The Bucket list

Have you ever had a life changing experience that had you thinking that if you died today you didn't get to do a few thing that you found to be exciting. After experiencing this i wanted to do a few things so i created this list and my reason for choosing these events.

#1 Skydiving
I was always thrilled by the idea of being pushed out an airplane, the only thing between u and definite death is a parachute. You get to see the world from the highest point, where people look like ants and cars look like toys from a matchbox set.I've always wanted to experience the rush of air and the ultimate free fall ride.

#2 Running of the bullsThe excitement that you experience on a football field runing from 11 players trying to hit u their hardest, multiply the risk and excitement by twenty times and you have bull running.As a former football player the adrenaline that you feel; you can only get when you think your in danger.Instead of running from a 189pound linebacker, imagine running from a 2000 pound bull. It cant get more exciting than that, the fear of being gored or trampled boost your adrenaline to its peak.Making you run for you life and the relief afterward's to find yourself still alive sound fun to me.

#3 Flying/Firing a JetfighterI always had an attraction to the jets speed and power. I would love to be able to fly to and unoccupied area and just start shooting targets.

Texting

Text messaging could hurt ability to read nonverbal cues
Alexandra Angelovich
Issue date: 10/2/09 Section: News
http://media.www.tcudailyskiff.com/media/storage/paper792/news/2009/10/02/News/Text-Messaging.Could.Hurt.Ability.To.Read.Nonverbal.Cues-3790853.shtml

Junior marketing and entrepreneurial management major Travis Kettle finds texting to be distracting, especially when he's studying.

"The constant text messaging is taking your mind off what you're doing," he said.

Yet it's so simple, it's difficult to give up.

"It's kind of a chore nowadays to call people," Kettle said. "Texting lets you send quick, easy statements."

Excessive communicating via text messaging and social networks could hurt young people's ability to read nonverbal cues, warned an author and English professor at Emory University, and some university officials agreed that effects of all-verbal communication could be detrimental.

In a Sept. 4 article in The Wall Street Journal, Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University and author of "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future," argues that all-verbal communication affects people's ability to decode the "silent language" - posture, eye movements and hand gestures, for example - that humans acquire through face-to-face interaction with one another.

David Whillock, dean of the College of Communication, said text messaging has a direct effect on students' interpersonal relationships because readers have no idea if a person is stereotyping, talking down or patronizing them. Students may not be able to pick up on twitches, hand signals or voice inflections because of a lack of oral communication, he said.

"A lot of people in your generation are having problems with communication because they don't observe," Whillock said. "If I tell you something, and I'm lying to you and I have a certain body position, you can't read it. You may believe it to be true."

Kelly O'Brien, director of the Center of Professional Communication at the Neeley School of Business, said there are other concerns that apply to university students. O'Brien said that because texting has become the preferred method of communicating, it has minimized opportunities for face-to-face interaction.

"I think it could have a potential consequence of not being able to have important conversations face to face when we really need to have them," O'Brien said. "Nothing is going to ever be able to replace the synergies of two people sitting down face to face."

In his article, Bauerlein cites 2008 Nielsen Mobile findings that teenagers sent and received 2,272 text messages on average each month. He also cites a National School Boards Association estimate that middle and high school students devote an average of nine hours per week to social networking.

Who do you know act violent when high off of marijuana?

Should marijuana be legal? Yes i think so.I say yes for many reasons, economical relief,Lower crime rates/violence,less shooting/killings,and less crowded jails/ prisons.

First lets start by saying what is marijuana. According to (http://www.drugabuse.gov/marijbroch/marijparentstxt.html#What) and many other sites. Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Cannabis is a term that refers to marijuana and other drugs made from the same plant. Strong forms of cannabis include sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah), hashish (“hash” for short), and hash oil. All forms of cannabis are mind-altering (psychoactive) drugs; they all contain THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active chemical in marijuana. They also contain more than 400 other chemicals.Marijuana’s effect on the user depends on the strength or potency of the THC it contains. THC potency has increased since the 1970s and continues to increase still. The strength of the drug is measured by the average amount of THC in test samples confiscated by law enforcement agencies. For the year 2006, most ordinary marijuana contained, on average, 7 percent THC.

OK now how can this drug support my reasons to legalize it, When you experience the effects of the drug there's this ,mellow feeling where u just want relax. (http://www.mjlegal.org/violence.html) Marijuana is a Psychoactive Substances you don't want to get violent, you want to stay in that mellow feeling, where everything is funny, your more likely to be a victim of violence than the one committing a violent act. If half the thugs on the street could get high (without fear of getting caught) ;they would be siting or laying somewhere with there other high thugs(nobody get high alone).That obviously would lower crime rates.

If marijuana was sold in stores like cigarettes and beer, not only could you tax the product but u can also monitor the amount of the drug that is distributed. If marijuana is sold in stores half the thugs that make there money through trafficking this drug will loose money, customers and interest. With nowhere to sell this most common drug, territory and a reasons to shoot someone else, trying to take their territory for sales; will decline.

The government could make money(taxing marijuana), free up space in jail/prison (most of the occupants are there for reasons related to marijuana anyways) and prevent crimes. Its a win/win situation.This is just my reasons, agreeing or disagreeing is up to YOU. And one more fact cigarettes is more harmful than Marijuana and why isn't that illegal?