...Racism is surrounding us. Particularly in sport and music, for example I listen to rap music and go to football matches, where I hear racist language most of the time. I generally stay away from that and enjoy my time as much as possible, as I would prefer not to discriminate individuals because of some differences. That would be quite infuriating as I am a role model to my younger sisters and prefer positive influences on them. I don’t want to be associated with racism, do you? The racism topic has been quite controversial especially in sport like football in the most recent two decades; this is fundamentally in light of the presentation of the new capable players. Additionally, as racism in football has mostly been about skin colour, different player find it hard to perform in front of large audience. However, recently the football association is undergoing quite successful period in terms of more positive audience inspecting and football association controlling racism. Wouldn’t you want your child to be in positive environment?...
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...Michael Vick Michael Vick was born on June 26, 1980 in the city of Newport News, Virginia. Vick’s parents Michael Boddie and Caletha Vick and Vick’s siblings Christina, Courtney and Marcus grew up together in the hostile environment that Newport News was known for. Newport News is infamous for it’s gangs and drug activity. It is nicknamed “NewportNam”. This is a reference to Vietnam in order to show the hostile and dangerous environment that Vick grew up in. This would impact Vick in a negative way in his future. Vick’s journey to prison would start at a young age. Michael Vick saw his first dog fight at the age of 8. Dog fighting was a part of the culture of the neighborhood. In his biography, “Finally Free”, Vick says that “When [he] was young, [he] witnessed dogfighting so much that [he] didn’t think it was wrong” (102). Growing up in this kind of environment would lead to Vick’s imprisonment. He also states that while he knew that people got in trouble for dogfighting, he never knew that people could be arrested for it. Another factor that caused Vick’s imprisonment was the absence of his father. Vick’s father, Michael Boddie, worked at a local shipyard as a sandblaster. Boddie also struggled with an addiction to drugs and alcohol. This resulted in Vick growing up with no one to teach him right from wrong. This also resulted in no one being able to guide him through the tough times of living in Newport News. In accordance, in the book “Role Models”, the author writes that...
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...Introduction In this assignment I have been asked to write a report comparing the 2 businesses which are Manchester united football club and the deans trust Ashton on Mersey school. Manchester United which is located in Old Trafford and is a global company are a private sector which means they are not under direct state control for example they have multiple shareholders within the company. Manchester united is also a public limited company meaning that the shares in Manchester united are offered to the public. Over the years Manchester united has become a thriving successful football club in many ways for example they have multiple sponsorships such as Aon Principal Partner of Manchester United Chevrolet Principal Sponsor of Manchester United bwin Official Online Gaming and Betting Partner of Manchester United CASILLERO DEL DIABLO Official Wine Partner of Manchester United Bulova Official Timekeeping Partner of Manchester United Toshiba Medical Systems Official Medical Systems Partner of Manchester United Nissin Foods Group Official Global Noodle Partner of Manchester United NIKE Principal Sponsor of Manchester United DHL Official Logistics Partner of Manchester United EPSON Official Office Equipment Partner of Manchester United also the purpose of the business is to win competitions in order to make a profit.Ashton on Mersey is a local business situated in sale but also operates nationally.Ashton on Mersey is a government owned school but is also in partnership with Manchester...
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...LeRoy Karas’ Casey Williams Human Behavior and the environment HN144 Kaplan University September 28, 2013 LeRoy Karas’ LeRoy seemed to have his future within reach. He was an amazing football player and loved by everyone in his community. LeRoy was like any other sixteen year old. He had a lot of friends, muscular body and an amazing football player. What more could one ask for? LeRoy received a football scholarship and went to collage. During his time in collage LeRoy found himself drinking and smoking much more then before. LeRoy was married twice and divorced twice before the age of fifty. He fathered six children whom he never saw at all. LeRoy bounced around job to job but spent the majority of his earnings on alcohol. LeRoy gained a lot of weight and was up to 285 pounds by the time he reached forty eight. By the age of sixty one he found out that his health was declining fast. He was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and told he would not live too much longer. Within three years LeRoy was hospitalized and informed that he has emphysema. His attitude changed for the worse while being cared for. He did not have any visitors and wishes he would die. LeRoy had a brother named ElRoy and he had achieved much more in life. I feel as though his brother’s success may have made LeRoy jealous and not as equal. Growing up with his brother, LeRoy envied him because of his parents always showing affection and praise to him. LeRoy suffers from...
