Holding Back Mankind

Lincoln people are up in arms for the public utility of internet service. This service has been monopolized by internet providers and broadband cable providers because they don’t want to lose any of there money. This is just another example of the capitalist society of America holding back the advances of human culture. So many times the people want to take something especially resources and jack up the prices to make millions or billions of dollars for themselves. For instance, the oil industry. There has never been a bigger monopoly in which people took the resources and made others pay ridiculous amounts of money. People’s greed is always what has held back the progression of mankind. People could have made greater strides technologically if they all had access to oil, such as being connected and being able to get ideas to one another or having the energy to create a project. The monopolization of internet is just another road block on the road to advancement.

Now many people in Lincoln are petitioning for the public utilities to be allowed to provide internet access for everyone. Earlier petitions have already been shot down because people don’t want to be losing any money. We all are greedy in some way or another and we all are holding back the advancement of mankind to a perfect utopia. So many things could be shared to help other people’s lives better through having free internet to the rural parts of Lincoln. Originally, the internet was a government project so why can’ they say that people are allowed to have free internet through their power lines. People amaze me constantly that they are willing to force someone to live at a lower standard to raise themselves up. I whole-heartedly agree that something as useful as the web should be free to help all man.

Might Morphing Power Rangers

Power Rangers. Power is great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force. Rangers are members of an armed troop employed in patrolling a specific region. Power Rangers are awesome and the name is very fitting. They are a few selected teenagers chosen to protect the earth from the evil forces of outer space. They are given the robots to combine and take down any enlarged enemies that they have to face. They are the secret protectors of earth who never get recognized for their work even though everyday there are multiple threats to the safety of the earth. The red ranger is the leader. The only two females are the pink and yellow rangers. The other two rangers that were apart of the original five were the black and blue rangers. Then later on in the series the green ranger came like a rogue with his own giant robot of a dragon and also the white ranger. They were assembled by Zordon who directed them in their fighting efforts. Also, the robot, Alpha, was always ready to help or over exaggerate the situation. They are some of the best super heroes around on Saturday morning shows.

I remember being completely into the fad and loving the Power Rangers as a little kid. I had the video game for the old Sega Genesis. The game is really old and the graphics are outdated, but it is still a lot of fun as a 2D fighter. I especially loved the Green ranger because his do it solo attitude was how I wanted to be. I don’t need any help from you other rangers! I remember even at Halloween I dressed up as the Red ranger and my brother was the Blue ranger. It is definitely one of the best known children’s series around and played a huge part in my developmental years.

Lincoln's Medical Translations

A big issue in America that is also hitting Lincoln pretty hard is the matter of interpreting for patients of a different language. Many people may think that this is not really one of the great concerns of the medical industry, but the city of Lincoln is home to over fifty different languages alone. This makes it difficult to get all the different language. I never thought that doctors could have problems his diagnosing patients with the language barrier. As the article mentioned, doctors feel that the burden is on them when really the government should provide professional interpreters to assist the doctors. If the government is going require that interpreters are present then they should put more effort into paying the interpreters instead of leaving the expenses to the doctors. It is beneficial to the community that there are drives for state legislation that would pay for interpreters for poor immigrants. It also puts added stress on the doctors when they are required to pay for in interpreters. The cost for interpreters brings up another issue. Lincoln created another option, phone translation service, although this does make a interpreter more accessible, I believe the lack of body language can create an issue when it comes to the what the patients is actually saying and what the patient is trying to imply to the doctor. I also believe that hospitals should inform colleges around the country about this growing need. This can help because some students may need community service hours in order to graduate and I'm sure there are many doctors who are willing to work with language students. Both sides of the examinations will be greatly improve as the patients will receive the kind of care they need and the doctor's will not be in such a hassle to make the right diagnosis. I think that it is our government's duty to not only make laws for these issue but to provide for them as well. I think that the government should do more in the sense of training and paying for the interpreters.

The Juggernaut!

The coolest and best super villain of all time is the Juggernaut. By definition the word juggernaut is any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team. That is already cool! Honestly, he is indestructible and runs through anything. It takes all of the X-men to take him down just through taking of his helmet and sedating him through telepathy. I have always wanted to be muscular and he is the ultimate definition of being ripped. He may not be the smartest of the super villains, but that is why others do the thinking and he just follows through on the action end. If I ever needed a bodyguard, he would make the perfect one because he can literally take on an army. In fact, in many of the episodes and comics, he destroys tanks and infiltrates high security buildings with just brute force. He even looks like a bullet and has fists the size of sledgehammers. I am surprised he has an outfit because he is so large, but I guess that is why it is so tight.

Unfortunately, in the X-men movies, he was not as well portrayed as the villain he should be. The costume looked awful mostly because of the helmet. He had all the strength to beat down the X-men, but was getting defeated time after time and made a fool of by even the weakest X-men. I think they could have done a much better job in portraying the amazing villain that was created by the Marvel comics. No one will ever be able to reproduce any character as cool or as powerful as the Juggernaut. He is the ultimate being in the most simplistic form. Some people may talk of super heroes like Venom from spiderman or the evil genius Lex Luther from Superman, but they got nothing when it come down to the indestructible force that is the Juggernaut.

