Colin Watt

Original- There is already corruption and shady activity within college recruiting and teams including multiple cases of athletes being caught violating these rules put in place such as now Pro Bowl NFL wide receiver AJ Green of the Cincinnati Bengals who was found violating the NCAA guidelines when selling his jersey. The irony of this is his college made thousands of dollars from selling jerseys with his name on it all profits going directly to the university. These are just one of the cases of how college athletes are being taken advantage of that is outlined in the article. Many of these problems I have always felt a connection towards the athletes and their needs. As an athlete and now college athlete myself I understand the difficulty of college athletics paired with the academic stresses. Along with any at home or out of the classroom and field problems I can’t imagine being able to balance everything without any help and compensation coming from everything these athletes are surely putting into their respective sports.

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There is already corruption and shady activity within college recruiting. There have been multiple cases of athletes being caught violating these rules put in place. This includes now Pro Bowl NFL wide receiver AJ Green of the Cincinnati Bengals who was found violating the NCAA guidelines when selling his jersey. The irony of this is his college made thousands of dollars from selling jerseys with his name on it all profits going directly to the university. This is just one of the many cases about how college athletes are being taken advantage outlined in the article. Many of these problems I have always felt a connection towards the athletes and their needs. As an athlete and now college athlete myself I understand the difficulty of college athletics paired with the academic stresses. Along with any at home or out of the classroom and field problems I can’t imagine being able to balance everything without any help and compensation coming from everything these athletes are surely putting into their respective sports.

I chose to include a picture of WR Aj Green in my essay because he is one of the players I use in my examples about athletes breaking the NCAA rules of profiting off themselves and eventually getting suspensions. This was an important image to add because it just shows an athlete at his caliber and status was essentially profited off of for his name. He is one of many athletes, who while could easily be making thousands of dollars themselves are restricted to only profiting for the universities that they are connected with. With the chart I included it shows the average revenue generated for schools separated out by sport. I think this was very important to add because it gives a very clear understanding about how much college athletics powered by the stdue nt athgltes actually generate for the school. While these numbers are staggeringly high it is important to point out that the student athletes do not see a cent of this revenue generated. I chose to insert this image around my talk about codependency between universities and athletes because it shows how athletics have a direct impact into the schools revenue stream providing it with the operating cost they need to perform. I also added the image of Ohio State’s football stadium completely sold out to show the dedication of fans towards college sports and the specific athletes that are in this huge spotlight. Again this highlights the elevation of these schools though the student athlete performances which has a direct effect on their overall school success. Student athletes are continuously overlooked and neglected by schools and the NCAA and through these images and charts shown it does a very good job of highlighting this issue.  

I chose to read the chapter “You Mean I Can Say it That Way?” because I my essay I got comments on and felt like rereading my essay it was very confusing at times. I knew what I wanted to say but looking back at it the paper did not accurately represent what was going through my head. I was caught up in making my paper sound overly professional that it lost meaning and context. In the chapter I read it talked about how to correctly put your thoughts down in styles that were organized in an accurate logical sense. I was able to understand how to blend my own sentences with a professional style without the usual confusion the arises in most of my essays. I believe this is one of the worst aspects of my writing and through reading this chapter and applying those skills I have increased my writing ability greatly.

Overall your piece was very well thought out and put together. You have a strong topic and argumentative point having a real focus on what your thoughts and the other authors relate to. The evidence used is very good and in some paragraphs I think can expanded on even more just to add more to your topic. One paragraph you had I saw contained some very good base information but no real evidence or connection linking back to the topic. With work on that the paragraph it should be a very strong point which in addition can connect with the authors writings as well. While still working on your conclusion I think by linking all your paragraphs back to your main topic will put it all together. Overall you have some very good pieces of information and flow of transitions making it a very good start to a paper. 

College athletes compensation a big issue that has been a very controversial topic throughout  many years. Just recently in the past few days a NCAA vote was made in favor of college athletes giving them the ability to promote their own likeness and profit off of themselves. In my essay I plan to look at the connection between college athletes and the NCAA/colleges and universities seeing the codependency between them. This obviously is not looked into and recognized enough but a very strong argument for the compensation of college athletes. Similar to the codepency in my topic there seems to be a connection between the arts and sciences not nearly looked into enough. Both these comparisons can be overlooked sometimes and the advances in looking deeper into both problems can open possibilities for new breakthroughs and understanding. The NCAA and science seem like the supreme rulings in decision making when in reality all the difference in the world can be made giving a bigger platform and louder voice to student athletes and the arts.      

