...Hello all. My name is Nawaf Reaz, and I’ve heard the National Anthem being sung since I started school. As a child, I never really understood the lyrics or why we sang it, but now growing up, I’m beginning to find meaning within this song. It commemorates the American flag which both represents us and is a symbol of our country. The song itself is also a symbol of our country, of what we are and what we strive to be. But most importantly, it shows how privileged we are to be alive in this country at a time where freedom is so manifest thanks to veterans who have fought and served us. As a child, I was taught to understand how lucky I was to be alive right now and to love America, but to understand our national anthem, our flag, and our country...
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...Kaepernick decided not to stand during the National Anthem many people have gone ballistic. People feel that everyone should stand during the Anthem (unless they physically can't). If that is truly the case, why oh who don't these people approach others at events that don't stand? If your feelings are so strong, at the very least show some consistency. Otherwise, all of the passionate displays towards someone well known loses credibility. As I stated before, I do all I can to acknowledge the playing of our Anthem. Millions have made the ultimate sacrifice to guarantee our freedom. That said, freedom is truly not freedom when people are forced or threatened to do something is it? I might not believe in things such as Catholics calling their preacher "father", or how some southern baptists churches in the country still practice placing men and women on separate sides of the church or even burning the flag, etc.. However, this is a country that guarantees freedom all. Freedom of speech included. As long as your actions displaying your freedom doesn't but others in danger, who am I to condemn anyone for exercising their guaranteed freedom? To do this would make me a hypocrite since I exercise my rights to freedom literally every day as an advocate....
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...taking a knee when the National Anthem is played. As this protest was started by Colin Kaepernick, who was the first to kneel. This has lead to more media discussion about racism, all for he didn’t feel as equal to others. Specifically, with Colin Kaepernick’s actions, people began to realize that they felt the same way about racism and equality, which has now turned into a huge discussion across the nation and even in the media's views. Although some...
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...The National Anthem is something that United States citizens have been able to relate to each other with for many years. It is the one thing that held the people together that lived through so many tough times including World War 1 and Boston Bombing. The protestors, even though they are protesting it, relate to it. There are two sides – respect it and stand when it is being played or sit. Toni Smith writes, “A Leader is more than a messenger” explaining how the National Anthem relates to sports. Smith expresses her opinion about politics being involved in the world of sports. She does not believe that it should be required at a sporting event for everyone to stand for the National Anthem. She then goes on to question the playing of the National Anthem at other important events. “Why is...
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...reacting to the situation at hand that were directly being affected. Ethos is one of her strategies as well as she is credible to the information she provides in the article. She gives substantial background information which shows that she knows what she needs and where to get it from to justify her claim. Her style of writing might have been ineffective to her audience because she was being aggressive and straightforward but that could have also been effective in some cases. Due to the logos, pathos, ethos and the style of the text which was effective in convincing her audience her argument. In this article Miller states how a "Fox & Friends" panelist by the name of Lisa Giovanazzo is "fed up with NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem and think its time for them to explain what it is they're protesting". Miller than explains how multiple players have explained the gesture, multiple times. By using her information from sources she has added, this is her using logos. Because she is displaying reliable information for the audience to look at, it is convincing enough because it is directly addressing what Giovanzzo has concerned. Giovanazzo also states that "Maybe they should go beyond taking a knee and take a stand and vocaly tell the public what it is that they are supporting and specifically what they are protesting" Than Miller states that athletes in different sports have been pretty clear that taking a knee is meant to protest police brutality and systematic racism...
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...Analysis of a Current Event In current events there have been some controversy on the subject of respecting and disrespecting the National Anthem. The National Anthem is played before every football game, especially National Football League games where there are hundreds of teammates either not participating or kneeling on one knee to represent freedom of speech. Freedom of speech can be exercised in many ways, but the choice of using it against our country should not be tolerated. Kneeling during the National Anthem is a form of disrespect and betrayal towards our country. Recently, NFL players have kneeled during the National Anthem to exercise their right of freedom of speech. This act of disagreement has caused dispute over the...
