Adversity

Sometimes in life, we are put to a challenge that we won't like weather it may be life or death, a relationship,a friendship, or something you have to decide upon. But what makes is how you deal with the adversity. I think that if you try to fight through it even if you don't achieve what you wanted, it will benefit you in the long-run and will learn what to do if you're put in the situation again. But if you quit and give up, you're not giving yourself a chance to mature and grow up. Some people think of adversity as shitty times and times where everything falls apart which it can very well be. But that will only happen if you let it happen. i think of adversity as a baby turtle. When turtles are first born, most of them either get eaten, before they reach the water,eaten when they get into the water, or they will survive and live long. Adversity is the same thing. You can either let it eat you up or you can fight it and become a better person. But it all depends on what we choose to do.

There are many ways to fight through adversity and grow from it. In some cases, adversity may lead to sacrificing the thing you love most. Sometimes, adversity could end up with everything being the same but a valid lesson is still learned. I think best way to handle adversity is give myself some possible solutions and as the time goes on and things happen, i can make my decision accordingly. The worst thing to do is think about the situation but not communicate to the people who ar involved. This can be very bad because the other people involved may take the information they hear the wrong way. So we need to let out our feelings but not our emotions. But win or lose, you can't stop fighting and leave no regrets. "It's not how hard you get hit, it's how hard you keep going after you get hit."

Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the internet, and other media determine what is important to most people?

I believe that the media has a great affect on the ways people think of things because a lot of people trust the media's point of view. Most of the time, people will believe the newspapers and the problem with everyone trusting one source, is that the information may or may not be correct. If the information isn't correct then that means people may think of it differently than if they actually knew the truth. Also, some main problems and topics that aren't emphasized enough in the media so people can't see topics that have importance to them. Sometimes people worry too much about the little things and don't see the big picture. I despise the media for this particular reason. For example, today, i heard on the radio that an "unstable" woman attacked the Pope. By giving this information out, people will assume that she was a crazy lady. But what if she was a devout Catholic who just wanted to praise her Pope? Then that would be a whole different story.

Practical limitations to media neutrality include the inability of journalists to report all available stories and facts, and the requirement that selected facts be linked into a coherent narrative. Most of the authors who write the articles normally sway their reader to believe in his or her ideas which makes it bias. A bias media will change everyone's idea of "important". Another problem is that everyone has something that is more important than another person. So everyone's "important" may not be the same therefore as having a different perspective. I'm not saying that having different perspectives is a bad thing but it can be when the facts are being misused. When they are misused, conflict and propaganda begin and then that leads to argument. I strongly believe that the media has the greatest affect on our idea of importance in life, but we are ultimately challenged to decide in our own minds and hearts what is truly important.

LeBron James

As an athalete, i need to get ready before every game so i can kick some ass. On other words, i need to get pumped. Athaletes have many ways to get pumped including pounding their chest, yelling, listening to hard beat music, or even listening to soft classical piano mausic. For myself, i like to focus on what i want to achieve but at the same time stay loose. Normally, this a ritual so every game they can be use to doing the same thing. As you can see, LeBron James tosses powder in the air in front of the score table to get himself pumped up (and his fans love it).

James was born on December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio, and attended St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in Akron, where he became a starter during his freshman year for the Fighting Irish. He averaged 21 points and 6.2 rebounds, and led the team to a 23–1 record, en route to the Division III state title. Keith Dambrot, now head coach at the University of Akron, was the head coach at St. Vincent–St. Mary. Coach Dambrot started working with James doing $1 clinics at a local recreation center.In his sophomore year, James averaged 25.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 3.8 steals.He led the team to a 26–1 record and a Division III state title for the second straight season.He was the first sophomore to be named Ohio's "Mr. Basketball" and also became the first sophomore ever selected to the USA Today All-USA First Team. I think its amazing that a high schooler can make the USA first team. And he was still only a sophomore!!!!

In James' junior year his stats improved again. He averaged 29.0 points, 8.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 3.3 steals and was again named Mr. Basketball of Ohio.He also earned a spot on the All-USA First Team, and was named the 2001–2002 boys' basketball Gatorade National Player of the Year. It was at this time that his nickname "King James" became a household staple in Ohio.

Basketball

Currently, i am playing on the JV team for Alameda High School and we just finished two of our first games. Unfortunately, we lost both but we were always in the game. I play basketball to stay in shape for baseball and to keep my legs strong. Also basketball helps me play because it helps my reactions. In the last two years, the basketball program has been a bit shaky because every year, there has been different coaches so the players have to change to the new coach rather than just sticking with the same things every year. But i just try my best and hopefully our team will do good.

