Author: dragon570

Casual Argument — dragon570

No Helmets In Football

The brain is the most vital part of our bodies because it houses our neurons which allows us to walk, talk, and move. A single very hard hit, or a series of smaller hits, can cause concussions, paralysis, or worse. Football is a sport that players can get go into a game and after one really hard helmet-to-helmet hit it can cause them to end their career early or become paralyzed. A collection of hard hit versus a one big hard hit can out weight a big hard hit because it can hard them later in life. In the NFL, most of the players are getting hit in the head region every down because they have a big helmet that can get in the way of them trying to get block.

Back then, players families would sue the NFL for their negligence for football player health. Over the years, NFL has taken better care of their player ever since the stories about the injuries that can occur after being in the NFL. For example,  a famous linebacker named Junior Seau made headlines when the world found out that he shot himself in the chest at the age of 43. His family was devastated and sued the NFL after they found the brain report for Junior Seau. Studies showed that Junior Seau had “‘a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits and brain trauma.'” The family won and ever since that came out the people believe that the  NFL has been trying to help make the game safer for the players.

The battle between are helmets really safe in the National Football League as been going on for years now. This is the first time I have heard that football players shouldn’t wear helmets and just tackle differently. As a result, with no helmets in football, players will be more cautious of their head when going in for a tackle. I propose the NFL eliminates helmets. Players will soon learn to tackle differently or get hurt. Football players when they wear helmets it can cause them to put their body at more dangerous situations than if they didn’t have any helmets because they want to protect their head or it could lead to losing a career and their lives changing dramatically.

NEW SOURCES:

A7FL. “Safety – A7FL.” A7FL. A7FL, n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2016

Brain Concussion – Shake It and You Break It | Steven Laureys | TEDxLiège. Dir. Dr. Steven      Laureys. Perf. Steven Laureys. YouTube. YouTube, 2 May 2016. Web. 06 Nov. 2016.

Drysdale, Thomas A. “Journal of Legal Medicine.” Helmet-to-Helmet Contact: Avoiding a Lifetime Penalty. Taylor And Francis Online, 13 Dec. 2013. Web. 06 Nov. 2016.

 

 

White Paper — dragon570

Hypothesis: If football helmets are eliminated from the NFL and they use a different more effective tackling technique, for example, the way rugby players tackle. It will actually lessen the concussions rate.

The steps and benefits to the NFL getting rid of helmets:

  • Counterintuitive to say that NFL should get rid of football helmets.
  • Differences in the way football players tackle
  • Avoid/Eliminate blind side tackling in the NFL
  • Players are more cautious of the hits
  • Stricter penalties in the NFL
  • Concussions will decrease from this new method
  • Maybe less players on the football field.

1.) Working Hypothesis:

In football, helmets are colliding at least once every game because the way the football players were taught to  grab to try and bring another player down causes them to hit a part of their helmets to their opponents pads. Changing the way players are tackled can reduce the amount of concussions in the NFL.

2.) Topics For Smaller Paper:

Defintion/Classification Argument:

  • Rugby is a sport that doesn’t use pads or helmets. It’s also a world sport like soccer but not as popular. For example, Most countries have a rugby team that play against other countries.
  • A concussion is another word for brain injury that could affect a players life and maybe even their families lives.

Cause/Effect:

When football players don’t wear helmets and tackle differently it will then help them with not receiving a concussions because they are more cautious about their heads and it will prevent them and the person tackling the from receiving a career ending concussion.

Rebuttal Argument:

People would argue that if football helmets aren’t actually working the industries that make helmets should find a solution to it by adding more padding.

3.) Current State of the Research Paper:

I believe right now the sources I have so far are helping me find facts about my topic. I’m just trying to figure out how to put it all on “paper.” This is also giving me some more incite on the dangers of having football helmets.

Work Cited:

A7FL. “Safety – A7FL.” A7FL. A7FL, n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2016

 

Brain Concussion – Shake It and You Break It | Steven Laureys | TEDxLiège. Dir. Dr. Steven     Laureys. Perf. Steven Laureys. YouTube. YouTube, 2 May 2016. Web. 06 Nov. 2016.

 

“Concussion: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention.” WebMD. ebMD, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2016.

 

Dawson, Peter. “Rugby Tries – How and Where You Score Tries in Rugby.” RugbyHow. RugbyHow, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2016.

 

Drysdale, Thomas A. “Journal of Legal Medicine.” Helmet-to-Helmet Contact: Avoiding a Lifetime Penalty. Taylor And Francis Online, 13 Dec. 2013. Web. 06 Nov. 2016.

