I really like your idea about a general class where students could explore different jobs. Similar to your idea, Notre Dame won't even allow freshmen to declare a major for this reason. Love your "Raq and Roll" song idea, as well as the lyrics and video for your capital punishment song.

BLOG #11 Part 1

My ideal university is as such:

You start off in college with or without a major selected. Most students know generally what interests them, or at least what they like or son't like when it comes to subject matter. Two different general paths can be selected from the beginning of my four year university. The first is for those who know what they want to do, in which they take classes pertaining to only their major and have an unlimited amount of electives they can take if they so choose. The general education does not repeat what class subjects students took in high school unless the student so chooses, but instead offers new ones that weren't offered in high school so that a student without a clue as to what they want to do can try out new things. Also a general class should be taken by these students in which they explore the different types of jobs from taking trips to companies or trying them out themselves. With these paths, the curriculum is pretty much established. Within certain majors there should be job classes so that students can see what different types of jobs there are and work actively in them briefly so that they can get taste of different jobs in their major. Then take classes that will help them learn the material for their concentration. Each student should take a certain amount of credits in their majors. Minors should work the same way, just with less credits needed to achieve it. Overall workload for each class should stay minimal so that you can get alot of work but only if every class issues an assignment.

Thats acedemics, as far as sports and vacations, they should all be the same. The only exception I can think of is that we should get all major and federal holidays off.

No classes before 9 am. none after 4 pm. Everything else I do like about college. I think that acedemic standpoint is the only thing i really have criticism for.

BLOG #10

The top tshirt is is one I wouldn't want to see worn. He is wearing different articles of clothing than he would have worn and I think of this shirt as more a parody than the other one. There is no halo and we see Jesus as just being another guy. I think the one of the second shirt is different because the text is different and the way Jesus is presented as divine again is different. I feel like he second shirt would be worn more by christians than the others. I am and christian and actually own the second shirt, but I don't consider it to be a parody at all, just that I consider my relationship with Jesus something to show off and not to hide, and also that i consider it to be a personal relationship.

Paul Mitchell mentions that he thinks these shirts are parodies of the christian faith and he is upset when he sees christians who wear them. However, I view it differently. He also says that Christians want " to show the world that yes, I'm different," but he does not view these shirts that way. I think of these shirts, at least the second of the two to be a way to show a relatinshio with Jesus or that " I'm different."

If the first design only contained the text and no image, I would view it differently becuase it is making the same statement as the other shirt, just without a visual that is somewhat offensive. The second shirt, I believe my opinion would be the same.

I think he way the first shirt is set up is more of a parody and sending a rhetorical message that is more moking of Jesus than the other. The first shirt shows Jesus dressed in more modern clothing, the text is above him and his gesture are all something someone today would be wearing and doing. The second shirt is showing Jesus above the text, and the text less sloppy, and Jesus with a halo and attire that he might have actually worn. This, for me, shows him as he was, rather than a version of a mockery of him today, as in the other shirt.

BLOG #8

Seein' Both Sides

1. "Can't Neglect This"
Rock
A song with lyrics that portray a specific case of coaching negligence and how it is the coaches fault that it happened and what it has done to the family of the victim.

2. "Roid Rage"
Metal
A song that explores the truth about how many feel about the use of steroids in professional and lower level sports programs.

3."iCrazy"
Rock
This song will deal the the subject of increase in technology and how many people are crazy for the new products, and new technologies in medicine are very controversial, such as the use of stem cells.

4. "Zap Me"
Acoustic
A song that deals with a convict who has been sentenced to die in an hour. It will subtly pose questions about the death penalty and whether we should have it in the U.S. at all?

