Are small college athletics worth it?

Interest in small college athletics has waxed and waned, depending on the school, sport, and number of wins.Students are working year-round not for spending money or because Dad wants them to learn a work ethic with a summer job. They’re working to lessen the load of debt that will be tied to their feet when they leave the commencement stage. And does having “three-year letter winner at Division III university” on a resume have any impact when that former student is looking for a job five years later? Is all of it worth not only the time commitment but the injuries that might bother your for the rest of your life? 

White Man's Burden

Alright to be honest I like this movie about as much as a T-Rex likes push-ups. I think it's redundant, and portrays both races in a bad light. Some people suck, some people don't; regardless of color. I am not looking forward to spending time in a class I have to pay for to act like I'm paying attention to something I'm not.

Living in dorms.

When college began I thought dorm life would be the absolute worst thing. I was wrong, but not entirely. No AC was a pain and 3 flights of stairs isn't the best, but I would rather have the current setup than pay way more for a better one. I am looking forward to getting out of Clinton, but I don't have many qualms with dorm life!

Syria

Syria has never been a pinnacle of excellence but these recent problems began March 2011 when brutal civil war broke out. The UN estimates 100,000 have died from the conflict. The real beginning of the civil war started in the city of Deraa when the government imprisoned and tortured  15 schoolchildren for writing anti-government graffiti.The protests were peaceful to begin with, calling for the kids' release, democracy and greater freedom for people in the country.

The government responded angrily, and on 18 March 2011, the army opened fire on protesters, killing four people.The following day, they shot at mourners at the victims' funerals, killing another person.People were shocked and angry at what had happened and soon the unrest had spread to other parts of the country.At first the protesters just wanted democracy and greater freedom.But once government forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrations, people demanded that the President, Bashar al-Assad, resign. He refused and the civil war has been raging since.

Living on Minimum Wage

Minimum wage is much more complex than it seems. If you increase minimum wage, people get laid-off, companies charge more, and inflation can occur. If you lower minimum wage people can not make a living off of minimum wage. It's very touchy, but the current minimum wage of $7.25 still isn't enough to live with. After watching 30-days with Morgan Spurlock where he tries to live with minimum wage for 1 month. His wife and him barely scrape by. It's extremely tough but when his wife has to go to the hospital and pay hospital bills it puts them over the edge. You can scrape by with minimum wage but if there is any sort of emergency it's nearly impossible to have the money to take care of it.

Environmental Justice On Coral Reefs.

Hidden beneath the ocean's waters, coral reefs teem with life. Fish, corals, lobsters, clams, seahorses, sponges, sharks, and sea turtles are only a few of the hundreds of thousands of creatures that rely on reefs for their survival. Not only that they also control the amount of CO2 in the water. They also feed close to 30 million people a year. Yet, these great organisms are dying. 

The problems facing coral reefs are huge, and increasing. They are being pressured by changes in ocean temperature, pollution, overfishing, sedimentation, acidification, oxidative stress and disease, and the combination of some of these problems may destroy reefs even when one cause by itself would not. Some estimates have suggested 20 percent of the world's coral reefs are already dead and an additional 24 percent are gravely threatened. 

Reefs are immensely complex structures which makes it even harder to find a solution to the decline. It would take a vast effort of cutting down on CO2 emissions, overfising, and polluting the worlds oceans. Just because an individual can't see the pollution in the ocean doesn't mean it isn't there.