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I asked Ashli if she thought the cast members captured the role of the characters well and her response was, “Yes I do, Terrence Howard plays Lucious Lyon so well. He really owns his role as the villain. Taraji P. Henson takes her role to a whole new level of lady boss-ness. The rest of the cast captures their role perfectly…

diagnosing traumatic injury and developing advanced materials and technology that will prevent head injuries. Riddell, the largest helmet manufacturer and the official helmet provider for the NFL, is introducing its newest helmet, the SpeedFlex. The new attribute of a cantilever allows the helmet to remain flex while maintaining an overall stiffness. It also uses a ratcheting system that locks the helmet into place and a facemask that assists in shifting the force away from the head. The…

The average NFL game lasts about three hours and twelve minutes due to the commercials, timeouts, and reviewing plays. These issues make it difficult to watch a three hours NFL game when the ball is only in play for eleven minutes. My solution to these issues is a microchip in the football that measures where the ball is on the field at all time. The tracking chip is called IT(Information Technology)Football, since the ball is being tracked it would be easier to determine first downs because…

audiences. But how did the NFL grow to become this popular? There appear to be many factors in the constant growth of the popularity, power and profits of the NFL since the 1970s. Some of these factors include Monday Night Football, new technologies providing new ways to draw fans and the NFL’s monopoly on professional football. The most significant factor is the NFL’s professional football monopoly. The growth of these three facets, popularity, power and profits, are related. The growth…

Misconduct in News Media News media has evolved for almost thirty-five years because of Internet usage, leaving a great milestone in world history; now advanced in technology, social media has pulled itself in the world of news media, giving a window to viewers to read and reflect on news media without even knowing it. However, according to Tim Graham, social media has been put in a harsh spot because of the inaccuracy of sources within stories. In Paul Farhi’s “Why Everyone (It Seems) Hates the…

ESPN started with just two men when one, Bill Rasmussen lost his job as communications director for the New England Whalers in 1978. Bill’s dream, along with his son Scott was to change the way the news industry operated, and they did just that by creating the first 24-hour network, and the first to exclusively air sports news. The very first show to air was on September 7th, 1979, live from the ESPN studio. In 1983 they began to distribute programming internationally. After discovering that it…

technology, society has found more sources for news. Nowadays media has expanded to many more choices for the public. There are both advantages and disadvantages with many choices. Media has become merely focused on getting ratings, making money and covering easy stories, while keeping viewers intrigued. Media is a good way for people to stay informed, however it does not always inform the total truth. Media is a source where people can look for news and stay up to date, but what some of the…

AG: It’s safe to assume that everyone in this classroom has looked at some form of news at some point in your life, according to an article written by the MintPress News, 60% of information reported by Fox News in 2015 was false. 1. Aaron Blake, a writer for the Washington Post, stated that people only watch reported news that agrees with their political beliefs. 2. Meaning that the majority of news audiences are subjectively one-sided and don’t get both sides of the story, only the…

most covered topic, specifically, was the banking industry and the government bailout which accounted for about 15% of the news hole. Other topics that took over the news included the Obama Administration’s stimulus package (14%), the U.S. automobile industry’s financial troubles and plant closures were third with 9% of the economic narrative. Due to these topics dominating the news, there became a lot less coverage of day-to-day concerns which could have had a direct and immediate impact on…