It seems like every sunday that either Chad Johnson, Terrell Owens, or some other fool in the NFL is doing an excessive celebration after scoring a touchdown. Don't get me wrong, I find them very amusing but to put it in perspective do people in other fields of work celebrate like that? Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor dont spike their stack of handouts when they have a good lesson plan. CEO's of companies don't whip out a sharpie and sign their computers everytime their company does well. These guys are supposed to be professionals and should act like it too. Their dances every week are childish and when a defensive back accidently touches them they cry about it for the next quarter. Workers in other jobs actually take their work seriously and dont make a commotion when something goes their way. But what can the NFL do? Should they increase fines even more? Suspend players? Only time will tell how far these dances will get out of control.

Week after week it seems that my gas bill is way too much. For my parents growing up gas prices were around $0.79 comapared to our current day $3.79. When they discuss the prices on the news they never talk about it going down. Why cant we find a substitute for this liquid? I know the invention of hybrids helped the cause for some but not nearly enough. And the worst part of it is that our money for gas is going to foreign countries. If it was going back to our economy that would be one thing but when we are spending upwards of $50 a tank just to make our car move and giving that money to terrorits it upsets me. Honestly, if we can clone humans and walk in space we should be able to find a new resource that can make our cars go.

When our AIS class went to Chicago this week, I noticed a restaurant that kept popping up wherever we went. It was the infamous McDonald's chain. It seemed like there was one at every corner and all had a good amount of customers inside. McDonald's is such a powerful amd influential restaurant no wonder Chicago is one of the most overweight cities around. I know the government can't really do much to stop the spread of these eating establishments but if they continue to increase, our world will just keep gaining weight. The amount of fast-food restaurants there are is out of control but it seems there is no way to slow them down.

Recently in class my group has been working on a project regarding the Cold War. In previous years in history classes the Cold War was not often brought up. It was always the Civil War, World War I, and World War II that came up in class. Learning about the Cold War finally as a junior has been rewarding in learning about how our country responded to foreign influences. It showed me how "gulible" the U.S. was in thinking that many of their government officials were Communists. Overall, finally learning about a war not often brought up helped me understand how the U.S. has transformed throughout the years.