Hypotheical Elimination

So you are on a airplane when the turbulence light comes on. The pilots voice comes on over the intercom and asks you to return to your seats and fasten your seat belts. The plane starts to violently shake and plummet down toward the vast open ocean. Crash! You make impact with the great body of water, you reach for your life jacket and crawl past the unconscious corpses as you make your way off the plane. You jump out only to see an island far in the distance. You quickly realize that only one life raft was able to inflate and that it seats only six people. Quickly you hoist yourself up onto the raft and help the others onto the raft. The raft then quickly becomes full and starts to sink. You look around and see that there are ten people on the raft. You try to find a solution to the problem but the raft is sinking to fast. You tell the other people that there is only room for six people on the raft including yourself. This means you must help choose four of the nine other people or yourself to get left behind, so six people can make it to the island. You think to yourself that you are going to be on the island for a long time so you need to know what everyone does for a living to help you make your decision. You ask around the raft and found out that there is a black male doctor, a female college student, a fifteen year old male teen, a sixty year old rape suspect, a lawyer in the KKK, a catholic priest, a Jewish business man, a two year old infant, and a thirty two year old cancer patient. What do you do? Who do you ultimately leave for death? Or do you leave yourself because you can't send some one else to there grave? So many questions, so little time.

Cormac Mccathy

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. Cormac attended roman catholic school in Knoxville, where afterwards he went to the university of Tennessee to pursue his degree in liberal arts. He then enlisted in the Air Force were he served for four years and spent two of them hosting a radio talk show. After his service in the Air Force Cormac returned to university were he published two stories for a magazine which he received the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. Now Cormac has found the love of his life and they moved away to Chicago where he worked as a auto mechanic. He then had a son named Cullen but shortly after that they divorced and went there separate ways. Cormac liked to often base his books on some actual facts from the history in some of his earlier works. Cormac was a great writer of his time and he received many grants to travel and further his work. He meet his second wife on a cruise boat, who is also divorced. Two of Cormac's greatest novels are No Country for Old Men, and The Road. No Country for Old Men has now been made into a movie where it has done very well in the box office. Cormac has been criticized throughout his career as a writer but overall most would say that he is a well accomplished writer who wrote some spectacular novels. He has writ en a total of ten published books which he has one eight awards for. He writes with a very different style, using a post apocalyptic, western, southern gothic genres with his books. Cormac now lives in Mexico because America is no country for old men. Ha ha

The NHL 18 Year Old Draft Review

The NHL draft is one of the most exciting and promising times for most of the hockey franchises in the NHL but it comes with some flaws. Many people have said that the draft is the most important time of the year for teams to rebuild there rosters. Many scouts have said though that eighteen is to young for the draft. Players are not fully developed and or have not even grown into there bodies yet when it is there draft year. Teams go to the draft table and draft highly thought of prospects only to find a couple years latter that their prospect is a dud. For some reason or another people just don't want to change the tradition of the eighteen year old draft. All other professional sports leagues have shied away from this type of draft because the teams have realized the draft will be more effective if kids stay in university teams, or junior teams where they can play for longer, get more time to play and develop and a better chance to get scouted more accurately. Imagine your team comes last every year, year in and year out. Then this young eighteen year old prodigy comes along who is supposed to be the savior of your team. Then he comes to play for your team but he never grows, he never fills out his body like everyone predicted the tall power forward would. He can't keep up with the bigger higher skilled players and years down the road he is just a memory. The pressure of the eighteen year old draft is also to much pressure for a kid right out of high school to with hold. Many of these kids come out of small sheltered towns and now all of sudden they are in Tampa Bay being criticized every time they take the ice. Although some of the eighteen year old picks do work out very well for some organizations no one wants to draft another Alexandre Daigle. That's this weeks rant on the eighteen year old draft.