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Miles Teller I find myself finding new interest in different artists. I like discovering new things new and raw singers, bands, actors/actresses and I sort of stalk them. The band Paramore was one of the first bands I've ever listend to and I became infatuated with their expression of song and the message and sound of their music I replayed song after song of their career and studied them and became a big fan. (I run on with my sentanced a lot, I've noticed, oh well.) I don't really know if I'm the only one who does this or not but when I listen to music sometimes I will make playlist that include many different artists and genres, but most times I concentrate on one musician and listen to the sound of their voice that catches the specific attention of my ear that fall in love with their expression of beautiful tone, emotion, and lyric. My favorite musicians/artists (lyric and sound wise) are Tori Kelly, Justin Beiber, J. Cole and August Alsina. I think all artists have a story, some that I can relate to or stories that they make me relate to by putting me in their shoes in their perspective and listening gives me a whole new vibe. Listening to artists like these makes enspires me, but I hate the feeling when the music gets old I wish I always heard music like it was my first time hearing and really listening to it all over again because I want to always feel that attachment and that connection. Besides musicL artists I also enjoy movies a lot. And I also like to obsess over celebrities a lot. I like watching movies with my favorite actors and actresses in it, but who doesn't. I recently have a new found love for Miles Teller he is a young actor who has become really big lately. Miles Teller is in the hit series Divergent and he has also showed up in some other very big movies. Tonight actually I rented a movie from red box with him starring in it called Wiplash (I think that's how you spell it) but in this movie he plays this drummer who is in a musical arts school pursuing his dreams of becoming a great drummer. (Fun fact: miles in trial life is a musician which makes the movie even cooler because you know he is actuall performing the act, he went to a musical arts school and everything. But yea I would recommend everyone to check the movie out its really interesting, but there's a heck of a lot of cursing) Im not going to spoil the movie but, it won a oscar I believe, well I know for sure it was nominated. Anyways it was a very interesting and quite entente movie, definitely one I wou watch again. Miles Teller is a great actor to me because when he acts I feel like he's not trying to always be so attractive in a way, like he doesn't care more so about his appearance he acts in a way that seems real, like how real life people would resoond, he's charming and actually quite funny. I just enjoy seeing him on the screen and watching him do what he does and I will continue to see his movies, especially the one coming out soon FANTASTIC FOUR! It's gonna be great.

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The National Minimum Drinking Age Act (NMDAA) of 1984 was passed in every state in the United States of America to increase the drinking age from eighteen years of age to twenty one. The Act declared that any state that allowed any person under the age of twenty one to drink would be punished. The federal government enforced this act with some restrictions, punishing any state who decided not to increase their drinking age to twenty one, by reducing their annual federal highway funding by ten percent. After a few years every state raised their drinking age to twenty one ending the age of teen alcohol consumption. Today there is much discussion on the topic, asking the question: will the drinking age ever be lowered again? “Advocacy groups have been fighting against this law for nearly 30 years now, claiming it is a gross violation of civil liberties and must be repealed. They claimed the law is absurd and unjust that young Americans can vote, marry, enter into contracts and serve in the military at 18, but cannot buy an alcoholic beverage." The controversy is real, and as teens reach their age of adulthood it becomes more apparent that they are being restricted of some of their adult-like duties, including having the right to drink. Many of the states agree that lowering the drinking age has actually caused more harm than good and have tried to test the theory. Some states have tried by requesting government approval, but are shut down by threats of losing federal funding. "If Congress would grant a waiver, the states would be willing to try something, and at least then we could get some evidence and see whether things are better or worse," said former Middlebury College president John McCardell. McCardell brings up a point that in order for this issue to be resolved the federal government has to be willing to allow states to make allegations of their own. Once these claims are made then the sates can prove or disprove them with pure evidence. The Government views that “Politically, it's a hard sell, in part because there are other public health hazards associated with excessive alcohol consumption, not just highway fatalities.” The government provides assumptions that could be true but these causes have other factors as well, besides the usage of drinking involved with teens. One of the reasons the NMDAA act was put into effect was due to the public’s concern for teenage drinking, which was thought to have an effect on drunk driving. Many agree that the rate for drunk driving has not decreased since the passing of the act in 1984, some even claim that it has gotten worse. There is evidence that lowering the drinking age has caused little or no effect and there are others that say it has increased the outcome of drunk driving accidents. The federal government also defends their passing of the act trough some scientific evidence stating that “Prior to passing NMDAA of 1984, there were many studies conducted on the effects of alcohol on younger people. Several studies determined that a youth’s brain is not fully developed until around age 21, and alcohol affects youth’s brains differently than it does adults.” Understanding the effects of alcohol is a crucial part when taking this issue into effect. Both levels of government have defensive positions on the NMDAA and why or why not it should be adjusted. I feel that in order for our country to recognize which option is best we have to test the results. Each state should be allowed to choose their own drinking age and adjust to the circumstances of the outcome. If states are allowed to reinterpret the act I think that there will be a different reaction from the public involving drinking which will ultimately over time justify the choices from both the federal and state governments. There are many other results that come from the passing of the act instilled in 1984, including the increased rate of teenage binge drinking that affects the health of our nation’s young people. Underage drinking still occurs now and it will most likely never cease to continue, but if our society pushes to educate our younger generations on the effects of alcohol there could be more positive results in the future.

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Marcus basketball through the years My freshman and sophomore years at Marcus high school were the most exciting I think for basketball or maybe even sports at that school. That is when our boys basketball team took home the 5A state championship title two years in a row, yea back to back. Not to mention that the now NBA rookie Marcus Smart (funny how the school and him ended up having the same name) was apart of their success. There was heavy criticism of our school concerning mainly Marcus. They accused the team of recruting Marcus, and there were many different rumors but that didn't stop our drive to greatness. My junior year was kind of a sucky year I played basketball since like the third grade I wasn't very good at first but I worked my way up went to training and also practiced a lot more. Bastketball became fun for me and I learned to love not only the game but the whole idea. I loved to watch it on television dreaming about becoming a star player on a big college team, and I loved playing it. Basketball was my one love, but it started to head towards a dead end. The summer just before my junior year I injured myself leading to the end of my basketball career. I had to go through numerous hours of therapy and that is where I began to know what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to become a physical therapist for athletes. I wanted to help them prevent injury and teach courses and better ways to train in order to devolp the body without straining it. I wanted to eliminate the factor that I and many other athelites have to suffer, injury. So my senior year due to the difficulty and scaring that my torn ACL and meniscus caused I decided that basketball was what I no longer chose to pursue. Being a student athlete is difficult as well as exhausting. So I decided to quit, my senior year I was still apart of the team I would. Just not pursue my dream of playing at a university. My senior year in basketball we made it all the way to third round but lost and that was the end. I will add to this. Blog in my next post😉