Sunday, January 31, 2010

Classes. You know that word. Some kids hate it. Some love it (If your one of those people call-me). Now I don’t mind some classes, but honestly I hate some. If I could change my schedule to anything I want it to be, it would be this:

First, I would make school start later, at 10 or 10:30 pm. But since I can’t just cut off 2 hours of classes I would take that two hours and put it at the end of the day. Now I know a lot of people who wake up Monday morning and are like, “School/Work! NOOOOO!” So I would make Monday something to look forward to. Next, I would make my school day to have five periods, each one sixty minutes long, with 65 minutes for lunch and recess, and finally between each period a five minute break, so I can get ready for my next class or just to talk and hang out for five minutes. Here is what my schedule would look like:

Time

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

10:00

A

B

C

D

E

11:00

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

11:05

B

C

D

E

F

12:05

Lunch/Recess

Lunch/Recess

Lunch/Recess

Lunch/Recess

Lunch/Recess

1:10

C

D

E

F

A

2:10

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

2:15

D

E

F

A

B

3:15

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

3:20

E

F

A

B

C

4:20

End of Day

End of Day

End of Day

End of Day

End of Day

That’s probably a lot to look at so here is something simpler, you pick your classes and put them in their own blocks. First, for me, I would delete some classes from my schedule right away, like LA, RK, History and Health. So my Blocks would be: A=Phys.-Ed., B= Math, C=Science, D=French, E= Geography and F=Spare. Now your classes may be totally different than mine. Also, you aren’t restricted to the number of classes you have, there is no mandatory amount of classes you would have. And you can double up on classes if you wanted.

In conclusion, if I wanted to anything to change my classes or my schedule, I would take out LA, RK, History and Health. Also, I would make the day start later, and have the ability to put the classes that I wanted wherever I wanted and have them whenever. If you want to comment on this blog maybe you want to tell me what classes you would have in what blocks.

Wyatt

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The CRTC

“Blue 22, Down, Set, Hut”

“Brady gets the ball from Koppen, back in to pass, pump fakes, throws, caught by Moss at the 40, dodges a tackle, makes it to the 50, the 45, the 40, he’s still running at the 30, the 25, the 20, the 10, TOUCHDOWN! THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL!!!...

“We interrupt this program to give you an important message…” And your NFL Super Bowl presentation is cut off to show you a commercial, about a car or make-up! I mean com’on! If you haven’t noticed already I’m going to talk to you about why the CRTC should not interrupt programs because we need to broadcast Canadian things.

The CRTC stands for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and, unfortunately, is required in the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts. The CRTC, I think, should not be enforced by the law. I think if you want to broadcast Canadian things, we should have more Canadian shows like Flashpoint (based in Toronto), Hockey Night in Canada, and my local station carries Kitchener Ranger games. Now, those are Canadian shows. Maybe you should approach Jerry Bruckheimer (executive producer of all three CSI’s) or Shane Brennan (executive producer of both NCIS’s) to make a CSI: Toronto or a NCIS: Vancouver.

But maybe the CRTC is a good thing. The CRTC gives the local community, of the TV station, a chance to voice what they do and how they help the community. But maybe they should let us off the hook for the Super Bowl. If you have never seen, even one Super Bowl commercial then you should go to YouTube and type in Super Bowl commercial, and sit back and have fun. Maybe then you will agree with me that the CRTC should be illegal, not required by the law.

So in conclusion, I think that if the Canadian Government wants to get Canadian things out to the Canadian public, make Canadian shows. If you aren’t going to make shows like that, then either stop the CRTC or make some shows that have always had funny/meaningful commercials, let them air the funny commercials.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Who Would I Be.......?


This week I’m writing on if I could spend a day in the life of somebody I would probably be somebody who is athletic and contributes to the community, a.k.a. Roger Neilson. He was a great coach, rule-bender and started the idea of watching video tapes of games.

Roger Neilson was born June 16, 1934 in Toronto. He started coaching kids when he was just seventeen years old. His last game that he coached was in April 2002. That means that he coached for fifty-one years. Now although Roger Neilson didn’t win a Stanley Cup, he made it to the finals once and he made it to the Conference Finals three times. Now when Roger first started watching video I think that some people would have thought that he was crazy to do this. But nowadays, every team in the NHL uses video replay and almost every team in major junior hockey uses it. This is why I think Roger Neilson is one of the best coaches ever.

Now Roger Neilson didn’t just live in professional and major junior rinks he spent a lot of time in amateur rinks and even started his own hockey league. This guy didn’t only change the lives of all of the NHLers and kids that he coached. He taught kids and adults how to play hockey at his hockey camps. He used strategy to win hockey games. He shared his knowledge and love of the game by teaching coaching clinics. This is how he gives back to his community and the game of hockey.

So in conclusion, I think that I would want to be like Roger Neilson when I’m older, because he coached hockey, created/started the use of video review and gave back to the hockey community. While Roger Neilson never played professional hockey, he is remembered for his passion and devotion to the game and for his leadership and contributions to sport in general. Being a successful athlete is great but leading successful athletes is what I would like to do. Even though Roger died June of 2003, his sprit lives on in all of his hockey camps and every play that is reviewed.

Monday, January 11, 2010

So, What Does it all Mean?

China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world. Now why do I think they will become number one? Because China is teaching English in school, as a second language? No the reason for this is because of the sheer numbers in China. They estimate that there are 1 338 612 968 people in China today! In the next couple of paragraphs I'm going to talk to you about what this means.

The profound number of people in China could mean good things and bad things. The bad things could include increased rate of crime, more/bigger gangs and deadly fights. This may mean war for the countries surrounding and including China. This could turn out to become a repeat of the Rwandan Genocide. The good things could include more companies, more jobs and more produces. This would help the world get out of the global depression that we are in.

Even though Mandarin and Spanish are the most spoken languages in the World, English is still the most globally spread language. The Chinese are preparing their children to be able to speak the 'World' language (English) and one of the most common languages (Mandarin). China is also doing this because when you read English, you go left to right, when you read Mandarin, you go right to left, so it may be hard to learn something, backwards. This is why I think that China wants to learn English, now with their kids rather than later while being adults.

There was another quote I read that said, 'If you are one in a million in China, they are 1 300 people just like you.' So if one person knows English per million, in China, that means that there are 1 300 people that know English, and there are more than one person per million who already speak English. So in conclusion, I think that this means that China is just this huge that, in a few years there could be millions of rankings that are first in China, population wise.