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Super Bowl Commercials.

Every Year people tone into the super bowl sometimes to watch the game, but sometimes to watch the commericals.  Ad agencies believe that since millions of people watch the superbowl, the best time to place their ads is during the superbowl. However, with the good ads comes the bad ads. My favorite commerical was of course the Volkswagen commerical. Most people who know me, know that I am a crazy VW girl, and I love them in general. Within this commerical though, there are some things that I do not like, such a the connection to Star Wars. Overall however, this was my favorite commerical from all of the commericals that I have seen. But I do believe that I missed a number of commericals because I had the joy of working during most of the Super Bowl, disabling me from watching most of the game. 

As previously stated, there was both good and bad commericals. In my opinion, the worst was the Teleflora commerical. I thought that this commerical was completely degrading and just nasty. For a man to "truly express how  he feels" he should not say the thoughts about a women's body, but rather about how he feels about her personality. Like the Volkswagen commerical, the Teleflora commerical used a celebrity to gain interest form the people. Even though I did not dislike the women they used, I believe that she just made everything worse.

College Admissions

As the economy has become worse and worse every year, the struggle for people to succeseed has also become worse. While parents are having children, they realize that they need to make sure they get the best for their children. Parents are stressing to get their children even into good pre-schools. This article shows that parents are putting more stress upon their children then every before. At such a young age, children are being motivated to do well and succeesed. Eighteen month old babies are being forced into excelling at such a high rate that could eventually do more harm. Middle school students are being pressured into having good grades so they can get into a good high school. High school students are being pressured into getting into colleges and getting scholarships. 

High School students today are facing more and more challenges. While trying to get into a good college, students are being played. Students must make themselves look better than many other great students, which is completely crazy. Students are faced with long days, full of things that most do not enjoy. For example, I personally wake up, go to school, played soccer, and then went to work for the night. By the end of the week all I wanted to do was sleep and not go out like most high school students. 

College Admissions are demanding more and more from high school student. College Admissions boards are looking at high students as if they are adults rather than students. College Admissions need to find ways to evaluate potential students in different ways than they are doing now. Students are being looked at for all the things that should be typically looked at, rather than what they are as a person. College Admissions need to look at their students for who they are, not what they have done.

College Admissions

As the economy has become worse and worse every year, the struggle for people to succeseed has also become worse. While parents are having children, they realize that they need to make sure they get the best for their children. Parents are stressing to get their children even into good pre-schools. This article shows that parents are putting more stress upon their children then every before. At such a young age, children are being motivated to do well and succeesed. Eighteen month old babies are being forced into excelling at such a high rate that could eventually do more harm. Middle school students are being pressured into having good grades so they can get into a good high school. High school students are being pressured into getting into colleges and getting scholarships. 

High School students today are facing more and more challenges. While trying to get into a good college, students are being played. Students must make themselves look better than many other great students, which is completely crazy. Students are faced with long days, full of things that most do not enjoy. For example, I personally wake up, go to school, played soccer, and then went to work for the night. By the end of the week all I wanted to do was sleep and not go out like most high school students. 

College Admissions are demanding more and more from high school student. College Admissions boards are looking at high students as if they are adults rather than students. College Admissions need to find ways to evaluate potential students in different ways than they are doing now. Students are being looked at for all the things that should be typically looked at, rather than what they are as a person. College Admissions need to look at their students for who they are, not what they have done.

CNN's Hero of the Year

    In my personal opinion, I believe that every single person in one way or any there is a hero to someone else. Every single mom is a hero to their children, and every father is a hero to his children. Every single soldier fighting for both their life and the lives of all those back home are heroes. A hero could very easily be any person who lives on this earth. A hero will put another person before themselves. A hero could be defined as "Later, hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice—that is, heroism—for some greater good of all humanity." There is no standards for being a hero. Age, gender, race, personality, does not matter when considering a person for being a hero. 
    When thinking about who could be Hero of the Year, there are millions of possibilities.  CNN posted a list of people and what they have done to remind the world that nay person could be a hero. Within these people, they picked a top ten. CNN has then asked people to vote for their personal Hero of the Year within these ten people. In my personal opinion,  I would vote for Betty Makoni. This women protected and helped those of sexual abuses. I personally believe that sexual abuse is one of the biggest problems in all of the world. Through-out the United States there are places that victims can go once and abused, however, in other places of the world, there is not always a place like this.  

