...I believe Dr. Jill Stein (the Green Party’s presidential nominee) is a true leader. She practices what she preaches. Ethics, distinguishing right from wrong, Jill Stein has it. The first thing that stands out to me about Jill Stein’s ethics would be the fact that she refused to be funded by corporate money. In July of this year she stated “We need real public servants who listen to the people, not to the corporate lobbyists that funnel campaign checks into the big war chests, that's what brought me to the Green Party, the only national party that is not bought and paid for by corporate money." She supports environmentalism, non-violence, social justice and grassroots organizing (bringing things from the community level.) One of her main goals is called the Green New Deal and it kills two birds with one stone; creating jobs in renewable energy, it not only would reduce unemployment but also will help the climate and eventually peoples health. Self-Competency: Jill graduated from medical school and worked with adults and young people, eventually she realized she couldn’t do both this and politics. She says what she is doing now is “political medicine.” She says they have to heal the politics in order to achieve health in all other aspects of society. Diversity Competency: Jill Stein is actually the first Jewish woman presidential candidate. She stands for rights of the disabled, rights of all individuals to choose their intimate partners, religious freedom, etc. ...
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...This Person in Sports: Casey Wasserman Casey Wasserman, grandson to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, grew up with an entrepreneurial spirit and a knack for business like his grandfather. After graduating from UCLA with a Political Science degree, Wasserman got into the world of investment banking and realized it was not for him. At age 25, he became the youngest person to ever own a professional sports team when he purchased the LA Avengers of the Arena Football League. Helping to negotiate the AFL’s national TV partnership with NBC, as well as playing an integral part in the collective bargaining agreement with the players, Wasserman was later elected chairman of the league. His love of football, despite the termination of the LA Avengers in 2009, has not faded. Wasserman is currently working with LA Live and the Staples Center to build a $1 billion dollar stadium, which he hopes will be the new home of an NFL franchise in Los Angeles. Alongside his work with the AFL, Wasserman simultaneously founded Wasserman Media Group (WMG), which encompasses athlete management, corporate consulting, media rights and partnerships; he remains Chairman and CEO. Competing with some of the world’s largest talent management agencies, WMG has an extensive clientele (over 1,200 clients and close to $3 Billion in sponsorships) in all of the major sports, action sports, and the Olympic games. Big deals done by WMG include the naming rights agreement on the recently built Met Life Stadium in New...
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...picture) is a place where diversity can exist, and nobody questions it. Individuals come to meet friends, family, even strangers to become one fan base for their favorite team. No matter what differences these people have, they still manage to bond because of this one similarity. Everyone cheers for the same team, unless you’re in the wrong section of seats. This group, and any other large group of fans, represents a melting pot of people with different ethnicities, sexes, cultures, and/or religions. This picture of Duke fans gave me an appreciation for my hometown and the fact that so many of my friends and I love sports. It reminded me of the connection people feel when they are together, as one, cheering. Going to the baseball stadium, football dome, or ice rink, with my friends helped me grow closer to them. Through the excitement of everyone in the picture, the unity of school colors on each individual, and the diversity of sex and race, it can be determined that Duke's basketball team serves as some kind of social captivator for Duke fans, who are together watching the game. This picture shows the excitement of some people cheering on their school's basketball team. Everyone seems happy and excited. The body paint is an interesting concept. The color of someone’s skin tends to disconnect people sometimes. I think the younger generations are better at not being prejudice towards other races, but it still exists. This prejudice might...
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...HISTORY OF FOOTBALL. We all know many kinds of sports. Some people were taught how to play different type of sports during their early age. One of the sports is football. It is a very well-known sport. Football is also known as ‘soccer’ in the United States of America. Nearly all the males in the world play the game of football and if not, they just have a huge interest in football but do they actually know the history of the game of football and how it was first established? It is widely accepted that both the Romans and the Greeks started the sport of football which tells us that its origins are believed to lie in ancient times. During the Roman Empire, football wasn’t involved in the ancient Olympic due to the fact that football that time was just a test of bravery to the Roman Army as actions such as punching, hacking and generally assaulting the opponent were highly accepted as part of the game. Football during that time appears to have resembled rugby. Football was also mentioned in a compiled documents found in China which was from the 1st century BC. It describes a practice called cuju which means “kicking ball” in Chinese. Cuju was originally involved kicking a leather ball into a mini hole hung 9 meters above ground with the help of bamboo sticks. Rules were established then on the 2nd century BC and eventually, the game of of cuju spread to Japan as well as to Korea and the name of the sport has changed to Kemari respectively. However the sport appears to have...
