Joe Paterno

this question I will be looking at Joe Paterno and why I consider him to be an excellent example of a tragic hero. I will break down his story as a tragic hero in parts as illustrated in the class notes. Tragic Hero Part 1: The first part of the tragic hero theory is that the character is of noble stature and has greatness. This noble stature/greatness is clearly evident for Joe Paterno. He is considered one of the best college football coaches in history being the most victorious…

constantly in contact with young boys and young college men. This program progressed to a statewide charity whose honorary board members included Paterno and other sports figures. Sandusky was hired in the late 1960's. Over a span of several years, he abused young boys and men. Sandusky preyed on his victims, by locating and grooming them for himself. The scandal at Penn State University was pertaining to The Second Mile child sex abuse.…

Penn State Public Relations Disaster In November of 2011, Penn State and their football program experienced one of the biggest public relations disasters in recent memory. This happened as a result of the once renowned football assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky’s sexual assault of as many as eight underage boys on or near university property. Sandusky was indicted on 52 count counts of child molestation that spanned from 1994 to 2009. The school and football program were also alleged to have…

I think Joe Paterno’s position with respect to structural violence was that he may have acknowledged what Jerry Sandusky was doing but never actually saw anything so maybe he thought it wasn’t really his problem or his business. I think that if Joe Paterno had known that students or even the community would respond the way that they did about the scandal, he possibly could have done more to bring awareness to what was going on. I think Joe Paterno’s position was that he had built his reputation…

With the events of the Sandusky scandal taking place primarily on the Penn State Campus, you have a variety of stakeholders affected both internal and external. The internal stakeholders in this case are the people on campus who were directly affected by the events that occurred (Crandall, Parnell & Spillan, 2013). The management team and the athletics department both had a stake in how this played out. The management team would have to replace the employees that as well as handle the…

the locker room and they tried to sweep it under the rug per say. Spanier, Curley, and Schultz were all charged with perjury; however, Spanier received additional charges of obstruction, and conspiracy (Bohm & Haley 2014). In 2000, Jim Calhoun, who was a janitor at the time witnessed Sandusky and a minor partaking in oral sex (Lucas & Fyke 2014). He went and told some of his fellow employees of what he had witnessed and they told him to leave it alone or he could lose his job (Lucas & Fyke…

Case Study 1 Trader Joe’s Keeping a Cool Edge The average Trader Joe’s stocks only a small percentage of the products of local supermarkets in a space little larger than a corner store. How did this neighborhood market grow to earnings of $9 billion, garner superior ratings, and become a model of management? Take a walk down the aisles of Trader Joe’s and learn how sharp attention to the fundamentals of retail management made this chain more than the average Joe. From Corner Store to…

his first State of the Union Address in 2008. Over the past year President Obama and Joe Biden have both made it a priority to medical research, but more importantly the medical research in the development of fighting cancer. President Obama also stated that in the past year Vice President Joe Biden said that America could cure cancer. Vice President Biden has also provided scientists with some of the best resources that is known in today’s society. President Obama then announced that Joe…

Amigo Brothers Antonio and Felix both want to be lightweight champions in boxing,but they each have different boxing styles and body structures. In this essay, i’m going to tell you all about their similarities and differences. They are very similar as they are different. They are best friends that act like they are brothers. They both are similar because they are Puerto Rican boxers. They both enjoy collecting fighting magazines and read and look at them. They are both seventeen years…

In Kinsella's Shoeless Joe Jackson returns to Iowa, Kinsella questions the American fascination with the past and also criticizes Americans and their dreams. By presenting what is basically a ghost tale disguised as an American sports story, Kinsella blurs the lines between practicality and what is unreasonable. A middle aged farmer, Ray Kinsella who obsesses over a baseball diamond to the point in which it almost causes financial turmoil builds a baseball field to watch the ghost of Shoeless…