Crazy Week

This week in Major League Baseball has been crazy. First, on Wednesday night, this guy to the right, Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox, threw the 16th no-hitter in Major League history. He faced the minimum 27 hitters, being only a walk away from a perfect game. Then, on Saturday night, the Phillies turned the first triple play of the year, a 5-4-3 play against the Reds, behind the man to the right, Cole Hamels, who had 15 strikeouts. Finally, to wrap it all up, on Sunday night, the Red Sox hit 4 consecutive home runs off of Yankees' starter Chase Wright, just the 5th time back-to-back-to-back-to-back has happened in MLB history. (Being a Yankee fan, I didn't want to put a picture up) This just goes to show how awesome the game of baseball is. Things like this make it fun to watch.

Iolani Fair

So after baseball practice on Saturday, my friends and I decided to go to the Iolani Fair. Having never been to one of them before, I didn't know what to expect, although other people told me that they go to the fair pretty much just for the food. So I was just planning on eating, but I still wanted to look at all the other stuff because of the fact I haven't been there before, and I wanted to compare it to our carnival. After being there for a while and having walked around & seen everything, there really isn't much of a comparison. Although, I didn't get a fair comparison of the food because some of the more popular food booths were closed because they ran out of food. But other than that, our carnival is the best.

The Quintessential Toy

At one point, lost somewhere in the eighties, the Rubik's cube is once again the quintessential toy. Known for its brain-twisting 3x3x3 design, people kill much of their time trying to solve such a simple-looking task. What makes the Rubik's cube quintessential is the equality of difficulty between adults and kids. Once one solves it for the first time, the next steps are to solve it as fast as possible, maybe even trying to beat the 11 second world record.

SAT Practice Essay #2

Today, there are two different types of skills we learn and use in our lives: Practical skills and life skills. Practical skills are those we learn in school like math and english, where life skills are those that we learn and use to become good, active citizens in today's society. I think that both are useful to us and can be equally as helpful in our lives. People today sometimes put too much emphasis on learning practical skills, and other times, may be too relaxed in not learning them. Of course some practical skils won't be needed later in life, but having all, or as much as you can to your knowledge leaves the door open to an infinite amount of opportunities.
An example of people not learning enough practical skills were the people of the Communist China. When Mao Ze Dong took over China as its ruler, he put the Chinese children in charge, leaving places such as hospitals to them. Not being well-educated enough, they weren't able to do the things that the experts who came before them were able to do. For the hospitals, certain operations were totally foreign to the children which resulted in a lot more deaths. Having learned more practical skills, many of these deaths could've been prevented.
Also in China's history, there were people who put too much emphasis on learning practical skills. These people were the scholars who strove to be scholar officials. They dedicated almost their whole lives to studying for the grueling examinations that would make them scholar officials if they'd passed. The scholars knew nothing but what those exams demanded of them.