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...Blake Feldmann Orlet English 101-OL01D 16 June 2010 Types of Sports Fans Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans. Fans that are fanatics are the ones who are diehard and will put their favorite team before almost all other priorities. Their lives revolve around their favorite team and they will do anything for their team. Fans who are like this go to every sporting event possible that their favorite team is in and many are season ticket holders. Fanatics are usually not much fun to sit by at games because they get easily irritated or believe they know more about the game than everyone else. If they are not at the game, you can usually find them watching the game somewhere else on TV. People who are fanatics also spend much of their free time researching their team and will know almost every aspect of every player on their team as well as their opponents so they know how they match up with the other teams. No matter how bad the season is going for their favorite team, fanatics will always stick with them and will continue to go to the games...
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...Should college Athletes be able to leave after their first season? AG: Many of us in this room, including myself either watch college sports or have a college that the cheer for, but what if that star player never came to that school because they weren’t required to? ID: Today I want to talk about the pros and the cons of athletes being able to leave after their first season. Ethos: Doing research about this topic has lead me to the conclusion that there are a lot of pros but also very many cons of leaving early. Preview: Today I will be telling you the pros and the cons of leaving early and if I think they should leave early. I would like to talk about the pros about leaving college first. It allows great athletes the ability to earn a living faster and provide for their families. They could but a lot of that money in the bank and start to save money for when they retire. The second pro is that it prevents an injury to occur in college, many college athletes feel that if they stay in college they could get injured and put their professional career at risk. If they decided to leave early, they will get paid great money and benefits. Lastly they would be able to save money and go and get a degree if they wanted because they have the money now. Now looking at the cons of leaving college early. If the student athlete doesn’t stay in college they won’t secure their future. For those fortunate enough to be an elite in their sport, receiving a degree is a good way to insure...
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... The NCAA makes six billion dollars annually and the players who risk getting hurt every second of playing time don’t see a dime of this amount. For example, Louisville's, Kevin Ware suffered from a broken leg, and yet he will still want to compete even though he is not being payed for his time. Many players play for the competition and to strive to complete their dreams of going pro. But, what some don't understand is that they risk their physical health every second they’re on that court/field. If you think that college players should be paid then you’re not alone because the amount of money the NCAA is making they should have enough to give a fair share to each college athlete. After all, these athletes bring in all the money, plus the crowd that surrounds the teams while competing. Even though some think it's a waste of money and time to debate, I believe that since they’re prepping to go pro they should get paid a small sum to get them ready for the workload and money that they will both receive and put into their career. What I’m trying to say is that I think they should be paid a little so they know to handle the money and what to invest it in, this could be used in an educational means in the terms of a practical situation from a financial class standpoint allowing them to be more financially prepared for the pro world. After all, the average retail worker will be scheduled to work during the week and sometimes the weekend 8-5. Overall, they work 40 hours, so does the...
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...Sports Another way of seeing it is to consider sports teams. In any set of categories, there will be teams that rate highly at some things and poorly at others. Chances are, the teams that lead in the standings will not show such disparity but will perform well in most categories. The lower the standard deviation of their ratings in each category, the more balanced and consistent they will tend to be. Teams with a higher standard deviation, however, will be more unpredictable. For example, a team that is consistently bad in most categories will have a low standard deviation. A team that is consistently good in most categories will also have a low standard deviation. However, a team with a high standard deviation might be the type of team that...
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...Pro athletes play games all the time from football to basketball but many athletes have a problem with how much they should get paid. In my opinion, I believe that they should get paid a good bit of money. I believe this because, they work hard there whole life at that one thing to have success in life. They are almost the same as actors, and they try hard to get there. So lets give them credit for what they do and who they are. Pro athletes work hard their whole life to become famous and accomplish there dreams. That means they play sports their whole life to be super successful and likely work hard in school too. So basically they try hard and meet their goal through doing things that they like to such as school work and long days of practice, but if they want to be a pro they have to try very hard to get there. All them goals, achievements, and successful things they do should afford them a desired salary. In my research, the players get paid based on the sport they play and what I mean by that is they get paid a different amount of money for each sport which shows some work harder than others but they all work hard in my opinion. So basically, they all work hard during all parts of life to make it there. These...
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...In my hometown there are a lot of people that are well known around town for various reasons. We have people that are just locally famous because of their wild personality or strong family ties within the town. Then there are those who are known for their athletic accomplishments. Jadeveon Clowney and my older cousin are those two types of people. No matter where you go in the town someone will know one of the two. Jadeveon Clowney and my cousin both have similar traits and backgrounds. They are both well known around the town for their personalities and the part of town that they both grew up in. Both also have very well known family ties within their community and all around town. It would be very hard to go somewhere and someone...
