Outline
Magazine: Baseball Digest Magazine
Article Title: Baseball Needs a Salary Cap
Reason 1: A more level playing field.
Interview a baseball fan whose team has been struggling for years.
Explanation- with same money, all teams will compete.
Reason 2: More fans will come to games which leads to more popularity.
Interview an A's fan who would come to more games if the A's stopped trading all their players.
Explanation- Direct cause effect relationship with a competitve team and more fans coming to games.
Reason 3: Baseball will make a lot more money.
Explanation- more fans equals more spending on tickets, more spending at games, more tv ratings and ultimately more money.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tunnel of Opression
I came to the Tunnel of Opression thinking that whatever I saw wouldn't faze me. I was confident that no matter what was thrown at me, I could handle it. I could not have been any more wrong. The Tunnel of Opression changed my perspective on my life.
I am a typical silicon valley teenager. I go to a college and my parents pay for most of my expenses. My biggest issues are finding what I want to do with my life and social problems amongst friends and family. My life is so good that sometimes I forget. I have food on my table, which more than a billion people don't have. I have no life threatning diseases unlike virtually all of African families do. I was never sexually assaulted as a child, and there is a very good chance that I will never be raped. With starvation, disease, sexaul assault and rape, you are at least temporarily hurt physically, but the lasting effect is psychological.
I thought long and hard about how much suffering the world encounters today. And then I thought about my Aunt who has had ALS for 6 years. I thought about the adversity it must take for her to attack the world everyday. The only parts of her body that can move are her eyes and mouth. And with these alone, she spreads hope every day. She is constantly smiling, seizing every moment to enjoy life. She can not talk, but it is not hard to understand what she would be saying. She loves me and our entire family more than any in the world.
In the end, I realized that everyone is either suffering or closely connected to some type of suffering in their lives. The question is how do they react to it? Personally, all I can do is love my Aunt as much as she loves me. And in this world, that may be all it takes.
I am a typical silicon valley teenager. I go to a college and my parents pay for most of my expenses. My biggest issues are finding what I want to do with my life and social problems amongst friends and family. My life is so good that sometimes I forget. I have food on my table, which more than a billion people don't have. I have no life threatning diseases unlike virtually all of African families do. I was never sexually assaulted as a child, and there is a very good chance that I will never be raped. With starvation, disease, sexaul assault and rape, you are at least temporarily hurt physically, but the lasting effect is psychological.
I thought long and hard about how much suffering the world encounters today. And then I thought about my Aunt who has had ALS for 6 years. I thought about the adversity it must take for her to attack the world everyday. The only parts of her body that can move are her eyes and mouth. And with these alone, she spreads hope every day. She is constantly smiling, seizing every moment to enjoy life. She can not talk, but it is not hard to understand what she would be saying. She loves me and our entire family more than any in the world.
In the end, I realized that everyone is either suffering or closely connected to some type of suffering in their lives. The question is how do they react to it? Personally, all I can do is love my Aunt as much as she loves me. And in this world, that may be all it takes.
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