Blog post #2

“CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th- graders.”

Mary Willingham was sitting in her office one day and a basketball player at the University of North Carolina walked in and asked for help on homework. The athlete could not read or right.

CNN went to twenty- one schools to seek evidence about college athletes. They found that public university’s around the country where many students in the basketball and football programs could only read up to an eighth grade reading level.

This relates to fate. It relates to fate because the athletes figured if they knew all about the sport that they were playing then all the knowledge would come to them. With them not knowing that they have to learn to read and write to be successful in life and in their career.

I feel that it is wrong for the news to put the athlete's business out in the open. That is wrong because they already know that they can’t read or write so for the news to put it out in the open could possibly lead to suicide. On the other hand it is a good thing because athletes are thinking if they know all about the game then the knowledge from school will come by itself. I don’t believe that they should of been brought up that way.

The author said that CNN found that “public universities across the country where many students in the basketball and football programs could read only up to an eighth-grade level.” That explains that athletes who are in the basketball and football programs did not really care about school when they should have been worried about it. Now the athletes has to live with the consequences of their choices.

Evidence:

“As a graduate student at UNC-Greensboro, Willingham researched the reading levels of 183 UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.”

“In 2012, the University of Louisville earned a profit of $26.9 million from its men's basketball program, according to figures that schools have to file with the Department of Education and were analyzed by CNNMoney. That's about 60% more than the $16.9 million profit at the University of North Carolina, whose men's hoops team had the second-largest profit.”

Tsui, Kevin. “UNC Women’s Basketball Team.” Flickr. 2 Mar. 2008. Media. 27 Jan. 2014.

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Ganim, Sara. CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th- graders. CNN. 8 Jan. 2014. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.<http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html?hpt=hp_t1>

Blog Post #1

“Judge Rules Rich Kid’s Rich Kid-ness Makes Him Not Liable for Deadly Drunk Driving Accident.”

Gray, Madison. The Affluenza Defense: Judge Rules Rich Kid-ness Makes Him Not Liable for Deadly Drunk Driving Accident. Time News Feed. 12 Dec. 2013. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. <http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/12/the-affluenza-defense-judge-rules-rich-kids-rich-kid-ness-makes-him-not-liable-for-deadly-drunk-driving-accident/>

On the night of June 15, 2013 Tex a sixteen year old rich kid killed four incident people in a drunk driving accident. It all started when Tex and his friends went to wal-mart and stole beer. They jumped in a pickup truck and smashed into a women and killed her on a Burleson, Texas road. The court said that his alcohol limit was three times the legal limit. Tex plead guilty to four counts of manslaughter by intoxication  and two counts of assault by intoxication causing bodily injuries. In the state of Texas for a crime like this you can be fined up to $10,000 and between two and twenty years in prison. But instead Tex got ten years probation and no jail time. According to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney if he slips up he will spend ten years in prison. Tex’s lawyer said that he suffers from affluenza a term that means his wealthy parents let him get away with anything. That is what saved him from a twenty year sentence.

This relates to “The Sniper” story that we read in class. The only thing is that the sniper killed his brother because he was in the war and Tex killed people by being dumb and stealing from wal-mart. This caused him to kill incident people and get away with it.

I feel that it was really wrong that Tex did not go to jail. I feel this way because if it was anyone else they would have gotten the maximum sentence. I don’t think it matters if he is rich or not just as long as he knows right from wrong then he should be punished for his crimes. This effect does not really effect me but it does teach me a lesson that lesson is that if you are  rich then you get away with anything.

The central idea of the passage is about a sixteen year old rich kid Tex. It explains that he killed four people and he injured two of his friends. It also explains why he did not get any jail time.

Evidence:

“He pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter by intoxication and two counts of assault by intoxication causing bodily injury. Two teens in the bed of the truck were seriously  injured, and one cannot move or talk.”

“Texas sentencing guidelines for crimes like this call for fines of up to $10,000 and between 2 and 20 years in the state penitentiary. But instead Couch got 10 years of probation and zero time. If he slips up he could go to jail for 10 years, according to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney”

“The Keller, Tex., 16-year-old”

Damnsoft09. “Head on Collision. Wikipedia. 17 Sept. 2007. Media. 9 Jan. 2014.

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