Blogpost Interest

I am very interested in sports

History Of Olympics

Found this cool website for my project: http://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games

The History Behind Body Enhancing Drugs

Body enhancing drugs are a very controversial issue that started a very long time ago, even tracking all the way back Greece during the 1904 Olympic Games. By the 1920's it had appeared that there needed to be rules against doping. In 1928 the IAAF became the first International Sport Federation to ban doping. Most IFs introduced drug testing by the 1970s, and by 1974 all uses of anabolic steroids were being caught. This was only the start too doping though because some people found a way to get past the tests.

Soon there came some problems too stoping the doping problem. While the fight against stimulants and steroids was producing results, the main front in the anti-doping war was rapidly shifting to blood doping. "Blood boosting." This completely slowed down the process of stoping doping. In 1998 a large number of prohibited medical substances were found by police in a raid during the Tour de France. The scandal led to a major reappraisal of the role of public authorities in anti-doping affairs. As early as 1963, France had been the first country to enact anti-doping legislation. This is how the past decade has changed doping and people are still coming with new ways to cheat drug tests.

Maze Runner By James Dashner Novel Response

Recently I have read the book called "The Maze Runner". I haven't read much of this book, but the teenager named Tomas is very believable. He has so many emotions a lot like of other teenagers. He also has this feeling of determination of becoming a "runner", he never stops thinking about how hard he will have to work to become a "runner". Him and all of the other kids in the "box" are a lot like him showing that they are all believable teenagers. At one point in this book a girl arrives and Tomas instantly feels a love connection to her. So I've figured that Tomas is a very believable teenager

"Miss Representation" Responce

I thought this movie was well made and completely true. The only problem I had with this film was that it was very repetitive. I found that It said the same message over and over, but it made a great point about women being treated differently in the media. I have noticed that it is not only in the media that women are treated differently, during sports men have higher standards than women, meaning that people expect more from men than women during sports, politics and media. In men's volleyball the net hight is 7"11 but in women's volleyball the net is at a hight of 7"4.http://fueledbydietcoke.com/2011/03/25/fake-perfection/

Sarcasm In "Miss Representation"

During this past week we have watched a movie called miss representation. This film was about women and how they have been used as these kind of marketing objects in the advertising world. We were looking for devices like tone and irony. Me and my partner got sarcasm as our device. I only only found one representation of sarcasm. Sarcasm is when something is said but not meant to be taken literally. The one sentence in this hole movie was when the narrator said "and they replaced her with Drew Carry, because he's so fit". They used sarcasm to prove a point in this movie that women still aren't treated with respect like men are.

Express Yourself

Here is my express myself video i'm sorry it was really hard to add music and it was taking to much of my time to add music so here is my video without music