 

Fawcett, Robert. “Pads and Helmets: Rugby vs. Gridiron.” Pads and Helmets: Rugby vs. Gridiron. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2016.

 

Goff, Alex. “Concussions: Rugby Can Help Football.” The Post Game. RugbyMAG, 15 Oct. 2013. Web. 4 Dec. 2015.

 

Haislop, Tadd. “Football Helmets Are Creating More Problems than They Solve.” Sporting News. Sporting News, 28 May 2015. Web. 20 Nov. 2016.

 

Lemco, Tyler. Lemco: Why Football Needs Less Pads. Computer software. CBS Local Sports. CBS, 3 July 2015. Web. 04 Dec. 2016.

 

Quirk, Ryan, Jason McDonald, Meehawl Mofiodh, PJ Coward, Cameron Rudderham, Simon McCormack, and Gary Snook. “Re: Why Does Football Have a Much Bigger Concussion Problem than Rugby Even Though Rugby Players Wear Far Less Protection?” Blog comment. Quora. Quora, 13 July 2015. Web. 4 Dec. 2016.

 

Vrentas, Jenny. “Helmetless Football? It’s the New Practice at New Hampshire.” The MMQB. Muscles and Medicine, 4 Dec. 2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2016.

 

 

Polio Notes — dragon570

  • The government  shouldn’t punish his citizens especially, the future of the citizens.
  • Polio free could existence if we find a cure.
  • Smallpox could come back again and be deadlier than polio.
  • It’s hard to get rid of something that can ill children especially if you don’t have a cure for it.
  • Back then, parents were questioning why their children were dying.
  • Is polio really the deadliest disease in the world.
  • This world as comeback from so many diseases.
    • Measles, Polio, Black plaque
  • People should get vaccinated because their could be a spread of something and you haven’t gotten vaccinated and is more likely to catch the disease.
    • Maybe because of religious reasons, laziness
  • Measles can be hidden from doctors causing it to continue to spread to whoever the individual gets in contact with.
  • The world should always prepare for an outbreak of a deadly disease that has cause death to people in the past.
  •  I think it’s a good idea because when we get a flu shot the doctors are giving us the flu to have our body know how to fight it off.
  • Countries should help get polio out of the few countries that still have it.
  • About a million people are helping to eliminate the Polio virus from the face of the earth.
  • Pork or Vaccination, that is the question.
  • The children were mistaken of having the measles  because at their age they are likely to have measles.
  • It could be impossible that measles virus cause autism because that is what happened in the study.

Practice Opening

I believe that polio wouldn’t be eradicated in the next 20 years because their is to much evidence that shows that it will take longer then 20 years to get rid of something that was a big outbreak in the 20th century. It is gong to take sometime complete get rid of it because of the different test and samples. Plus, the changes of different medication because someone is allergic to something that is in the medicine or either the fact the someone can’t have something in the medicine because of religious reason. For example, the myth that their was pork in the medicine that could cure polio and therefore, the people didn’t let there children receive the vaccination from their doctors.

 

Safer Saws— dragon570

Manufacturers–

1A: “They came back and said, ‘Well, we’ve looked at it, but we’re not interested because safety doesn’t sell,’ ” Gass says.

1B: The manufacturers aren’t worried about a customers safety.

1C: This claim is judgmental because Gass is saying that the manufacturers top priority for table saw isn’t safety because they say it “doesn’t sell.”

1D: In this quote I believe that for this topic about safety it should be a top priority to the top industries that are selling table saw because it can cause permanent damage to individuals and change their lives forever that’s a good reason for people to go with a saw that would mostly likely decrease the number of injuries/ amputations by half.

Customers–

2A: “No offense, but I don’t think this is a move by Bosch (or any other tool manufacturer for that matter) to prevent safety devices, but simply a move to prevent the unintended consequences of adding mandatory safety devices that would, in some instances, double the price of entry level power saws.”

2B: They are saying that if the top manufacturers were to agree with having mandatory safety rules on tables saw it will cost double than what table saws cost now because they have to pay more money to follow the safety rules.

2C: This is a evaluation claim because they are evaluating that if the government makes the top manufacturers have a safety guard for their customers, in the future, it will cost twice as much as it cost now.

2D: They want to keep the price reasonable for the customer and to do that they have to go against the government in making them have safety mandates on all of their tables saws.

