The game of football is a strategic game but it comes with my consequences. This game gets the description of a battle. Because this game is a battle of war, there are casualties. First to talk about the injuries. The most frequent injury that occurs is concussions. A concussion is a blow to the head. You can lose consciousness and also lose some of your memory. In the game of football, this is from blocking with your head or trying to tackle with your head. This causes brain damage. With more brain damage, it can cause dementia and other long term damage, like CTE. CTE is chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is caused from head trauma and the effects can cause suicide.
To this, I think it's nuts! Is there any other way to play this sport to make it safer to the players? Can there be better rules and regulations to protects the players? I would think there is a better way to play this sport so you don't have to use your head. Helmets are only meant to keep the head from getting a skull fracture, helmets should help from causing a concussion too.
From watching "Football High", we were informed about two high school football players, named Will James and Tyler Davenport. Both football players had heat stroke from practicing in the heat. Both were rushed to the hospital. Both boys were put into comas. Because of the damage, Will James had kidney failure. With recovering, he had to go through kidney dialysis. Tyler did not recover and passed away.Because both boys were in Arkansas, the state is not required to have a personal trainer on the field for football. That is one reason Will James had a better chance of survival. Also because, they took him inside to the locker rooms. With Tyler Davenport
I wish these stories were false. It's always hard to hear about this. I can't believe how safety is not taken seriously enough to keep these players safe and healthy. I know when I was in marching band, we had a good handful of adults there and also the section leaders, me being one too, we had a card with all the signs of a heat stroke and more. We also knew what to do in those situations too. In the video, the players didn't really knew what was gong on with those players.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Expectations of Love
From Klosterman, we have high expectations for love. We fall in love with these high expectations for love from the influences from Hollywood. I know that for me, Hollywood gave me the high expectation of love too. I have the thought of my love life should be perfect, with a gorgeous husband that looks and acts just like Tom Hiddleston. And our life will be perfect.

For me, from his movie called Deep Blue Sea, he plays a woman's lover. He plays a man that you want but you really shouldn't be with. In real life, he's the perfect gentleman. From seeing him, every woman who knows him, they adore and love him. Because he is a perfect gentleman, every one has these expectations of that is what a man to be and no woman will find a perfect gentleman like him.
Another expectation from Hollywood has given us that we always have a soul mate and if we lose that person, there is always another soul mate. Also, that we will fall in love with our best guy friend. In many romantic comedies, you marry your best friend; 13 Going on 30. In dramatic romantic movies, you find your soul mate, break up, and then make up and be together forever happy; The Notebook.
For me, from his movie called Deep Blue Sea, he plays a woman's lover. He plays a man that you want but you really shouldn't be with. In real life, he's the perfect gentleman. From seeing him, every woman who knows him, they adore and love him. Because he is a perfect gentleman, every one has these expectations of that is what a man to be and no woman will find a perfect gentleman like him.
Another expectation from Hollywood has given us that we always have a soul mate and if we lose that person, there is always another soul mate. Also, that we will fall in love with our best guy friend. In many romantic comedies, you marry your best friend; 13 Going on 30. In dramatic romantic movies, you find your soul mate, break up, and then make up and be together forever happy; The Notebook.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Kilbourne and Ads

From this ad for Calvin Klein Jeans, from Jean Kilbourne's video called "Killing us softly", this ad would have been shown. This shows how women are just something that men can just use and abuse. The woman in this ad is being ganged up by three men. This shows that rape culture has become more popular in our culture, but this isn't showing rape is bad. This ad is showing rape as it's a natural thing now and it's harmful. I feel that if there is going to be an ad for rape, it should show a man and a woman as a victim and how it's wrong.
This ad doesn't even show the product like an ad should. It doesn't show much of the clothing that the models are wearing. It mostly shows a woman that is a horrible position and has a scared expression on. This ad, to me, is a bad influence. It shows that a beautiful woman can be held against her will and me used.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Sexiness in our culture
There is sex everywhere now in our culture. You can't really get away from it. In today's culture, sex is very important. In today's worlds, it can sell anything. In commercials it's used to sell fragrances, clothes, cars, television, and much more other things. Sex is popular because even from people hating it, they are still bringing attention to it. This gets other peoples' attention to the material and the sex. There positive and negative aspects with having sex more popular in our culture. The positives are that there is more knowledge about how to have safe sex and consequences of unsafe sex, STD s, the topic of sex is more open to talk about, and helps the economy, because sex sells. The negatives of sex being so popular is; unwanted pregnancies, over exposed in media, and diseases. I am glad that there is some sex now in our entertainment because then the world will become more open with their minds that there is love for everyone and it is not a crime. The bad part about this though too, is that people will disagree and start to shame others with different beliefs. There will most always be sex in our culture and it will be popular.
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