...Coach Carter is based on a true story that happened in Richmond, California in 1999. It’s about a man who once played for the Richmond high school basketball team and he decides he wants to coach them. The players on his team have no respect and think they can do whatever they want. Timo Cruz is one of the main characters in this movie, he gets kicked off before Carter hands out his contracts and he quits once more during the season. Another main character is Kenyon Stone, he has struggles involving his girlfriend being pregnant and trying to go to college and play basketball there. Carter gives out his a contract to all his players and he actually takes them seriously which the school doesn’t like because basketball is the only thing most of these kids have. This contract forces these kids to go to class and maintain a certain average in order to play. The team starts off great winning its first 14 games but Carter soon finds out from progress reports that most of his players aren’t maintaining the required grades so he decides to cancel all team activities and locks the court until the team raises their grades. This makes the whole community angry and it eventually leads to him getting fired but the players still want him as a coach so he stays. One of the issues from Coach Carter is teenage pregnancy. Keynon Stone gets his girlfriend pregnant and now has to plan out his life like whether or not he’s going to go to college to play basketball or stay home with his girlfriend...
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...2015 CWV 101: Christian Worldview Instructor: Peter Rasor People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine. Ethical Dilemma This dilemma involves my friend Paul. Paul has been working very hard in practice, and the weight room and has earned a starting position on his team. The team has recently been winning more, and many of the players are using a new performance enhancing drug. Paul’s teammates are always reminding him that it is not a banned substance, and the coach has turned a blind eye to the whole issue. Paul told me that his coach is making some changes, and he may lose his starting position. He is starting to think about actually taking this drug so he does not lose his spot. The dilemma is that Paul could just take the drug, and get to keep his position as a starter. Since the drug is not listed as banned, and the coach ignores its use, it should a good choice. No one will ever know. There are a few things that could be done to resolve this dilemma: * I could tell Paul to stand his ground, and not take the drug. He could let his talent stand on its own. I would tell him that taking the drugs could be dangerous, and its simply wrong. * Paul could go to the athletic director...
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...Greg Nelson Sports Administration KINE 6323 Steve Dingman 2/23/2014 After doing various researches I came across a couple of quote that really stood out to me and others, John Wooden said that sports do not build character, sport reveal it, Legendary UCLA Basketball coach. With this being said, many players and coaches and other believe that sports, such as football and basketball, build character. Let’s take time to sit and think about this. If it were true, every person that steps upon the grid iron would be strong and successful winners in every aspect in the sport’s society. If you truly look at a person’s character, it has already been developed. Sports, such as football, bring it out of an individual. I wouldn’t say sports don’t develop player, but again I will say that it help bring out the best in a player. I figure that one way that sports helps a player’s character is how the ways of the game affect a person. Nobody like to lose, but when you lose are you going to be a man about the situation and shake another player’s hand or walk off the field with too much pride. The reason I speak on that is because a loser with bad sportsmanship will show that he got defeated with bad character, but a player with good sportsmanship will sit and accept that he got defeated and show more positive character throughout his career. A lot of people think that football is a good sport to show one’s character by how they win and their emotion through the game. When a team...
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...Lofland FROM: Chandni Kumar RE: Greyline Bus accident http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/multiple-injuries-reported-after-2-double-decker-buses-collide-in-times-square/ ARTICLE SYNOPSIS Greyline in one of the sister companies Coach USA. This accident happened in the heart of New York city. The accident involved 14 people injuries LEGAL ISSUE The legal issues about this accident are the investigation is in process and they might think that one of the drivers on drugs while operating the vehicle. The authorities are investigated if the drugs were perception or not perception. MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE The legal issue which this accident is one of the highlighted issue because the authority thinks that the driver was under influence of drugs. Now they need to make sure if the drugs were prescription or non prescription drugs. This accident occurred in the heart of New York. Time square is the busiest place in New York because they main Station is there for buses and trains. And someone driving under the influence of drugs should be fired because that in endangerment to the public and to themselves. Not only the driver is risking his/her life they are risking other peoples life as well. The result of this was 14 people were injured no one killed the authorities are going to look into he surveillance video and see whose fault it really was because the 2 buses were from the same company. People need to realized that when they...
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...(ESPN vs. OSU, 2011) (George, 2010) Ethical and Moral Issues in Business Timothy E. Shaw MGT/216 July-27, 2011 Ms. SHANNON MATHIS-ROBERTS Ethical and Moral Issues in Business Ethics and morals are rules on how we as individuals and as a society should follow. These rules, both written and implied, are how we are viewed and judged. This paper will discuss the differences between ethical issues and moral issues, the differences between personal ethics and business ethics, and show how a violation of these rules brought down one of the Goliaths of college football and caused a premature end to the era Jim Tressel at The Ohio State University. Ethics and morals are sometimes used interchangeably. Ethics is defined as a systematic attempt to make sense of our individual and social moral experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct [ (George, 2010) ]. A moral is the distinction of right from wrong. The difference between the two is very slim and marginal. Morals are what define our personal character, whereas ethics lean on the side of how society is supposed to act [ (wisegeek) ]. As close as ethics and morals are, the margin of difference between personal ethics and business ethics is even more narrow. Business ethics is how people conduct themselves in the workplace and how the company produces goods or perform services to increase their overall worth and profits. Personal ethics are principles of good behavior and a moral...