Industry Spokespeople–

3A: “The Power Tool Institute (made up of many of the major tool manufacturers) takes strong offense to the concept of making safety devices like this mandatory on products like table saws. They cite both technical and practical/financial problems with mandating SawStop technology – and there are a lot:”

3B: The claim is that the major tool manufacturers are offended that they have to make their products safer for the customers that buying their products.

3C: This is a judgmental claim because emphasize that the top manufacturers are taking a strong offense to having to make safety table saws for their customers.

3D: In the review by Clint DeBoer, I would disagree with their claim because if it is saving them money from having less lawsuits against them then why not do it. They’re spending more money by paying a customer (that got injured from their product) that wants about $1000 for their pain and suffering then paying only $150- $200 per SawStop.

Consumer Safety Advocates–

4A: “In the eight years that the Power Tool Industry (PTI) has been opposing automatic safety technology for table saws, an estimated 320,000 serious table saw injuries have occurred, including 32,000 amputations.”

4B: The National Consumers League states that within the eight years that the Power Tool Industry opposed a automatic safety technology over 300,000 people have gotten injured and even worse over 30,000 people have gotten their limbs amputated.

4C: This is an opinion/judgmental claim because it shows the number of people that have got injured from the table saw within the eight years that the PTI went against automatic safety technology.

4D: They analyzed the many of people that have gotten injured or have gotten amputated limbs over the course of eight years because that was when the Power Tool Industry opposed having mandated table saws for customers.

5. Injured Plaintiffs–

5A: “Wec says his permanent and “traumatic injury” could have been prevented if Bosch and its competitors had not rejected and fought against the safety technology.”

5B: The claim in the paragraph is that Bosch and the other manufacturers shouldn’t have rejected the safety of technology on table saw. The injury and lawsuit wouldn’t of occurred.

5C: This is a judgmental/proposal claim because they are saying that Bosch was the cause of his injury and the lawsuit would have been prevented if they didn’t declined the safety of their technology.

5D: I agree with the claim because it’s only a couple hundred to insure that your customers have a higher chance of not cutting a limb off and causing permanent damage.

Personal Injury Lawyers–

6A: Every year, thousands of people are severely injured after using table saws. For more than a decade, flesh-sensing safety technology has been available that could prevent almost all table saw injuries. Unfortunately, the manufacturers have refused to adopt it. Now, many people who have been injured are bringing table saw injury lawsuits against table saw manufacturers for failing to include the safety devices that would protect their customers from losing fingers, hands, arms, and suffering unfathomable pain.

6B: The manufacturers are refusing to be forced to make safer products for their customers and customers are suffering for it.

6C: This is a evaluation claim because the personal injury lawyers are evaluating the results it causes more people to get injuries because the major industries for table saw refused to accepted the mandatory safety rules on all of their products.

6D: Since the manufacturers refused to adopt the mandatory safety technology on their products as a result the customers are getting injured and now are looking for money from the companies to help them with their pain and suffering. when it all could have been avoided if the companies agreed to the safer technology for their table saws.

Government Officials–

7A: The Commission voted unanimously (4-0) to approve publication of the draft notice in the Federal Register that will announce an extension of 60 days for the comment period for an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for performance requirements to address table saw blade contact injuries

7B: The claim is that they are prolonging the decision to have mandatory safety rules on table saws.

7C: This is a proposal claim because they are saying that they have an extension on the table saw blade injuries.

7D: I think is should be a “No brainer” because it’s helping manufacturers lessen the lawsuits that they receive annually from angry customers. Plus, it means that people that would’ve got injured are now saved because of the mandatory safety rules.

News Reporters–

8A: “This week some of the nation’s biggest power tool companies sent their executives to Washington. They came to argue against tougher safety mandates for so-called table saws,”

8B: the executive of the major power tool companies went to Washington to oppose the safety mandates for table saws.

8C: This claim is judgmental because they are saying that the top manufacturers are going against the safety rules and more about other things that may be important.

8D: The executives of the major industries for tables saw argued against having tougher safety rules to make their table saws safer for their customers.

Missing dollar — dragon570

There is no missing dollar at all in this situation because the writer tells the audience they paid $30, although the meal was only $25.00. Ergo, the $5.00 that the cashier returns to the waiter is split between the waiter and the three ladies. The waiter returns a $1.00 to each lady and stole $2.00 for himself. The three ladies didn’t put $9.00 each on the table because it’s impossible to pay  a $25.00 bill evenly among each other.

