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For this blog it is a choice blog. This blog I am going to talk about what I am doing in my future. There will be a lot of obstacles in my life and there will be a lot of fun times. This year I will be attending GCC for the next 2 years then hopefully transfer down to a college in the south. The major I will be going for in college is sports management. With a sports management degree you can have a lot of job opportunities. You can do anything with this major when it comes to sports if you have a master’s degree.  You can be a scout, coach, general manager, etc. Hopefully when I do transfer to a school down south and graduate with a master’s degree, I might want a job with the Carolina Panthers or the Charlotte Bobcats. The Panthers are an NFL team and the Bobcats are an NBA team. When I work with one of these teams, I’m going to want to be a scout or a general manager, but I do realize I will have to work my way up the ladder, because that is how it goes nowadays. If this coaching thing does not work out, I will want to start my own paper view or TV show. I won’t say the idea and put it on the web, but I think that this idea could make some big money, because it hasn’t been used yet! Hopefully after that I will be able to retire where I moved down too and get a boat so I could fish and have a nice relaxing time or just live right by the beach. If this pans out to be my future in the next 30 years or 40 years, I will be truly blessed by god.

Q-4

This blog will be about my favorite pop icon. There are many pop icons in the world. You have Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Mark Walberg, Denzel Washington, and etc. My favorite icon of all time has to be Chris Farley. Chris Farley was this big guy who just had a knack to make people laugh whenever he wanted too. He used to be on SNL with Adam Sandler all the time. Saturday Night Live use to be at its finest when he was there with Adam. Chris also made a couple of movies. You may have heard of Tommy Boy which is one of my favorite all time movies. This movie is the complete package with some comedy and realistic fiction. My family always imitates this one part of a movie where he says, “I use to take bear claws 2 at a time and I get them lodged right in this region here!” This part of the movies gets me every time. Probably one of the funniest lines Chris Farley has ever said. It is a shame he committed suicide though. He was into some heavy drugs and alcohol at this time and his life went spiraling downward. Everyone has a bad time in their life, but it is a damn shame that he had to go the way he went. Chris Farley has inspired me in many good ways. He has made me have an outgoing personality, because without that you cannot succeed in life with other people. You have to be a people person in this day in age. Another thing he inspired me with was to do what you think is right cause in the end it is just another day and also a new beginning. He made me not live day by day; he made me change to live in the moment. Overall Chris will never be forgotten in my book  

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This blog is about the best book I have read for English. My favorite book I read in English was called, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. This book was about a boy named Scout who was six and Jem was ten, they met Dill, a little boy who spent the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem become obsessed with the idea of making Boo Radley, the neighborhood recluse, come out of his home. They go through plan after plan, but nothing draws him out. However, these brushes with the neighborhood ghost result in a tentative friendship over time and soon the Finch children realize that Boo Radley deserves to live in peace, so they leave him alone. Scout and Jem's God-like father, Atticus, is a respected and upstanding lawyer in small Maycomb County. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom Robinson against two dishonest white people, Atticus knows that he will lose, but he has to defend the man or he can't live with himself. Tom Robinson is sent to a work prison to await another trial, but before Atticus can get him to court again, Tom is shot for trying to escape the prison. It seems that the case is finally over and life returns to normal until Halloween night. On the way home from a pageant, Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout in the darkness. After Jem's broke her arm,Boo Radley, rescues Scout and her brother. In order to protect Boo's privacy, the sheriff decides that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife while he was struggling with Jem. Boo Radley returns home never to be seen again. This book left an inspiration on me, because this shows me that you should always stand in what you believe in, especially when you know you could prove people wrong.

