People say that the Patriot Act is unconstitutional. But who is to say that with out the Patriot Act there would even be a constitution at all. Who's to say that with out this act more attacks like 9/11 wouldn't happen. WIth this act it is all most certien that something like 9/11 won't happen again. There have been a little over 30 terriost attacks stopped before they could be put into place because of this act. And if people don't attack and do shady stuff then they shouldn't have to wary about there privacy being messed with. IF you are a regular american who lives there life regular there is no reason to warry. Its the ones that are up to something that have to wary and we should want it like that. But the ones who stay out of trouble won't have to worry about trouble finding them if they do what they are supposed to
In the movie enemy of the state the goverment isn't really portrayed as good or bad it is more of the nsa being shown as this monster with to much power. They use there power to kill off or try and kill off any one who gets in there way of trying to get the "bill" aka patriot act passed. In this movie if the nsa thinks that an individuals is up to something they have no privacy at all. From cameras being put in there smoke alarms to there air vents to mics in clothing every movie and sound they make the goverment will know about it. It is scary to think about that you are not even alone in you own home. I think that the goverment should have some kind of accesses but no where near the accesses that they have in this movie. But I don't think that the people in the movie where aloud to have that kind of accesses the reason being during the meeting when there is a mic found in the hotel room the guy talking says something like when i find out who did this they wont have a job something was said along those line. I don't think that our freedom should ever have restrictions at all.
The video the made me feel the most had to be the one with the man. There were a couple powerful part in the movie but the one that really hit me hard was when you saw the light slowly being brought back into his room. It looked like something falling but it was a shadow. You know right away that it was tower one that was the shadow that was falling. But that was not the powerful the part I am talking about is when he doesn't even stop to think why there is now light seen in his room but instead he is so happy that his dead wifes flowers grow, but when he goes to show he, he finally realizes that for many years his wife has been dead and he starts to cry. To me I think it is to symbolize all the people in America that were crying on that day that the light came into the building. I still remember that day 9/11/01 like it was yesterday as weird as it seems so when i see videos or documentary I get a sick feeling and get emotional so all of this videos made me have feeling but the one with the old man made me have the most.
So I was having a hard time trying to pick and idea for this project. But then I just decied to pick something from sports to use because that is what I do most of my projects on. So i decied to use baseball and how science plays a part in different types of pitches in baseball. Because in baseball there is like 10 different pitch and each one moves a different way. But there is a science reason behind why they move a different way. So I am here to show you.
I love sports so when I got this project I knew I wanted to do it on sports but i didn't know what to do it on. So I started looking up different sports new from 20 years ago and steroids in the Olympics kept coming up so I was going to use steroids in sports and my first was going to be the Olympics. But that was to much so i had to look for one event and I found a story about a man named Ben Johnson who was stripped of his gold medal for using steroids. Then I used baseball as my last two because there was so much to use. The first thing I used was when drugs first where banned in baseball the second was when they put drug testing in baseball. I did a website the first thing I did was research and writing. Then i add my writing to the website. Then I made it look all good and neat.
Primary Source This
was a video it was an interview about Ben Johnson new book. But in the
interview there where questions about him testing positive. In the
beginning of the interview he was very sorry for everything that happen
and he just wanted to say that god will make everything right. He also
said he gives Andre Jackson forgiveness for what he did which is putting
a banned suspends in Ben Johnson drink. Then he us asked why after 20
years did he write the book and he said final all the information he
need came out and now he can final tell what really happened. But at
the end of the video he talks about how many athlets use drugs all the
time but he gets caught and that he is just a little fish in a big pool
when it comes to drugs in sports Care, Tony, dir. CBC interview.
CBC , 2010. Web. 6 Jan 2012.
<http://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateur/story/2010/11/02/sp-johnson-steroids.html>.
<http://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateur/story/2010/11/02/sp-johnson-steroids.html>.
The
artical I read was and interview with the old comminsner of baseball
Fay Vincent. It was about just everything that he thing baseball can do
different now and about how he could of done some things different and
how he would do somethings different. So at one ponint he was asked a
question on steroid testing, “(1) how do you feel management has handled
the situation, and (2) how has the MLBPA handled the situation?” His
answer was “Well, I think there’s an awful lot to be done. I think it’s a
good start. I think it’s significant the union reopened the contract.
They improved the sanctions. I think the public pressure was enormous
and Congress should stay out of it. I don’t think they can get involved
and do any sophisticated good and I think they know that. Congress has
threatened for 40 years to get involved in baseball antitrust issues and
never has and that’s a good thing.” The reason this is a big deal is
because the only reason he sent out the memo in 1991 was because 1 year
before that congress passed a law against steroids. Brown, Maury. Internet Videoconference Interview. 09/Nov/2005.
