Native American Picture

In this picture I see what looks to be like a Native American wearing a hilarious giant yellow outfit. I am thinking that maybe it is a mascot of some kind. It is in the design of a chicken outfit with pictures of horses sown into it.  He is standing in front of an old run down house of some kind. It could be some kind of protest that he is involved in. It might be showing how they got kicked out of the area; similar to how the pilgrims took over their land a long time ago.  Native Americans are very cultural and spiritual kind of people. They always have stood strong in what they believed in and are very powerful men. It looks like to me like he is the head of his troops and is a chief of some kind. He has both arms pointed up and they are going in opposite directions. I have a feeling that this is some kind of sign of peace in their culture. The building is all beaten up, so maybe there has been some kind of a battle going on. I am very interested in knowing where this picture was taken and how long ago. If I were to take a guess, I would have to say it would be somewhere in a third world country. I do not believe that it was taken in the United States because you do not see destruction to houses like that. If there was some kind of battle that happened and if it was in the United States, I would have definitely have heard about it on the news. When I get home after class, I am going to research this picture on the internet and find out exactly what this picture is about. I think it was a great exercise because it allowed me to really use my mind and think about what it could be. We should start doing more exercises like this in class.

Love

Love is an uncontrollable feeling that one has and it is impossible to define. I feel that you know you are in love when you are willing to put your significant other before yourself. The only thing that matters to you is making your loved one the happiest possible. A great example would be the Northern Illinois shooting incident. A student Daniel Parmenter went to a class with his girlfriend to be her on Valentine’s Day. When the shooter starting firing, Daniel jumped on top of his girlfriend to protect her from the gunman. He was shot and killed but his girlfriend made it out alive with no injuries. This is an amazing story that shows that real love exists out of there in the world today. Love can be one of the greatest feelings that one can have, but it can also be one the worst. It is the hardest to love someone and have them not love you back the same way. Broken hearts can last forever and are not easy to recover from. Having you heart broken by someone can affect you in future relationships. It can make you not want to put your heart on the line for anybody for the rest of your life. Some people will wait around for the one they love to come back and waste a lot of their life waiting. It is hard to realize that they are not the one for you and that there are plenty of other people out there. I believe that you cannot look for love and that love will find you when you least expect it. You will know when you have found it and you will be extremely happy when you do.

Atlanta Braves 2012 Season

Atlanta Braves have a great shot at making the playoffs in the 2012 season. Their team has been getting better over the last few years. The positive part about the Braves organization is that they bring up some up the top prospects in the country. Three to five years ago they had some of the best recruits in baseball. Even though these players were very young and immature at the time and could not make it the playoffs, they have shown signs of maturity. These young prospects that we have been watching for the last several years, are now turning into the veterans that we need to make it to the playoffs. Most of them were coached by one of the best coaches in all of Major League Baseball (MLB) and were taught more than a lot of other players to ever play the game. The Braves have also made a few transactions in the offseason that will help the ball club. Fortunately for the organization, they have one of the best pitching rotations in the MLB. In the game of baseball, pitching is the key to winning games. If you have a great pitching staff then it is hard for the other team to produce an offense and score runs against you. They also kept Chipper Jones which is the heart and soul of the ball club today. He is getting a lot older and starting to get injured more frequently, but he is still putting up the numbers to be an Atlanta Brave. Not only does he help our offense tremendously, but he is also a mentor to a lot of the younger players on the team. With all of these combined factors; I feel that the Braves are a very strong team and have a lot of potential to be World Champions this year.

Credit

It’s just a credit card right? No, this is what most teenagers and several adults believe. Credit will stick with you throughout your entire life. Credit is the leading essential to becoming successful in life today. If you have bad credit, you will not be able to finance anything. What happens when you have kids and they need new shoes, clothes, toys, etc. You are working just to make ends meet and you would like to be able to afford all those nice things for your children, but you decided to rack up your credit cards when you were young and now have to live with those consequences. Maybe your car breaks down or your washer and dryer go out, it would be nice to be able to put those items on a credit card but you are unable to with bad credit. On the other hand if you opened a few credit cards and paid them off when you were younger which means now you are probably in good shape. You will now able to open up small loans and continue to build your credit even higher. Once your credit is at a high enough score you are able to numerous amount of things; such as finance a brand new car, house, or take a vacation across the country. As great as all of that sounds, do not get carried away and start doing all of these things at once to where it becomes impossible to pay off. That will lower your credit score and it is a lot harder to raise your score than it is to lower it. Everyone needs to be aware of how important credit is and not to abuse credit cards; so they can do well for themselves in the future.

Superbowl Winner?

Who do I think is going to win the Super Bowl this year? The New York Giants are the hottest team in the National Football League (NFL) right now. They went through the first two games of the playoffs as if they were playing college teams. The Atlanta Falcons were the best team in the National Football Conference (NFC) last year and are a team with high respect in the NFL. The reason I mention this is because the New York Giants embarrassed the Atlanta Falcons by holding them to only two points through the entire first game of the playoffs this year. The Green Bay Packers who were the Super Bowl champions last year and only lost one game all season long this year; became the next challenge for the Giants. The Giants blew past them by scoring a total of thirty-seven points. They also held the most feared offense in the NFL to only twenty points throughout the whole game. In the NFC Championship Game versus the San Francisco 49ers; they struggled a little bit but still managed to pull out the victory in overtime. It was one of the most epic games I have seen in my lifetime and I feel like it gives them huge momentum going into the Super Bowl. The Giants are led by Eli Manning who is the hottest quarterback in the postseason. Eli has three of the most impactful wide receivers in football today as targets to hit. Not only do they have the hottest offense, they have the best defensive line that is run by Justin Tuck and Jason Pierre-Paul. They put constant pressure on the opposing quarterback and do not give them any time to make a plan. Personally, I do not believe the New England Patriots have any kind of chance to beat the Giants.

BCS VS PLAYOFFS

          What does the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) do for college football? The BCS is a
computer system that ranks teams based on statistics. The problem with this is the
National Championship is based on statistics and not on actual head to head competition
between the teams. Whether people like to admit it, the BCS produces a controversial
champion every year. A team could have one bad game in the season and be taken out of
contention to play for the title. This system makes every game feel like a playoff game.

           Do you think the BCS system should still be used in college football today? I feel that
after every season in college football there is always the same argument: BCS or playoff
system. After the end of the 2011- 2012 season I feel that it is obvious that the BCS
system should be banished from the sport today. LSU lost to Alabama in the National
Championship after they had already beaten them in the regular season. I strongly
believe that Alabama should not have had the chance to be able to play for the title.
Oklahoma State had the same record as Alabama and would have had just as great of a
chance at winning the National Championship. They were not given the opportunity because
a computer system thought they were the third best team in the country. If you had a
playoff system, then the top ten teams could battle through the playoffs to see who the
real top two teams would be. I don’t think that computer systems should be able to judge
who the best two teams are without giving them a chance to play each other. Not one
other sports in the entire country has a BCS system, they all use a playoff format. It
would make the season more entertaining and I believe it would highly increase the fan
base. I really hope after this season they take the BCS system into strong consideration
and allow a vote to see who would rather have the BCS or playoff system. I am interested
in hearing both sides of this topic, please comment and share your opinions