Only the Strong Survive

In class this week, the topic came up in our discussion that only the strong survive. This does not only apply to humans but it applies to all species of organisms. I agree with this saying that only the strong survive. Organisms that are strong can survive longer than organisms that are not as strong as them. An example of this is the food chain, a bear is is at the top because it is one of the biggest and strongest organisms. For humans, I do not think it is only about physical strength to survive but more of being strong financially. Being rich will help you survive a lot more than just having physical strength in the world that we live in today. So I agree with the saying that only the strong survive but the strength attribute differs with the species.

In Response to Austin

Austin raised a question in one of his blogs about if humans will ever go back to the simpler ways of life or if they will continue the never ending cycle of technology and other incredible ideas. I think that humans will continue to use technology as it continues to improve. The reason for this is because this technology keeps improving and makes our lives better and better. It makes doing things easier and gives us more entertainment. The improvements of technology are something that humans love and I can guarantee they will continue to live their lives using the most newest technology. Humans will not ever go back to living the simpler ways of life because it is too much work and we know the way of life we live right now with all this technology and love it way to much to go back to the simpler ways of life without the technology.

In Response to Sarah

I agree with Sarah that people can try all they want to tell us what makes us happy but they are wrong. We decide what makes us happy and that is what really makes us happy. Some people fall into the pressure that they should be happy by the things that people tell them should make them happy but those people are fake. Sarah raises the question about paying more for quality clothing. I feel like a lot of people feel the need to go get the most expensive clothing because they feel it will make them happy and other people will look at them better than if they had a cheap brand of clothing on. I think this is a bunch of bullshit. Clothing is clothing. The point of clothing is to cover our bodies to keep us warm and stop us from exposing things in public that should not be exposed. When it comes down to it, no matter how expensive the clothing is, the clothes do the same job. That's just how I feel about this topic. I would like to hear what others think about this?

Different Occupations

We had a talk in class about people making more money than they should in certain jobs. An example that came up was major league baseball players. Some people were saying that they should not get the millions of dollars that they do just to play baseball. People were arguing that major league baseball players do not do anything for the people. They said that people with jobs that do things for people like fire fighters, policemen, and teachers should get all the money that major league baseball players do because people with these jobs do more for people than major league baseball players. I see the side that these people were coming from but it was a terrible argument. The reason for this is because they do not understand that even though these ball players are getting paid millions of dollars, they are generating billions of dollars from ticket sales to merchandise sales. It is also a bad argument to say that major league baseball players do not do anything for people. They are part of the biggest entertainment group which is professional sports. People are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for tickets to go and watch these ball players do what they do.
Teachers, policemen, and firemen do completely different things. I agree with these people in class that the people with these occupations do more for people in a sense that they safe lives and educate young Americans growing up. However, they can not possibly be paid the amount of dollars that major league baseball players are because they do not generate the money like the ball players do. The ball players generate the money that they are paid, it is a lot different for the people with these occupations.
In conclusion, I feel like the argument was bad because both sides should agree that each occupation does a certain things for people whether it is entertain or save lives. It is clearly more important for lives to be saved than to have entertainment but the different way they are paid can not be controlled because it is the way it is.

Dreams becoming reality

In response to Jennifer’s post about dreams coming true. She asked if we think that dreams can become reality or if it is coincidental. I feel that some dreams really do become reality due to the fact that we have dreams based off of thoughts that we have. The thoughts that we have are about things that are going on in reality and things that could go on in the future. I feel that this is the best way to describe dreams becoming reality. I had a dream the Red Sox will win the world series this year and it starts right now! Happy Easter everybody!!!

Importance or Type of work?

This past week one of the discussion topics that we came across was about the highest paying jobs require the least amount of work or “dirty work” as some may say. I agree with this. A trash truck man does some of the dirtiest work there is to do in our world by going around and picking up all the trash at the same time that a major business CEO is twiddling his thumbs on his blackberry in meetings through text messages. The CEO is probably getting paid three times the hourly wage that the trash truck man is getting paid. This does not seem to be fair but that is how our world works. The CEO has completed a higher amount of education than the trash truck man so he has the higher paying job. Some may argue the level of importance of both jobs and that argument is a tough one to have. The business CEO is important to that business whatever it may be and the trash truck man is important to the world because if it was not for them we would have trash all over or we would have to take it to a landfill ourselves which probably would not happen because Americans are lazy. Should the pay rate of jobs be determined by the level of importance or what kind of work they consist of? What would you rather do for a job be a trash truck man or a major business CEO? I’d personally prefer to be a trash truck man because, “every girls’ crazy about a trash truck man.”