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...covered in this film were portrayed to be extremely simple, but complex. The film provided public exposure to the myriad problems of race, poverty, parenting concerns, coaching motives, and the amount of emphasis a young black gentleman places on sport. Encompassed by all of these issues was always disregard for one another, as well. Throughout the whole film, I could not help but notice the painful trend of negligence and carelessness towards black individuals. This black culture addressed in the Chicago area didn’t seem to give one another much value either. For some reason there is a lack of motivation to succeed early on unless it is sport. The parents do not seem to enforce a positive work ethic, honesty, and respect. It is no wonder that there was so much violence, drugs, premature pregnancy, and academic drop-outs. From generation to generation in that community, parents fail to teach their children high standards. It could be that children are raising children, which was the issue in William Gates case. In addition, if all they know is basketball growing up and before they reach 16 years old they have a baby on the way, they surely didn’t have enough time to retain anything in their short life before parenthood other than basketball. So as a result, these parents are lacking the experience and knowledge to provide for, love, and esteem a family. The school system in this documentary did not aid in this predicament either. They wanted to player, not the student. They...
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...As a new employee in a business life can be sometimes stressful. Many businesses will first educate and train new hires before requiring them to take on complicated processes. This prior training can be crucial for the future success of the employees, and the company; enabling the employees to learn, and manage anticipated job that may be assigned to them in their future in the business, and know their job duties. Case Study for Student Analysis: Training in the Workplace - Carl Robin Case Study Successful employment in society depends mainly on proper training, assignment of duties, and expectation. A well trained employee whose responsibility has been well defined, and expectation has been set, is more likely to succeed at his job. Whereas employees that have not received adequate training, and are required to perform essential tasks in the work force are more likely to omit crucial steps such as time management, task completion, company regulations. Such employees are less likely to perform well at their duties, and responsibilities, and more likely to feel stressed, discouraged, and potentially prone to accidents depending on the duties. This case study will focus on describing problems in training in the workplace, and preventive actions that could be used to fix them in the short term, and long term. Background Carl Robin’s first recruitment effort proved to be successful in hiring 15 new trainees in April to work for Monica Carrols the Operations Supervisor by...
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...that are either taken orally or injected into the body. Theses hormones set off a reaction that sends an individual’s testosterone level soaring, which in turn allows that person to increase muscle size and strength. But with this new-found strength comes some harmful side effects. Steroids can cause heart attacks or liver cancer, not to mention all the newly acquired acne that often develops. These are only a few of the hundreds of unhealthy things that can happen to you when you are on steroid (Harris129). Many people, medical experts and athletes alike, feel steroids should be legalized. They feel that the use of steroids a few times and in moderation is acceptable. They state that the unhealthy aspect of steroids comes from abuse of the drug. Some people can use steroids and have no effects at all (Johnson895). However, the fact remains, that in long-term usage, steroids are still bad for your body. Many people against steroid use feel that the use of steroids constitutes cheating. “If all the anabolic steroids were removed from the...
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...positive thinker? Sometimes in life we have problems whether it involves financially, decision making, addiction, personal issues and family.People these days try to avoid problems but they come back and become worse or some people think that the solution to problems is taking drugs. I feel like being a positive thinker helps people have long lasting happy lives, my dad’s way of motivating me whenever i’m feeling down and makes you a successful person.But some people have too many problems that they can’t control so they turn to drugs or even commit suicide.Why can’t those type of people think positively? Most people just act in a negative way, we control ourselves and our actions.For an example a mindset of a positive...
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...Get on the Bus Project 2015 Administrative Issues in Coaching - KINS-7430-01F Dr. Drew Zwald By: Steve Masterman-Smith INTRODUCTION: Although I am currently working as a Graduate Assistant Equipment Manager with Georgia Southern Baseball, and I hope to pursue this avenue in athletics, I have coached at every level from 4-5 year olds through high school. My degree from Florida State is in Physical Education and I have minors in both coaching and business. I was also certified by the American Coaches Effectiveness Program when I attended Florida State. I most recently worked with the past 2 Athletic Directors at Robert Toombs Christian Academy in the Vidalia area where my boys attend school. I was an assistant football and baseball coach there in addition to handling all the equipment manager duties and video responsibilities for all sports. I am going to use RTCA as my basis for this project. CURRENT PROGRAM School: Robert Toombs Christian Academy Location: Lyons, GA Grades: 3K thru 12 Enrollment: Approximately 350 – 100 Middle School Students 115 High School Students Athletic Department Budget: Approximately $60,000 Athletic Department Funding: Student Activity fee included in tuition of all students Home game gate Home game Concessions Sports Offered: Junior Varsity (Middle School – 5th graders are eligible to compete on JV teams, 8th graders allowed to compete in varsity level in all sports except football) Boys Girls Football...
