Redshirt

Examining the privileged in Redshirting Education is important because it is the road that children follow in order to reach their full potential in life. Outliers, a story by Malcolm Gladwell, talks about how academic redshirting can help someone´s child. In this book he explains the pros and cons of redshirting and says that it can even affect whether your child goes to college or not. When he talks about redshirting, he uses a real world example about hockey players. All the players in the…

Sports in Schools: More Than Just a Game When the purpose of high school is broken down, it is easy to determine that it is developed to prepare us for the next stage in life. For some it’s college, others it’s working in retail, some start their own companies and others it’s playing professional sports. While that list barely scratches the surface of possible routes one may travel after high school it illustrates the vast options that are available. So it is the duty of the school to prepare…

Groups which supported white supremacy, like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redshirts often terrorized African Americans in order to suppress the rise in power which African Americans found themselves gaining. In The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans, Dorothy Sterling shares that “between…

Opera means work in Italian and is the name given to a dramatic play set to music where the performers sing their parts accompanied or unaccompanied by music in solos called arias and two or more singers called ensembles. The sixteenth century saw the beginning of operas which started as poems sung by musicians called Camerata (“society”). In 1607 Claudio Monteverdi first used an orchestra to accompany his opera, La favola d’Orfeo, creating the modern opera we know today. (London: Octopus…

When you hear the word Michael Vick a lot of controversy comes up because everyone knows him as the man who was arrested for illegal dog fighting. But there is a whole lot more to him then what some people think. Like did you know he played in the NFL? Ok yes you probably did but what else do can you tell me about him? See it is harder than you thought. Before his legal troubles he was a very successful and promising athlete. Even after his time in prison he still found success in the NFL. This…

Case Study Description The particular individual chosen for this case study is a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II football player. He is now attempting lose weight in order to become a marathon runner. This has been difficult for him because of the differences in diet and his portion sizes. For the majority of this individual’s athletic career he was on a very high calorie diet due to switching positions after his first year in college. He initially entered…

Emancipation of The African Race In one of the most celebrated book of the 20th century, W.E.B Du Bois in is his book ‘The Souls of a Black Folk’ writes that ‘The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line’ (Du Bois, 1903). It is from this book that the reader understands how slavery ravaged Africa and implanted its inhabitants in different parts of the American continent. The premise of the advent and the adverse effects of it to the African continent were based on the…

The spectacle that we call the Super Bowl is nonetheless amazing to the senses; not only the eyes, but the heart. The money making super giant that is the NFL, continually surprises, amazes and ultimately disappoints us in ways we forget, year after year. In this discussion, football shall be a focal point, but not the main topic. Our topic concerns something much larger than football (Huh? Gasp! Couldn’t be!), a topic that is intertwined with everything and anything we do; the sociology of our…

Classes were nearly over and he settled himself for another round of ‘Let’s see who can Bag the Quarterback’, and he means as a girlfriend. After he had won the Avalanche Bowl it had become a nightmare. It wasn’t one of the nationally recognized bowl games, but it was still a bowl game nevertheless. Someone must have been playing a cruel joke when several of the bigger bowl games were canceled due to weather or some other unforeseen mishap and their game was now being covered and they were…

Introduction In the United States alone, approximately 1.7 million individuals sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year (CDC, 2006). Of those 1.7 million, approximately 700,000 are adolescents, making them the age group most prone to experiencing a TBI (Ettel, Glang, Todis, & Davies, 2016). A TBI occurs when traumatic force causes damage to the brain whether it occur from the head hitting an external object, or when an object hits the head forcefully and potentially punctures brain…