To think of a world without sports is unreal to me. However the first two downfalls that came to my mind if this were to ever happen were the lack of students who would attend college, and there would be no Olympics.
Sports in colleges are a huge reason kids go to school. For many students sports is a source of income to even go to college. Without scholarship money some of the best athletes wouldn't be able to go to their dream school, or maybe not even go to college at all. And for those who would still would go to college there would be less to be involved in. No matter the season, when you're at college you can always attend a sporting event with your friends.
If we didn't have sports, my current major wouldn't even exist. Sports play a huge role in colleges, along with high school. For many student athletes it's the reason they want to wake up and go to school or classes each day. What would be the motivation if we didn't have sports?
The Olympics are something people are always looking forward too, but think of the nation's that wouldn't be recognized if they hadn't hosted the Olympics. To host the Olympics different areas will spend billions of dollars getting ready for the games. The 2008 Olympic games in Beijing hosted about 3,000 athletes, 1,900 team officials, 2,000 technical officials, 200,000 spectators, 5,000 VIPS, and 6,500 journalists. Imagine finding a place to put these people each day. A city needs to practically be rebuilt to be the site of the Olympic games. However, without the Olympics many places would be unnoticed. I am visiting Vancouver in less then a month and the first thing I related Vancouver to were the 2010 Winter Olympic games.
The thought of a world with out the Olympics is sad, but to think about how many children wouldn't experience college or get a college education is even worse.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
The Web at 20
The line that I found to be the most striking is:
"Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights."
My thoughts on this are if the government is going to invade our rights they should atleast do a good job at it. There is so much illegal activity going on through the internet with child pornography, identity theft, and scamming that the government should be doing more to end these issues.
People may be a little okay with the government tracking our internet activity if these issues are coming to an end. However, with the boom of social networking and more and more people using the internet these problems only seem to get worse.
So what's the sense in taking advantage of our human rights if you're not doing anything with the capability you have?
"Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights."
My thoughts on this are if the government is going to invade our rights they should atleast do a good job at it. There is so much illegal activity going on through the internet with child pornography, identity theft, and scamming that the government should be doing more to end these issues.
People may be a little okay with the government tracking our internet activity if these issues are coming to an end. However, with the boom of social networking and more and more people using the internet these problems only seem to get worse.
So what's the sense in taking advantage of our human rights if you're not doing anything with the capability you have?
Monday, April 4, 2011
Blog 5
For me, the most interesting thing in Comm 203 has also been the most beneficial. I enjoyed working on looking up different career paths that relate to my field. I have no desire to work with any type of design or media throughout my career other then the basic requirements since I am a Recreation and Leisure major. So, sitting down and reading about different sports programs also helped me look into a possible internship.
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