Facebook AD

I will promote my page like this The Skull Cracker. I would shoot the promotion towards athletes and their support system that is interested in concussions. I would gather my audience by sports and then look at football players interested in concussions.The interests I would use is pictures, videos, and facts towards concussions that has/had happen in college football and the pros. With these interests hopefully athletes and their support system would like my page.

Facebook Analysis

The Skull Cracker was a Facebook page to inform athletes and their support system to go and learn and receive information dealing with athletes who has/had concussions. The page was also made to show people how concussion happen in football and take a look how to be more careful to try and prevent a concussion. I felt like my best results came from the videos/pictures I had from actually plays from my senior football season at Dixie State University. Also had good results from the information I presented from the NFL with Lawsuit towards concussions. Even had information about players who had concussions in the NFL and actually videos of players getting hit causing them to have a concussion. I remember from the moment I made the page I was kind of worried about how the page will succeed. The page started off slow but then it picked up and started catching my audience attention more with the informative information that was being presented on the page. I noticed that I was getting people attention from all over with the likes of the page from the comments/ likes on each post. The page started to have a regular audience where they would comment/like the post on a daily. I know for sure if I keep this page which I am I hope it can grow bigger and reach out to even more people than I reached out to from this semester. I like my progress from the page especially with me being a football player I look at the game differently when I see a big hit or a helmet to helmet hit in the game. This page will help a lot people in the future with other sports.

Contextual Analysis Final Draft- Ray Rice situation with his wife on the elevator

Event:

On February 15th, 2014 Balitmore Ravens running back Ray Rice has been arrested, charged and release on assault charges towards his fiancé. Ray Rice and his fiancé (Janay Palmer) were in Atlantic City having a good time suppose until things escalated to something more serious. As the cameras show at that Ray Rice and his fiancé were having a “minor physical altercation as they were walking to the elevator. But that’s what sources said Ray Rice’s attorney described they were having a “minor physical altercation”. About four to five days passed by and sources like TMZ revealed a video shot from the elevator inside and outside of what really happened between Ray Rice and Janay Palmer was Ray struck his fiancé in the face after she had spit on him and then punched her again knocking her unconscious. The video also showed that Ray Rice was dragging her off the elevator and kicking her as he tried to wake her up. Soon as this footage was out the Ravens organization waited to discuss anything about the situation until the league did first. One things sources said that Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti promises that rice “will definitely be back”. Roger Goodell addresses Rice situation and said the league is aware of the incident with Rice but he doesn’t know yet about the discipline part. March 27, 2014 Rice charges changed from simple assault to aggravated assault after the case was presented by prosecutors to a grand jury. Then sources like the Baltimore Sun on March 28th, 2014 say they were married and Ray Rice teammate Torrey Smith attended the wedding to show his support. May 1st, 2014 Rice rejects a plea deal, and applies for pretrial intervention program. Rice was accepted by that on May 21st, 2014. Two days later May 23rd, 2014 a press conference was held by Ravens Ray Rice and Janay Rice they both apologized for the situation they were both in. June 16th, 2014 Rice has his discipline hearing with Roger Goodell, Ravens team president Dick Cass, NFL lead counsel Jeff Pash and NFL VP for labor relations Adolpho Birch. Also in the room was Ray Rice wife Janay Rice. In meeting room sources spoke, Peter King on July 25th said Janay Rice told Roger Goodell that this was one time-event and nothing physical had happen in their relationship before or since. Source said that she urged Goodell, to not ruin Rice’s image and career with his sanctions. Later on the NFL spoke out and said they did not see the full video of the incident and there conflicting reports on what Rice told them. Interesting thing came up in an interview with CBS after second tape was released, Roger Goodell said that rice was ‘ambiguous” in recounting the situation on the hotel elevator. July 24th, 2014 Ray Rice was suspended 2 games by NFL. Only two games was this the right way to handle this situation with Rice? I believe this was just a cover up to not let the public know what was were talking about when they all had a meeting. A lot of these question came up from people in the public. Then on July 29th, 2014 Peter King reports that the NFL did see the full video of the incident and on August 28th, 2014 the NFL admits missteps, announces new domestic violence policy. Roger Goodell admitted that he “didn’t get it right” when he handed Rice a two-game suspension. September 8th. 2014 video surfaces of Rice punching wife in the face. Rice and the NFL took a heavy criticism in the weeks following the announcement of his two game suspension. Source like TMZ received the video of Rice punching his wife in the face inside the elevator and published it. The league mentioned that Rice punishment could be more serious after the league changed the domestic violence policy. According to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, the NFL requested the tape from law enforcement during its investigation, but was denied. The Ravens also mention that they didn't see the footage until TMZ released it. September 8th, 2014 Ray Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens this was the same day TMZ released video and Ravens terminated the running backs contract. According to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo sports, the decision was made because Rice had allegedly been dishonest with the team about the situation. Also on September 8th, 2014 Rice was suspended indefinitely by NFL. This is very shocking to public, friends, family, teammates, the league, and especially to Baltimore Ravens Fans because there running back they cheer for every Sunday has been suspended indefinitely due to his physical actions towards his wife in the elevator.

