Final Blogtastic Reflection (#4)

For my final blog reflection for 4th quarter, I chose "Blagojevich on 'Celebrity Apprentice'" as my favorite blog post. The reason I like this one so much is because I feel very strongly about the subject. This usually characterizes my favorite posts. When you're really passionate about what you're writing about, it just makes it a lot more fun to write. And when I saw that Blagojevich was on a reality t.v. show and not in jail, I was just outraged. I was also able to incorporate a bunch of sources in this post, which I think adds depth and more credibility to a post. And from those sources, I used direct quotes and dissected them to prove my point even more. It just had more substance than some of my other posts.
This year I have really developed as a blogger. Not that I blogged before this class, but my style has changed since the beginning of the year. I started my blogging career by mostly writing about certain issues that I encountered in my everyday life, but didn't necessarily connect to class. But as the year continued, my posts started to become extensions of class discussions, which is what I think Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor intended them to be. And when I could not extend the discussion to my blogging, I wrote about prominent issues in the news. Not always, but I tried to.
I have really enjoyed blogging this year because I do like to write, but essays can often times be laborious and they take a long time to do. On the other hand, a blog post doesn't have to be long. You can write a little about a lot, and that's what I've really liked about blogging this year.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

2nd Edition: And The Winner Is... America!

     And how about some more opinions on the Olympics? The other day I was watching speed skating because I absolutely love Apolo Ohno for some reason. And then... he didn't win. I was sad yes, but I was very surprised. I was just so used to him winning that I didn't even think him losing would even be a question. Actually I was just so used to America winning in general that I didn't think it could be any other way. That sounds really conceited, but it's true. I just assumed that America would always win, which again sounds terrible, my apologies. And it was also a little surprising when I saw the medal count on t.v. We're not in first for gold medals- Canada is- but we do have the most medals overall, with Germany right behind us. I guess that's not so surprising, but I wondered why this was. Why does America always seem to take gold? Or how is it that we don't have the most gold medals, but somehow we still have the most medals overall? I answered this question with a similar answer that I wrote about in an earlier blog post about why New Trier always wins everything (And the Winner Is... New Trier! Duh). I think America wins a lot of the events simply because it is such a big country and there are more people to choose from. Compared to other countries, America is huge! If you compare the United States to Monaco for example, which is the second smallest country in the world after Vatican City, which is technically the smallest country in the world, I think you can see a big difference. Especially when it comes to the Olympics, America has a huge advantage. Where America has 308,771,065 people to choose from (source) Monaco has only about 32,000 people to choose from. So America has about 9,600 times more people to choose from than Monaco. That's just an example, but still. But it definitely raises the global competition a little. So that's my theory. America just has a lot more people to choose from than other countries, and that's we win a lot. Any thoughts?
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