In Friday Night Lights, Shows how football was everything, even to teachers, and everyone who was affiliated with the school. In the book, you notice how some dreams had been crushed, the player that shows it the most it Booby Miles, a running back who was set to have an outstanding year until he was forced out with a leg injury. You get to see how Booby deals with his whole life including his fights with racism. I have seen the book, and also the movie. I honestly liked the movie a little better.
One of the main reasons is that college sports are very popular and the attendance, especially at the football and basketball is growing every year and breaking attendance records. Furthermore, TV ratings for the tournaments series are the highest they have been in years bringing billions of dollars in commerce for schools. Schools use their players’ face and names to promote their schools and gain more money. Of course, college athletes get scholarships and get education, however who benefits the most from their success? The answer is schools.
Communication 321 Northern Illinois University Emergency Communication April 21, 2010 Dr. Courtright Bridget O’Brien Stephanie Bloom Stefanie Lalich Mackenzie Waters Amy Neubauer Northern Illinois University Emergency Communication Introduction Imagine sitting a full lecture hall and suddenly having a man run into the room and begin firing into the audience. This scenario, while rare in the past, has begun occurring more and more in recent years at schools across the country. School shootings require the use of emergency or crisis communication, in order to get important information to the publics that are at risk right then. The shootings that occurred at Northern Illinois University in February 2008 prompted an emergency
Everyday we come across stories on the 7 O’clock that fill us with fear. If it’s not someone being murdered, it’s a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. We are constantly replaying these news stories in our minds on a 24-hour newsfeed, which makes us even more fearful. The government has so many rules but gives us easy access to guns. If the man is getting accused of bombings repeatedly, and
It is tempting to give a simpleor even simplistic answer to the above question: it is tempting to say thatanalysis and theory of crimes of the powerful have grown so quickly in the lastcentury because the quantity and diversity of such crimes have themselvesexploded outwards. As the number of crimes committed by the powerful have risenexponentially across the years and continents, so the police forces, crime-preventionagencies and legislators of the governments charged with halting these crimeshave had to evolve into larger and more complex organizations also. Forinstance, amongst myriad forms of organized crime that developed in thetwentieth century, one pertinent recent example is the efflorescence ofhigh-tech and internet crime, where professional and international gangsmanipulate technology to extort or steal large sums of money from the public.High-tech crime is of course a recent phenomenon; it did not exist at the turnof the last century. Therefore analysis of such activities by law agencies hasgrown to respond to this new threat; moreover, the analysis and prevention ofsuch crimes has had to grow in sophistication and size just as the crimesthemselves have done. Organized crime - be it narcotic trafficking,prostitution rings, corporate crimes and so on - has become a massiveinternational business, and it has required larger agencies equipped withbetter criminal theory and technology and international cooperation betweenagencies to deal with it.
A riot is a crowd behavior in which members of one group indiscriminately attack the persons or property of the members of another group. The riot I chose was the Penn State riot that occurred on November 11th, 2011. It occurred on the campus of Penn State University. Many were involved in this riot including the head football coach at the university Joe Paterno, university president Graham Spanier, assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the universities board of trustees, students, and media. Hundreds of students gathered at the student union center to watch the board of trustees' news conference on a big screen.
The first property damage reported was a Nike store and even the police headquarters was damaged by the protestors the riots were keep on getting more intense as now the protestors started blazing police cruisers on fire in various location and many bank branches were damaged which led to a total lockdown to Younge street police even the transportation was put on lockdown all the buses and subway was halted. For the first time in Toronto police used tear gas to control the riots. Now the police came in action and started to use rubber bullets and pepper sprays to stable the condition. Over the course of the day 300 people were arrested and many were injured during arrest and next day it was a relief day as many of the lockdown were removed and public transportation was operating again and additional officers from the Ontario
Vocabulary changed too “terrorism” “bomb” and “terror attacks” were terms used regularly and became a social norm with “war” being added to the list when Iraq was invaded. The acceptable images that were broadcast during this time were also changing the American use of a deck of cards as a hit list of people they wanted dead was a regular occurrence as were images of victories and injured soldiers. While all the graphic images were being beamed into our homes, printed in our newspapers and magazines the music industry was struggling with many radio stations choosing to censor music quite drastically. Many artists and bands had to change to avoid censorship. The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide.
This changed due to NCAA legislation which moved the games to a brand new battlefield, the football fields of the campuses. Mizzou’s Director of Athletics, Chester L. Brewer, envisioned adding excitement to the rivalry game by inviting alumni to join in and “come home” to see the game. Thousands of people find their way home or discover their future home at Mizzou every year to participate in the annual homecoming rituals. Festivities of the original homecoming in 1911 included a parade, spirit rally and the game against KU. More than 9,000 fans packed into the past football field, Rollins Field (now known as Stankowski Field), and began the Homecoming tradition.
Much of today’s television programming is violent. One study conducted by four schools under UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and financed by the cable industry found that of nearly 2,700 shows analyzed in a 20 week survey of 23 channels, 57% were said to contain atleast some violence. Wrestling and boxing competitions are the obvious examples but there are also shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the X-files, CSI, Law & Order, to name a few. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and the X-files can always be counted on to show violent deaths. Similarly in Law& Order, shootings, murders and rapes are constant factors of the show.