... There is a continuing debate over whether or not the “one and done” rule is for college basketball players. “One and done” rule is another term used to describe a player who stays in college for a single year before declaring for the NBA draft. This particular rule was instituted as part of an age restriction for young men wanting to enter the draft back in 2006. The question everyone is left with “Is this really to the player’s benefit?” An argument at hand is that the NCAA will argue this case from an academic standpoint. The NCAA would suggest that this rule will make the athletes well equipped by getting rid of freshman eligibility and allowing them to focus on their studies for a full year. When in actuality they will be trying to manipulate these athletes without any type of reward for them in return. The opposing argument would say that college is not for everyone. People as a whole would love to get a higher degree but some do not have the same will and drive as others. The NCAA wants to force school upon athletes with these types of rules knowing there’s no guarantee that they would take it seriously. In conclusion, the “one and done” from the NCAA standpoint will further the athlete education while getting them ready for the NBA draft. While attending college the students will become better athlete along with becoming a better scholar. On the other hand school is not for everyone. There are some athletes who are born with pure talent where they can enter the draft...
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...first pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers Select Anthony Bennet. 6’8 Power forward from San Diego State University. That is something we all heard about seven months ago. A young man no older than twenty years old was just drafted first overall. A young male athlete, knowing he will be making 5.3 million dollars in a few months once the season begins. Imagine at the end of this semester leaving the school you are at and becoming pro. . It just felt like a little scrape There are really only three sports that make up this discussion basketball, football, and baseball. Next, I will tell you about how going pro affects the athletes of the following sports. ≈≈≈≈≈ First, I am going to tell you how the rule the NCAA has placed are affecting athletes in basketball. When should young college athletes be able to make the decision to go pro? This is a topic for discussion no matter what sport you are playing, and they are all very much different too. The NBA changed its rule in 2005. The NBA made an agreement in 2005 about young basketball players going pro. Going pro 2 “Article X of the NBA's 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement, a provision that required all potential NBA draftees to be at...
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...Edgar Galvan NCAA as a Monopoly After over a century of existence, the National Collegiate Athletic Association stands today as a multi-million dollar organization, one of the largest and most successful organizations in the nation. The NCAA is in charge of overlooking every college athletic competition in the United States. Every year millions of fans watch NCAA organized games and follow the top prospects of every sport. However, all schools and players involved with the NCAA are obligated to follow a strict set of rules to be eligible to compete at the college level. The NCAA holds college athletes specifically to a very strict set of rules. Under the NCAA all athletes are considered amateurs. The term amateur is used to describe a person or group of people who participate in any form of activity for their own pleasure or entertainment, often distant from those who participate in the same activity for a financial benefit. They NCAA uses the term amateurs to distinguish college athletes from professional athletes. The official NCAA website states that “Maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority”(“Amateurism”). They believe that by labeling them as amateurs they set them apart as student-athletes and everything that the students do for their own respective sport is part of extracurricular activities they are taking a part of. Their website emphasizes this point and declare, “In the collegiate...
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...expense such has room and board, food and everything else a human being needs to survive. Playing a colligate sport is just as demanding as a full time job and according to a survey done by “[1] The NCAA in 2011 playing football required 43.3 hours per week; college baseball, 42.1 hours; men's basketball, 39.2 hours; and women's basketball, 37.6 hours.” So these athletes have no time with school and their respective sport to find a job to help them with other expenses so they have to rely on student loans, grants or their parents to help them get through school. This also makes it much more difficult for a student athlete to pursue a more rigorous degree such as sciences and engineering. One problem that I have with the NCAA is all the restrictions that they put on recruiting and even after recruiting is over the athletes have to sign away their image, rights to their name, and their likeness just play in college. There was specific problem with a famous college athlete of Jonny Manziel or commonly referred to as “Jonny Football.” During Manziel’s final year of playing college football he was attending “[2] Walter Camp...
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...Race and Ethnicity Should racial profiling be a legitimate law-enforcement policy in some areas? Should Affirmative Action for state university enrollment be continued? Should the primary method of public school funding--property taxes in individual school districts--be amended to create more fairness in schools? Should high-school history classes and social-studies curriculum be changed to reflect diversity and multicultural perspectives? Should Christmas, Easter, and other religious observances be considered national holidays? If a university offers "African-American Studies" or "Black Studies" as courses, should it also offer "European-American Studies" or "White Studies"? How do certain television programs perpetuate racial or ethnic stereotypes? Should Columbus Day be discontinued in favor of a new post-colonial perspective? Should schools only purchase textbooks that offer revised or alternative histories of historical events? What should be done about racial disparities in the sentencing of criminals? Should the American government pay reparations and return land to Native Americans? Should hate groups have the right to distribute literature on university campuses? If research shows that certain racial or ethnic groups receive poorer medical care on average, how should this problem be corrected? Should governmental organizations have staffs that accurately reflect the racial, ethnic, and gender balance in society? Gender and Sexuality What should be...