Psychological:
This is sad because the emotions that some people may be going through seeing his wife get punched, dragged, and kick that’s terrible to see a female get treated like that let alone your fiancé at the time but now your wife. People can’t believe it, I know some spoke about it and said they can’t watch the video because it hurts their stomach to see a woman go through something like that. I know for myself I felt a certain way towards it because I’m African-American and football player in college and people may talk or look at me different because they see what African-American NFL player has done to his wife through media. I also felt a way because you shouldn’t treat a female like that his actions was uncalled for. Should never put your hands on a women that’s not the way you solve things. I saw information on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter where they had a picture of Ray Rice animated, him hitting his wife in the elevator and it wrote “another black man strikes his girl”. That’s crushed me to see the stupidity that people do to get attention. They basically making a joke out of it. I cannot imagine how Ray Rice and his wife may be feeling on seeing how social media used them as a joke. I know women in general may be having a tough time and feeling a certain about this, women should never be treated that way.

Social Roles:
Looking at the social roles of this situation is tough especially for myself being a black athlete I just try to be myself and don’t get caught up in wrong situations with a women. In college you see females all the time at parties, school, and sport games. I just be myself and get my education and try not to worry about other things. Looking at social media on this situation people gave shout out wishing the best to Ray Rice and his family, they also reached out to him on keeping his head up, and another was putting his picture up on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites talking bad about him bashing him in any way to make him feel bad. But his close friends, fans, teammates wish the best for him and hopefully he can bounce back. It’s crazy how most of the Sports talk shows talked about the Ray Rice situation for instance ESPN First Take Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless both voice their opinions towards this speaking that he messed up big time and hope he and his family get through this but also don’t let social media make you go crazy with the negativity their going to put out about you. Stay focus and keep grinding. That’s basically what they were speaking on with Ray Rice situation. A lot of social media sources did not have the truth with the situation besides TMZ but it’s shocking to see how people just give out information, so that other people can believe and run with it because social media just feeds people whatever they think is true and people will run with it and blow it up even more.

Cultural:
I know for me being from African American culture and seeing how social media made black football players look by trying to ruin Ray Rice by the stuff they wrote and pictures they put up. It’s hard to walk around because you can feel the vibe that give off by looking at you. Some people would never know how that feels unless you were walking in my shoes or football culture as an African American. The media don’t care they will put out anything they want to make a person look terrible because at the end of the day it’s not them. So, the different cultures for situation would be football players, women, and black females/males. They would be the one who would feel some way about how media portrays this situation.

Source: http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/5/23/5744964/ray-rice-arrest-assault-statement-apology-ravens

Presentation- Las Vegas

Sustainability ideas for Las Vegas.

Areas in need of obvious improvement:

Transportation

Hunger

   Utilizing waste of hotels for homeless/hungry

   Education and  involvement in agriculture in school systems

Energy

Education

Water

Transportation/Bike Paths 

City of Las Vegas would implement safe bike paths—perhaps elevated, walled, or even by using this electroluminescent paint on the bikes—along major foot traffic areas, such as the Strip and Downtown. Self-checkout Bike Stations would be available along the path where bikes could be rented by the hour or day with a credit/debit card or smart phone. Some bike options for children and trailers would be available, also. Each station would have a rent/return option or an option to securely store bikes while shopping/dining touring the hotels. Trained, paid bike patrol “guides” would ride the route to help with mechanical and safety issues, tourist questions, and all-around hospitality.  Initial costs would come from bond tax and hotel taxes, revenues would go to fund city parks and recreation, and enlarging the bike program to eventually include other recreational areas such as Red Rock Canyon, Mount Charleston. Lake Mead, Valley of Fire, and other bike baths for residents. 

