A Long Way Gone

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Current Events

As every minute passes a new moment is documented, and posted online.  Yet today I saw an event thatcaught my eye.  Well I was on CNN.com I saw an article called "Baseball final forfeited because of girl at second Base."  This intruiged me, as the society we live in today is very accepting.
The story highlighted how Paige Shultzbach, is good enough to play with the boys, since he school no longer has softball.

It also talks about how the team was undefeated and about to play their championship game, against another Catholic schoool whom they had played twice before during that season.
Paige had sat out those games in respect to that school, especially since it was on their home turf.  Yet when it came to the Championship game on a nuetral field, Paige wanted to play, which is understandable.
The opposing school saw Paige, and decided immediately they would not play against a girl, it was against their ideals of seperating boys ang girls, especaillyin sports, therefore Paige's team won.

I have two questions from this story.
1.) In this day and age, isn't this considered sexist?
2.) If the teams had played together before wouldn't they have noticed Paige in uniform on the bench and been curious, wouldn't someone on the team have noticed her, and how did the students feel about it?

And here's a discussion question for fun:
How would you feel if you were in Paige's shoes, what would you have done?

Google

In the game of Monopoly when I recieve a "Get out of jail freen card" I tend to save them.  I like to think there will always be a moment that is more necessary than the current one.  Then in some games I never even end up using the card, or I end up selling it for some extra cash, in hopes of winning the game.  The latest question I was asked brought up the same type of reaction, " If I could "Google" any question in in the world and get the answer, what question would you ask and why?"

My years of knowledge are limited, and I'm unsure of my futures goals.  The vast questions that Google can already answer are overwhelming.  Which makes me wonder what a truely brilliant question to ask would be.  This seems like one of the times where you would want to ponder the questions for days, maybe even wait until an unexplained moment occures or even sell it, and make millions.  Yet, if I were to pick, I might want to pick an unexplained occurance that has happened in  the world. A moment that google couldn't already explain. Or maybe I'd pick somethingand figure out how to cure cancer, or aids or maybe even how to get world peace.  The possibilities are endless.  I could also be greedy and ask a question that only pertaines to me, for instance, what does my future look like?  What is the best way for me to get famous? What is the answers to the ACT?  The possibilities are unlimited, yet only one question can be asked. So which to pick.. The answer is, unknown. At this point in my life, I don't know which route to go, what question to ask.  Any of these questions would change the person I am, define me in a different way.  That's not what I want, I want to survive off of who I am today, and what I have accomplished by myself.  This is a Monopoly moment, where I will wait for the necessary moment.  Maybe later on I would sell or maybe I'll never use it, who knows.  Whatever my decision is, to me it will be right.