Lyrics:
In one or two years I get used to the room
Started slow when I first made the move
Routine is strange on the row
Most of my neighbors are just out of control
And it's bad that I see
Closer now then I will ever be.
I've got plenty of plans that never will be fulfilled
Do they regret their decision to kill?
Placed behind bars, but only for a few
Any last prayers, while I kneel at the pew?
Don't be scared, there's no way out
I deserved this sentence
They'll get even as I get tense
I will fall asleep, lie down and those who see won't weep, they'll only know me in their deepest darkest dreams.

Video: would portray the victim as he walks from his cell to the room where he will be executed and then the video ends just before he is going to be killed.

5. " 'Raq and Roll"
Rock
A song about the Iraq War and how many of the soldiers do not think we should be there. Along with many people in the US who believe we should leave Iraq, however, will address why we can't and how we are fighting not only for our soldiers lives but for Iraqi's Lives too.


The cover will have a picture collage of the war in Iraq, Coaches on a field and players, an empty jail cell with the door wide open, a needle, a very muscular athlete, and a bottle of medicine spilled out over a table. In the lower right hand corner, will be the title in simple courier new font and no other words with be on the front.

Strong analysis throughout your posts. Good!

Blog #5

I have seen this video before, I have written a short paper on steroid use in the U.S. before, and I think that it is a personal choice to use steroids and to know the risks if you have to use them. This video is interesting because it shows actual people who have been using them for years and who do not have any negative side effects. The news always talks about steroids in general but we almost never hardly see actual people who used them irresponsibly. However, every once in awhile there are those faces that make the news for essentially overusing steroids. I think this program failed to address those people, or maybe if they had talked to those families and shown their opinions, they would have a stronger argument for showing both sides of this conflict.

Even though I think steroid use is a personal choice I think different rules apply to athletes. If someone is participating in a sport, they are expected to adhere to the rules of that sport. In my personal experience playing lacrosse, I can boil one goal down to a certain thing that happened. For example, if someone's stick is illegal, however many times they might be checked or pushed or knocked off their feet, the ball will not leave their "control" and they can make it to the goal score. I call these small infractions unfair advantages, because referees may or may not notice an illegal stick. With sports that require a lot of strength to excel, steroid use is going to be more common, but then, it becomes one of these unfair advantages. One player can shape a game, even a team game. What if that one player is using steroids? I believe all sports should have steroid testing for those reasons. The advantages are obvious in many sports and the level of play should be based of skill of athlete and teamwork, performance enhancing drugs shouldn't be allowed to be used by athletes, from little league to professional.

This is not a double standard. Being the best, to me, is doing your best. Giving all you have to reach a level you want to reach. The problem is when you can't reach it, as one might put it, by yourself. I don't think society demands that we use steroids by any means, but to be the best is always great. However, I think it's interesting when those that are considered to be the best are caught using steroids, for some reason our society turns on that. For me, the ethics of steroids have always been only this: in order for me to reach my goals, I have to work hard for them, hard work and perseverance are the only things that I will use to reach them. To be the best I could be at something and for a sense of accomplishment, which I would not have if I chose to use steroids. I am usually a very impatient person, but when it comes to my own sense of well-being, I don't think I could ever use steroids to get results I want.

Georgetown Article

I personally believe that a party should be a party. The rules and restrictions that Georgetown is implementing in newer policies is, in some ways, taking out one of the main goals of a party: to loosen up and relax. The fact that the university is posting a procedure in order to have a party might turn people off of even trying to have parties. The restrictions do make sense, but they are having more negative effects than positive in my opinion. Taking "social life off campus," there are many complaints from students, and the fact that the restrictions have not had the effect on the community that the school wished, are all major backfires to these new rules (Kinzie).

Rules and restrictions set forth by Georgetown University recently are only the first of many steps that need to be taken to change the way parties are carried out on college campuses across the country. Some of the new restrictions include "one-keg-per-party," limiting the number of people allowed at a party, and registering "Two over 21 hosts" (Kinzie). Some say that these new rules have "pushed social life off campus" (Kinzie), causing local police and residents to strive to do more to neutralize problems some of the students are causing.