Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
A generation of change.
If one looks back on at the history of the world it does not take much to see that in every generation there is a certain amout of change that each generation will bring to the world. What I don't think that people realise is that each and evry one of us is helping to creat change for the world wheather we like it or not.
Change is not always a bad thing. Ther have many changes on the past which have benefited man kind to length that were once not thought possible. But, and there is always a but, change can also be a bad thing. Some times change is just a good thing, some time it is bad and sometimes it is good or bad depending how we choose to use it.
So if there is change in every generation why should we be any different. In fact with the advent of technology, change s occurring at a much faster rate in our generation because every thing is moving quicker these days then it did even 30 or 40 years ago.
Take things like speach. When we all studies shakespear at school, most people would say thank G-d we don't speak like that any more. But what did the people of that gerenration say about the way they spoke? I don't know, but I would think that they did not think it to be very funny or strange, but just the norm. So lets look at the way we are changing the way we speak form 50 years ago to today. There is not that much of a difference, a few words here or there but nothing that people would not understand if they came from that generation to this generation haveing not lived through the change. But what has changed quite a bit and even more so in the last ten years never mind 40 or 50, is the way people spell. Haveing recently left university, I was alomst amazed at how people were spelling some words. Now I do not proclaim to have wonderfull spelling or grammer. But when I wrote an assignment or a test or an exam or note on the computer I would always do my best to ensure that I got it right. But at a university level there are students whor try to write assignment and tests/exams use a "sms" spelling type of spelling. Now I do understand that in a sms you try to abriviate as much as possible in order to save space, I think that most people who I know do that if not all. But what if a person fon 40 or 50 yers ago would read one of those papers or tests/exams or even perhaps a sms, would he or she understand what is going on. I don't think they were fools back then and would be able to figure it out, but would probaly be a shocked at how badly people spell 50 years into the future.
So if change is happening quicker these dys than it did 40 years ago then how much quicker will chnge take place in the next 50 years. If we jumped 50 years into the future, would we be able to understand the writnig or perhaps even the way people speak if we do not live through the change?
Again I'm not saying that change is bad or good. But do people, and by people I mean the general population, actualy think how much they are changing the world on a simple day to day basis, doing day to day things? And more importantly has the geneal population actually thought about they way they want the world to change?
Do you ever think about how you are changing the world every day?
Change is not always a bad thing. Ther have many changes on the past which have benefited man kind to length that were once not thought possible. But, and there is always a but, change can also be a bad thing. Some times change is just a good thing, some time it is bad and sometimes it is good or bad depending how we choose to use it.
So if there is change in every generation why should we be any different. In fact with the advent of technology, change s occurring at a much faster rate in our generation because every thing is moving quicker these days then it did even 30 or 40 years ago.
Take things like speach. When we all studies shakespear at school, most people would say thank G-d we don't speak like that any more. But what did the people of that gerenration say about the way they spoke? I don't know, but I would think that they did not think it to be very funny or strange, but just the norm. So lets look at the way we are changing the way we speak form 50 years ago to today. There is not that much of a difference, a few words here or there but nothing that people would not understand if they came from that generation to this generation haveing not lived through the change. But what has changed quite a bit and even more so in the last ten years never mind 40 or 50, is the way people spell. Haveing recently left university, I was alomst amazed at how people were spelling some words. Now I do not proclaim to have wonderfull spelling or grammer. But when I wrote an assignment or a test or an exam or note on the computer I would always do my best to ensure that I got it right. But at a university level there are students whor try to write assignment and tests/exams use a "sms" spelling type of spelling. Now I do understand that in a sms you try to abriviate as much as possible in order to save space, I think that most people who I know do that if not all. But what if a person fon 40 or 50 yers ago would read one of those papers or tests/exams or even perhaps a sms, would he or she understand what is going on. I don't think they were fools back then and would be able to figure it out, but would probaly be a shocked at how badly people spell 50 years into the future.
So if change is happening quicker these dys than it did 40 years ago then how much quicker will chnge take place in the next 50 years. If we jumped 50 years into the future, would we be able to understand the writnig or perhaps even the way people speak if we do not live through the change?
Again I'm not saying that change is bad or good. But do people, and by people I mean the general population, actualy think how much they are changing the world on a simple day to day basis, doing day to day things? And more importantly has the geneal population actually thought about they way they want the world to change?
Do you ever think about how you are changing the world every day?
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Liverpool FC
So with the start of the 09/10 EPL many Liverpool fans were quite optermistic. The changes to the squad were kept minimal to two first team changes. While Alvaro Arbeloa doesn't seem to be missed much with the good early form of Glen Johnson, the absense of Xabi Alonso is felt heavily in my opinion.
While the squad does not look to bad, maybe a bit small, you still hear alot of people saying that we are missing a top striker if Torres gets injured. This may seem true, but while Torres was injured for most of last season Liverpool still managed to out score any other team in the League even with Ronaldo at Mancheter United. So the question remains, do we need anothe top quality striker?
So if we can out score all the other teams and losse fewer games than any other team, why did we not win? (By the way this was the first time a team only lost two games and did not win the league). So this is not rocket sience, every one will tell you that we had to many draws, particulerly at home to "smaller" teams.
So now the question should become who should we add to the squad to help beat the smaller teams
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