    Betty Makoni started Girl Child Network. Through this, she was able to reach other countries and watch over their cases of sexual abuse. the Girl Child Network cares for Zimbabwe's young sex abuse victims. Through her program, she has helped rescue 35,000 girls from abuse . Also thousands more have found an empowering community and a public forum in which to speak out. Betty Makoni is not able to stop rape from happening, but she has given power to those that have been affected by rape. Makoni claims that each day there are ten cases of rape. Before her program was started, the number of reports was lower, and the actual number of rapes was most likely a great deal higher.

    Betty Makoni gave a voice to each of the girls that was being abused. She provided them with a place where they could go and talk to other people like themselves. Makoni provided many people with a place of comfort. She may not be able to stop a horrible crime from happening, but she can truly help the aftermath from being as horrible as thought. 

Personal Finance Course

I believe that there is not a true way of preparing a person fully for the financial issues they may incounter. However, there should be ways that they can prepare for some of these issues. Some people, even older people, do not know how to balance a checkbook. When going into the working field it is essential that a person understand their retirement funds such a a 401K. For someone to really successed in life, they must be successful while working but also after working. If there was a class avaible for students for them to learn all this, there could be a chance that they have more success and reach higher goals in life. However, times are always changing, and because of this it could be vertually impossible for a person to be fully up to date with the new rules. Before a student graduates college there should be basic things that they already know. While in college and possibly even high school, students should be taught about the basics. Because high school students are going into college, many will often have to take out loans. Very often students are unaware of what they are actually going to be paying and they find themselves in greater debt later on. If students are able to take a course that would teach them about credit cards, loans, and interest rates, they might havae a higher successrate in life. While high school courses may not always prepare a student, they will truely help. With additional courses in college for a more developed course would also benefit a student.  A course will only be effective if the students take the class serious. 

Funding America or Funding the World

America has always become involved with other countries from the start of time. During the early days America was even envolved with their mother country, Great Britain. Whether America was just trying to get their freedom, or they were trying to help the Great Britain to become a stronger nation on their own. Americans would always be consumed with their own freedom, but also the freedom of those in other countries. This could be the reason why many people migrate to America. Years later America would than help the developed Europe. No matter which war it be, World War I or event the Vietnam War, America became consumed with helping other countries. However, through these ideas, America has often found themselves in a war or a time of need themselves. I believe that once America has got themselves envolved with another country for their troubles, America has taken on their problems and made them our own. If the United States was to become involved with the problems that Haiti had, their problems would become ours. Before America hands out more money to other countries, they should fix the debt that we have. America needs to worry about their own problems before they can go and help someone else. Recently America has been helping other countries in times after natural disasters, and these things are not preventable. For the United States to truely help other countries when these things happen, they must first fix the issues that are at home. The United states truely should not go out of their way to help other countries before helping themselves.  To help prevent future catastrophes the United States needs to be prepared for the worst. Rather than spending the American's hard earned money on helping other countries, their money should be used to help the American economy.

Inventions of Today's World

In today's society, we see a great deal of inventions, both good and bad. In my opinion, and possibly the opinion of many others, I would say that the Ipad by Apple, is one of the most thoughtful and useful. The Ipad has many purposes, for business and for pleasure. the Ipad is basically a miniature computer that is all touch screen, light-weight, and has unlimited possibilities. With having the abilitity to download anything possible these Ipads have opened a great deal. They now allow students to have a better ability to learn, because they Ipad are virtually able to do anything and go anywhere, they allow students to open their world to education. 

The Ipads are also great for displaying pictures. Many business directors w0uld now use them to display presentations. Because they are made by Apple, the picture quality is impeccable. Contractors and house designers all use Ipads to display ideas and the potential quality of what the end result would be. These Ipads may be small and light-weight, but they are able to go larger and connect with a projector, where their idea can be made virtually able to anyone who is there. 

