Auburn

With coaches making upwards of $7 million dollars a year and television ratings for its game coverage skyrocketing, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has had its fair share of good times in the 21st century. The association has also had its worst times as well, “the NCAA has never been more vulnerable and on the defensive with regards to it policies and practices, especially its reliance on the age-old characterization of college athletes as “amateurs” who are first and…

Academic Argument To be considered a top recruit you don’t even have to display your intelligence all you need to display is the athletic ability that you have obtained. The film “Hoop Dreams” shows the two main characters being pursued by college coaches because of what they could potentially bring to the team not what they can bring to the school. The only time education was important to Arthur and William was when their high school coach or counselor informed them that they had to reach a set…

improve our health. Not only that, sleep is the best way to recover energy. Sleep is important for our well-being. Sleep quality and amount can change according races. Dr. Fuller-Rowell is professor in the college of human sciences at auburn University and has done tons of research about sleep. (“Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Ph.D”). Dr. Fuller-Rowell and colleagues did study where it show the less we sleep; then, less productive we become (Fuller-Rowell et al., 2016).They found African…

I clearly remember the day when I first met Lennie and Carla. I had just stepped onto the drylands of Auburn, Alamaba. It had been late in the afternoon almost eight o’clock.I had been travelling before but now I was back in my hometown. The house I was called to work on was an older building that had started falling apart slightly. Carla was the owner of the house. She was an older lady in her mid 70’s with grey tied back hair and a bright smile. She was a peteit lady standing at five feet…

There 's no doubt that I can relate and pity Susan Smith. She went through trauma, depression, and thoughts of suicide just because her life wasn 't perfect, or what she hoped it would 've been. Most of all, Susan and her husband, David, were going through a divorce. Divorcing is hard for both people, even if no one loves each other as much as before. Especially having young children who don 't understand the current situation makes it difficult, tiring, and more stress put onto the parents. I…

The Dreaded Reading Class It was the first day of third grade. I jumped out of my moms car after kissing her on the cheek and hearing the routine “have a good day”. Jordy, my sister, and I walked in together reminiscing the previous years at Rising Star. Everyone was dressed in their favorite outfit to impress all their friends. Jordy and I fashioned our Limited Too dresses and sparkly back packs. We walked into the air conditioned building from the smoldering heat. This was the hard part; Jordy…

“We loved him no matter what,” Carla Alcorn tells CNN. Her voice shakes with emotion. “I loved my son. People need to know that I loved him. He was a good kid, a good boy.” Pushing her auburn hair behind one ear, she looks directly into the eyes of her interviewer. Mourning in the stomach-punch way only parents who bury their child understand, Carla Alcorn kept repeating that she loved her child. "He was an amazing musician and artist," she says. "He was an amazing boy." At age four, I…

In Peter Singer’s The Good Life he mentions that “the brain is a tool for reasoning, and a capacity to reason helps us to survive, to feed ourselves, and to safeguard our children.” (264) As college students make the transition from home life to living at a university, they lose the safety provided by their parents as well as certain amenities, such as home-cooked meals. In order to help these new “adults” manage this transitory period, most universities require students to live in on-campus…

The novel The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf focuses highly on feminism in today’s times. Throughout the novel the author describes different situations in which so many women are stereotypically looked upon. Many women think that the real meaning of beauty is what is shown on television. Many women disregard their opinions and instead mold it into the views of others. The author argues that some women are being victims by; work, media, religion, sex, violence, and hunger. Beauty was once ago seen as…

I ran for close to an hour before something strange happened… I found Damien. Just sitting there in the middle of the forest looking at the flowers. I became flustered, he looked so gorgeous in the afternoon light with his auburn hair and sparkling blue eyes. I walked closer to him and said “Are you ready to go yet?” He simply smiled at me and all I could do was walk closer. “NOOOOO!!!” It was Freya, she had followed me here. What was she doing? Why did she have to ruin…