This would cut down on fuel consumption and motor vehicle traffic, and increase healthful, family-oriented recreation on the Strip and Downtown.

Hunger

Hotels and the Homeless

Implement an on-site gleaner program for each hotel. 

Serve homeless or hungry residents the extra from hotel restaurants on a daily basis (perhaps a soup kitchen type setup somewhere behind the strip, with resources there to talk to people about getting back on their feet, and training for culinary jobs), or at least arrange pick up of extra food from each hotel and take it to the homeless shelters. 

Incentive: Hotels would get tax credits for participating. 

Homeless/poor could be employed to do the gathering, preparation, and delivery of food, getting job skills, experience, and contacts for full time employment.

In Schools

Each public school would have a greenhouse. Starting in grade school, students would learn to plant and grow a garden, using the greens in the school lunch program. This would begin a lifelong education in healthy eating, growing organically, nutrition and commerce. Extra food would go to homeless shelters, to families of kids in need, or sold as a business.

Best practices would be taught, such as building for energy saving (earth berm greenhouses, solar panels, windmill water pumps, recycling garden water into fish tanks, composting lunch waste) Kids could also raise chickens for eggs, as an excellent source of protein, while letting them care for other living things and teaching them responsibility.

Students could actually spend after school hours doing something enjoyable and productive. Community members could volunteer for after-school supervision. Many older people have skills, such as canning foods for storage, that will be lost in a few decades if younger people are not taught in schools. The program could grow to include other animals, such as dairy and beef cows, goats and horses, pigs, and even raising bees, making soaps, cheeses, candles, selling honey, and pursuing money-making skills. 

This program would eventually pay for itself in terms of healthful living and employable skills, while building a real sense of community, and honoring and passing on the knowledge of elders.
Video

Education

Eliminating GE requirements at UNLV for some degrees. 

Offer degrees at UNLV like they do in European Universities. Concentrating on majors, students could show a set degree of competence in general education, either by testing out or showing high school competency scores, thereby allowing skipping two years of generals and getting degrees faster, saving on loans and student debt, while attracting more enrollment, at faster turnover rates. 

On Retaining Excellent Teachers

Teachers would be required to maintain a level of excellence which would attract enrollment. Adjunct professors that show high promise would be encouraged to get their terminal degrees and continue on as teaching staff.  UNLV would offer full-ride scholarships to selected adjuncts that commit to teaching at UNLV for four years after graduate school.

Article address the idea of shortening the time it takes to graduate.

Energy

Reduce energy consumption on hotel lights.

Solar Cloth parking lot covers

Solar panel cloth could be stretched over hotel roofs,  some walkways and bike paths, and large parking lots in Las Vegas, harvesting the abundant sunlight while shading pedestrians, bikes and cars, reducing interior air temperatures in locked, parked cars, which saves on air conditioning. The energy from this new technology of solar cloth could be put into a city wide grid, providing energy during peak hours to hotels and residential areas. Power for hotel lights would come out of the grid when houses are not using as much, reducing stress on the power grid and paying for the extravagant lighting Las Vegas is known for. There should also be designated down times, thereby encouraging some night sky viewing, without all the light pollution. Who really needs to see the Strip 100% lit up at 4am?

Tax credits could be a huge incentive for hotels to install this product, while selling excess energy to the city makes sense in order to get a reduced rate for energy when it is needed.

Bonus topic—Because talking about sustainability for Las Vegas and not mentioning water would be lax.

Water conservation:

Water Appreciation Day/April 1st

One day a year, all water to residential areas should be shut down. People should have to store/carry their own water for just one day, in order to create empathy with the people all over the world that have to haul their own water every day. Conservation would boom.

Landscaping:

ALL shallow evaporation ponds should be required to be maintained as wildlife refuge areas, or filled in and used for water-wise organic community gardening.

Presentation Las Vegas (Rough Draft)

It’s a gamble…

Sustainability ideas for Las Vegas.

