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This weeks reading was about the Wall Street and the protesting that is going on all over the world. I found it interesting that so many types of people that sitting in on the protest. For example that homeless man who rode a freight train just to say he screwed the government. I want to shake that man’s hand. And the lady who has social security and is retired, she still found the need to go out and support the next generation that probably won’t have social security.

To be honest I don’t have a clue on what’s going on because I don’t watch the news. I hate watching the news because it is seems like it is full of bad news today. But by what I’ve heard its not good and its probably not going to get any better for a while. A lot of people are blaming Obama, and he may be to blame but he couldn’t have done this without help from some other people..

In the reading, “Offensive play”, by Malcolm Gladwell, his exigence is the dangerous effects that contact sports, such as football and boxing have on the athletes brain.After years of hard hits to the head the brain starts to get injured and leads to negative changes in a person. The audience for this reading would be the athletes themselves, by reading this they can learn the negative parts of being in a contact sport over a period of time. It could also be directed to the makers of football helmets. They could be trying to make a helmet that helps prevent such hard blows to the brain. The constraints are that that type of technology isn’t necessarily known yet. And we can’t stop football because it is such a crowd pleaser, a lot of people would be mad.

This week’s reading was about the different arts and how they affect a school. It talked about how the arts makes it so there are no right or wrong answers, and it makes students look outside the box. I think that today’s school need the arts for this kind of learning because in today’s society everything is ever changing and people need to be always thinking of new and random things.

It also gives the students chances to explore the different traditions of other cultures. For example learning differrent styles of dances or singing songs from different countries give students another look at a different culture. Like learning how to cha cha or tango or salsa. Its fun and yet the students are still learning.

And to finish my blog this week I’ll leave you with a quote from Mrs. Darbus from “High School Musical”. She states that, “The theatre is a chapel of arts, a precious cornucopia of creative energy.”

This weeks reading was about Urban Legends and all the crazy stories that people have heard over the years. The first one was about the lady who was driving home and was creeped out by the man that followed her home. When your reading this you automatically assume the guy that is following her is the creeper but when he’s actually the hero!  Or the story about the babysitter where she keeps getting phone calls and the killer is in the house?? Creepy…

As creepy as it is though, people are super attracted to these kinds of stories. I thinks its because not many people understand the paranormal, and because there really is no explanation to why these stories happened and why people tend to believe them. Take “Ghopst Hunters” for example, that show isn’t very interesting, just 2 men that repeatedly say, “Did ya hear that?” and there is nothing. But by using science they find things humans can’t hear or see with the naked eye.

And for the ghosts stories of Morningside, there better not be any or I’m going to have to transfer at semester:)