Saturday, October 31, 2009

Bad Role Models

If I could vote somebody, who is in the limelight all of the time, "off the island" it would be Miley Cyrus. This is because I believe that she is a bad influence for all of the children that used to watch her show, Hannah Montana, or her movie. I understand that when you get older, you want to do things that will appeal to a older crowd, not the 6-12 year old girls, but when they want to be like Miley, they might start doing the things that she does.


The main reason why I would vote Miley off of the island is because of her inappropriate actions, when she has many younger crowd fans. With her music video for "Party in the U.S.A" the way she dances can be termed "slutty". Many parents don't want there young girls seeing someone, like Miley, who is a role model to them dancing like Britney Spears, or Beyonce, on the Disney Channel. There are also pictures from her birthday party of her on a stripper pole, which is not appropriate for a 16 year old to be doing in the first place but, once again if some girls see this they might try to do the same thing.

My personal reasons and morals for wanting to vote Miley Cyrus off the island is because I beleive that she is a very bad role model for the girls who watch her. I believe that if I was a parent i would not want my child watching somebody who used to do a very popular childrens TV show dancing like a stripper in a music video that almost everybody will see at some point.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Do you know what freerunning is?



When a friend of mine first started telling me that he did free running, or parkour I had no idea what it was, and he wouldn't tell me, he told me to watch his video when he posted it online. When I realized what I thought free running was, I thought that its got a lot of gymnastics in it, many times free runners, or in all of the videos that i have watched, do a lot of back flips, flip off of objects, and sometimes they jump off of high buildings.


I've always been a fan of gymnastics, not only watching the gymnastics in the Olympics but doing gymnastics for over 4 years. So when I found out about free running, where it incorporated gymnastics with almost matrix type activities, like doing wall flips, running and jumping onto high objects, it really interested me. The free runners that I know many times go to gyms that mainly focus on gymnastics and practice daily, and they practice hard.

To be perfectly honest, if somebody asked me what free running is, I would tell them to go on youtube and search free running, because like I said before is that it incorporates a lot of gymnastics, and running, but that is all I really know about parkour. What I actually know about free running is that it is done a lot in England and other European countries. Free Running is almost an extreme sport, its fun but it can be dangerous, but it makes me wish that I had kept up with my gymnastics.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

In an instant, your entire life can change.

A major personal issue of mine, that is a very controversial topic, is Abortion. I realize that a lot of people always talk about abortion and as a very controversial topic, it always comes up.

I am personally pro-life, i could never actually bring my self to get an abortion. Abortion is, no matter what people say, is killing somebody, even if the baby does not have a heartbeat yet, it could turn into a great human being, with 9 extra months. Abortion does not only hurt the baby, but some studies show that actually, many women who have abortions have psychological problems and problems with other pregnancy's after, sometimes they think that there was never a baby, and in some cases, women are confined to bed rest because of the possibility of a premature labor.

Abortions are not usually done within the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, unless it is necessary for the mother to live, they are not done because, in the 3rd trimesters the baby could live as a premature baby. When 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions are done, after the procedure is done the child is sometimes just left in a corner to die. I believe that this is extremely cruel, and abortion doctors who actually agree to the late term abortions should go to jail for it, because it is not just killing a small child that can not survive outside of the womb, but a baby who could live and become somebody great!

Abortion is a very controversial topic, and I believe that it should only be allowed for women who need it, such as if they have the baby they will die, every child needs a mother. I do not think it is right for women to go into a abortion clinic every time that they get pregnant, because they are irresponsible, to get an abortion. People need to take responsibilities for their actions, if they have sex then there is always a possibility that there could be a pregnancy. If you are willing to have sex, then you should be ready to accept the consequences.

So what do you think? Would you keep a baby, put it up for adoption, get an abortion? Ask your girlfriend to get an abortion if she was pregnant, or stick by her? Pro-life, or Pro-Choice?