What should a Billionaire give?

The age old question, what is the value of human life, or can a value even be put on the life of a human being? According to the passage by Peter Singer, there are many billionaires who give lots of money to various charities just to share their wealth and shoe that they care. I on the other hand think that some of these billionaires give the money so it will look good on themselves or companies, or to get hefty tax ride offs. When I read this passage, I get a strong vibe that Singer himself is a pholathropist who believes that billionaires should give away much of their wealth. Again, I think that billionaires, for the most part worked for their riches and should have an option to give or not, therefor not making it an obligation. Singer also states in the passage that the wealthy should give a higher percentage of their wealth that those less fortunate. I disagree with him again here because then you are putting price tags on people and taking away their freedoms and rights as americans. If a wealthy person wants to give away lots of their money, then thats great, but if not, they shouldnt be obligated, or even expected too. Its solely their choice.  

D-Wade to endorse Chinese shoes

D-Wade to endorse Chinese shoes

After an endorsement with Air Jordan, Miami Heat super star Dwayne Wade has signed an endorsement with little known Chinese shoemaker, Li-Ning. Wade says he wants to establish new shoe power houses instead of teaming up with pre existing big name brands. It reminds me of this year in basketball. For the last eternity we have worn Nike team basketball shoes at Batesville but this year, we decided on Adidas. Though they are less known, they are very high quality and look pretty good too. D-Wade will get the shoes a lot of publicity on the defending NBA champion Heat squad featuring Chris Bosh and Lebron James, who has his own shoe line with Nike. "We went our separate ways. But I’m still honored to have represented my favorite player of all time and his brand.", said Wade. “It was Just that time.” Fellow heat star, Shane Battier, has a deal with Li-Ning rival, Peak. The two heat players joked about the upcoming competition between the two brands but both say they are proud to be there. Wade says the shows he had on in practice are far from the final product, which are speculated to be released later in the month when the heat travel to China to play the clippers.

References: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/dwyane-wade-leaving-jordan-chinese-shoe-lining_n_1936278.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/dwyane-wade-unveils-li-ning-signature-shoes-230126906--nba.html

 

Iphone 5 is the fastest phone on the market

After recent benchmark tests done by PC mag, the Iphone 5 outscored every other smartphone on the market including the Samsung Galaxy s III and the new Motorola droid razr M. “The Iphone 5 stood out in Java Script tests”, said PC mag. The Iphones triple core GPU technology allowed it to double the graphics test score of the razr m as well.

As a long time Iphone user this is great news, now, not only will the Iphone outperform competitors in real life, but the specs on paper and in tests will outperform any droid a person can compare it too. Also you can tell that Apple is continuing to improve off past designs, “Apple wasn't kidding when they said the new phone was twice as fast as its predecessor.” says PC mag, after the 5 more than doubled the scores of the 4s in every test.

The only bad news I can find about the whole thing is that Verizons LTE network out performed AT&Ts network slightly, and im on AT&T. But at the end of the day, the Iphone 5 is all new and better than ever. And according to PC mag, it the fastest phone ever.

References: http://www.phonearena.com/news/PC-Mag-says-Apple-iPhone-5-is-the-fastest-smartphone-in-the-land_id34777#1-

Narcissus and Echo

In this picture, it depicts Narcissus staring at his reflection while a naked girl is chilling beside him. He is so in love with himself thet he doesnt even notice the girl. In paragraph 407, the myth tells how Narcissus is frozen by the beauty if his reflection.


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Reading Bucket List

1. 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Ive heard of Stephen King before and everyone seems to like his books. Plus this book is built around the JFK assassination so there pretty much has to be conspiracy theories involved. I really enjoy conspiracies and I’ve watched lots of documentaries on the JFK assassination so im exited to read this.

2. Radical by David Platt

David Platt is a big motivational speaker in the Christian community. I’ve heard him speak in multiple conferences from Branson to Orange Beach. He mentioned that he had a book out at one of the conferences and then a friend’s dad suggested the book so I figured I should read it.

3. Chasing Lincolns Killer by James L. Swanson

Like I said before, I really enjoy conspiracy theories and history books so when a friend suggested it, I thought it would be a book I really enjoyed. Lincoln’s assassination is older and less documented also so it kind of lets us think about all the possible outcomes.

4. This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

I guess this could be considered a Christian genre book but at the same time it’s also fiction, and you hardly ever see that. I thought it looked really interesting plus all the online reviews looked really good, so I’m excited to see how it turns out.

  50 Shades Trilogy by E.L. James

At first, I had no idea what the books were about, what they were or anything else about them until I heard a couple of friends reading them and then a lot of criticism about some of the content of the books. I always like to find out what the controversy is about and see if the books lead up to the hype so I will probably have to read these too to see if they are worthy of all the trouble they are causing.

5. 50 Shades of Grey

6. 50 Shades of Freed

7. 50 Shades of darker

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

I started to read the books before they really got big but decided against it because I thought they seemed a little girly. But at some point along the way, when people started wearing twilight tshirts and joining “team Edward”, I figured I better see what was going on, so I watched the movies and they were really good. Now I want to know if the books are anything like the movies and I guess there’s only one way to find out.

8. Twilight

9. New Moon

10. Eclipse

 

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