At the beginning of the 2013 NFL season everybody around the league thought Miami Dolphins locker room was healthy and a good place to be. It was just like any other locker room in the NFL. On Monday, October 28, half way through the season, Jonathan Martin abruptly walked away from the Dolphins facilities. Martin then checked himself into a nearby hospital, where he requested psychological treatment. After a couple of days after the incident, reports came out saying that Martin left the team because of persistent bullying, harassment, and ridicule being done to him. The Dolphins then requested the NFL to investigate the incident. The investigation found that there were three Dolphins offensive lineman who were involved in the harassment of Martin. The biggest player in the incident was Richie Incognito. People inside and outside the Dolphins organization stated that Incognito and Martin developed a friendship. They both stated that they enjoyed socializing with each, and they communicated to each other in a vulgar manner. Martin never indicated that he was hurting from some of the colorful language that was being using. Incognito and his teammates just thought Martin was going along with and it was part of the locker room. Despite everything that happen Martin claims that Incognito had a good side. Him and Incognito friendship was just "bipolar." The situation between Martin and his teammates was an internal problem. The situation began Martin rookie year. All rookies go
“Our culture, our traditions, our languages are the foundations upon which we build our identity.” - Unknown. Bilingualism has many different interpretations and definitions and can cause problems in the community or unite it. The concept of bilingualism represents several different ideas, two writers, Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez share in their essays their personal stories about being immersed into the English culture and learning the language. They share their views of what bilingualism means to them personally and make arguments about the importance of the concept. The two essayists bring awareness to the major role bilingualism plays in the communities today and highlight the effects of disagreements between cultural groups.
Even though they were very much adjusted to one another and got along so well when they got back home, nothing had changed. When they saw white teammates talking to black teammates everyone starred and no one understood. Coach Boon was not surprised to see how people were acting but he was shocked to find out that when the school gave him the head-coaching job it was because they had to and if he lost a game then he was fired. The people who hired him said that they didn’t even think that he would have made it out of camp.
The spectator of this sport has an obligation to the players of the sport, to make sure that the organization is protecting and looking out for them. Yet not only should the viewer be held accountable for the lack of communication in consequences between the player and the pro scene, but the organization of the NFL needs to make sure that their players have a full understanding of what is going on and how they need to protect the players. The current situation that is understood, contents contain implied knowledge that all parties of this table are in uniform knowledge and agreement to what comes of playing football. Finally, this should also happen at the youth level when kids are just getting into the sport, as it would better inform the parents and the kid if they understood the full
Though this NFL conduct is in the light, it is unnecessary because the U.S. criminal justice system has the ability to end the professional sports careers of society’s worst criminals. Everyone asked themselves how could such a successful, talented person throw their opportunity away like this? Crimes from the past always catch up and come to light in the justice system. The NFL from now on is trying to prevent incidents like this from happening from making their off field standards stronger, and making consequences stronger that come with
The NFL has decided not to directly address the mental health problems of current and former players in fear of negative publicity and financial consequences league wide. Also, they have not compensated players for their injuries or put in enough time or effort to improve the conditions for players. These things are deemed unethical, because in a sense by being injured, these players are being stripped of their freedom to do things the way that they want. Also, the NFL is putting the greed for money over the health and well being of the community.
Phillips has been a fan of the NFL for many years. Being a fan of the NFL has allowed Phillips to better understand the game and what goes on between the players. Phillips reads the tweets and watches the games, so he is well informed about anything that happens in the NFL, both on and off the field. In his essay, Phillips writes about the bullying scandal that happened to Jonathan Martin. Martin was bullied online by Richie Incognito for leaving the team to deal with emotional issues. Phillips tell us what he thinks about the scandal and what he thinks about football through his years of
Licht argued but did not make it an excuse that this season Martin had a hard time getting the run game going due to the fact that he was not the same Martin as before. I agree, however, Martin has not been Martin for a long time.