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...cheat to guarantee success, either through the use of performance-enhancing drugs, or through the act of injuring others. These days, drugs, blood doping, corruption, injuring others and the consequences of winning and more importantly losing is all evident. Lombardi’s statement is not only applicable to athletes, but it also applies to the countries that the athletes are representing. Events such as the Olympics and Hockey are a source of national pride and some countries are willing, and fully wanting to try and do anything to bring prestige back, many of them resorting to unethical tactics. These tactics does not only affect players, or athletes, it also affects coaches, owners, and managers. They too place winning as their number one concern. In many cases, fair play generally takes a back seat to the desire for winning. The truth of the matter is that, some will bend rules, while others will outright cheat. The corruptness of sports today has led to the endless methods and desires of unethical behavior. In the history of ethics there are three principal standards of conduct, each of which has been proposed as the highest good: happiness or pleasure; duty, virtue, or obligation; and perfection, the fullest harmonious development of human potential. When applied to sports, the third principle standard of conduct is the most evident, and it will be evident throughout the essay. Other ethical issues that come into the picture are Kant’s. No matter how intelligently one acts...
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...New Phoebe House Rebecca Singleterry BSHS 311 - MODELS OF EFFECTIVE HELPING November 20, 2012 Gerry Mc Farland New Phoebe House The New Phoebe House is a woman’s shelter located in Tacoma WA. It opened in 2002 as an emergency shelter and transitional home. Patients can come there and stay a short period of time up to two years. They live in that house that is their home for the time they arrive till they leave. They help women and children who have had chemical addictions. This is the opening statement when you first visit the New Phoebe House website. “In 2002, Pierce County was experiencing a high incidence of Methamphetamine labs, production & usage. Many young people were exposed to Methamphetamine (many times by their parents) and it's highly addictive properties. Young women with children developed chemical addictions. Children were removed or put in foster care because the mother was unable to care for the children. In many instances, the women experienced homelessness or incarceration. As a result of this cycle, they needed a place to recover… when others have given up on them. A group of concerned citizens banned together with the City of Tacoma and Pierce County to address this need and New Phoebe House Association opened the doors in December, 2002 and has been serving women at full capacity ever since.”(New Phoebe House, 2012) The population participates in the program are women and their children. Even though Methamphetamine...
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...Mimi Zycherman James DeRogatis Review of the Arts: Honors 12/9/13 The Obstacles of Life A Greek, a fighter, and a poet walk into a bar. The Greek says, “I’ll think I’ll have a craft-made IPA, but only if it’s from Greece.” The fighter says, “I’ll have a warm PBR in a can.” The poet says, “I’ll have whatever hops is on tap, but put it in a broken wine glass.” So many stipulations just to get a beer! Why struggle when all you need to do is order a cold one? Man vs. Self has its roots in Greek mythology, and has been a common theme in modern-day media. Man’s inner struggle is as common today as it was in the past. In the Greek epic, “The Odyssey” by Homer, the movie “Rocky” starring and written by Sylvester Stallone, and “Just Kids” by Patti Smith, each main character pursues an improbable goal with pitfalls along the way. However, he or she who overcomes so many obstacles becomes the person they want to be. “The Odyssey,” tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and his 20-year journey home after the fall of Troy. The epic poem begins with Odysseus trapped on the island of Ogygia by the nymph Calypso. After escaping he attempts his journey home, telling people along the way of his adventures. After ten years of fighting in the Trojan War, it takes him another ten years to get home to his kingdom of Ithaca. Since it takes Odysseus so long to get home, his family believes he is dead. This ancient narrative poem and its theme, Man vs. Self, is one of the oldest known written...
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...My father threatens to take me out of his will and give all of his inheritance to my brother if I marry a black man. This shows how he is trying to impact the conflict using his money as his power. However, my beliefs and values cannot be bought. Racial ethnicity beliefs is the issue within this conflict culture. My family comes from a white, upper-middle class family. My father will always associate black people into a lower class system and view them as minorities, no matter how financially well of the person is. He will always be racist towards people from a black culture and will never classify them as an equal to himself or white people. My conflict culture of dealing with a racist father impacts me becoming a competent and effective therapist with conflictual couples by learning that people will have their own perspectives on things and I most likely won’t be able to change them. According to Addison and Volker...
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... Competitive sports have a tremendous impact on our culture, influencing the values of millions of participants and spectators. When you look at the definition of sports in the dictionary, it is described as “a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively” ("The American Heritage®," 2003). The fundamental idea of sport is character building, teaching the virtues of dedication, perseverance, endurance and self-discipline. Sports are an important part of life; it can bring people to together. In some cases give people a purpose. This is why it is important that sports are played properly and good ethics and values are shown. It is better to teach this to children, so it’s with them as they grow up. Sports are supposed to help us learn not only from defeat but from victory as well and in team sports we learn the importance of co-competiveness and moral values. This is also true when analyzing sports in real life. People participate in sports for different reasons. Some participate as a recreational thing or a pastime, while others participate in a sport as an industry or a business environment. Sports have been a huge public interest dating back to the gladiator fights and the early ages. The results back then were decided by an emperor, but today we have rules and regulations with umpires, referees, and judges that are there to apply these rules and make sure that each one is being followed. The existence of certain...
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