Victim of Beating is Fighting for His Life

What is wrong with people our age today? Since when did it become cool to be so tough? I read the article in the Omaha World Herald about a father being almost beaten to death by his sons rivals from Weeping Water. He had no idea what he was walking into when he stepped outside the door to tell those kids to leave. It's sad to see people my age today making stupid mistakes, thinking that they are the shit. They didn't even take the time to notice that they weren't even beating up the right person. Teenagers today don't care today. They don't care that we are the laziest generation and it really makes me mad. We have all this new technology, all this good we could accomplish and we could invent so much to help people; but no, everything has to be taken for granted. Nowadays, life is expected to be handed to you on a silver platter. Parents are considered horrible if they don't buy their child a car for their sixteenth birthday. Teens don't care about life beyond their own two feet. All they care about is the latest thing. What's new, what's hot. Anything that will affect their lives is all they care about.
What is so horrible about this story is that they came back with bats. They had the intention to hurt someone very badly. Even though they had already had a fight they felt the need to come back and beat the crap out of them. How could something like this get started. Why do people have to let drama get in the way of everything? I just want to be like who cares, why does it matter anyway. Why do people let this stuff affect them like this? I wish people would learn that it's not all about themselves, other people matter to.

National Museum of Roller Skating

As a kid I used to roller skate with my friends all the time so visiting the National Museum of Roller Skating was an intriguing experience. I learned that skating was more than just a hobby; it was an actual sport where people competed. It was so much fun to see all the different types of roller skating competitions. You could compete in figure skating, speed skating, and off-road skating.

I think my favorite part of the exhibit was the figure skating exhibit. In fact, I never knew that there was any other types of figure skating than ice skating. It was really cool to see the different types of costumes and the skaters. Even Tara Lipinski was a roller skater before she was an ice skater. She was my favorite ice skater in the Olympics when I was younger.

Seeing how the roller skate was invented was really cool. To see the evolution of the wheel and the how it was made was probably my second favorite part of the exhibit. Roller skates were invented by Joseph Merlin in 1760. He wore them to a party where he crashed into an expensive mirror. After that he did not have much interest in roller skates but other inventors produce roller skate models. And by 1990 in-line skating and in-line hockey were the two most popular sports in America.

The roller skating museum was such a fun place to visit and see how big roller skating used to be. I don’t think it is as popular as it once was but my friends and I had a fun trip down memory lane seeing all those old advertisements, toys and even some skates that looked like the ones we had when we were kids. It was definitely an enjoyably visit that I will remember.