Areas in need of obvious improvement:

Transportation

Hunger

Utilizing waste of hotels for homeless/hungry

Education and involvement in agriculture in school systems

Energy

Education

Water

Transportation/Bike Paths

City of Las Vegas would implement safe (perhaps elevated or walled) bike paths along major foot traffic areas, such as the Strip and Downtown, and. Self- checkout Bike Stations would be available along the path where bikes could be rented by the hour or day with a credit/debit card or smart phone. Some bike options for child trailers would be available, also. Each station would have a rent/return option or an option to securely store bikes while shopping/dining touring the hotels. Trained, paid bike patrol “guides” would ride the route to help with mechanical and safety issues, tourist questions, and all-around hospitality. Initial costs would come from bond tax and hotel taxes, revenues would go to fund city parks and recreation, and enlarging the bike program to eventually include other recreational areas such as Red Rock Canyon, Mount Charleston. Lake Mead, Valley of Fire, and other bike baths for residents.

This would cut down on fuel consumption and motor vehicle traffic, and increase healthful, family-oriented recreation on the Strip and Downtown.

Hunger

Hotels and the Homeless

Implement an on-site gleaner program for each hotel.

Serve homeless or hungry residents the overages from hotel restaurants on a daily basis (perhaps a soup kitchen type setup somewhere behind the strip, with resources there to talk to people about getting back on their feet), or at least arrange pick up of extra food from each hotel and take it to the homeless shelters.

Incentive: Hotels would get tax credits for participating.

Homeless/poor could be employed to do the gleaning and deliveries of food stuffs, getting job skills, experience, and contacts for full time employment.

In Schools:

Each public school would have a green house. Starting in grade school, students would learn to plant and grow a garden, using the produce in the school lunch program. This would begin a lifelong education in healthy eating, growing organically, nutrition and commerce. Extra produce would go to homeless shelters, or to families of kids in need.

Best practices would be taught, such as building for energy saving (earth berm green houses, solar panels, windmill water pumps, recycling garden water into fish tanks, composting lunch waste) Kids could also raise chickens for eggs, as an excellent source of protein, while letting them care for other living things and teaching them responsibility.

Students could actually spend after school hours doing something enjoyable and productive. Community members could volunteer for after-school supervision. Many older people have skills, such as canning foods for storage that will be lost in a few decades if younger people are not taught in schools. The program could grow to include other animals, such as dairy and beef cows, goats and horses, pigs, and even raising bees, making soaps, cheeses, and candles, selling honey, and pursuing money-making entrepreneurial skills.

This program would eventually pay for itself in terms of healthful living and employable skills, while building a real sense of community, and honoring and passing on the knowledge of elders.

Education

Eliminating GE requirements at UNLV for some degrees.

Offer degrees at UNLV like they do in European Universities. Concentrating on majors, students could show a set degree of competence in general education, either by testing out or showing high school competency scores, thereby allowing skipping two years of generals and getting degrees faster, saving on loans and student debt, while attracting more enrollment, at faster turnover rates.

On Retaining Excellent Teachers

Teachers would be required to maintain a level of excellence which would attract enrollment. Adjunct professors that show high promise would be encouraged to get their terminal degrees and continue on as teaching staff. UNLV would offer full-ride scholarships to selected adjuncts that commit to teaching at UNLV for a certain period of time after graduate school.

Energy

Reduce energy consumption on hotel lights.

Solar Cloth parking lot covers:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/be put into a city wide grid, providing energy during peak hours to hotels and residential areas. Power for hotel lights would come out of the grid when houses are not using as much, reducing stress on the power grid and paying for the extravagant lighting Las Vegas is known for. There should also be designated down times, thereby encouraging some night sky viewing, without all the light pollution. Who really needs to see the Strip 100% lit up at 4am?

Tax credits could be a huge incentive for hotels to install this product, while selling excess energy to the city makes sense in order to get a reduced rate for energy when it is needed.

Bonus topic (Because I seriously think we will get knocked for ignoring water in Las Vegas)

Water conservation:

Water Appreciation Day/April 1st

One day a year, all water to residential areas should be shut down. People should have to store/carry their own water for just one day, in order to create empathy with the people all over the world that have to haul their own water every day. Conservation would boom.

