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#2. The Rise of Women's Sports

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The popularization of Women's sports is on the rise and in record breaking numbers. 2023 has been a year of great accomplishment for women across a plethora of sports but what does this mean? Well to begin, I would like to highlight some of the records hit this year in terms of audience in the realm of women's sports. On August 20th, 2023, The University of Nebraska played The University of Omaha in a volleyball game which packed the stadium, drawing a crowd of over 92,000 people. This game broke the record of the most attended women's sporting event in history.  Additionally, just a couple weeks before that on August 16th, 2023, the Australian National Soccer Team played England in the semi-final of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The 2023 Cup, held in New Zealand and Australia, drew in a record audience for Australian sports with " a reach of 11.5 million " people during that game. The Australian   Prime Minister Anthony Albanese even called for a public ho

#1. On Blogs

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  To pass time in class I often find myself opening Microsoft Edge, browsing the discover page, and mindlessly clicking on articles to read based on bold titles and images on the screen. Only recently in researching blogs in hopes to find inspiration for my own, have I realized that all of those articles I've spent the past couple of years reading in class are  blogs, or really blog posts.  It's interesting to see how much diverse information is being put out on the internet using blogs. Whether on sports, tech, cooking, politics, or even bad celerity hair days, I've found that I am able to enjoy all types of blogs. I'd never really thought about it before, but blogs are great. They are not only outlets for people to provide their perspective and insight on topics of their choice, but also hotspots for people to read more on niche topics they enjoy. That said I'd like to leave my opinion on three blogs I've come across. The first is  Benedict Evans . This blog,

#0. Introduction

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Hello everyone! My name is Sofia Sandoval. I know by looking at my blog I might come off as emo but I'm not, I swear. Not that there's anything wrong with being emo. Anyways I'm here to introduce myself so I should probably do that. Like many of you currently taking this class, I'm in my junior year of high school. It's supposedly the hardest year of them all. Yay? So far though, I'm actually feeling pretty optimistic about this year. Going into week five feeling strong. We'll see how long that lasts. Ok, I'm going to sound like an absolute nerd for this but I don't care; something you should know about me is that I love math. Like actually if all my classes could be math, they would be. Right now, I'm taking calculus and physics and I find it so fun seeing how everything intertwines and makes sense! I could go on and on but I'll save you from hearing it. You see, one of my goals is to become an aerospace engineer. I just think it'd be so