Happy Rappy

In excelsis i find my mind wishing we’d go back in time to change what was hidden to seek and  find. take this tangled mess of mine and slowly pull as it unwinds your not the only one upset i hate the way i never get you and i can only try to do what we know is pressing true ringing and singing my ears are bleeding your voice it heals and steals my breathing has slowed down up the stairs i’m falling rocks of walls are crumbling to the dust of morter building stack and stack to reach new heights. the higher we climb the farther we’ll fall. and yes, we know it. 

Blog 13

At the beginning of each semester it is common for students to make promises or commitments to themselves about how well they will do. They spend hours a day often studying or doing homework. Yet, as time goes on, however, laziness sets in, sleep depravation starts taking effect and you find yourself skipping class, watching march madness instead of doing homework or studying for your final. Is that a run on sentence? I think so. See, in my first blog I would have cut that into a few sentences in order to avoid a run on but by the end of the semester I’ll find a way to make that run on add to the meaning of the blog so that I don’t have to go back and fix it. At the same time I add several sentences of explanation, therefore, adding to the length of the blog and furthering my progress.  Point made.

What is going on in my mind during this whole process? Do I somehow convince myself that grades aren’t as important? Or, that I will have time to recover before the final exam? Or, am I in denial that my grades are suffering? Well, for me it seems like a little from all of these. I feel like I did really well at the beginning of the semester and therefore have some slack that I can take advantage of now.  I actually have lowered the importance of grades in my mind.  It’s interesting though because I know that I’m wrong I just don’t care enough right now.  I could go on and on about this but I’m out of words. Not that I don’t want to keep writing but I don’t have to.  Therefore I choose to stop. Now. 

blog 12

I really enjoy researching my topic (performance enhancing drugs). I have a ton of sources, probably too many, that I have looked at.  I like to open a random article and open to a random page and start reading.  I learned all kinds of good stuff through this process. It is less organized and less controlled however.

Blog 11

Well I didn’t read the why write reading... So it would be somewhat pointless, actually completely pointless to  try to write a review on it. Therefore I will take the zero on this section.  sorry.

Blog #10

Should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in professional athletics? The vast majority of people would say that these drugs should be prohibited.  I would like to try and argue the opposite.  Let it be known, however, that I do not personally use or encourage the use of these drugs.  I simply argue that others ought to be allowed to use them at their own discretion. 

Argument for allowed use of performance enhancing drug:

-Freedom of choice.  People are allowed to smoke cigarrettes even though it is dangerous to their health, why can’t people use steroids?

-Intense strenuous work outs can cause long term damage to joints and ligiments etc... yet athletes must submit to these routines in order to be able to compete with other athletes.  This is the same principle for steroids. The only way that steroids can become an unfair advantage is if it is prohibited and those disobediant athletes use them anyway without getting caught.  If they were not prohibited then the playing field would be leveled. 

-Remember how fun it was to watch Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mcgwire? All three of these famous basball players were big hitters.  They broke records and generated extreme peaks in spectatorship for the MLB. Yet they are ignored in the history of baseball.  their names are not even mentioned in the most famous baseball history museums. 

Argument against performance enhancing drugs:

-The overall health of our athletes is already poor due to the stresses involved in competing at such high levels of competition.  Why would we shorten their lives further?  We already have super humans playing our sports why do we need gladiators? 

-Athletes do not take these drugs to level the playing field instead they take them to get an advantage on the other athletes.

-A good majority of athletes are healthy and their personalities are to be healthy.  If all the sudden they cannot compete without having to use steroids they would now be forced either to take steroids or lose. This is not fair by any means.

I have a lot more research to do obviously but that’s the basics!!

Blog #9

The rhetorical analysis paper was a bit more difficult than the personal narrative.  I found myself really scrapping for more things to say about the tools used.  To be completely honest it was more difficult because my heart wasn’t in it.  I really didn’t care about it.  I think it was a good learning experience however.  It will help me in writing my own persuasive essays in the future.

Blog # 8: 50 words on my 'Analytical Response'

Well my paper feels iffy.  I love the essay I’m using but I think I’m too easy to impress.  I have a hard time finding the negative things.  I know I don’t have to have a list of cons but I would at least like to be able to see the perspective of the haters.  That way I could combat them.  The rough draft wasn’t too hard to write but I want to change a lot of it before I turn in my final.