The organization behind the billion dollar industry of college sports controlling every move anyone in the amaetuer sports industry, the NCAA. Through the NCAA every school from Division 1 athletics to DIvision 3 is required to adhere to the many rules set out to make the college sports level as entertaining, safe and inclusive as possible. While always attempting to act in the best interest of all parties, at the end of the day the most controversial and polarizing thing about the NCAA towards people is the issue with College Athletes compensation and the advertising and selling of their likeness. According to NCAA current rules and policy any college athlete accepting money or any sort of compensation for their performance or likeness is in violation of the rules. While everyone has their own very strong opinion on this topic the main reasons athletes deserve compensation for their work is that athletes put in so much time playing their sport almost always exceeding that of a normal paying job, the amount of revenue generated through these athletes that go strictly towards the school not a cent going towards the athletes, and how it seems that almost everyone can use and profit of the athletes talent and hard work except for the athlete actually doing everything. In the essay Compensation for College Athletes it goes in depth towards the actual number that college sports actually generates and the history and background leading to the NCAA making the decisions they have now. While expanding on the compensation rules the article also gives some major argumentative points for the athletes getting paid. There is already corruption and shady activity within college recruiting and teams including multiple cases of athletes being caught violating these rules put in place such as now Pro Bowl NFL wide receiver AJ Green of the Cincinnati Bengals who was found violating the NCAA guidelines when selling his jersey. The irony of this is his college made thousands of dollars from selling jerseys with his name on it all profits going directly to the university. These are just one of the cases of how college athletes are being taken advantage of that is outlined in the article. Many of these problems I have always felt a connection towards the athletes and their needs. As an athlete and now college athlete myself I understand the difficulty of college athletics paired with the academic stresses. Along with any at home or out of the classroom and field problems I can’t  imagine being able to balance everything without any help and compensation coming from everything these athletes are surely putting into their respective sports. This article is very reputable coming from Gale Databases a very respected and trusted site, containing incredibly in depth and descriptive information that checked out throughout multiple sources I have full confidence in the accuracy and legitam\ the efficacy of this article. To connect everything together I plan on incorporating the change and history of the NCAA and colleges over the years and their control over athletes whether they are advancing for the better or worse. I also will make sure to go in depth about the connection between the universities and athletes and their codependency they have, showing the equal representation of both parties.      

TREPAC

The connection between science and the arts is undeniable, for a functioning reality that why can make some sort of understanding out of both science and art must be p[resnet. With the vast knowledge and advances we have made in technology some things may never be explained through hard facts or equations. In The Future of Science… is Art? Jonah Lehrer states “In many instances, the opposite has happened, so that our most fundamental sciences are bracketed by utter mystery. It’s not that we don’t have all the answers. Its that we don’t even know the question.” With the ideology of science seemingly not having the complete answer for everything, the only, while ironic… logical thing is the balance of art and imaginative thinking to fill in the blanks that science cannot. While the science of everything may eventually be explained, the current conception of the rest of our universe and existence is in the hands of art and freethinking. 

Barclay

While scientists and most artists in many instances are always looked as polar opposites the connection between them may be closer than ever actually thought about before. Many understand the intricacies and thought provoking thinking scientists undergo every day but many don’t realize the very similar thought process that artists paths are lead on during their work. Jonah Lehrer in The Future of Science… is Art? Says “Artists are in some sense neurologists, studying the brain with techniques that are unique to them.” The connection between art and science has never been more clear even with all the innovation and advances in science we have made. In an essay by Yo-yo Ma, he establishes  a connection saying “ The values behind arts integration- collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination- lead to the capacity to innovate” Both these writers understand the values in the connection between arts and sciences and how in reality they are closer in understanding than it may seem.       

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   Yo-Yo Ma the author of the piece is a very successful performer talking about the thinking and the importance of the education structure of the new generations. Published in January 2014 Ma has won multiple awards and medals.
2. When reading this text Im getting a better understanding of the views and outlooks on the STEAM way of learning and how integrated in education is very important. It can be very beneficial for the introduction for young people leading the new wave of education.
3. Yo-Yo Ma is showing how this change in STEAM education is very important and shaping the thinking and basis for the future. While success is a very possible and important result the process and parts of the STEAM education is expressed. 

STEAM- The inclusion of science, technology, engineering and math in an education process.

Edge Effect- In ecology, edge effects are changes in population or community structures that occur at the boundary of two or more habitats. 

Integrative Awareness- Integrated Awareness is an innately human set of skills for healing and wholeness through movement, touch, enhanced awareness and changes of consciousness.

When reading and annotating the piece I Am Not Your Story for the second time, much like my other times rereading and annotating pieces, I got a much better understanding of the points the author was trying to get across and could clearly make decisions on my beliefs about the ideas. At first reading this I was very confused through the entire reading. The introduction of multiple experts and opinions as well as the rebuttal to all of them made it very difficult to understand the actual point that was meant to come across. Rereading for the second time I connected much better with the author and understood most of their view to the point I agreed with some, which was not the case at all during the first time reading. Clearing the fog was a big part in understanding even more of the writing which gave me the extra information and background to the whole piece. One instance of “clearing the fog” was with self-constituting which means the establing and set up of or accepted. Another one of these clearing the fog instances was the word contextualizations which means the act of putting something in perspective and understanding. Overall as always rereading and reannotating greatly helped me in understanding showing the clear importance of it in every piece.

When reading Galen’s argument the overall wording and text of the paper was rather confusing. After rereading the paper I still count i used to be confused by his argument. However I understood the main point that his stance was rather controversial bringing up many different experts and their thoughts on the overall idea. Many of these experts were often the very opposite of Galens, in which he would go in detail arguing against and supporting ideas with evidence. I personally believe I have felt impeded by my life story. My life story I at one point believed I had set and was destined to do. This created a boxed way of life and directed my focus away from some things that may have been some interesting or fun opportunities. Some things that have a direct relation to being impeded by my life story is sticking with certain sports teams even without the love and dedication for the game anymore. I would believe that I couldn’t quit a sport that I no longer liked because I had been working my whole life with this and it was supposed to be my future. When discussing the ideas of multiple selves I believe I have only my singular self. This singular self however is very complicated and has many levels but not in the sense of different selves. Each of my own components work off each other and are intertwined with no actual specific  “different self”. I may react and act different ways but in the end I am a human being that as complicated as may be a single individual with one consciousness.