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For this blog I am going to talk about my plans this summer. This summer will be different than others. This will be my senior year of summer. There will be a lot of graduation parties I will be attending. It will be a tough one, because some of these people I will not be seeing for a while or maybe in the next couple years. This summer will be an eventful one! I will be working a lot this year. I probably will be working around 40 hours this summer. I will be working at Joey’s Pizzeria in Depew. I make very good money there now, so hopefully I can make a lot more this summer. On July 13^th is when my summer actually really starts. I will be going to Hilton Head South Carolina for 9 days with my best friend Gabe McNamara and his family and friends. This will be a vacation to remember. We will be going deep scuba diving, eating very good food, and laying by the beach all day and all night. This is a much needed vacation for me. I have not been on a vacation in 7 years. My last vacation I went on was to San Antonio Texas to visit my brother and we went on the River Walk. It was very pretty. Anyways, the next exciting thing for me this summer is starting my new life and the college life. College life will be interesting. It is like opening a whole other world. There will be new people I meet and of course new girls that I meet. Overall, this summer will definitely be one to remember. I will never forget this summer only, because this will be my legit last fun summer with all my friends. I cannot wait for summer!

Q-1

For this blog it is a choice blog. This blog I am going to talk about the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers are led by Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum. Everyone is saying that the Lakers suck, but people don’t know that this Laker team has potential to rise during the playoffs. This team has experience and they have been in the playoffs before, you can even ask Kobe (5 championships). Andrew Bynum is an upcoming superstar. He is only 24 years old and he had the first triple double for a center in 20 years since David Robinson. Andrew had 10 points, 12 rebounds and 10 blocks against Denver in game 2. They won the game, but it had to go to a seven game series failing to close game 6 at Denver.  The reason why people say the Lakers sucks is, because they can’t close game when the time comes to close them. I find that reason is garbage. Kobe is 33 years old. He cannot do it all on his own! He needs help from Gasol and Sessions. Gasol is not the player he was when he first came to the Lakers. He doesn’t look like the old Gasol that played at Memphis. He is one of the softest players to play the power forward spot and you cannot be soft at the power forward spot. You have to set the tone and be physical. You need to get double doubles each game you play and play like a beast. I think we need a better small forward also. Metta World Peace can play good at times, but it seems like he would be a better player coming off the bench as an energizer. Overall, the Lakers will have a lot of rebuilding to do when Kobe retires.

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For this following blog I am going to talk about the teachers evaluations in New York State. The New York State teacher evaluations are good to do, but I think that they should base it more off where kids go to school then test scores. Test scores in my opinion don’t prove anything, because people could cheat on test to get that good of grades. If you do it by where students go to school like Harvard or a Princeton then you should get a bonus. This proves that they didn’t cheat on the SAT and that they paid attention all year long. I know it is very hard to get into a Harvard or Princeton, but this just shows how devoted teachers were to their students and how well they taught the students. This is why some schools are in a budget crisis and have to cut teachers even sports, because of the bonus money they give teachers just based on test scores and not overall performance. I also think that some teachers should get tested on how well they teach there subject they teach, because some teachers are not very good at teaching and sometimes I wonder as a student on how they even got a their teaching degree. Yes some individuals are probably very smart at a certain subject like math, but are they good a teaching people it? That’s the real question you have to ask as a school administrator or superintendent. I do like how teachers are required to shadow one teacher for a year, because then you learn how to actually teach someone and you learn how some people learn in different ways Overall, I do agree with New York State on trying to find a way on how effective a teacher is for their job, but I definitely would not base it off test scores.  

P-5

This blog is a choice blog. In a choice blog I can talk about whatever I would like to talk about. For this blog I am going to talk about morals and ethics. What it comes down to in life is that you are going to have your friends and family no matter what. Your family and friends are your backbone to who you are, what you are, and what you do. One of my friends decides to one day to walk out of his dad’s life that has been there all his life, all because his dad and step mom agreed to him not to go out with this girl. This girl puts my friend in a bad spot all the time. I really don’t and probably will never understand what he sees in this girl. She drives him crazy. The kid will come running to me for help and I tell him what to do and he doesn’t do it. I don’t understand what is going through his head, but whatever the case may be I would never walk out on my family. My parents always do what’s right for me. If my dad said you can’t date this girl, because she is disrespectful to my family, I wouldn’t think twice about dating her. Your father brought you in to this world and he can take you out of it whenever he wants. If you disrespect your dad or even his girlfriend’s rules or wishes in his own house then there has to be something seriously wrong with you. One thing in this generation that I have realized is that people my age think they can whatever they want whenever they want, but if they do that they’re going to go nowhere. That’s part of life though. If you fall flat on your face after doing whatever you want are you going to realize to grow up and talk to your family or are you going to still act like “Billy Bad” and try to do it all on your old when your 17?  