Train's Long Whistle Good Night

I was driving through downtown to make my observation Friday night and early Saturday morning. The Lincoln nightlife was in full swing. The neon lights were shining with magnificent brilliance. People walked the sidewalks having a good time, making their way between bars and other attractions. Many waited outside of popular bars or made casual conversation on the sidewalks. All in all the night was not dead and created a mood full of energy. I drove past seeking my destination, secluded back in the older parts of town. The buildings surrounding it were rundown or being newly renovated. The location seemed ideal for such a place, the train station. Knowing how much the trains have fallen out of favor, I knew it would be in an older part of town.

I looked around the train station and the first thing that caught my attention was the lack of life. It created a huge contrast between the nightlife of Lincoln’s downtown only a few blocks away. There was only one soul sitting bleakly on a bench. The trains sat as a backdrop to the courtyard and were only a display because of the brilliant colors of the rainbow on each car. Otherwise, it seemed a normal train station to me with place to board and places to buy tickets, which all looked deserted upon my first inspection. The water tower was the large domineering figure that held the courtyard its prisoner, but as I made way into the courtyard, I noticed the mural dominating the courtyard outside of the train station. It caught my interest and begged for a closer look because of its center piece appeal. So I made my way to inspect this masterpiece given as a memorial to the fading locomotive.

It was a dark, chilly night on the point of being cold. The night was barely lit by the sparse lighting scattered across the courtyard. The wind had just picked up and scattered leaves and unattended trash into the parking lot. The area was deserted leaving the feeling of abandonment. The trees rustled. I hear the trees swaying in the wind. The water drips from the water tower and makes a lulling, splashing noise. I sit on the bench and look at the stone mural. It has a three dimensional effect of the steam locomotive coming out of the wall with the rolling plains of the Nebraska landscape in the background. It looks as if the old times when there were less cities and the locomotive was at its prime in transportation. Now the mural is the only memorial given to this once great machine. The buffalo sit alongside in a world that they once knew as their home without fences or boundaries. The rolling plains are filled with wild grass. The ocean of grass stretches to the horizon and beyond to follow alongside the tracks from sea to shining sea. Although the bricks keep a generally tan color, the bricks change color to add to the effect and add depth. But the train has fallen from its former glory. So why do people even keep the train around?

The train is losing it usage, falling from the height it had once reached, becoming more and more a part of the age of extinction. I think of the history books in which the trains ruled the plains of developing America. The train tracks made traveling and shipping so much easier and more efficient, but now they are a thing of a time long forgotten. Seeing the train on the plains made me realize how much technology has been advancing. It has made leaps and bounds since the middle ages. We have to keep up with the technology or get left behind. People have adapted to the new technology like planes and cars to move and get along in the ever expanding system of roads and highways. The trains is slowly becoming extinct because of it inefficiency to get to places outside of the predestined railroad tracks. For instance, my friend said that this train runs to Denver, then to San Francisco, then up to Washington, then over to Montana, which would be a five day trip. This is ridiculous for him to go see his girlfriend because at most it would take him two days to make that trip in his jeep. Seeing the amount of people frequenting the train station only attributes to the dying life of trains. The amount of people there could have fit on a bus. For all purposes, the bus would be quicker and even faster as would be an airplane.

Seeing the deserted courtyard and the gloomy tracks reminds me of the chaos theory. The chaos theory states that the world and existence is slowly heading for destruction and chaos. No matter what we do we cannot change the future of chaos. For instance, someone cleans their room and it looks nice, but in a few days it is messy again. We cannot stop this or change this. Everything decays over time, even the toughest metal rusts and the hardest rocks wear away over time. I can see how cars break down when once they were in perfect running condition or computers become slow and outdated because nothing lasts forever. Not even our own lives last forever, which we may sometime forget our own mortality and the brevity of them. We deny the facts saying that it happened to him, but not me, never me. I see mortality as real, something that makes life so wonderful. It is the thing that gives meaning to life and makes is worth living because living forever takes away the quick-paced sense of time we have in which we must get things done before our time comes. The chaos theory applies to everything, without exception.

Everyone knows that they will die, but how they deal with that fact makes a huge difference. To waste such a precious gift as life is one of the greatest crimes I can think of in this world. Aristotle once spoke of telos, happiness. He said this is man’s greatest pleasure and main goal in life. In my opinion, he is absolutely right. So many people sit by just waiting for the end. They look like the trains that have made their once great treks across the United States in that now they sit by becoming older and more beat up. This should never be anyone’s life because everyone only has a set amount of time and should make the most of it. Anyone can find their happiness. No one is stuck sitting in a dead end job that makes them miserable day in and day out. That is not living. That is already dead in every sense except for the grave. I seek to make my life worth every second that I am awake because I know that everything will end, just like the trains will cease to be. We will end so people should not waste any of their precious seconds because we have so few to begin with. I know I am going out to fulfill my passion and achieve my happiness. The question is will you be stuck in that waiting room or will you make your life what it is meant to be?