Jackie Jenks, the executive
Jackie Jenks, the executive
Did you watch the Super Bowl 50 ? It was a historic battle, Panthers against the Broncos. They played at Levi's Stadium on February 7th at 3.30 pm. It was an intense game people were nervous, excited, even terrified that their team might not win. Also Super Bowl 50 had hilarious commercials and an awesome halftime show. Which team were you going for?…
This was war! Since its inception seven years earlier, the upstart American Football League (AFL) had fought the National Football League (NFL) for players, fans, television revenues, and respect. The successful new league had won everything except, respect. On January 15, 1967 the first World Championship game against the AFL and the NFL took place. The powerhouse NFL champions the Green Bay Packers against the AFL champion the Kansas City Chiefs. What ended in a 35 to 10 loss to the NFL, the AFL earned its long sought after respect. But the winner that day was not the AFL or even the NFL; it was professional football.…
The world of sports is filled with injuries many from hard hits to the head causing concussions. The sports world has been very busy lately addressing lawsuits, putting together committees and discussing various rule changes. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says “The NFL and its clubs have long made player safety a priority and continue to do so.”(Morelli pg2) But is this the complete truth.…
This case study discusses Mayor Paul Schell’s pledge for homeless families in Seattle, Washington. Being that homelessness in Seattle was so bad Mayor Schell knew it was something that had to be done. Therefore, on June 2, 1998 Mayor Schell spoke to the press and pledge that there will be no homeless families with children and homeless single women on the streets of Seattle by December 25, 1998. This paper will analyze the policies, strategies, and programs within his administration and the impact on them by his pledge. It will also discuss the implementation of the program. Lastly, it will discuss the importance of the assessments prior to the implementation.…
Data analytics is not only confined to marketing or business, now a days it is used in many fields. Sports is one such area, here are two examples in sports were data analytics was used very extensively and proved its worth. The San Francisco Giants are one of the oldest U.S baseball teams, and one of the most successful as well. They have won the most games by any team in the history of American baseball and any North American professional sports team. The giants have captured 23 National League pennants and appeared in 20 World Series competitions- both records in the National League. Their most recent triumph was winning the 2014 World Series. The Giants have outstanding players (with the most Hall of Fame players in all of professional…
In Scott Bransford article “Camping for Their Live”, Bransford writes about a newlywed couple Marie and Francisco Caro and many other homeless people in California’s Central Valley. The Caros didn’t have enough money to put a down payment on a home therefore they became homeless. Bransford uses a concerned tone when writing about the homeless in California. Bransford has some strengths and some weaknesses in his article. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of tent cities and the people who live in them. Bransford is biased towards helping homeless people. Bransford has a concerned and sympathic tone in his article about the homeless people in California’s Central Valley.…
Imagine 96.9 million people watching the same thing, ingesting copious amounts of food and beer, and cheering maliciously for a squad that may or may not be their team of choice. I grew up in South Africa where the Super bowl is not nearly as big as it is in the United States. I was naive to the idea of watching any big game besides the World Cup. When I moved to the US I did not know what the Super bowl was. 198 countries watch the Super bowl and it is aired in 25 different languages across the world. I can’t help but think to myself that this is just a game and I don’t really care who wins, even though my surrounding suggested otherwise. I am sitting in a room full of diehard Seahawks fans. All of the furniture has been moved to each wall in the little room so that everyone can see the big flat screen TV. Beers are cracked, chip bags are opened, and we are about to watch the most watched TV program in United States history, the Super Bowl. Bronco’s fans are turned away and the guys roar at them as they try to enter the small apartment. “If you are not supporting the Seahawks you can stand up and get the hell out” one of my friends yelled as non-supporters walked away. Bud Light is the beer of choice in the room and Doritos are the chip of choice. As the game is about to start the room ignites and everyone is immediately fired up. The commercials play through the loud chatter in the apartment and they seem to be unimportant except for a few that are considered memorable. The Super Bowl is a spectacle and there is nothing else like it. The Super Bowl is a large reflection of American culture. Through media, commercials, and the atmosphere that this game creates, patriotism and masculinity are unintentionally the main aspects of this spectacle.…
Mayor Schell made some policy choices that were a part of his strategy to better the homelessness issue is Seattle. One choice he made was to lower the number of homeless people living on the street. It was very hard to keep count of the number of homeless people on the street because it was ever-changing. Some people who are homeless are transitional. One night they could sleep on the street, and other nights they…
The day had finally come. No it wasn't Christmas or the New Year, Kwanza or even Easter. It was the the most glorious day of all days, the Superbowl. Now for anyone who has never heard of the Superbowl and lives in America, that person has either lived in a cave for their whole life or…well that I think would be safe to say that's probably the only case because everyone knows what the Superbowl is. Anyway, this Superbowl Sunday started off just a little bit different than most Superbowl's I've had off from work and for any of this day to make any sense for anyone that wasn't there, I'm going to have to start by including some background information on the previous events that led up to this day.…
These figures have been about the same for at least the past five years. (Suburban Stats) Chinatown, hailed as one of the largest such communities in the United States, has remained a prominent district in the city throughout the years and consistently the Chinese make up about 20 percent of the city’s population. (Bryant 18) San Francisco also has a significant homeless population, estimated at slightly less than 6,500 people in 2015; about 40 percent identify themselves as LGBT as reported by Dave Campos in The San Francisco Bay Times. Campos, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, argues that homelessness is one of the most critical issues for San Francisco to address in…
The year is 2013 and it is the week of Super Bowl. It is also the week where my younger sister died. It was about seven years before this incident and it was always just in the back of my mind. This is the first time that I have really told anybody about this event that isn't part of my family.…
New York City has an overwhelming amount of homeless people on the streets is very obvious. People always wondered how and why these people become this way and why it seems like nothing is being done to change it. Some think that homeless people are just people who lost their jobs and are too lazy to get back into the workforce, but research has shown that that is not the case. The statistics of homelessness in America is shocking considering that the country is one that is more advanced, especially from the technological standpoint, perhaps far more than most other countries of the world.…
Homelessness is caused by certain circumstances that led people without a place to stay. Every person in life is worthy of having a place to live. Housing is one of the three necessities. People who do not have a stable home, are awaiting to face many challenges. Living on the street in a place like New York City is very dangerous. Even during the winter season, the weather is unbearable. It is too risky to have people living on the streets. Recently, there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of homeless people living in New…
John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, Eugene Smolensky. (Feb., 2001), Homeless in America, Homeless in California. The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 83, No. 1 pp. 37-51 Retrieved August 20, 2010, from The MIT Press.…
Homelessness is a growing social injustice in the United States. The degradation that these people face every day is terrifying. It is a crisis that we too often ignore, hoping it will restore itself. That assumption delivers a widespread lack of understanding about the facts that lead to homelessness. Homelessness exists as a problem that we should acknowledge and treat.…