I found Chuck D's essay "Free" Music Can Free The Artist to be a very interesting essay and I agreed with everything he said. I agree with the fact downloading songs on the internet helps artists more then it hurts them because people still buy the cd's and it gives them more recognition. For instance, if your downloading your favorite bands songs and you download one you've never heard and you like it you may want to buy that cd because you know theres more then 1 good song. Also, for lesser known artists it really helps them because not everyone can get on the radio and MTV, so the only way they have for people to listen to there songs is for people to download them off the internet.

For my research paper I am going to research something that has to do with sports since my major is sports management. I'm not sure what I'm going to research but for now I will just write about steroids in sports. Steroids are seen everywhere in sports from cycling to baseball to track and field and football, and while entertaining once athletes are caught using steroids everything theyve done through their careers is pretty much tarnished. I personally do not like to hear about when an athlete is caught on steroids because Id like to think that some of the athletes I look up to arent and when one of them shows up on ESPN because of steroids it makes me feel cheated becuase it might be someone who I respect as an athlete. I wont do my research paper on steroids in sports because although it may be important Id like to think that most of the guys just dont do it.

From the two stories given I made the mistake of reading the more boring one of the two which was "Sex, Lies & Advertising" by Gloria Steinem. I found it a boring story because the fact that it was written by a feminist and I didnt read the info that said that she was a feminist because if I had I would not have read it. Like most feminist she just complains on and on about advertising in magazines and how they portray women in a wrong and stereotypical way. She doesnt like the ads to be of women depressed because they have dirty laundry or moms going crazy because the kids are driving her crazy but she wants the ads to be about helpful womens products. I think she is full of it and is just the typical feminist who just blabs on and on about something pointless and try to make it seem like its important until someone else agrees with them. I'm glad I read most of this story ( I couldnt read the rest ) because now I know who Gloria Steinem is and if I ever come across another one of her stories or somethin about her on tv I will make sure to flip the page or change the channel.

The story im writing about is Michael Jordan's story "The Nike Deal". This story caught my eye because it was written by Michael Jordan, enough said. I found it interesting because he says that he didnt want to sign with Nike at first and instead wanted to sign with adidas. I think if he had signed with adidas his shoes wouldnt be half as big as they are now. Nowadays whenever the new Jordans come out theres people that camp out in front of shoe stores just to get his new shoes and I think had they been adidas it just wouldnt be the same.

The story that caught my eye was "The Ugly Truth About Beauty". The reason is because I agree with what they talk about in the story. The author says that women are alot more worried about the way they look then men are. I like when the author says that when a woman asks you the question "How do I look" the best answer for a man is to "form an honest yet sensitive opinion, then collapse on the floor with some kind of fatal seizure. I chose to write about the story becuase it was a funny yet true point of view about how women are obsessed with they way they look and that they worry more about looking like Cindy Crawford or Barbie instead of just being them, while the only grooming men do is shaving and they dont really care about the way they look and I agree with the author.