BP blackness

It’s now May 13 of 2020 and a huge oil spill is spreading along the Northern Pacific Ocean towards the shore of Baja California. The Ocean where I was born and raised was now becoming filled with darkness with an instant death of this black oily gew. My family and friends all pulled apart and swam in fear to escape the over cast of the oil as it races to take our lives. even I the fastest fish in the sea, the Black marlin as my silver, black and blue shades get covered by this oil as it intoxicates my last breath. As I'm floating to the top of the gew slowly, I think to myself “what monster could have caused this” but I remember a creature from the past with arms and legs who pulled me up onto their vessel. “Yes they did it!” I thought to myself, they are the only Creatures who have made me feel pain. when they pulled me onto their vessel they shoved a black tube down my gills injecting the waters i just came out of and then they cut open my lower belly and inserting a shiny silver cylinder about half an inch wide and 3 inches long with a small antenna. I wondered what I ever did wrong to them but had nothing to say. “It had to be them” and thats my last words I gave that day.

Balance

Nature runs as a chain not a game. I love fishing but seeing fishing from an environmentalist perspective is not a sport. It is trying to catch the greatest animals that nature has to offer to either brag or use as a trophy. Natures resources should only be used for a need not to have fun with. Once we need the resource and start to change only than we will realize what we have done wrong. In order to keep a sustainable world we should only use resources when needed. My background has brought me to this view because in order to fish, hike and bike we need to keep our environment health and full of its resources it needs to keep producing. If we over fish, create too much pollution, or cut down to many trees the environment won't be able to keep up with our needs. environmentalist speak for the environment and keep fighting because the talk on behalf of nature like the “Lorax”. It is fine to use natural resources that is how our world was made, But we must find a middle ground that will both keep the environment and human needs balanced. In order to find a balance we must find major factories and power plants that cause lots of pollution or use up mass amounts of natural resources and find a solution that could benefit both sides. I love! Fishing! And in order to keep fishing we need to take care of nature.

Conquer

I think that globalization is a way of seeing imperialism but usually fighting over land to gain more territory. For their natural resources, spread of religion and new trade routes. But usually there's a dominate winner that receives all those things, but how I see it today is it’s just a trade off of all cultures. for example the U.S exports its culture in many ways like clothing,food and music but so do other cultures for example we Americanize Asian and Mexican foods we buy their goods like cars and electronics for example Nokia phones, Toyota, Nissan and Subaru. So I see it more as a trade off of cultures. Also were not really fighting for land or resource. we usually buy land we need or buy the resources. I think the main thing trying to be enforced is religion people still to this day fight and kill people because they want their religion to be dominant. For example in world war 2 the Nazis killed and attempted a genocide against Jews, and today in Afghanistan the Taliban trying to rule over the Islamic religion. So I don’t think we're imperialising anymore besides religion, but more of a trade off between cultures. And If its not a trade then its conquering another without it seeming like it. The same way the U.S slaughtered and an slaved native Americans and just through it behind us like it never happened. Its conquering without conquering.

Brain dead

High School football players alone suffer around 67,000 concussion per year, these studies came from Time Magazines. Today I am going to talk about why we should reduce head to head contact, not only in the NFL, but in college, high school, and even little leagues like pop warner. And the effects from head to head contact.The problem is there are too many brain injuries in the sport of football, starting from as young as eight all the way to adulthood. Brain damage not only occurs during games but practices as well, during hitting drills, you won't just suffer from the painful hit but it will build up and can lead to brain disease or even death.

For example there was a former NFL player from the San Diego Chargers named Junior Seau who committed suicide and shot himself in the heart to preserve his brain to be studied by doctors. Doctors suspect that his brain damage lead him to commit suicide. Also a Kansas City Chiefs player named Jovan Belcher committed suicide from suffering brain damage.

Research shows from fox news  explains how young athletes can suffer from this contact sport. Taking on too many concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries can cause brain diseases later in life. For example Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and even Alzheimer's diseases. There should be strict fines and penalties for any athlete who try to put another athlete in any danger. Also highly protective gear should be available to all athletes and should constantly be checked in order to keep our athletes, friends and family safe.