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This blog is a choice blog. In a choice blog I can talk about whatever I would like to talk about. For this blog I am going to talk about the Buffalo Bills off season moves and the 2012 NFL draft. The Buffalo Bills had one of the best off seasons in Buffalo Bills history. The Bills made a huge splash in free agency by spending 124 million dollars on defensive ends Mario Williams and Mark Anderson. Mario Williams was the number one pick in the 2006 NFL draft. He will make an immediate impact for the Bills. Mario is the best defender to come to Buffalo since Bruce Smith. The Bills will have a monster front 7 with Mario Williams and Mark Anderson at the defensive ends, Kyle Williams and Marcell Dareus at the defensive tackles, and Nick Barnett, Kelvin Sheppard, and Kirk Morrison at the linebackers. The NFL draft went well also for the Bills. The Bills drafted a cornerback with their first round pick by the name of Stephen Gilmore. He is physical corner who gets after it on the defensive side and he can press up against big receivers. Our second round pick was offensive tackle Cordy Glenn. He is 6’5 335 pounds of pure monster. He has great footwork for pass protection and is a big fan of running the ball. He will probably start at left tackle for the Bills for years to come. The next draft pick was wide receiver T.J. Graham form NC State. He is a deep threat for the Bills, running a 4.35 at his pro day. He kind of reminds the Bills former receiver Lee Evans. He will be competing for the starting job for the Bills opposite of Stevie Johnson. I think this Bills offseason will lead them to the playoffs this year.

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After taking a look at my goals for the school year as a senior at Alden High School, I think I did a pretty good job at maintaining my goals. One goal that I wanted to maintain this school year is to be an honor roll student all year long. I have been a 3 time scholar athlete the past 3 semesters. My average this whole year is around a 90. Another goal that I am on the verge of maintaining is that going to play college basketball team. I just found out today that my highlight video that I created was just sent out to over 200 division III colleges in NY, Maryland, and North Carolina. Hopefully I could get an academic scholarship. That would be a blessing. I love the game of basketball too much. It honestly is the only sport that keeps me driven and keeps me in shape year round. It also shows that you can take a lot of responsibility on and off the court. My dream is to coach college basketball about 10 years down the road. Another goal was to win a sectional for basketball, but we lost are second playoff game to Tonawanda. It was a close game, but we fell short at the end. Another goal during the school year was to beat Hornell in football and win a state championship. Unfortunately we lost 20 to 14. It was a heartbreaker in overtime, but we showed heart and gave it are all throughout the whole season, we just came up short. Overall I am pretty pleased about my goals for my senior year this year. I really hope further down the road I could accomplish my dream goals after high school and actually live the dream and not dream about it. 

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This next blog is about television and how it affects us. I usually don’t watch too much TV because I am either at work or I am doing something with my friends. In my home there are 5 TVs. There is one in my room, one in my sisters, one in my kitchen, one in my living room, and one in my parents’ bedroom. Whenever I watch TV I usually watch ESPN, a movie, or Swamp People with my family and friends. There are many positives and negatives when you watch television. Television can be a source of false advertisement or could cause drama with people. I really don’t like television, because I don’t believe half the things they put on the television. The only thing I really do believe about television is the news. Television can cause you to be lazy or physically unfit if you watch too much of it, because if people find interest in a TV show and someone asks you to go play basketball, the person that is watching TV is probably going to watch the show then play basketball. Another negative about television is that it is one of the main causes of obesity. Obesity is and up and coming disease in the world. This can be caused by being lazy and eating a lot of food and watching TV. A positive about television is that if you watch news then you are up to date about the latest news. If it is about to snow in April, you are not going to find that out without checking the news. Overall I think television can be both good and bad for the society, because TV will always be in everyone’s life and you cannot change the way people put stuff out there on TV.