NHL is Back

Recently the NHL lockout was uplifted and made the hockey world happy. As a huge fan of the game I was happier than anyone to see the season start, but at the same time I am disappointed. In case you didn’t follow the lockout the players who were in the NHL formed a group called the NHLPA, national hockey league players association. They formed this group because they didn’t want to lose money that they thought they deserved. The NHL has had the biggest increase of profit in its history the last 3 season. The players felt that they were getting cheated out of money and the owners wanted more money to. The part I don’t understand is that these players are getting paid millions of dollars to play a game they love. Many of the owners were only making small profits last year due to the players making more money than ever before. The players described it as this, “Imagine you helping a company make more money than they have ever made before, and the owners taking that money that you earned for them.” Although true the way they described it sounds like every business. Employees work for businesses and bosses the bosses are always going to get a large profit of the company’s success, it’s how businesses work. I’m just happy to say hockey is back.

Book Report

Chapters 1-3: In the first two chapters of my book They Fight Like Soldiers They Die Like Children, the author introduced us to his life as an early teen. His destination was set his father was a military veteran and a hardworking man that worked for everything he had. The same way he wanted his son to be. The author tells us that he had no choice he was going to have to train to be a soldier. He connects it to the children soldiers who were called Hutu youths. From what I understand the author was saying although he was not excited about what his father was putting him threw he could find things to enjoy, things that could still put a smile on his face unlike the Hutu youth. The children of the Hutu youth spent their days  nights and morning standing on corners of a poverty stroke community. When growing up the author was taught to be mature. He said, “the gallant old soldiers who taught me as a boy created a learning atmosphere that was serious yet very considerate, very human .” he goes on to tell the readers that this is completely different, “The children soldiers under the gun of inhuman adults see no end in sight.” The children are abused and the way they treat them is comparable to nothing it is just awful what the military soldiers make these young innocent children do. I was outraged that the men who throw these children into to war don’t have the guts to fight. The whole reason they have these kids fight for them is because they don’t care about their lives. The value of one of these kids’ lives is nothing to the war lords. If a kid dies it doesn’t affect them, they have thousands of more kids to fight their battle. It’s still early in my reading and I’m upset with what the people do to these kids.

Use of Marijuana?

Recently Colorado passed a law making the use of marijuana legal if you use it for recreational use.  For years the use of marijuana has been illegal, so why the sudden change? What is our country going to be like if marijuana is legal? Will people treat it like the use of alcohol or will kids and adults constantly be high? It’s hard to picture a functional work environment when people are constantly high. I see many negative effects that marijuana will have on our country, but there are also many positive aspects. Many people argue that it will help the economy by a huge margin. According to CNN the use of selling marijuana could save the government up to 14 billion a year.  Although it is a very questionable prediction 14 billion dollars would help the government a lot and the people. I’m interested in how marijuana will be treated in the state of Colorado, in a way for many states they are test dummies. If it works and is treated in a positive way then marijuana could be a positive thing to our environment, but I believe that people will abuse it and become a negative aspect to our current life.

Connecticut shooting

America went through yet another tragic even this week, and the hearts of the American people go out to the families involved in shooting. I always ask after a tragic even like this, why do the killers always have to take the lives of innocent people? If you hate your life than why destroy someone else? I think the reason these events keep happing is because of one, gun control and two the media. Although we all have the right to hear the facts and the awful story I believe the gunman or whoever commits this awful murder shouldn’t even get talked about. The people who are willing to kill so many innocent people are clearly messed up in the head. So when the next killer sees that everyone will know his name for committing such a violent crime it almost makes them feel like heroes. They want to world to recognize there name and face. The gun control aspect of this debate is simple, limit the use of guns. It is just awful that we haven’t learned our lesson the first times a killing has happened.

Abortion

Truthfully I don’t know where I stand on abortion. I understand that when we’re paying health insurance bills that a small portion goes to a clinic that not only treats abortion, but helps for many reasons, but I don’t know if my parents should be paying some amount of money for woman that made a mistake. I understand and 100% support some woman who decide to get rid of it especially the ones who were rapped, but there are some woman who did it to them self and some woman don’t learn lessons. Why should these people count on the hard working Americans to bail them out. Also there are plenty of people that want to adopt that can’t have a baby. When I heard that babies who are 20 weeks old can feel pain I persuaded me that abortion is wrong, but talking about it I agreed with many people when they said woman should have the right to do whatever they want with their body. I’m up in arms about this topic and look forward to talking about it.

Cheifs Killing

Recently the NFL was saddened when Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday morning, after killing his girlfriend he drove over to Arrowhead stadium and shot himself in front of his coach and general manager. Jovan Belcher went there to tell both his coach and general manager that he was very happy and thankful for what they did for him, he then proceed to kill himself in front of him. During the halftime of their game the news anchors began to talk about gun control. This is one awful story that supports my belief that gun control needs to be even stricter. It is easy for all of us to say that the gun control is strict enough, until one of your loved ones is killed. If someone who was close to me killed themself or got killed, because it was so easy for them to get a gun I would be outraged with the gun control. There needs to be stricter rules that will protect the people. Murders would drastically go down and would make everything better crime wise for America.

College Sports

Recently I watched a video on how college athletes and teams are treated more like businesses then student athletes. Within the last couple years many schools have made more revenue on college football than any other profit organizations in the entire school. Before 2000 the Oregon Ducks were only getting a couple thousand applications a year, ever since they won the Pac 12 championship in 2000 and reached a rose bowl berth there applications have reached an all-time high nearly doubling. This is making the school millions of dollars in revenue. Including their Nike sponsorship and the revenue they are making on television, tickets, appeal etc. The school is making million dollars off of the football team. This is the case for many schools in the country. Sports are a huge part of schools revenue, the purpose of the video I watched was about how student athletes feel like there being treated more as business men and woman then student athletes. I don’t agree with it but many people wanted the students to get paid, they thought that allowing the school to make millions of dollars off of their success is not fair, that they should see some of the profit. My argument was that for most of the student athletes their paying for your education and for most schools the revenue that the sport makes goes right back into the stadium or uniforms etc. So the athletes are seeing it spent on themselves just not directly to them.