage the anger of democratic voters. I honestly don’t have an opinion about abortion, it should probably be situational and the background and specific decision making by the two possible parents should be under review. It is just unfair to promise a pro-life term of office when they sell out their beliefs to get the bill passed, which would have been rejected without these votes.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/22/bart-stupak-coward/