Monday, April 21, 2014

Gridiron Sport: Cheerleading is a Sport Article



It states that competitive cheerleading is by far nothing like your grandmothers past time anymore. I do consider cheerleading a sport it being a part of my life for more then 12 years but even if I was not apart of the all-star organization just watching teams and seeing what we all do cheerleading would still be considered a sport in my head. Competitive Cheerleading is a very physical activity with a lot of time, money, dedication, and hard ache all at the same time that gets put into it. With being in this sport the article states the court determined that four factors were important in making their decision in making this law pass of making cheerleading a sport. The first one is a defendant must be participating in a recreational activity. The second one is that recreation activity must include physical contact between persons. Third, the person must be participating in a sport, and the last one is the sport must involve amateur teams, and yet still it has not passed the law that competitive cheerleading is a sport even though it does consists of all these four factors. Despite the difficulty and arguments in reaching the goal of having cheerleading be considered a sport the court in Noffke felt, that the fact that cheerleading was not an organizational sport world wide they could not go against millions and think they would win. The last couple pages states of how it is know different then any other sport out there. The rules and regulations, the money, the dedication, and lastly being a team and competing against one another they are all the same. Eventually making competitive cheerleading a sport will not be an easy process for example how it has been the past couple of years, but, it does say as the years go on and it keeps getting harder and more popular there is no doubt in Jon Heshka and Kris Lines mind that it will be considered a sport one day. 

Monday, April 14, 2014

I do not think we should have quizzes in lab and also lecture for biology



Being in a biology class consists of you also taking a lab for two hours outside of the actual biology lecture. Being in lab is fun and interesting when doing experiments and actually learning more about what you are talking about in lab,  it help you understand it more when doing thing by hand rather than just talking about them in lecture I think. In biology 110 we have quizzes every week and also test that go along with the lecture and in lab we have a quiz every class also which I do not think is needed. When in lab I love doing the experiments and all that fun stuff but when it comes to the quizzes I feel like that should only be required in lecture. Lab should be fun and just helping you more with the lecture class and for the quizzes and test in there not so you stress out for lab and also biology both. I do not think we need to have test and quizzes in lab since we do in biology which is what the lecture should be consisting of which is does but not lab also. I also think having quizzes in lab and not just in lecture could mess you up by the way you learn stuff. Not everyone has the same teacher for lecture and lab like me so getting taught a different way and trying to take a quiz is hard and makes things more confusing and more difficult to learn.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Life after Dealth

In the movie and book Life after Death these three teen age boys get accused of murdering these three little boys one summer night. When the little boys were found the day after the cops, community, and judge went straight to these three teen boys who ran the streets. The court got involved and of course just accused those three teenage boys right off the bat no questioned asked. Eventually they had questioning but the three boys never really got to answer or tell there own side of the story. I think when someone is accused of anything it being a murder or something not so big always question and always think of other possibilities. When questioning no one else when a big event happens of course the only people who you are questioning and have an idea of are the ones you are going to accuse. I do not think it is fair in any case when they do not know for a fact who was involved, and if it was the other way around those officers and judges probably wouldn't like that either. Why would someone want to put someone in jail for years and ruin there lives when not knowing for sure if they committed the crime. Also locking people up for there wrong doing also makes the town or community safe because they are no longer running around doing these awful things, but when locking up the wrong person, the criminal is still out there and the people who are locked up are there for no apparent reason.