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...With the rise of gun violence in the United States, there is a growing concern regarding the ownership of guns. This view of gun ownership is already rooted in our society. This can be seen by the laws we have in place. One can not just go to a gun store and buy a gun with no restrictions. There are age restrictions to get any type of gun (18 years old), some types of guns (pistols, etc.) can not be bought until one is even older than that (21 years old), and there are other, more advanced types of weapons, that can not be bought by civilians at all. Even if you meet the age requirements, there are background checks that you must pass. Even with all these laws, shootings still happen, and this causes many to push for even more strict gun...
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...MG420 Research Assignment BY: Travis Jones 1.) Define and discuss the term “collective bargaining.” Include and discuss [showing relevance or applicability] a current web-based item/magazine article about a real life example of a collective bargaining action. Write a succinct and complete summary on the contents of the article you’ve provided along with your critical comments about that article. Support your findings with reference research. When the system is working effectively, efficiency, equity, and voice are achieved through collective bargaining. In collective bargaining, representatives of the employer and the employees negotiate the terms and conditions of employment that will apply to the employees. (txt book CH1 pg.18). New Farmer Health Insurance Relies On Collective Bargaining MADISON, Wis. (AP)--A new group health insurance program for Wisconsin farmers is the first of its kind in the country and will serve as a model for others to follow, designers of the plan said. The program promises to offer comprehensive insurance plans at cheaper rates than farmers could get on their own and with more extensive coverage and benefits. "People are waiting in the agricultural community for an option like this that will provide the health care they deserve," said Sandi Cihlar, 57, a dairy farmer in Mosinee, who attended Monday's news conference announcing the plan. The Farmers' Health Cooperative of Wisconsin relies on the collective bargaining power of the...
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...both are random people, I would say that we aren't the typical norm of people. We both say the weirdest things some times. Both Greg and I like to tell people at any moment that they “smell soooooo bad.” Sometimes ill be walking out of the bathroom after getting out of the shower and he’ll just yell from the other side of the room that “I smell soooooooo bad” then we both start yelling that at each other for five to ten minutes straight. Don't ask me why we both do that it just happens. Something else that makes Greg and I the same is that we both love basketball, We both have always found the game of basketball amazing. I think it runs in the family because my whole family love basketball. We like everything about it, we love watching the NBA on tv or we go to games. We also love to play basketball outside with each other or with anyone who wants to join us. Greg plays for the school basketball team and he’s very good. Me on the other hand don't play for the school team because I don't like the coach at all because I played my freshman year of high school and I sat the bench the whole entire time because the coach liked to pick favorites and as you could see I wasn't one of them. Greg didn't get on the coaches favorite side either but he has the will to continue fighting to try and get playing time and he has succeed to do that. I still play basketball for fun like playing pick up games with friends because i know that I will be able to play no matter...
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...Basketball Association Major League Baseball National Hockey League European Soccer’s Path to Financial Health: UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Creative Accounting Roster Depreciation Allowance Franchise Appreciation Summary The Financial Status of Professional Sports Growth of Professional Sports Major Leagues The 1990s and early 2000s was a period of substantial growth for professional sports at all levels. The number of teams in the Big 4 major leagues grew from 103 franchises in 1989 to 122 franchises by 2001. During that time, the National Hockey League (NHL) added eight expansion teams, Major League Baseball (MLB) added four, the National Football League (NFL) added three, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) added five teams. In addition, several new leagues were launched in the 1990s with aspirations of becoming prominent national properties, most notably Major League Soccer (MLS) and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). By 2001, each of the Big 4 leagues had reached a saturation point, having established franchises in nearly every market capable of sustaining a major sports property. A few markets remain available for certain leagues. For example, Los Angeles has not had an NFL team since the Rams abandoned LA for a new stadium in St. Louis in 1995. While the NFL would love to have a franchise in the country’s 3rd largest television market, the lack of a modern, “NFL-ready” stadium has prevented a team from filling this attractive...
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...younger generation has turned towards playing video games; with every generation of new graphics card comes out a new level of realism is achieved, and the developer tries to make more games that look like and has feel of a real life. We already spend hours out of our daily routine either killing zombies in walking dead, or killing other people and dealing drugs to become a crime lord in Grand Theft Auto, or sometimes just living a completely different life style in a role playing game like second life and World of Warcraft. We prefer to sit home and play video games rather than go out and play hide and seek. Most of us who are not good at physical sports like soccer or baseball, tries to play and be good at those sports in video games like NBA and Tiger Woods. We try to be a person that we are not or in some cases we cannot be, in video games. Someone tries to live their fantasy of being a racecar driver in Need for Speed games, or someone would try and be a sniper in World of War 2, or maybe someone wants to be a spy like James Bond. Not just video game but the whole “Entertainment Industry” as we call it, has a part in this manipulation process. Sometimes the features of a game would allow a person to do almost anything, for example Watch Dogs is an open world video game...
