Saturday, October 30, 2010

What's wrong with hanging things from rearview mirrors?

 This article talks about hanging objects from rearview mirror should be legalize or not. Many people just put dangling objects on their rearview mirror such as gruduation tassels, air freshener, and all kinds of accessories and don't notice whether it is legal or not. Although most of them think it shouldn't be matter on driving, Michigan has prohibited drivers from dangling items from rearview mirrors. The bill doesn't have specific description about what size items must be, and it's up to officers to pull over drivers. As a result of a lot of people includes Senators and Governors don't agree with the law, now the Senate has approved the bill and it awaits debate in the state house.
 Moreover, the quote "I call it a 'gotcha' law. It's an excuse to pull someone over." was the most effective quote in this article because it mocks the police from using excuses to pull people over for silly dangling objects from rearview mirrors in their cars. And I like the idea of naming the law as a 'gotcha' law.
 In my opinion, even I'm not a driver myself, it should be legal to have dangling objects in drivers' rearview mirrors. As I mentioned before, it is just one of excuses that police use it to pull people over for no good reasons. In fact, I've seen a lot of people got into car accidents from talking on the phone of taxting while they're driving, but not from objects from rearview mirrors. It's time for legislature to concern about how to reduce those car accidents from taxting, and not making another excuses like this. Moreover, they need to get rid of the law, or they should soften the law by restricting specific items such as giant fuzzy dice, and shiny or gaudy objects that can easily affect to driver's vision.

Monday, October 25, 2010

They are no racial comments, only facts


  Most valuable player in NBA, the Chosen One, King James.....These were the words that used to describe LeBron James thorough last several years, however, he is now standing in a position where he is losing his value, love, and respects from people in United States. It all happened since this July when LeBron made a decision to leave his team Cleveland Cavaliers and join in Miami Heat. In fact, Mitch Albom also writes article about him blaming racial factors about his decision. Mr. Albom conveys facts that his fallen and losing faith from his people, and LeBron believes that those people are making racial comments about him. Thus, Mr.Albom criticizes LeBron's behavior towards his Cleveland fans was not appropriate to show it.
  LeBron basically left his fans who have been behind since he was in high school to make his career more garish, but do you think those criticizing comments are from racism? In my opinion, I don't agree with it. His action eventually embarrassed not only the city Cleveland, but also fans in personal, therefore he deserves those criticisms that he is facing now from nationwide, or maybe worldwide. LeBron also mentioned that his reason for moving to Miami is that it's going to give him the best opportunity to win the championship for multiple years, and I personally thought this showed his egoistic personality that he tended to choose glory rather than friendship.
  I could directly indicate Mr. Albom's most effective point in this article by the title. His title revealed his opinion by conveying the message directly to LeBron, and that also stimulate reader's thought to make agreements with his idea. Moreover, Mr.Albom's style of writing affects to reader's point of view. Presenting his criticsm towards Lebron with using various skills, it makes it easier to approach to reader. So, these are not about racial comments, they are just facts about LeBron James.