Visual Rewrite—dragon570

0:01

A bald man in a purple shirt appears to be looking down at something. In the background there were 2 paintings hanging from the a tan-yellowish color wall. He reaches down to turn the volume up on the radio that seemed like it was already playing.

0:02-0:03

I saw him pouring a tray full of ice into a silver metal bucket. It seems like he’s setting up for a party or a special occasion.

0:04

In the scene I see him pouring a bag of pretzels into a small blue and green bowl.

0:05-0:06

Mr. Titus O’Neil goes into the refrigerator as if he is putting seething in the it. After, that I see him open a red door.

0:07-0:08

I see him look down towards the ground. The camera is back farther and I see another person that is handing him food. The man smile as if he is happy that the delivery man came.

0:09-0:10

The next scene you see the man setting up a small green table. He places a black chair on the side of the a green table.

0:11

After setting up the green table and the chairs he sits in his seat with a deck of cards in his hands. The camera is now aiming at the mans hands that have the deck of cards laying flat on the table. It seems like he is having a get together where he will be playing card games.

0:12-0:13

I see him laying the cards down next to each other and shuffles the cards.

0:14-0:15

The camera is still looking at his hands as he passes the already shuffled cards out to his opponents and himself to begin playing the card game.

0:16-0:17

The camera cuts to his face and the cards are close to his face as if he doesn’t want his opponents to see them. His eyes are shifting from his left and right to keep an eye on his opponents so they wouldn’t look at his cards.

0:18-0:19

The camera zooms out and you see a text appear at the bottom right corner of the screen saying “Titus O’Neil WWE Superstar” his card is brought down farther to the table. Their are two pairs of hands on either side of him. He looks to his opponent on his right side and I see his mouth moving to the opponent. The camera continues to zoom out, I see that the person he was looking at was a young boy that couldn’t be older than 11 years old.

0:20

The camera begins to zoom out and I see the kids eating a sandwich with a side of pretzels and carrot. I see the child that the Titus O’Neil was play arguing with was drinking some a glass of fruit punch and the other younger boy is drinking a juice box. It seems like the boy and the WWE Superstar are play arguing about the card game.

0:21-0:22

The young kids start dancing in their chairs probably because they won the card game. It shows that the WWE Superstar throws his cards down in defeat. The text saying “Titus O’Neil WWE Superstar” starts to fade away. The camera continues to zoom out slowly until it fades to black.

0:23-0:33

The screen fades to a black scene and in white lettering saying “It takes a moment… to make a moment.” It goes to another black screen showing a hashtag #makeamoment with the “a” being in orange color lettering and the rest in white color lettering. At the bottom left side of the screen it shows a URL fatherhood.gov and the bottom right side of the screen it shows the Ad Council label and other sponsors.

Open Strong — dragon570

Football helmets failed to protect players from getting concussions, yet, players are still receiving them. In recent years, football players have received injuries, mostly concussions. I found a rather out-of-the-box way to lessen the NFL’s concussion rate. I believe the football players should wear neither pads nor helmets. I know it’s a ridiculous to think the no helmet is better than having a helmet. Football player should tackle differently than they do.

A05: Proposal+5 — dragon570

No More Helmets In Football

For my research paper I will examine that football players shouldn’t wear helmets and tackle like rugby players tackle. Over the years people are starting to wonder if helmets are really helpful in the NFL because the players can still get head injuries. Helmet companys are answering back by adding more padding inside the helmets. Padding in helmets can only work but so far because padding in inside each helmet can provide some type cushion for the skull but not for the brain. The brain is surrounded by fluid that can cushion it also but to a certain extent. As a scenario, a player is gets hit on his blind side at full speed and the defensive player accidentally hit the player helmets the amount of fluid in our brain can’t stop the brain from hitting the skull. Also, the way a football player may dive for a tackle can cause a concussion because their head could hit the ground hard or even worse they could land on their head.

If people watch the sport of rugby they will see the differences in the way they tackle versus the way football player tackle. The obvious difference is that they don’t use as much padding as football players do. The less padding players have the more cautious they are. In football, players wear a bunch of padding and some may think they are indestructible when they have it on and hit other players extremely harder than if they didn’t have padding on them.  That is a misconception because padding can only help but so much when it comes to certain types of hits.

They state that football players should be taught to not use their heads as a weapon when going in for a tackle, instead they should tackle like rugby player do. Another reason that can result in concussions in football is that the ball carrier can get blind sided by another player from a defensive player. On the practice field players should try tackling a different way… without helmets for some of the drills to help them get in the habit of not leading the tackle with their heads but instead with their arms.