Needless to say after the NFL found out about what was going on there were a lot of suspensions and fines given out to the main people that were involved. The head coach Sean Peyton was suspended from the league for 1 year without pay. The GM Mickey Loomis was suspended for 8 games (half a season) without pay. The entire Saints organization was fined $500,000 and the losing of 2 second round draft picks one in 2012 and one in 2013. Defensive Coordinator Greg Williams got the worst out of everybody, he was suspended indefinitely, at the end of season he will meet with the commissioner to try and get his job back and get reinstated in the league. The assistant head coach was suspended for 6 games and fined $100,000. Also their were four players who got suspended by the league but only one player got suspended for the entire season and that was Linebacker Johnathon Vilma. Even though the Saints appealed the suspensions of the GM and the coaches they all got denied and all the rulings stayed. The players however
ESPN explains that their employees are supposed to be respectful and responsible and represent the NFL’s values and the permissible actions that are done for the good of the league. It has been brought up that the league should dismantle its current personal conduct policy and just leave it with the bare minimum, general rules. “This bare essentials policy allows the justice system to deal with substantial behavioral breaches by players” (Goff) so that the NFL can be removed from any decision-making or investigating involved with a player’s personal conduct issues. By removing the NFL from these positions of authority, it will return the power to the “criminal justice system [which should] [have] primary responsibility” (Goff) over the players; this way the NFL does not have to worry about their players’ actions every second of every day. One cannot argue that the concept of allowing the justice system to take care of any conduct issues that arise in the NFL is not such a disastrous idea. Sometimes the league is too involved with player, even team, problems which can cause turmoil among the media and fans because the league accomplishes all they can to keep their players safe and more importantly, maintain the positive image of the
Since much of a player’s life is manage by his team, whenever a player obtains an injury, all of the player’s medical treatments are handled by the team and the team doctor. Furthermore, the organization is required to report that an injury has occurred and the type of injury. The doctors responsible for treating the players should be focused on regaining the player’s health and strength so the player can continue with his life and football career as quick as possible with no long term effects. However, this idea does not seem to be a reality among NFL teams. Many NFL doctors have been obeying the directions of the same stingy owners that neglected Dexter Manley. With this direction, NFL doctors have been losing sight of any concept of ethics, and the doctors have been aiming to get the players back on the field as soon as possible. This aim does not solely affect the treatment of players, but also the reporting of injuries. For example, Calvin Johnson, an All-Pro wide receiver and future Hall of Famer for the Lions, could not even count the number of concussions he has had. In fact, when he was asked about whether or not he had an exact number he answered “It’s simple to get a concussion, you know. … I don’t know how many I’ve had over my career, you know, but I’ve definitely had my fair share” (qtd in “Calvin Johnson’s Retirement”).
Nicholas Winton and Hannie Schaft’s actions, both reflect Anne Frank’s words “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.” The actions they performed showed bravery and courage. Nicholas Winton transported around 669 children. He managed to organize eight transports from Prague’s Wilson Railway Station. Hannie Schaft committed minor acts of resistance against the authorities. It began with stealing identity cards from public places (the swimming baths were a favorite location) to help keep her Jewish friends out of the hands of the Germans.
The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the assessment process of a patient using the Roper Logan and Tierney (RLT) model of nursing framework and to show how the nursing process works alongside this model. This will be shown by a holistic history of the patient being shown, followed by how the RLT model is applicable to this patient. This is then followed by one nursing intervention being discussed showing how the nursing process is applied to patient care. The patient will be referred to as Mr Frederick Valentine to protect the patient’s anonymity as stated in the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct (2008) guidelines.
Rabia is open to true analysis by others, which is the purpose of Colin Miller and Susan Simpson in the Undisclosed podcast. Colin Miller and Susan Simpson, are the main characters in Undisclosed, so the Undisclosed podcast should come out as super biased. Rabia admits: “I do believe Adnan is innocent, but I’m open to objective analysis by others, and I’m glad to have Susan Simpson and Colin Miller here because they are going to be providing that.” This also explains why she does not describe her belief of Adnan as the community’s golden child, and rather she focuses on the main stories, details, and nuances of the case, and proves that the case does not come together. Undisclosed provides a true analysis, and does not provide an emotional
Dinaw Mengestu, Richard Rodriguez and Manuel Munoz are three authors that have been through and gone through a lot of pain to finaly get accepted in their societies. They are all either immigrants or children of immigrants that had trouble fitting in America’s society at the time. They struggled with language and their identities, beucase they were not original from the states and it was difficult for others to accept them for who they are. They all treated their problems differently an some tried to forget their old identeties and live as regulalr Americans others accepted themselves for being who they are, but they all found a way to deal with their issues.
A Formalist Criticism: Miniver Cheevy & Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy and Richard Cory are both the works of Edwin Arlington Robinson with a similar format yet tell a much different tale. In both these stories the tale of an unhappy man is told. Both stories paint a vivid picture of the lives each individual walked, and how they were viewed from an outside perspective. Edwin Arlington Robinson illustrates sadness within his characters appearing fairly opposite on the outside, however, depression that is similarly deep within.