Landscaping:

ALL shallow evaporation ponds should be required to be maintained as wildlife refuge areas, or filled in and used for water-wise organic community gardening.

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Solar panel cloth could be stretched over hotel roofs, some walkways and bike paths, and large parking lots in Las Vegas, harvesting the abundant sunlight while shading pedestrians, bikes and cars, reducing interior air temperatures in locked, parked cars, which saves on air conditioning. The energy from this new technology of solar cloth could 

Analysis Rough Draft

For this assignment I'm taking at look at the Ray Rice domestic violence case against his wife. Ray Rice is former running back for the Baltimore Ravens he won a Superbowl ring in 2013. Ray Rice and his fiance Janay Palmer at the time were in Atlantic City, NJ in February. When they were at a casino enjoying there selves when all of sudden things went in a different direction from what the viewers seen from the elevator footage. Ray Rice and Janay Palmer were both having some physical/ verbal altercation before entering the elevator. Once in the elevator Janay spit on Ray then he attacked her by hitting her one time in the face and then she begin to charge at him and he punched her again knocking her completely out cold causing her to hit her head on the elevator rail . She was laying in the elevator knocked out when Ray Rice begin to pick her up then dropped her back down then picked her again but instead of fulling picking her up her legs were dragging on the ground and he dropped her on the ground right outside the elevator. He started to kick at her and shake her to wake her up and then the security man came to the scene and noticed she was unconscious. Ray Rice knew his actions were wrong for putting his hands on a female. They both were arrested and both were released from jail on a simple assault charges at first....

Looking at the social media aspect of the Ray Rice situation it flooded the internet, newspapers, social networks and anything you can name of. Baltimore Ravens starting running back, Superbowl winner of 2013, and role model to youth has done a terrible shocking thing by dragging and putting his hands on his fiance. People look up to Ray Rice and want to idol him and want to be a running back in football. But not anymore from what the public witness from what he did.  Social networks blew up from TMZ elevator footage that was revealed. Ray Rice was released from the Baltimore Ravens team soon after the GM seen the tape. The internet was bashful they talked about Ray Rice and his Fiance because she took him back after the situation happen she never left him. The internet was putting up (memes) picture of his face or his fiance face talking about him. People were throwing away his jersey. They did not want any part of supporting Ray Rice. On Halloween this year people dressed up as him and his wife. The man will have a Ray Rice jersey on and the women would have bruises on her body black eye from make-up. They were making sure he got exposed for what he did. Ray Rice and his fiance Janay Palmer even did a interview and which he apologizes to the public,his family, friends and teammates for his actions.

This is just bits of pieces of where I'm going with this paper I will be touching on all 5 of the contexts from the class syllabus which we discussed in class. Also I will be giving more in depth about certain things.

1) Physical: Where an event happen? Atlantic City, New Jersey in a elevator
2) Psychological: What emotions are people feeling? angry, disappointed, sad, shocked, let down, organization may feel embarrassed.
3) Social roles we have in that situation? (i.e. rules of roles) Never put your hands on a female, be responsible, be respectful....
4) Cultural: Values of groups we associate with? different races and cultural will come give their input. I feel that people will give good and bad points about Ray Rice actions.
5) Temporal: When something happens? (time) Happen in the off season so it wasn't that much to talk but now sense it's football season you have more people talking about more reporters giving there side of the store it's much bigger now.
5b) Technical

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/5/23/5744964/ray-rice-arrest-assault-statement-apology-ravens

Patriot or Traitor?

Looking at the video clips from class really had me shocked because I never knew anything about this until Professor Young told the class to watch the videos of Edward Snowden. I didn't even know who this guy was but apparently he wanted the public to know what the government was doing. I think with all the technology and the way it changes over the years there is always someone watching us no matter what it is. Thinking about Edward Snowden revealing the information to the public he could have went a different direction by letting the American’s know but that was the best way for him or safest way for him to do it. I believe that he is a Patriot. I think he did the right thing by coming out and letting the public know that we are being watched no matter what there’s no privacy. That are President has to come out and say the right thing and not try and cover things up. Everyone can say Edward Snowden is a bad person by revealing information that he shouldn't have done that but he wanted to let American’s know that the government is watching us no matter what. My answer is that Edward Snowden is a Patriot.