Growing up Scripted

    I do believe that Christopher L. Doyle has a great deal of valid points. I also totally agree with him. As our parents tell us stories of their childhood, we already know that things are totally different. He says that "When we were in elementary school, we got on our bicycles on summer mornings and came back home at dinnertime. In middle and high school, I never felt too burdened by homework to read extensively for pleasure, and I played two varsity sports. I applied to two colleges and paid my own way through the state school that accepted me (Doyle".  In today's society, this is not how it is. Because of the way crime has risen, and how poverty has struck many Americans, has caused many things to change in our society. It is no longer safe for children to be gone from sunrise to sunset. Children are being taken from their homes, never mind if they were out by themselves.

    Children are no longer able to have a childhood. As Doyle tells us that children are being "overworked, overregulated, and overstressed (Doyle)". I would greatly agree. More and more children are being forced into working at their parents business from a very age. Also, More and more families are having a harder time meetings the basic standards of living, because of this, children are being forced to also have jobs to help provide for their families. The economy is not the only reason children's lives are being booked. Because our forefathers wanted better for us, along with our parents and grandparents, most children are being taught that they are going to graduate high school, go to college, and have this perfect life afterwards. This however, does not always happen and should not be forced upon every child.

    Every child is their person. They each have their own destiny, dreams, and desires. A child should be able to make this decisions for themselves. No person's life should be scripted, but rather given guidance. Do not force a child to go to a school they do not like, go into a profession they are unhappy with, or live a life they do not want. But rather, give them the guidance to have the strength to go find this for themselves.

Build-A-Bear

Growing up I had many toys, however, there would be some that I would always remember. When thinking about this post I went and asked my mom what my favorite toy was and what happened to it. She told me that I had a blanket that I would take everywhere I went, it was my life and joy. When I slept over my family houses i would bring it with me. However, I do not really remember this blanket. But my mom remembered that blanket and knew that I would take it everywhere with me. She told me that eventually I just weaned away from that blanket and not need it anymore. I would soon become attached to Build-A-Bears and making them. Going to the workshop would just make me so happy, I would make an all day event. The workshops were only in malls far far away. So going there would have to become an all-day event. After making a number of stuff animals, I eventually grew out of wanting to go there and make them. As I grew up and grew out of this stage, they would move into the basement and away from everything in the house. One day my house flooded and the basement was over two feet in water. Once the water was down there, all the the stuff animals down there were ruined and had to be thrown out. The ones that were upstairs, I was able to keep, however the rest that were in the basement we had to throw out. It was sad, but looking back on it now, I think that throwing them out because they were ruined was better than having my mom give them away when I don't know it.

College Athletics

Many colleges are known today for being known for their athethics and not for their acdemics. Colleges will often give special treatment to their student athletes. For example,  Alabama Crimson'tide is a college that focuses around football. They will very often "help" their student athetics to pass a class and just move through their acdemics. When an athlete is falling behind in their school work, and starts to fall a class, the coach will go speak to the teacher and ask the teacher to basically change the grade and let the student pass. Colleges do in-fact look for students to play for them, when trying to get a better team, the coachs will give scholarships to their schools to try and attract the players to go there.

I believe that the NCAA should have a higher standard. I think that students should have a higher average to play alone. Simply passing a class should not be good enough for for them to be able to play a sport. In my opinion each student athlete should have higher requirements. They obviously have less time to do their school work, so they need to understand the material faster. With this, each student athlete should have a tutor and work together with their team members to help everyone achieve. With team tutoring, students would exell even more, they would learn more then just the students would be teaching. With students helping one another, it would bring the team closer, and give each student the ability to help one another. 

If a student is going to play that sport as a profession, it is imporant that they also have a good education to support them if anything is to happen to them. A person is unable to play sports for their entire life, because of that, they need to have an education to fall back and support themselves. If anything the NCAA should make their restrictions even strictor and make sure that these athletes should have  a good education behind them. With this education behind them, it would allow that person to do something after their athethic career.