Winter Poem

Snow is nice

Nice is snow

On the ground

Winter is nice. Yay.



(I'm mad that this blog is a Poem, Mr.McCarthy.)

Globalization

At the beginning of this unit, when we started talking about globalization, I really didn't understand it to be honest, and I think thats just because I had no idea what it actually meant. But after discussing it for so long, and reading part of How Soccer Explains the World, Im starting to understand the effects of globalization. I've come up with a pros and cons which makes it a little bit easier to understand the many many many effects it has on us.

Pros: more jobs, meaning a solution to unemployment and poverty, it makes companies more competitive...which I guess could be a pro for consumers because it would make better products? and then the obvious fact that consumers all over the world have access to a ton more products then they would have if just from the US; oh and I guess we're introduced to new cultures too which is a plus...

Cons: huge corporations take advantage of their size and the amount of money that they have....which has led to massive social injustices, also huge corporations can exploit labor and find really really cheap workers somewhere else (employment would be good everywhere but home?)

I'm sure there are millions more pros and cons, but like I said, I'm just starting to understand what it actually is....so I think these will do for now.

sports sport sports

When I think about my life currently, there really aren't a lot of sports in it. But when I was six I was involved in lots of sports, tee-ball, tennis, basketball, gymnastics, ice skating, even though at that point in my life, my parents basically forced me into all of them. It didn't take my parents very long to realize, after I began throwing fits because I didn't like how the tee-ball uniform looked, that a lot of sports just weren't for me, so eventually I quit everything.

Then, when I was in seventh grade I went back to figure skating, purely just because I had recently quit dancing and had nothing else to do with my time, being a 13 year old with no life. But once I got back into it I quickly picked everything back up and, unlike when I was skating in first grade, I actually enjoyed it. I've been figure skating ever since, although my time on the ice has been cut down recently because of school and college apps and everything. I'd like to think that in college I'll be able to find time/find a rink so that I don't completely lose everything I've been working on for the past six years, but I realize how rare it is that a school offers skating, much less have a rink.

So besides skating, I really have no connection to sports. I mean, I enjoy watching the cubs play, and of course watching soccer (....players) but I'm not really personally involved in anything else.