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Posted by Jeff Pabarcus at 01:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Almost within every action of everyday, we face some sort of opposition. Oppositions can be found at many different levels, like social, physical, mental... and although it isn't hard to see oppositions as a negative thing in the end I find opposition not only to be a positive but also a necessity to life. Without opposition nothing would change because nothing would need to be changed. Things would never get better or worse and life would almost seem pointless. Well the biggest opposition that every living thing goes against every day if the opposition of life vs. death. I know there are things I do everyday, consciously and subconsciously to avoid death. When I wake up I take a shower. Now at the time I think, "I want to take a shower because I don't want to smell," but another reason why is to get rid of germs that could potentially get me sick which could kill me. When I cross the street I look to make sure there are no cars coming so they don't hit me which would most likely result in my death. Most of the time I am moderating my body temperature so that I don't get too cold or too warm, and although this is often times for comfort reasons this also ties in with fighting the opposition of death. The medicine I take when I'm sick, the amount of sleep I get every night, the amount of food I eat everyday are all actions I take in order to fight the opposition of death, and there are countless other, some I'm sure that I'm not even aware of. It is also somewhat ironic that no one ever succeeds in fighting the opposition of death because so much of our everyday lives are in efforts to prolong our lives. And even though people know that they will never defeat the opposition of death we continue to fight against it every day.

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One of the biggest phenomenons in recent sports history would have to be the World Series of Poker. Now even though the World Series of Poker has been going on since 1969, the sport really hasn't gained huge attention until the 2003 World Series when amature player Chris Moneymaker won it all taking home 2.5 million dollars. That year, there were 839 people competing in the tournament, which at the time was the most contendants the World Series had ever seen by more than 200 people. After Moneymaker won the tournment, every man, woman, and child had the idea that with enough luck they could win the biggest jackpot of all, and with it come away with superstar status and fame. As long as you could pay the entry fee you could play, and so amatures from all over the globe have come to the tournament in hopes of winning it all. Now in the past World Series of Poker, 2006, there was a new attendance record set, and unprecidented 8,773 player, more than 8,500 people from 3 years ago, and the winner Jamie Gold, another amature, took home 12 million dollars. People are taking second morgages on their homes to play, students are risking the tuition to come to the tournament, and even celebrities are now coming to play in the tournament, names such as Ben Affleck, Shannon Elizabeth, and many others. Many people have ideas for why this phenomenon has come about, which could be money, fame, but I think it is because anyone and everyone have a chance to compete with the best poker players in the world, and you actually have a chance to beta them. In what other sport could someone do that. Not football, baseball, tennis, golf or even Nascar; poker is the only sport where just about anyone has a chance to be crowned world champion by beating the best poker players in the world. And I guess the huge cash prize doesn't hurt either

Posted by Jeff Pabarcus at 08:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The place where I find the most meaning is at my cabin, which is in a small town in Wisconsin. My cabin is on Point Lake, and it is called Point Lake because it is no bigger than a point on the map. The area around my cabin is pretty much all woods, except for the lake, a few other houses and some roads. As for my cabin, well it’s not really a cabin. It is actually the house where my mom grew up, but it has been used as a cabin ever since I was a little kid. My cabin has two floors to it, a deck, a bench swing, and there is a dock down at the lake. In the living room there is a TV, a fire place that is never used, and I think about a 30 year old, orange, shag carpet. Upstairs there are a couple of bedrooms and a player piano that always has a couple of keys out of tune. And then throughout the house there are pictures of my family, most of them really old pictures which is nice because I am the youngest in my family and some of my family died before I could remember them. So in that respect this house is so meaningful to me because it reminds me of my family. However, the reason why I picked this place as the most meaningful to me is not because of the house or anything in the house but rather the lake. The lake is really small, but that’s why I like it so much. It is so small that the only people who know where the lake is are those who live on it. At night the lake gets so still that it is like glass, and then when I look up I can see more stars then I’ve ever seemed before. It makes you feel so small and secluded where you can just forget about everything that’s going on in your life. It’s the place where I go to get away from things, which is the big reason why my cabin is such a meaningful place to me.

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