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...Should Student Athletes Be Paid? Student Athletes spend countless hours perfecting their craft. In the article “Should Athletes Be Paid,” both Joe Nocera and Bob Williams have very different opinions. Even though athletes work very hard, student athletes should not be paid because they could draw themselves away from school, and they receive scholarships to pay for their education. Student Athletes spend hours of time and effort to become good at what they do. Countless hours, days, even weeks build up to make them as good as they are. The better the athlete the more money they bring into the school. It is known in many male sports that, “Men’s basketball and football are their to bring for the school,” (Nocera 22). The better the athlete is, the more support, money, and curiosity it will...
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...Through my life I have met a lot of people with the same talents I have. One of the most common talent I have with other people is the ability to play sports. I used to be active in all possible sports in middle school. Once in high school, I had to make a decision about what sports I was going to play since it was harder to do all of them, therefore I chose soccer. Playing soccer has been a challenge because of some difficulties, but it has also taught me so much. When I was in Matamoros I wasn’t able to join a soccer team because our financial status, but I would play with my cousins and also I would watch the soccer games on TV. It has been a tradition for the family to get together when a main soccer game is going on, especially if the national team is going to play. Also for main tournaments like the champions, the Olympics, the world cup, between others. At the begging I didn’t know much about soccer, but my dad would explain to me anything that I did not know. After we moved to Brownsville my sister got invited to join a team. When her games started, my dad tried to find a team for me, but nobody would take me because I was short and skinny. After a while I learned a little bit when my dad showed me basic stuff that was very beneficial so that other teams would let me join their team. It was until sixth grade that my sister asked her coach if I could join the team, and the coach said yes! Once in seventh grade and eighth grade we could join sports, so I join every single...
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...If what Mark Emmert is saying would have to happen for the college athletes to be paid, then why don’t the colleges that do not have a big sport like football pay the other athletes such as the basketball players. Not every college has a football team but colleges that do have football teams bring in a lot of many as well but not as much as basketball (Sack). For Example Grand Canyon University does not have a football team but they have recently became a Division I school but they do not have a football team. For sports GCU is known for their basketball team. So if Mark Emmert says that they would need to cut off some sports to afford the salaries for the players, then why don’t the basketball players at Grand Canyon University get...
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... “Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid!” - Johnny Bench. :Sports are part of everyday lives for most of the people in our country. We tend to play sports everyday, at every age and at basically every location. I believe that athletes deserve being paid large sums of money because they benefit tv providers, they work hard, and they might not work as hard without all the money. Athletes benefit tv networks and providers. People tune in to sport networks to watch stories about their favorite players or to watch them. They cost to subscribe to ESPN is $6.61 and $94.5 million houses subscribe that equal $7.5 billion dollars earned in a month by ESPN. People tune in to their channels and they see the advertisement that people paid them to put up. People watching their channel gains publicity so more people mights subscribe. They also benefit the viewer by entertaining them. That’s how athletes help tv providers. Athletes work so hard. Do you know how many hours pro athletes put in to get where they are? Athletes sacrifice so much in life to get where they are. They spend hours in the gym working to get better, faster, and stronger. Athletes are relied on to play well in a game or match so they put out in the gym to satisfy the fans. Like everyone they started from ground zero but through hard work they made it to the top. Even...
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...Jessica is a junior and a track star at her local high school. She is a part of a family of four, her mom, dad and her sister. Jessica's best friend is named Fiona, they do almost everything together! Fiona and Jessica are both run on the track team together. Jessica has loved running all her life and it wouldn't be the same without it. Every morning at 5:45 she wakes up and runs with her dog Sherlock around her block and after school she practices with her Varsity track team. Kyro is Jessica's track coach and they are very close, he has supported her and has helped her to achieve her running goals throughout her high school career. The conflict in the book The Running Dream is when Jessica gets her leg amputated and has to learn how to live life with only one leg. When Jessica gets home, the things that she used to be able to do without even thinking, are now extremely hard. She realizes that she has taken thing for granted. The rising action of the Running Dream is when Jessica and her teammate Lucy were driving home from a track meet. They are involved in a car accident and Jessica unfortunately loses her right leg in the crash and Lucy dies in the crash. This accident results in Jessica not being able to run and having insecurities about herself. Jessica would have never got threew this event without her family and friends. When Jessica goes back to school she meets a girl named Rosa who has cerebral palsy. Rosa and Jessica become very close friends and Rosa really helps Jessica...
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