I also play basketball because i am actually pretty good at it. This year, i could have played on varsity but i decided to play on JV because i get more playing time and experience. Next year, i plan on being the starting point guard for the varsity team as a junior. Although I like practicing with the varsity because it puts me to my limits and it makes me better guarding players like Taylor Takahashi.

Basketball is also a good stress reliever from school because you get to run around and have fun playing with your friends.

Technology

Just yesterday, i created my own facebook and i realized how advanced technology is these days. When i was in elementry school, i loved the show star gate where they had those cool "wireless communicaters" and i thought that would never happen in my life time. But then two years later people started having cell phones, then myspace, then the iphone, now facebook and twitter. When is this ever going to stop? No one knows. I dear that technology will get so advanced that it will destroy our universe and just rip us apart because people abuse the power and the things they have. If you don't beleive me, it's already happening. Rapist, serial killers, and stalkers are learning how to hack web cams to spy on other people. Web cams were made to conversate between people who live far away from each other and can't see each other. Now, the great idea of web camming, maybe an extremely dangerous aparatus.

On the other hand, i believe technology can pull us out of our economic crisis. Also, it can help our society and the way people will live only if they use it the right ways. Like if someone invented something to solve global warming, then it's very useful. Or if someone invents a bi-fuel that has a lot of mileage for cars then that would be very useful. I actually had an idea once about making a bi fuel of carbon because the carbon is what is destroying the environment so if we can get rid of the carbon, then it's all good.

Is there always another explanation or another point of view?

In life, there are always different perspectives for any thought, idea, or activity. If there was only one right way to do a certain thing, then this world would be perfect. But it's not. I think that our world would be better if we had more points of views so we could have more ideas to expand on. Also, no one has the same thoughts and ideas as everyone else so there will always be a second, third, or fourth opinion. To me, i like to look at things from all points of view. If i perceive something with just one opinion, i will be very stubborn and will never see "the big picture".

As a basketball player, it is important for me to have many options and see the whole court. Since i am a point guard, i need to open my mind and be creative because its hard to do the same thing repetitively when your opponent is doing anything he can to stop you. This is called flexibility and a lot creativity. If the defender is not letting you dribble left, then you go right. If he isn't letting you shoot, then you have to attack the basket. The problem that people have is that they already make up their minds before they even see what's going to happen. A point guard is really like a quarter back on the football field. They have to "read" the defense and see what they're giving or not giving them and then adjust to do what will work the best. I call it a sixth sense because not all people can have this skill of decision making according to the situation.

This sixth sense doesn't only occur in sports but in everything that people do every day. For example, driving is literally just commonsense. But as we can see, some people can be HORRIBLE drivers. It's not that they don't have any commonsense, its just that they can't see the other cars and are just focused on their path. On the other hand, some people do see the other cars but don't care about them and just go wherever they want to go. I try to be in the middle, i will be flexible when i need to be but i can be pushy and aggressive when i want to be.

Purpose of Blog #2

After reading my past blogs, i realized that they are very boring and random so I'm going to try to focus more on two or three topics such as life, school, and sports. I also may occasionally write a sat essay just for some extra practice because i've already taken three mock tests and i got a zero for the essay on the first test because i didn't follow the topic. Then, i surprisingly received a four on my second essay because the topic was something that i knew very well. But on my third test i dropped one point earning a three because of my grammar and vocabulary.
When young children go to school, they mostly think they are there to get good grades. People all over America debate its importance and what should be taught in school. The most important things you learn in life are not in a classroom, they are out in the real world, everyday situations that we learn and grow from. Children should learn only to brighten there own individual knowledge and to learn moral values that are actually important in life.
The pressure of being important in today's world is greater than ever. Children feel that in order to succeed in life they have to get good grades and attend universities. Parents can be very strict and put massive pressure on there children's academics. In this case, the children are doing it more for there parents satisfaction, not there own. Students are also pressured by what the media tells them. The media represents the main reason for education as making the economy more powerful. The United States is always in competition to be the best in the world. "The children are our future" becomes "The children will make us money." This makes children learn for all the wrong reasons. Learning should be for your own sake and benefit of yourself, not anyone else.
Some things you learn in school might seem completely pointless. What learning is really doing is exercising your brain for hard situations you might have to deal with in life. The motivation and stress you put yourself through to get a good grade will make you a stronger person. Even if you never do a math problem out of high school, the discipline that math class gave you will help you in the real world.