The
thing I just read was the cba or the collateve barging agreement that
the mlb agreed on in 2002. The reason I read this was because this is
one of the dates I am going back to. In it, it said that the way the
testing will change is every player will be tested twice at random and
if you failed the first time you had to take another one and if you
failed that you where suspned for how ever many games they seen fit. MLBPA CBA 2002
This
artical was a primery source because it was and artical writen the day
the news broke about Ben Johnson getting his title stripped. It was
talking about how Ben Johnson had to take a drug test right after his
race becasue he broke a recored. It took you back to the day that the
news broke and the days the lead up to the news breaking. "From the
Archive: 27 September 1988: Johnson Stripped of Olympic Gold | From the
Guardian | The Guardian." Latest News, Sport and Comment from the Guardian | The Guardian. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/sep/27/johnson-stripped-of-olympic-gold>.
Secondary Source
The
article I read was a day in the shoes of Ben Johnson. The day is the
day he won the gold medal. It was very interesting because it but you
in the conversation of when Ben Johnson found out that he had tested
positive for a banned suspends. And lost his gold medal. In it is said
that Ben said he had been given a water from some one he doesn't know
who but when he was drinking it there was yellow stuff on the bottom.
He said he did not do it and some one framed him. He appealed the
stripping but was turned down again. He thought it was a joke that they
where playing games with him. He still says he didn’t do anything wrong
to this day. Weinberg, Rick. "53: Johnson flunks drug test, loses gold medal." Espn. 2009: 1. Print. <http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/53>.
This
is an artical about June 7 1991. That is the date that the cominsiner
of baseball sent out a seven page memo about the new rules. The rules
said "The possession, sale or use of any illegal drug or controlled
substance by Major League players or personnel is strictly prohibited
... This prohibition applies to all illegal drugs ... including
steroids." The reson he put this out was because the congress passed a
law that said it is against the law to use steroids other if your sick. "Baseball's Steroid Era » Steroids In MLB Timeline." Baseball's Steroid Era » Info, Lists, Quotes, Timelines, Statistics. Web. 06 Jan. 2012. <http://www.baseballssteroidera.com/steroid-era-timeline-text.htm>. This
artical was all about the top 10 drug scadels in sports. The thing I
looked at was the US track and Field cover up. The thing that it said
was from 1988 to 2000 there was 19 US athletes that failed the drug
test. The thing that stood out was that American athletes talked about
being against steroids for years. It also talked about alot of other
drugs in sports but i didnt read them because I didnt need it "CBC Sports Online: Drugs and Sport: Top 10 Doping Scandals." CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TV. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/drugs/stories/top10.html>.
This
was not and article but a fact sheet about all the differnt types of
steriods. The thing I looked at was stanozolol because that is the drug
that Ben Johnson took or failed the drug test on. It told me that the
reason runners use it is because allows them to recover faster and
increases there strength "Types of Prohibited Drugs." CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TV. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/drugs/glossary/dictionary-popup.html>.
I
read this and I was all about it life because it is wikipedia and there
was some interesting things on there. Like how Bens coach came out and
said that all of his athletes have used steroids and that he still
doesn't under stand how Johnson tested positive for what he did because
Johnson didn’t like the way it made him feel after he took it. "Ben Johnson (sprinter)." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnson_(sprinter)>. Website link http://20451261.nhd.weebly.com/
I believe that every one makes mistakes. But every one learns from there mistakes in a different way. Like last year my attendants at school sucked because I would some times tell my parents that I didn't have school or I don't have to be in school till a later time and they believed me because they thought I would never do some thing like cut school. I knew what I was doing was wrong a mistake but I didn't stop doing it or learn from it. Until this year when One day my mom wrote Mister Reddy to ask him a question and Mister Reddy wrote my mom back how is Joe doing. My mom was unsure what he was talking about because for all she knew I was fine so she asked him what he was talking about. He said that joe has not been in school for the last two days I thought he was sick. My mom was so mad when she heard that. She was screaming at me. She took my phone my games I wasn't aloud out side for a month. And all of this because I didn't feel like going to school. But not only did I learn from this that cutting is a serious thing I learned that my parents wont be here for the rest of my life they won't be here to give me money when I need it and put a roof over my head and give food to eat and clothes to wear. So if I want to make something of my life I got to go to school and get into a good college and get a good job so that I won't need my parents to put a roof over my head and give me food and buy me clothes and give me a bed to sleep in. I can do it on my own. I believe that we not only learn from our mistakes but each mistake we make it helps us grow and become more of an adult