1) Football helmets are creating more problems than they solve

The Essential Content of the Article: Sporting News reports on how football players shouldn’t wear helmets or pads because they could tackle just like the rugby players tackle.

What It Proves: It provides videos of legal and also illegal hits in the NFL which can cause a player to receive a concussion or even worse. Also, it provides evidence of people who agree with the idea of football players not wearing helmets.

2) Lemco: Why Football Needs Less Pads

The Essential Content of the Article: Football players wear a lot of padding and think they can get hit as hard as they want and not get hurt, however, in rugby the players wear less padding and they are more conscious of receiving or giving injuries.

What it Proves: The different mindset of football player versus the mindset of rugby players and how they go about taking or giving injuries.

3) Concussions: Rugby Can Help Football

The Essential Content of the Article: Rugby players should teach football player how to tackle right that would lessen the rate of concussions in the NFL.

What it Proves: It goes over that tackling rules of rugby and that some of the tackles in the NFL that are legal are illegal in rugby.

4) Pads and Helmets: Rugby vs. Gridiron

The Essential Content of the Article: The collisions in football are greater than in rugby. “Rugby is a contact sport and football is a collision sport.”

What it Proves: Rugby only have one on one collisions the other player on the field are their for support. Whereas, football collisions are occurring at every down.

5) Helmetless Football? It’s the New Practice at New Hampshire

The Essential Content of the Article: The University of New Hampshire tried a new way of practice by tackling without helmets. New Hampshire is one of the leading college in head and neck injuries. They tried a different approach to tackle players by not wearing their helmets or some of the drills

What it Proves: Football players can tackle without using helmets. They just have to tackle a different way. For example instead of going into a tackle with their heads they can tackle with their bodies or perform a method of wrapping their arms around a player to make a tackle.

E03: Critical Reading — dragon570

Different studies of the children of American World War II, Korea, and Vietnam vets with PTSD have turned up different results:

  • They did “different studies” on the children of veterans with PSTD

“45 percent” of kids in one small study “reported significant PTSD signs”;

  • 45% of children show signs of PSTD

“83 percent reported elevated hostility scores.”

  • They claimed that 83% had elevated hostility scores.

Other studies have found a “higher rate of psychiatric treatment”; “more dysfunctional social and emotional behavior’; “difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.”

  • “Other studies” their were more than this one study going on. Those studies showed “higher rate of psychiatric treatment.”
  • Listed the claims of the type PSTD hat some of the children have inherited from their parents

The symptoms were similar to what those researchers had seen before, in perhaps the most analyzed and important population in the field of secondary traumatization: the children of Holocaust survivors.

  • Researchers claimed that the same results are the same as the last time they did this study.
  • Another claim in this sentence is that the children on Holocaust survivors showed that they were traumatized the most because their parents had PSTD after the holocaust.

Of course, the Army only helps families of active-duty personnel.

  • The army doesn’t help peoples families with anything that could have stemmed from the war they were in unless the person is “active-duty personnel.”

It’s the Department of Veterans Affairs that’s charged with treating the problems that can persist long past discharge.

  • Only the people of the department of Veterans affairs are in charge of helping the veterans after they get out of the military.

But “if you asked the VA to treat your kids, they would think it was nonsense,” says Hofstra’s Motta.

  • They wouldn’t do their job if it came to the veterans kids instead they would basically say “shake it off.”
  • The government only helps who they want to help.

When I asked the VA if the organization would treat kids for secondary trauma, its spokespeople stressed that it has made great strides in family services in recent years, rolling out its own program for couples’ counseling and parenting training.

  • She claims that the Department of Veterans affairs would lie to her if she asked about their efforts on treating kids that have created symptoms of PTSD from their parents.

Our goal is to make the parents the strongest parents they can be,” says Susan McCutcheon, national director for Family Services, Women’s Mental Health, and Military Sexual Trauma at the VA; according to Shirley Glynn, a VA clinical research psychologist who was also on the call, “for the vast majority of people with the secondary traumatization model, the most important way to help the family deal with things is to ensure that the veteran gets effective treatment.

  • Susan McCutcheon says the families that have veterans that are traumatized from the things they saw during the time they were overseas try to find the best way to help them and their families.

In cases where children themselves need treatment, these VA officials recommended that parents find psychologists themselves, though they note “this is a good time [for the VA] to make partners with the community so we can make good referrals.” Or basically: “You’re on your own,” says Brannan.