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...The State of the Rainbow Nation by Jeff Cangialosi (2012) Following the rest of the crowd, I stood quickly as the South African national anthem began to play. I was about to watch my first rugby game at the University of the Western Cape and sitting beside me was my newest South African friend Francis. As I strained to hear the national anthem, I realized that the majority of the song was not in English but a mixture of other languages that I could not decipher. Sitting back down, I turned to Francis and asked him what languages I had just heard in the national anthem. He responded, “There are five different languages in the song brother…Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans, and English…it’s supposed to create unity, but brother, the people here, they are not unified. No one knows the words.” Language is one of the most obvious indicators of the vast diversity of South Africa. The national anthem may be composed of five different languages, but in total, the country has eleven official languages. In Cape Town, Afrikaans, English, and Xhosa are the most widely spoken languages, but as you travel across the country, you encounter many different indigenous languages. In addition to language, another marker of South Africa’s diversity is color. Infamous for its past of apartheid, South Africa is the land of people who are black, white, coloured, and Asian. Making up almost 80% of the population demographic, black South Africans are the largest racial group, but in my view...
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...than 33 million members in its affiliated health plans. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, WellPoint serves members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint does business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield or Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (in the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers throughout the country as UniCare. www.wellpoint.com Mission, Vision & Values What Makes Us WellPoint With an unyielding commitment to meeting the needs of our diverse customers, we are guided by the following principles: Our Mission WellPoint's mission is to improve the lives of the people we serve and the health of our communities. Our Core Values Customer First Integrity Personal Accountability for Excellence One Company, One Team Continuous Improvement Our Business Strategy Our strategy is driven by our focus on achieving the following...
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...Anthem Health Data Breach Could Compromise PII of 80M Date February 5, 2015 Hackers allegedly broke into Anthem, Inc.’s database last week, potentially compromising the personal information of approximately 80 million former and current customers, as well as employees, according to multiple reports. The information potentially compromised includes names, dates of birth, medical IDs or Social Security numbers, street addresses, and email addresses, according to a statement from Anthem president and CEO Joseph Swedish posted on the company website. Employment information, some of which included income data, might also be at risk in the Anthem health data breach.2014-11-13-163188459 “Based on what we know now, there is no evidence that credit card or medical information, such as claims, test results or diagnostic codes were targeted or compromised,” Swedish said. “Once the attack was discovered, Anthem immediately made every effort to close the security vulnerability, contacted the FBI and began fully cooperating with their investigation.” Swedish added that the personal information of Anthem employees, including himself, were also compromised in this data breach. It was a “very sophisticated external cyber attack,” according to Swedish, and despite Anthem’s best efforts and “state-of-the-art information security systems” its IT system was breached. “We join you in your concern and frustration, and I assure you that we are working around the clock to do everything...
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...2012 National Research Report Why Did They Enroll? The Factors Influencing College Choice An analysis of traditional-aged students What matters to students when deciding where to enroll? There are a variety of factors that influence a student’s decision to enroll. Factors such as cost and the availability of financial aid are universally important at all types of institutions. However, other factors can vary widely by institution type, demographics, class level, and whether the student enrolled at his or her top choice. Every year, hundreds of campuses administer the Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory™ (SSI) to their students. In addition to more than 70 items rated for importance and satisfaction on the general student experience, the SSI includes nine items that address factors in a student’s decision to enroll. During the fall of 2011, more than 55,000 students from more than 100 public and private fouryear and two-year institutions completed the SSI. These students rated the factors to enroll items on a scale of one (meaning not important at all) to seven (very important). This report details the responses from the nationwide pool of data. In particular, this report has a special emphasis on the nearly 22,000 first-year students who responded in order to see which items scored higher with ratings of important or very important (a ranking of six or seven on the answer scale). Comparisons with upperclass students and between students at their first-choice institution...
