AOW #14

well talking about concussions. I knew it was a pretty common thing it the sport of football but the numbers this tells you is alot. And it says that the players returned after 2 weeks. Im not a doctor but something tells me that if your brain bounces off the side of your skull that your gonna need more then 2 weeks to fully recover from that. It also stated the 17 people have died from it. All high school players this is kinda sad but I think that only 17 is a good statistic out of all the players that receive concussions. I think that more precaution should be taken when it comes to protecting players and treating them. This could save the lives of the 17 and help prevent other concussions from happening. This paper also states that to be released the person must be symptom free for 7 days. What even are the symptoms of a concussion. I dont have a clue. But I do think that the time to wait should be pushed back way more with kids that brains are still maturing. So that they dont get hurt worse and end up ruining the rest of their lives. And now im gonna give you my opinion on coaches that want to win even tho it comes down to putting a hurt kid back into the game hurting him even worse even death. This just is crazy and I know that it is different in some people than others but I think that when it comes down to a decision like that the kids parents and athletic trainer should make the choice not the coach. Because most are hungry for the win and would do anything to get that.

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AOW #13

Ok this person talks about how they are stressed for their students. I believe him but there are alot of teachers who just want to get the paycheck and could care less if the kids are making it through school. They say that you aren't coming to school to learn it is to learn how to survive life when the going gets tough. And that school may seem difficult but when it comes to reality it is easy and you with you could go back. And that you are just quitting when you dont do anything or when you skipclass or dont pay any attention. And this is so true doing this is getting you nowhere and is only hurting you so you need to buckle down and do what you need to do. So you can make it through school with no troubles and start you life out ahead. And we need more teaches that will push kids that get lazy and dont do what there supposed to do to straighten out because they are just hurting themselves when they dont do these in school. This article really inspires me to do better in school because I want to succeed and have a good time to but it all comes down to your future and your really hurting it when you quit and get lazy.

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AOW #12

So the election just happened. And everyone is talking about what should have passed and what didnt I could care less really. Maybe it will came to me when I am old enough to vote but not now. i think this article of the week is really stupid and boring. All it talks about is the politicians campaigning and what there are doing so that more people see their ads to vote for them. I think it is really smart of them to go to social media with all the people that are on it. That is genius I dont know why they didnt think of this earlier. That is a sure fire way to get more votes.

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AOW #11

Rise of the Machines
I think it is extremely stupid of someone to want a machine to be smarter than humans that just makes no sense to me. I believe that if the machine is smarter than humans they would want to wipe humans off the face of the earth so they could be the top of the food chain. I see the movie terminator when I picture machines rising over humans. People keep saying that this is a real possibility of happening soon and too be honest I'm kinda scared.  don't want a machine wanting to kill me and to be smarter than me. They are just supposed to make life easier and to be tools. So if you ask me super intelligence is a curse. I kinda hope there are some people like me out there so this doesn't end up happening. I have heard that some computers are already smart like they can win chess games and I don't even know how to play. I heard of one experiment were the robots actually learned and there are not programmed that way so they can actually adapt.

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poetry reflection

So I m not a big fan of this whole poetry thing. It all just confuses me. Like I m just trying to read this id like to understand it. If they want to write in code then why not use morse code instead of peotry.  But all of the teachers of english just ram it down my throat. It is kinda interesting how they can express how they feel with so little words and not even say a thing about how they feel. That interests me but it is so hard for me to dissect a poem and get what the person is trying to say or express. I mean I can learn it but it is painful for me and I take my time. I cant say I have a favorite poem but I do hate some for example any of Shakespeare's work drives me nuts because I have to physically sit down and think what is he trying to say here or have someone explain it to me. He also uses big, old words that my brain cant even begin to understand so I have to look through a dictionary for like hours trying to find words and I typically never do. Another thing that absolutely kills me is when I have to write them its like my brain goes blank and so does my paper. So this is my opinion on poetry. I could care less if you like it or not.

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AOW #10

this weeks AOW states that people are the cause of animal and plant mass extinction. The first thing that ticks me off is that they start rambling things off like there all facts when Im not even sure how they could know some of these things. They werent alive when this stuff happened so how do they know so they must not. According to these scientists people are the cause of everything that hurts plants and animals. I think not they thrive when we are around and thrive when were not. This all doesnt just bounce back on society in general some people like poachers and people who break laws over fishing and things like that are at fault and need to be brought to justice and punished. They think that there is going to be another mass extinction and i think that theyre crazy. Mass extinctions to me are just natural disasters so there is no way people can cause them.

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AOW #9

Hong Kong's thwarted Democracy

First of all I think that is is cool how london beat the chinese and made them give up the island of hong kong to them and they kept it for 99 years. And from the sound of the way the chinese are acting about them being a democracy I think that they should have kept it. And I don't know what it is about foreign leaders but it seems that they all want communism. They act like they are all starving for power and they have to have more, more, and more. It really confuses me. From the sounds of how they are trying to convert the people and place back to the way it was before, I think that london or someone needs to stick their nose in and fight with the people there and get the peoples way for once.  If they think that converting back to communism doesn't make them look like iran or north korea they are crazy because there is no difference in them. I really hope all the protesting and fighting the people do pays off because they deserve to have a choice, not to do what ever the big power hungry dictator tells them to do.

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