Wall Street

All of the horror movies have finally come true- the machines have taken over. Okay maybe not so dramatic. With the White House stating that no cyber attack was committed on the Wall Street computer systems on Thursday and people wonder what went wrong. As workers stood on the stock room floors and we unaware of what exactly was happening around them. How long will it take the government to figure out what went wrong? I hope not long because Americans have amazing imagination.

Vikings Stadium

Recently in my marketing class a group presented a project promoting the construction of the Vikings stadium. The current estimate of how much it would cost to build the new stadium would be around $953,916,000 according to football.ballparks.com. The Vikings are currently trying to get the government to support the construction and in turn pay for a majority of the stadium through tax increases. Arguments for both sides of the Vikings stadium have been heard. People have stated that the Viking stadium would offer employment to residence, draw people from across the country and keep the Vikings in Minnesota. People against the stadium have been against the thought of Minnesota residence paying for the stadium through taxes even if they do not watch football or attend football games. Personally I find that the argument should not be why we should have the stadium but what we could do with that money instead. Being strongly pro-education I think about how many teachers have been laid off and the disintegration of our educational systems and I wonder why we are even debating a stadium.

Abroad

Ask people what they want to do when they will retire and chances are that around half or more people will say travel the world. Well why wait until we retire to travel the world. With the increase of globalization cultures and ethnicity's are being pushed to mingle with each other. The ability for us to accept other culture and ethnicity's cannot only make us more understanding of each other and increase business opportunities. It has been shown that our minds develop most rapidly when we are young it also has been said that people are more open minded at a young age. So isn't it important that we experience these cultures young?

Jumping Forward

Someone once told me something along the lines of "You can't cross a ravine in a couple steps you just have to jump". At the time those words made sense but only in a literal way. Looking now at my future and my friends future alls I can see are a bunch of "ravines". They are the moment you send in your deposit for college. The day you graduate high school. The day you leave your family and move in to college and many more. The challenges never stop coming and no matter how slow and steady you wish to take it the event come at an alarming pace. There are so many things that me and my peers are about go through, times when we will fall and times when we will rise. Years and years we have been taught how to be strong, brave and be incredible people from the examples set by the people that surround us. Years we have worked hard and done hard work in effort of becoming who we want to be. So sing with hope, excitment and joy because we are the class of 2010 and we are ready to jump!