Notecard Topics

Legalization of Marijuana- I'm interested because with marijuana being legalized how the government will react to it by taxing it, growing it and distributing it. Also the way the product will be used by people, and how it will be distributed through hospitals/ pharmacy's and who could get it. Also, the way the law will react, since the crime rate is very highly anticipated to distributing marijuana illegally how those rules will be fixed or edited and what will happen to the people doing time in prison for marijuana possession will happen.

Salary of Professional Athletes- This is fascinating because some players are paid way to much for what their performance really stands for, others are highly underpaid, and first year players such as rookies, get either way to much money, and the one's picked later in the draft, whom eventually are break-out players don't get their earnings. Needless to say, a player who is 34 years of age gets a new 5 year deal worth $92.1 million, please, he wont even last 2 years.

College athletes leaving early for professional level sports- This is highly recognized because some athletes leave after one year of eligibility in college, just to make millions, and once their career is over they can't fall back on education. none the less, some players leave high school and skip college, others leave high school after graduation, go to a foreign or European league for a year and then become a professional athlete.

Gambling- Here this is legal, but the fact it turns out to be more than a simple bet for fun at a casino, to betting your own home on a horse race is ridiculous. Especially in sports where ref's are betting on games and changing/ adding points, or making calls against certain players just so the other team has the opportunity to take advantage and win is astounding. Then baseball athletes betting against their own team.

Nickalos Hits Goldmine

After watching the first half of the movie runaway jury, i believe the overall outcome of the movie will be that Nickolas and Marlee will band together and sway the jury toward their opinion that the gun company should be reliable for the deaths of the following people that were killed. Also that Rakin Fitch and his gang will fold and start coming apart towards the end of film because they will start losing strength when nick and Marlee are desperately trying to win the case and money. I believe Nickolas will win and he will try to side with Wendell Rohr as well because nick will take the chance on winning a large amount of money going against the grain saying that the gun company will lose for the first time. In other opinions I had, the movie would not play out that the strong force would always win and the bad guys would continue their streak of not losing, it just doesn't happen all the time.

Against the odds, i had a feeling the jury would side with Rakin saying the gun company could not be held responsible because they have nothing to do with the fact the man killed those people, they just sell guns like every other gun store in the world. Now in all theory again that Nickolas would win this money, and that the gun company would lose is saying in my opinion that Nickolas and Marlee have been researching gun cases for a number of years and have a strong understanding on the case and are in it for the cash. He is also trying to control his jury members and trying to get them to agree with him throughout the film by doing such things like taking them out to lunch with the judge, and saying the pledge of alligence before the one day of trial.