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...A Level Playing Field By: Elaine Nescio PSL200 T-TH 11:00 The international bestselling book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century by Thomas L. Friedman analyzes globalization in the early 21st century. Throughout the book Friedman helps the reader view the world on a level playing field, where the traditional issues of historical and geographical divisions are becoming irrelevant and all competitors have an equal opportunity. Friedman examines the influences shaping businesses and competition in a technology fueled global environment. Supporting his ideas with interviews, case studies and statistics Friedman sends the message to his readers that they need to be prepared because the flattening world waits for no one. The flattening of the world however is not something that happens over night. In fact this process has been happening over a number of years but has become more noticeable after the turn of the century. Throughout “The World is Flat” you will find Friedman believes are the ten major factors causing the flattening of the world, how the United States should approach the flattening world, and how Friedman comes to his conclusions. Thomas Friedman’s trip to India is where he first notices that the playing field has been leveled and that global knowledge is available to a much larger audience. Friedman argues that the world is “going from size small to size tiny” (10). The flattening of the world entails that we are now connecting...
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...Introduction The advent of revenue sharing and salary caps has revolutionized the business of professional sports. The National Football League implemented these concepts in order to promote competitive balance. Theoretically, revenue sharing is supposed to encourage equal distribution of wealth so as to not concentrate top-talent players to the teams with the most resources. In so doing, its practice should work to ensure that there is equal competition among small and large market teams. Also, by enacting a salary cap, larger market teams are prevented from monopolizing talent. Through a series of collective bargaining agreements and lawsuits, there has been a movement in the NFL toward benefiting both the players and owners. The NFL is the most successful professional sports league in the country. This is in large part due to its ability to run efficiently as a business and promote competition as a sport. In this paper, we examine the historical significance of the progressive collective bargaining agreements and how its changes have effected players and owners of teams in the league. We also examine the components of revenue-sharing and the salary cap implemented through the NFL’s CBA and their significance in promoting competitive balance. Historical Analysis of the Salary Cap and CBA The National Football League has undergone many changes since its inception in the 1920s. Early in the development of the National Football League, there was competition among teams in...
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...Report on The System of Education in India Nordic Recognition Information Centres 1 October 2006 THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN INDIA Introduction ......................................................................................................... 3 Background to the Study Tour ............................................................................................... 3 Report Structure ..................................................................................................................... 3 Country Profile ....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 1 General Education ............................................................................ 5 Administration of Education .................................................................................................. 5 School Education.................................................................................................................... 6 National Curricula .................................................................................................................. 7 Examination and Assessment............................................................................................... 12 Source................................................................................................................................... 15 Islamic Education .......................................
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...Marketing Excellence Southwest Airlines Introduction Southwest Airlines Co. is the largest low-cost carrier in the United States, and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The airline was established in 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. Southwest begins flying within the state of Texas (between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio) with three Boeing 737 aircraft. Today Southwest operates nearly 400 Boeing 737 aircraft to 59 U.S. cities. Southwest has the lowest operating cost structure in the domestic airline industry and consistently offers the lowest and simplest fares. Southwest also has one of the best overall customer service records. Moreover, It is one of the few airlines with no layoffs aimed a travel slump created by the slow economy and the threat of terrorism. Southwest offers types of products and services which include; air transportation, mobile access, shuttle service, priority boarding, early bird check-in, and pet allowance. Southwest has pioneered in Senior Fares, a same-day air freight delivery service, Fun Fares, and Ticketless Travel. Southwest was the first airline with web page- southwest.com, DING! The first-ever direct link to Customer’s computer desktops that delivers live updates on ticket deals, and the first airline corporate blog. A timeline of key dates in Southwest Airlines history: 1971 - Southwest begins flying between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The idea for the airline was hatched over drinks by San Antonio lawyer Herb Kelleher...
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...Pay to Play: Economic Impact of Paying College Athletes 1. Purpose of Research & Analysis On April 25, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., granted Northwestern University's request to review the decision made by the regional office recognizing the school's football players as employees. In mid-April, Northwestern football players voted as a team on whether or not to unionize, but the votes will only be opened if the board ends up siding with the players, which may take at least a couple of months. Ultimately, the Northwestern football players are determining their fate through this secret ballot and their decision to form the first union amongst college athletes—a decision that has the ability to change the landscape of American college sports. If granted the right to unionize, the Northwestern football team will actually have the ability to bargain over their conditions and it is expected that this could ultimately lead to requesting salary compensation for their efforts. In light of these recent historic discussions, it is critical to analyze not only the ethical, but also the economic impact of such potential situations. My research paper has been structured to shed some light into the challenging and complicated discussions that continue to occur around this topic. Specifically, I have broken my research and analysis into three key topics. First, I explore whether or not there is an underlying issue with the current state, from an economic perspective...
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