The Pros to Failing

In the article "Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail", the author, a teacher, has some very strong views regarding parenting and failure. She believes that many parents are too kind and lenient towards their children and hold them back by not letting them fail and that failure is what really brings the growth and best out of people. She says when a parent is too overprotective they raise their children in a state of powerlessness and helplessness. This leaves them grossly unprepared to living on their own and becoming adults because they have no one to protect them and instruct them on what to do. I believe that this is true. I have personally seen some people whose parents handle all of their problems for them and it really holds them back. She also believes that letting them fail is for their own good. I also agree with this. You learn through failure. How can you grow without it? I believe that it is personally reasonable to give students an F for work that their parents do or that they plagiarize because it teaches them that they need to take responsibility for their own work. If nobody teaches them this lesson in school, then they may learn it at a worse time. Getting an F on a paper is much better than being kicked out of college due to plagiarizing or fired due to not completing a task.

The Creation of Ultimate and the Frisbee

            Ultimate Frisbee is a sport played by two teams of seven on a 120 by 40 yard field and consists of trying to move the Frisbee up the field by throwing it to teammates. It is very popular at many colleges due mainly to it's origins. In 1871, William Russell Frisbie founded the Frisbie Pie Company near Yale University. The students there would allegedly purchase pies, eat them, and then throw the pie tins back and forth to each other. Then, in 1951, Fred Morrison created the "Pluto Platter", a plastic flying disk that would become the blueprint for the modern Frisbee. The design for the Pluto Platter was bought by Wham-O in late 1955 and gained popularity as Wham-O's "Hula-hoop" became a national craze. The name of the Pluto Platter was changed to Frisbee after Richard Knerr, one of the founders of Wham-O, reported that students at Harvard had been throwing pie tins to each other and called it Frisbie-ing. Because Knerr didn't know the origins of the Frisbie Pie Company, he spelled it Frisbee.

            Ultimate Frisbee was born when Joel Silvers, a student from Maplewood, played and adapted the rules to Frisbee football and created Ultimate. It was called this because he described it as "The ultimate sports experience". Then, in the Fall of 1967, Silver proposed that the student council create an Ultimate team as a joke. By Spring of the next year, members of the student newspaper and the student council were playing the first form of Ultimate. Then in the Fall of 1968, the student newspaper played the first formal game of Ultimate against the members of the student council. The next year, Silver and his friends Bernard Hellring and Jonny Hines refined the rules of Ultimate which were then printed and sent around the world.

http://www.thesportjournal.org/article/origins-and-development-ultimate-frisbee
http://www.whatisultimate.com/history/history_game1_en.html

Theater of Pain

http://www.esquire.com/features/nfl-injuries-0213-2 

"And at the professional level, you better not say how you feel, or the next man will get your job."

I found this quote to be important because it shows how pain resistant NFL players need to be in order to keep their jobs. They can't complain or they will lose it. This can show that they may be pushed too hard and eventually break.