As one

As an athlete myself iv been involved with sports for about 14 years. From golf and soccer to football and lacrosse. Sports hasn't just been a fun hobby but also an escape from stress, a fun way to exercise and many lessons learned. Sports over time has taught me to use communication, leadership and to take risk. For me, public speaking or basic communication was one of my biggest issues growing up as a kid. I would never want to present projects, meet new people or talk in front of large crowds. I realized in sports I always wanted to be the captain and call the plays. Then I realized i'm yelling and ordering people to do things in front of hundreds of people and If I mess up its all on me, but I wanted to be a leader and I wanted to be the best at It. I thought to myself leaders don't focus on being the best in one topic but branch out into everything which helped encourage me in my public speaking. In my four years of high school I was a lacrosse captain and attack men for the team. I noticed that leadership wasn't just motivation talks and being the best player but being a risk taker and having persistence. My first and favorite coach I had in football never congratulated us during a game or let us cheer for making a touchdown or getting a interception. He told us "act like you know its going to happen and its nothing new, act like its boring. Until the time runs out that will determine weather you can cheer or not." Sports teams always have though few players that can take a  team to play offs every season. But its scary when you run into a team  where every player is on the top seed. And that lead me to focus on pushing all of my teammates to the same level. I saw it as a group project. There's always that kid who doesn't do there work and makes others finish for them. I wanted to build a team AS ONE.

The Return

Lacrosse in the past few years has been one of the most popular in college and indoor major league men's. As it makes its way from the east coast spreading to the northern and southern regions it also spread to the west coast. branching out one of the most exciting contact sports including throwing, catching, hitting, blocking and sprinting. Lacrosse over many many years has went through major ups and downs being played in the 1800 by native american, it was later taken and changed into a European sport by incoming settlers on the east coast. From being played by all native tribes to just a couple groups of settlers the sport died off and has been only majorly played on the east coast. As the sport evolved not only in structure but in gear and contact it gained popularity and has spread across the U.S. It has also became so popular it has spread to almost all contents and every four years have a major event with dozens of different countries. with over 36,000 men playing college level lacrosse spread to all ages! men and women! lacrosse by Sports Illustrated has been stated to be the" fastest sport on two feet". It's not only a great sport to play by one of the greatest team builders as well setting up plays making bold moves and sharing information on the field. lacrosse is the peoples all around sport. Its not only physically and mentally building and working your body, teaching and and creating an all around athlete and even better person.

Reaching Out

Lacrosse has been a fast growing sport which is mainly played on the east coast of the United States. Lacrosse has been played since the 1630's by northern native Americans and was picked up and edited by Spaniards. During the early 2000's lacrosse started picking up in popularity by creating 8 national men's lacrosse teams in the U.S with the majority of the teams on the east coast. Now in 2016 there are both indoor and outdoor national men's lacrosse teams, with over 30 teams across the U.S. and as the sport grows the knowledge and origins grow with the sport as well. Like the Heisman trophy in college football there is a Tewaaraton Award which Is given to the best player each year. In order to get the award It consists of blocks,goals and assists. Tewaaraton was lacrosse's original name when created and to honor native american culture they hand out a trophy with a native american playing lacrosse. The Native American on the trophy represents the Mohawk native tribe which we one of the creating tribes of Tewaaraton. Lacrosse not only spread through major league teams but through colleges, Jr colleges, High schools and in some areas even middle school all across the United States. As a Football player You always want the hardest hit! The most touchdowns! and the most receiving/running yards. Lacrosse didn't get to me through the glory of playing but the history behind it and that they played for health and safety for there tribes and most of all to have fun and collide with other tribes each year. And when your on the field playing with that mentality it goes from "I want the most goals" to have a team of brothers who want to play there hearts out for one another making it less difficult and fun. Theres nothing better to do in sports than staying positive and working as a team.