Six+Think+Hats

Please review The Six Thinking Hats. I have put up the Power Point that I created and a video that you can watch as well. Keep in mind that the Six Thinking Hats Helps us to Discuss as opposed to debate. It helps to come to concensus or make decisions based on all the angles.

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The Olympics- are they worth the amount of cost?

Green Hat: The Olympics have accomplishment so much with bringing together communities and having the magic from the media explored everywhere you look. Gum companies are even getting into the spirit of the Olympics by having our maple leafs on chewing gum. Vancouver has turn out to be this year’s hot stop; some people who live in Vancouver are renting out there homes for the games then taking off on a tropical vacation all due to the 2010 Olympic Games. The hype of the games, have created a huge creative and imaginative experience for friends and families across Canada. Miss Bengtsson

The Olympics... are they worth the amount of cost? An event that draws the world together, that keeps the world in complete unity, that promotes world peace!

(Black Hat?) Now, if that was true, and the Olympics did promote world peace, that would be flippin' sweet! But sadly, there is no world peace, and the world isn't in complete unity. The Olympics are awesome, don't get me wrong, but there are two sides to look at it: See, originally, back in the good ol' days of 2004, they estimated that the 2010 Olympics would cost around 1.354 billion dollars. *cough* 1.345 BILLION dollars. But because it was human beings that made that estimation. It was incorrect. In mid 2009, the games looked like it would fall under the 1.76 billion category. But once again, human mistake. The final price of the 2010 Olympic games is 6 billion dollars. Now, 6 billion dollars is quite the number! I mean seriously, its pretty up there! But lets think about it, people train, play some games, win a couple of gold or silver soaps on a rope and call it good. Is it really worth the money?

(Yellow Hat?)Now, the second way of looking at it, is that it brings people of all races together, competing in somewhat friendly competition, to win medals that will represent their hard work and effort and bring honor and appreciation to their country. And I think that that is really cool! And makes that 6 billion dollars somewhat worth it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics

Dan? (There are question marks from beside my black hat and yellow hat because I'm not sure if they are accurate with the actual meanings of those words)

White hat: The Olympics are a world venue were many of the worlds contrys can get together and do somthing as one. Yellow Hat: Anything were the peoples of the world are not killing each other is worth whatever price tag put on it. Peter

(Green Hat) The winter-yer country's get together and battle for gold. Money is spent that could be spent in other ways such as building roads or health care programs. It could be spent in different ways that would benefit Canadians better. The Olympics make country's pay and go into debt for the sake of fun and the opportunity for professional athletes to compete on a world stage. -TheeUnknown

(Yellow Hat?)I think the Olympics is a good way for our countries to compete. It’s also a good way for our athletes to have their abilities shown to the world while also giving different cities attention and letting them be known around the world. Taylor

Should Medicine Hat have an Arena?

Yellow Hat: I believe we should have a new arena with the benefits of a good acoustic system set up into the stadium. Instead of placing the arena into previous developed land by squeezing it into where the old one stood. I think we should keep the smaller Arena downtown in addition to that create a huge stadium in the newer development. There would be a lot more freedom and be able to build communities and businesses around it to further the revenue for the stadium and employers surrounding it. Miss Bengtsson

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Now, the arena that we have now is nice, but a new one would be pretty awesome! I mean, a city with the population of roughly 61,000 people, an arena with a four thousand seating capacity isn't suffice for the cities events. Although medicine hat could use a new arena, the way that the city is going about it isn't the best. See, land has been donated, or offered, and the city has been picky with the doors that have been opened. Why? Well its strange that the city would choose not to take other opportunities and decide to build the arena where it would cost 95 million. But yet, over in vancouver, they built a new arena with similar features for 50 million. I dunno, but our city should look at different options as far as a new arena goes.

Dan? (I don't know what that would be)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Hat_Arena

White hat: The Tigers have, in the past five years, virtualy always filled the staidium. that is a sign that we need a bigger one. Because of the way it is built expanson is looking slim, so a new arena souds like a good idea. Now for the money problem as dan stated in the above article there is a problem in why is it costing so much more than the vancover arena. A 45 million dollar split is a bit of a descrepency. Yellow hat: Now we do need a new arena we just need a second opinion on the price. Peter

(Black Hat)Medicine Hat should consider an new area but should rethink there plans so that the area could hold enough people so that Medicine Hat could hold the Memorial Cup. Although in doing this the taxes will be raised and do we want to pay even more taxes!!! The Taxes are going to raise but are we willing to pay the price for larger parking, more seating, newer arena? -TheeUnknown

(White Hat) I feel having a new arena is a good idea there are also some questions that must be answer first. Can we afford it? What happens to the old one? Can we afford both? When these questions are answered we will have a better idea of what we are getting into, but from my point of view I feel it’s a good idea. Taylor Excellent points, Taylor! And After reading the question of the Olympics, how accurate will the estimation of cost be? CF