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Prediction for Game Seven of the 2011 NHL Playoffs:

With Game Seven set to start on Wednesday, both the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins are going to be fighting for the game of their lives. A game that will break history records. A game that will change careers. A game that will change lives. With Tim Thomas playing the most amazing games in his entire career, the Vancouver Canucks are going to have to be on their "A Game". From the mood of the Canucks and Bruins on Monday nights Game Six, I believe that Game Seven will be one of the most amazing games of NHL history. Both teams are going to be battling for their lives, their pride and their town's bragging rights. I predict that Cory Schneider will be in net for Vancouver. Due to Luongo's lac of saves in the past four games. Vancouver is fast and has many offensively talented players, but the Bruins are strong and physical. I believe that the Canucks will be able to pull it together and will bring the cup home for the entire town of Vancouver.

Writing a review

The Devinci Ollie is an amazing Mountain Bike. The light weight design truly brings out the best of downhill biking. This big frame is the perfect size for doing tricks and racing. This bike has 8 inch travel in both the front and rear suspension. It is nice to ride and fits rider weight up to 200lbs. The color is a classic black and has a white stripe down the side of the frame. This bike may look great and perform supreme excellence but it lacks durability. Two summers ago I purchased this bike, and within the first couple of months riding it the derail-er broke witch lead to me not being able to ride it. This proved to be a major flaw in the construction of this mountain bike. The company should have put a stronger metal on the derail-er to prevent this from happening regularly. When using this bike, one must give it tender loving care. This bike may be excellent in weight and speed but lacks the necessary durability of what a down hill bike needs to last more than a few months of riding.

The Road Less Travelled

I believe it is very important to be passionate about my job. Talking with adults I have found out that if you don't like you job then you are going to hate life. You definitely have to work at a job you are passionate about or else you will be bored your entire life. In the future I am hoping to become RCMP. There are no university courses that you have to take in order to get into the training part of the RCMP. However next year I am taking a course called "Criminal and Social Justice" which is a two year diploma course. This will just help me with background knowledge and help me learn more about why criminals do the things they do.

Creative Blog

Today in class I was told to complete a story in exactly fifty-five words. What kind of crazy teacher gives a class this kind of assignment? I sat there for hours trying to figure out what to write and finally an idea popped in my mind... I'll just write about how insane this assignment is!

Novel Research

The Slums in Mumbai have always existed. Even back in the time when the fort was developed, the native villages have always been close to slums. Slums have risen dramatically since 1950. Most of this is due to the fact that Mumbai's population has tripled in size since India's independence in 1947. Before 1950 the slums were predominately found around the mill. Instead of going away, the slums have just spread. From 1950-1968 the amount of slums increased by 18%. Health is a major issue in these areas. Today slum dwellers maake up 60% of Mumbai's population. That is approximately seven million people. The conditions in the slums are terrible. Lack of water, no sewage or solid waste facilities, lack of public transit, pollution and housing shortages.

www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/espencer/slums.html

Perception is everything

In the presentation by Beau Otto on Optical Illusions, he talks about how everything we see is not real, we only see things how they are perceived by our own eyes. A real life example of this is advertisements. Companies take different objects and put them in their adds to help their product look better to the human brain. If the advertisement is an add about a cruise ship, they will take a family smiling and having a blast, with a clear blue sky and the sun shining. Everything in the commercial is happy and everyone is having fun. This makes a person watching the commercial want to go on the trip because it looks like the most exciting thing in the whole world. Another example is photo shop into pictures. Movie producers will take a green screen so that they can change the background into the perfect background so that the viewer can enjoy the movie and so that the weather outside in movies is the way the producers want it. All things in life can be perceived differently be each and every human, and this is why everything we see is not real.

The Dangers with Lack of Concern

In the story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, the author tells a story about "normal" townspeople. Jackson talks about a community that lives in the past, miles away from urban territory. The town doesn't have much other than a town square and a few farms. She makes the townspeople seem like your average people in the twenty first century. All of a sudden, Jackson reveals the towns true colors in a horrifically surprising ending. She makes it seem like the townspeople are just drawing lottery tickets for a huge prize such as money or something worth value. Then she decides to turn the opposite way and make the lottery ticket prize a one way ticket for no return. She makes the reader think that they are completely "normal" people, but then the people turn into murderers and kill one of the mothers in there town. An example of this in real life is The Holocaust. Hitler, made everyone in Germany believe that he was this "normal" man, but then he turned into a mass murderer and killed millions of people. Just like "The Lottery", Hitler seemed like a "normal" man and in the end of his life story, his life turns into a horrifically surprising ending.