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...In comparison to the other texts it is the Indigenous Australians that aren’t represented at all in this piece. This has become apparent in the past decade as many Aboriginals have refused to sing the National Anthem because it doesn’t represent or acknowledge their culture. It says in the (second line, first verse) ‘for we are young and free’, yet in the past 228 years of colonisation Aboriginals have been racially abused and excluded from their country which has been theirs for over 70,000 years. Many Australians call our country a ‘young country’ when really Indigenous people have been here much longer than the miniscule amount of time European settlers landed in Australia. It then persists, ‘to make this Commonwealth of ours’, however Aboriginals never were part of the British federation and didn’t want to part of the UK’s collection of countries that they ‘discovered’. Furthermore in the anthem it says (Two lines down, on the second verse) ‘for those who’ve come across the seas, We’ve boundless plains to share’, yet the British took the land from the Aboriginals as it was never theirs to start with, tried to eradicate their entire race and only shared the land with immigrants. So the sharing of land was only exclusively to certain races of people. The anthem fails to send a message of united races, acknowledge multicultural Australia and...
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...Advertisement Analysis Prepared for: Professor D. Thrope MKT500 Marketing Strategies Prepared by: Christie Mathew May 23, 2014 Subliminal Mind Programming by Advertisements Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZeNubFcKtg - McDonald’s Commercial - I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FG7gE2CIbo - McDonald’s Commercial – II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMzbwa6PvEE - McD’s Subliminal Image on Food Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnkg-yCPryE - 1960’s Subliminal National Anthem (In Slow Motion) Introduction to Subliminal Mind Programming: Subliminal advertising is all around us in plain sight and we see those types of commercials all the time through media. Subliminal messages in advertisements come from the idea of steganography. Steganography is the art of writing hidden messages. The difference in steganography and subliminal messages is steganography is mostly used to completely hide the messages so only the person aware of the hidden messages has the ability to decipher or discover it while subliminal messages are a form of programming. Subliminal messages can bypass the conscious paradigm and directly influence the unconscious level of human brain without even realizing it. Verbal or visual commands can trick the brain into wanting any particular product Subliminal Images in McDonald’s Old Commercials: McDonald’s old commercials are the classic examples of subliminal manipulation. In many advertisements random images flashes...
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...Wearing a Mask: Analysis of Rhetorical Devices Used in 1984 and 2016 Presidential Elections In the novel 1984, George Orwell illustrates the life of a man named Winston Smith in a dystopian society. Although the government, known as the Party, in the novel certainly differs from our government today. Some of the rhetoric the novel uses have connections with those used by our major presidential candidates, Donald Trump and HiIlary Clinton. Many times, the ways that the public interprets the government’s and candidates’ actions may contrast from what they are truly saying or doing. The various strategies used by the Party and mirrored with Clinton and Trump implore that the voters take notice of these differences. Firstly, the ways the...
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...The NFL has been a very hot topic lately over the past couple of years; therefore, getting them a lot of attention. With more kids than ever playing football, and ratings as high as they’ve ever been on national television. Football looks like it’s heading in the right direction; however, on the flip side concussions and injuries are also on the rise, and with football becoming Americas sport. Many people are very optimistic about the future of the NFL. The article I picked to do my Article Analysis paper on is called, “Introduction to Professional Football: Current Controversies”. I thought this was a very interesting read; because, I searched for football concussions and then I found this article which gives a lot of different view-points...
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...Invictus a movie that touches issues Nelson Mandela and the South African people faced as a nation. Nelson Mandela was faced with bringing a nation separated due to racial segregation and he accomplished this goal by helping the South African rugby team win the world cup. This movie can be closely related with our class because Nelson Mandela is one of the greatest leaders of all time and too see how he implemented his leadership to help the Rugby is just a fragment to what he actually accomplished. Throughout this movie you can go think about what we learned in class its goes hand and hand. To give a complete analysis to this movie from the prospective of Nelson Mandela being a leader in the sports world in this essay I will explain the different styles of leadership Nelson Mandela implemented, group dynamics, communication, managing difficulties, issues of diversity. All of these where present in this movie and a direct correlation to how Nelson Mandela was a leader in sports. In this movie Nelson Mandela wasn’t the only called upon to be a leader in sports South African rugby Captain Francois Pienaar also played a major role a leading his rugby team through a very difficult season to becoming a great team and family. Without the help of Francois Pienaar I don’t feel as if Nelson Mandela’s plan to unite the nation would have went so smooth. Throughout the movie Nelson Mandela used a couple of different styles of leadership, this shows to be a great leader you have to mix...
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