What a Shame College Sports....

College sports have been around for a very long time. They started very early on and were believe to be a scandal of certain schools. In 1984 Vaccaro helped Michael Jordan to promote a certain sneaker line which supported the idea that college athletics were a scandal. College athletes paired with getting paid would not cause the universities to earn money, but it would cause positive publicity for the colleges and what they were doing with athletes and education. This would cause money to be administered to the universities from boosters and various other sources such as businesses supporting the universities and random donations from alumni. From this type of publicity would also come fans and others to observe the athletic events, earning the universities money through fan gear and entrance fees. The universities were promoting athletes at the same time, as well as the athletes were promoting themselves. They would trade autographs and gear in order to receive tattoos and various other items. Colleges than were deciding that the athletes should not receive financial assistance for their participation in athletics. This was decided by the NCAA, crushing the student athletes, especially those with financial difficulties. Walter Camp decided that he would build an official stadium as well as an official field in order to allow for the athletics to become more serious. He did this without compensation and on his own time. He was considered the father of football. In 1842, football was introduced to Yale and quickly became a very popular athletic activity. At this time, Theodore Roosevelt was in his term of presidency. He decided to get involved in college athletics by making it safer to play. Roosevelt was also a large instigator for the NCAA, allowing it to become more official for the sake of the safety of the athletes. 1948 a sanity code was released allowing student athletes to receive money on a need basis. This had to coincide with their academic achievements. This led to the boosting of grades, causing the athletes to appear that they were passing in order to be eligible. This led to many other unlawful acts such as shaving points in basketball games and allowing for certain publicity to access more money. Byers had something that was called the "Big Bluff" which resulted in an empty stadium for the Penn vs. Yale game. NBC than started allowing for college athletics to be broad casted on television. After all this publicity and athletic happenings in the universities, there began to be many controversies and lawsuits over money and the compensation allowed for individual students athletes in certain cases, especially career ending injuries. This occurred with the employees involved with athletics and athletes, like teachers and coaches. The rules always seemed to be very sporadic or easily bent for certain athletes and certain situations. Overall the NCAA has come a long way and developed guidelines in order to be the most beneficial for athletes and their opportunity for a higher education.

THE WORLD OF GAMING AND ITS WAYS OF SAVING THE WORLD

THE WORLD OF GAMING AND ITS WAYS OF SAVING THE WORLD
From my notes I can summarize that the whole point of her speech was to get across the message that gaming can lead to saving the world. She talks about gamers experiencing an "epic win." This is when the gamers feel that they can accomplish anything because they have succeeded in their online gaming. She suggests that we play 21000000000000 hours of video games a week in order to have the mind set to save the world. She says this would help save the world due to the fact that in video games, no one is ever handed a challenge that they cannot over come in some way. In real life, however, that is not the case. There are many situations in which we cannot over come our challenges. The evolution of man was brought into play in comparing how video games help to develop our ability to try to save the world in reality today. If we were to spend as much time playing video games as we do in school, than she believes that we would be able to figure out some way to help the world and its problems. The online games can help build problem solving skills for our everyday lives. It also creates bonds through online communication with other gamers, taking steps to being a team in solving problems. She talked about the first time that games were played with dice that were made from sheeps knuckles. These games resulted in saving a whole civilization. Her main point overall was just that gaming provides for ways to problem solve and building helping bonds which in turn can help us solve problems in the everyday world.

Rhetorical Precis

Aubrey Urban

Dawn Diprince

Composition 102

January 25, 2012

            In Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer’s chapter “Reading and Discovering Arguments,” (1947) they assert that all sides of an argument, the opposing and supporting side, must be considered when producing a written argument. This idea is supported by using the evaluation of an argument as well as building credibility for that argument and for the source in which the argument came. Their purpose for writing this and giving information about the development of an argument was produced in order to allow for a more smooth production of arguments throughout all writers, especially those that are college students. The way this information is displayed in the article, it appears to be developed for those writers who are students in the basic stages of constructing an argument and accomplishing the basic steps that are needed to produce a functional argument.

Credance Clearwater Revival

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