Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born on October 7,1966) is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Most of his writing describes his life as a Native American. Unfortunately, he was born with hydrocephalus, which caused his to suffer from seizures throughout his childhood. Later in his life, Alexie decided to leave his reservation to attend Reardan High School, which helped him get a better education and start his writing career.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Competition


The function of competition in our society today and even in the past has been to be at the top of the chain from everyone else by having a large amount of wealth. We see this in many companies and stores around the world striving to become the best at what they sell in order to gain the most wealth from others. Sometimes, there are companies like Blockbuster and Red Box that have competed to sell movie rentals; however, Red Box has become a lot more successful than Blockbuster is now on the verge of closing down. People may not see this as a big deal, but this shows how competition can get strong enough that it can bring down an entire company.
Competition for something is one of those things that has certain levels of healthy and unhealthy. For example, if a Cross Country race is about to commence for the CIF Championship, the competition for everyone to run as fast as they humanly possibly can is healthy because there is no cheating involved; however, if someone purposely injures another team’s runner for the advantage to win the race is unhealthy because not only was someone physically hurt in the race, but there was also cheating involved. Competition is not healthy once a person or a group of people are physically and/or emotionally hurt from the another or others, or vice versa. Only when someone is fair and does not hurt anyone or him/her own self in order to win, then competition is okay.
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  1. WingnutJanuary 3, 2013 at 6:05 AM

    Hi
    Good lookin' site!

    I hope someday... you'll come to the conclusion that... in almost all cases... competition is not healthy, and is the opposite of cooperation. :)

    Maybe later, you'll come to know that humans using economies (money, ownership, price tags)... is a device of tug-o-warring, and you'll see that not a single other living creature on the entire planet... uses economies. ie. Humans shouldn't use them either.

    Then maybe far far down the road... you will join us anti-capitalism folk... in the 'abolish economies' division. See you soon... outside-of (and out from under the programming-of) the church of competing called capitalism. Capitalism is a pyramid... and we all saw how the childhood playground versions of pyramids ALWAYS collapsed from becoming too top-heavy or crushing those on the bottom.

    Best regards!
    Larry "Wingnut" Wendlandt
    MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain't Right
    (anti-capitalism-ists) (anti-economy usage)
    Bessemer MI USA

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