  • The Department of Veterans Affairs don’t help wen the family need help with their children that have gotten traumatized from the parents that as in the military.

Stone Money Rewrite– dragon570

The Counterfeit Value of Money

When I think of coins I imagine pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters that can fit into my pant pocket. That’s a different story for the people of Yap who have coins that are taller, bigger, and stronger then themselves. They call it fei another name for it could be stone money, their stone money is a type of rock called limestone. Yap is a tiny island that is in the Pacific Ocean. When I first heard this story I thought it was really silly because they can’t move the coin when they claim it. Later, when I read the article “The Island of Stone Money” it allowed me to understand the concept of why Yap people use stone money. David Kestenbaum and a couple of other people broad casted about stone money. They were a little astounded about the size of the money that they use to purchased certain things. They also understood the value of their stone money. Money is worth whatever we an get for it. It doesn’t really have a real value of it.

Planet Money team did a broadcast of Brazil’s fight against money. In the broadcast, called “How Fake Money Saved Brazil” it talks about how inflation in Brazil reached 80% per month just because the government decided to use printed money to build a new capital. Luckily, 4 former graduate students helped save their country’s economy with “fake money”. Everyday grocery store prices went from cheap to expensive. For example, a bag of chips may cost $1, however, after a month it may cost $10 for one bag. Some customers at a grocery would see the price gun person walking down the isles changing the prices so people would cut in front of the price gun person and get to whatever they were buying before the person changed the price to a higher amount. People were tricked into thinking that money had value when that wasn’t true. They used something called “virtual currency.” It tricked them into thinking that their new currency was in URV’s (unit of real value), but in actuality it wasn’t. It was a good way to help the economy from heading towards bankruptcy.

My concept for money has changed because all my life I always heard people say that money is valuable. However, after reading the essay, listening to the broadcast,and discussing it in class. I have more of an understanding of money. That money could be fiction because it is what we can get from it. When I heard the story about the United States and how we put gold in a drawer and labeling it “France” it reminded me of the stone money in Yap because they don’t have physical possession of it but they still label it theirs, we still left it in the drawer for nobody to touch and just put a label on it. Later, we could have used it towards the Great Depression it would have tremendously helped our economy get out of the hard time this nation went through. If the people of Yap came to the United States and saw our currency and how we spend it I believe they would be shocked because we pay for everything with a swipe of a card.

Throughout the year our world is been changing at a rapid paced. Back then, Their weren’t bank accounts and plastic debit or credit that they just had to swipe to buy something. Instead, they used paper money that has been out dated because of debit/credit cards and checks. In class, I learned about the cows and chips metaphor which was basically about what the value of money really is. For example, in our the society money is worth the same amount we are spending for that dollar and so on. We can say that we are basically trading items, in this case, the chips for the dollar. The cow comes into the metaphor because it’s like trading the dollars for the cows. Cow are worth the amount you trade them for and depending on who you’re trading them with determines the value of the cow.

In the essay, “The Island of Stone Money” by Milton Friedman. He talks about how an ancestor and a group of people went out to found stone money. They were on there way back to the island but their was a strong storm and the group of people had to let go of stone money to save their saves. It sunk to the bottom of the ocean and they came back telling story about their journey. The people of the island decided that the coin at the bottom of the ocean was the ancestors. Even though it’s not physically in their possession it’s still labeled as theirs. In Caroline Lafargue article,” Yap’s Stone Money” she stated that  “And it could be easy to assume that the biggest stones would be considered the most valuable. But in reality the value can depend on each stone’s individual story.” Each person has a story to tell bout how they adventure to get this big piece of stone.

In the broadcast by NPR, they learned about the stone money at Yap and they figured out that the value of money isn’t real. For example, when people get paid they don’t get money handed to them nowadays, instead it’s sent to their bank accounts the only thing that changes it the number they see when they go into their bank account. In my class discussion I found out that the more money I have the less the dollar is worth. For example, If I get paid $288 one week and go to the store to buy something that’s a dollar it doesn’t seems expensive to me because I have $287 left. However, it might cost a dollar but that can add up to the point where I may have $5 left in my account.

Work Cited

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.

Goldstein, Jacob. “The Island Of Stone Money.” NPR. Planet Money, 10 Dec. 2010. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Joffe-Walt, Chana. “How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR. NPR, 4 Oct. 210. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Lafargue, Caroline. “Yap’s Stone Money: The Largest and Heaviest Currency in the World.” ABC Radio Australia. ABC Radio Australia, 11 May 2016. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.