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...Involvement and Responsibility to the Community NFL Play 60 is a campaign designed to tackle childhood obesity. Introduced in October 2007, by the National Football League, NFL Play 60’s goal is to make the next generation of youth more active and healthy by encouraging young fans to be active for at least 60 minutes every day. The NFL has dedicated over $200 million to the health and wellness of children, while also implementing in school, after school and team based programs to get children excited about being active. Childhood obesity is a national epidemic. The current generation of children is projected to be the first generation not to live longer than its parents. Only 8 percent of elementary schools provide daily physical education which has led to 33 percent of children in America being obese or at risk to be obese. NFL players from around the league have donated their time and money to encourage kids to get active. Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers just recently did a commercial promoting the campaign as well. Players from the Washington Redskins, Baltimore Ravens, and Miami Dolphins also supported NFL Play 60 by participating in the Annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House. The players taught children that attended football skills and did some football drills with them as well. Factors that Influence the NFL's Social Responsibility A variety of factors, including education, health, and community, define NFL Play60. The school environment understands...
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...was a young outgoing teenager who was the eldest of two boys. LeRoy had the physical ability and potential to become a football phenomenon. His parents favored him over his younger brother Elroy who was the complete opposite of LeRoy. Physically LeRoy was bigger than most of his peers and his athletic capabilities led him to be selected as an all-state linebacker during his senior year of high school. When LeRoy was 16 years old he began drinking almost a six- pack of beer a day, and by the time he turned 17 he began smoking. Even though LeRoy knew that drinking and smoking would get him kicked off the team he still continued this negative behavior. LeRoy wasn’t interested in studying just playing sports, drinking, smoking, and partying. Luckily LeRoy received a football scholarship and was able to attend college. He continued to excel in football but his bad habits continued and therefore his grades began to suffer. When LeRoy’s scholarship eligibility was used up he dropped out of college. He then married a college sophomore named Rachel who became pregnant and dropped out of college as well. Without finishing college LeRoy could only get jobs based on his skills and began job hopping. LeRoy continued his destructive behavior of drinking, smoking, and partying with his co-workers which led him now to become a poor husband. Leroy had now fathered three children with his wife and instead of making a change for the better he became verbally and physically abusive to his wife. After...
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...Michael Jerome Williams, Jr., most commonly known as Michael Oher, had many influences in his life leading up to his career in the world of professional football. Due to his extremely rough childhood, not all influences were positive. On the opposite end of the spectrum, however, some were crucial to his development into an all-star athlete and even his graduating high school. This list of influences included his parents, Michael Jerome Williams, Sr., and Denise Oher; Big Tony Henderson; Hugh Freeze and Tim Long; and Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy. While Michael Jerome Williams, Sr., and Denise Oher were all but perfect parents, they did have quite the effect on Michael Oher’s early childhood. His mother was addicted to crack cocaine and an alcoholic; and, according to article two, “[His father] was frequently in prison.” Although Denise was a loving mother when she was sober, she was not sober often, and could not provide for Michael and his eleven other siblings. As a result, they lived in many slums and projects, including Hyde Park and Hurt Village. Due to his upbringing, Michael received little attention and discipline during childhood. Eventually, the children were taken by Child Protective Services and placed into foster care....
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...and adolescents into gambling. Every night, as I watch the footy on Channel 7 with my kids, there will always be an excessive number of ads broadcasted along the boundaries of the MCG Oval and during the footy break. With these much advertising, I can't find a reason why kids as young as my 12-year-old son won't gamble with his mates in the future. Yes, the AFL controls and dictate the game of football, but they also manipulate the actions of football fans and young children. They don't just convince us to enjoy the game of football, but also convince us to use odds and chances, so that they can earn their mega million profit from it. Yes, most people do not view the AFL in this perspective, but this is the reality and if it doesn't stop, the future generations will be heavily affected....
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... Leroy was an outgoing, cunning, slick, and sly teenager and physically bigger the most of his peers. Leroy started in football, basketball and baseball in high school. However, he began drinking and smoking at the age of 16. Leroy was eligible for a football scholarship for college and in college he did well in football and he majored in parting. However, his grades suffered and when his college eligibility in football was up he decided to drop out of college. Shortly after he dropped out of college he met and married Rachel Rudow. He begins to work as a construction worker. Leroy and his wife had 3 kids; Leroy started smoking multiple packs of cigarettes a day, drinking a six pack, and at times, a quart of liquor. Leroy had become extremely abusing to his wife both physically and verbally. So Rachel, his first wife, decided to move out and went to Florida with her mom to avoid him and his behaviors. Leroy decided to move on and then he met his second wife Jane. Leroy was 39 by this time, however he continued going out with his friends, drinking, and smoking. Leroy had a problem with going home because he stayed out most of the time parting with his so called buddies. Leroy second wife became fed up with him assaulting her when he was drunk. So, Jane decided to leave Leroy, but during the course of their marriage they had 3 children. On the contrary, Leroy did lose his construction job because he could no longer keep up with his work. For the next several years...
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...Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union[1] and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes. Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.[2][3] The influence and power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread, including to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire,[4] though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.[5] In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. In the twentieth century, the various codes of football have become amongst the most popular team sports in the...
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...The National Football League (Assignment 1) Michael Davis BUS 475 February 2, 2014 Dr. Joaquin M. Angles The National Football League My choice is the National Football League (NFL) which was founded on 20 August 1920. The NFL is made up of 32 teams across the United States; each team has 53 players on the team at the start of the regular season. The 32 teams are broken into two divisions; the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL original name was the American Football League and the name was change on 22 August 1922 to the National Football League. The NFL is the only major sport that does not have any teams outside of the United States. Each team has one majority owner and the owners elect the commissioner of the league; the commissioner oversees the daily rules and regulations of the league. The NFL ends a long season by two teams playing in the Super Bowl for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The NFL has become the number one sport in America; most watched and biggest profits year after year. But with that said the NFL still has its issues going forward form profits, society and business. Most teams in the NFL are privately owned and finically statements are not release to the public. In my opinion the two key factors that can affect the success of the NFL or the ownership and customers (fans). I know that ownership is internal/external because the owner is not really seen as a part of the team. The owner is one of the...
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...on to college to play football. He grew up with his parents and his younger brother Elroy which he didn’t have much in common with. LeRoy started drinking alcohol and smoking at a very young age. He only went to college until his college eligibility in football was used up because drinking and partying interfered with school. He later went on to marry Rachel and got a job at a road construction company. They were married for seven years when Rachel took their children and divorced him due to his drinking and abuse. In the meantime LeRoy fathered yet another child that he had to pay child support for. Then a few years later he married Jane who was much younger then he was and they had two children together. They were together for six years before Jane left him because he drank too much and he would assault her while he was intoxicated. LeRoy ended up losing his job because he couldn’t keep up with the other construction workers. Then LeRoy fell into hard times trying to find odd jobs and was having financial difficulties, and realized his friends no longer wanted to drink and party with him anymore. At the age of sixty one his doctor told him he had cirrhosis of the liver and that he needs to stop drinking, then he was told he had a form of emphysema. He continued to drink and smoke and lost weight and was unable to take care of himself anymore and was placed in low-quality nursing home (Zastrow, 2009). I believe that LeRoy’s strongest influences were the alcohol and his...
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...Part 1- Introduction. A. At the age of eight, I started to become involved with sports. I started doing competitive cheerleading at a local gymnastics/cheer gym. I also cheered at my high school for two years. B. Growing up my family always watched football games and it would always show the cheerleaders or dancers. Watching them gave me excitement and it inspired me to become a cheerleader. My parents also wanted me to become a cheerleader. My mother encouraged me to try the sport and supported me the full eights years that I was involved with cheerleading. I am also a fan. I love to watch football. I get this from my dad. Growing up, every Sunday we would watch football together and cheer on the Texans. C. Today I am no longer a cheerleader....
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...Business culture and strategy Content 1.Introduction 2 2.The possible strategies adopted by organisations and its environment 2 3.Identify the strategy used by the company during the certain period 3 4.Compare the the influence the strategy has had on behaviour 4 5.Differentiation strategy 5 6.Major factors to cause changes 5 7.Key issues that the organistion has had to take account of in order to manage its business strategy 6 8.The reason why the strategy of the arganisation has changed over time. 8 9.the stakeholder power that lead the changes in organisation 8 10. the role of management could play in dealing with the changes 9 11.Conclusion 10 1.Introduction JD Wetherspoon plc was founded by Tim Martin who opened the first JD Wetherspoon pub in 1979. In 2002, its share price rose to more than ten times its original value. Although JD Wetherspoon was successful in the past, it was facing much more problems by the start of the twenty fist century. JD Wetherspoon has made some changes in many aspects which conclude its operation .As a result; JD Wetherspoon is successful in remaining a successful business. 2.The possible strategies adopted by organisations and its environment Diversification strategy: this is where we market completely new products to new customers. There are two types of diversification—related and unrelated diversification. Related diversification means that we remain in a...
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...role models to people, especially children. Almost every child wants to become an athlete when they grow up, choices are basketball, football, baseball, etc. When begin in the public eye as one of the fastest and strongest athlete, encourage children to become better athletes. People expect athletes to be professionals throughout his or her career, but fail to realize that athletes are still humans. Mistakes have been made, just like the rest of society. Athletes are in public eyes at all times because of their career. It is best for athletes to show positive leadership for the upcoming generation. Some athlete’s society never hear negative news about, but there are many that is in public eye of social media. Randy Roberts wrote a book called “A Team for America, The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation” (Roberts, 2012). In the book he discusses how a few good men from the Army-Navy stopped fighting during World War II in 1944 just to play a rivalry game of football. People from over the world tuned in as the Navy, ranked number two battled it out on the field against the Army for the number one spot. War was raging around the world in places like Africa, Europe, and the Pacific, people at home had just had Thanksgiving with no turkey, not to mention the lives lost just a day before because of the Great War raging around the world. For just a moment, everyone, everywhere could forget everything and was right with the world. In the eyes of children and men alike, these men were heroes...
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