Pay For Sport Players

The statistics of how much a College Football game makes and the salary payments for those playing College
Football needs to be attended to. Players who play football can’t always for-see a possible injury in a season.
Nor can they get a direct number from their coach based on a scholarship. Though with that possible injury
while on the field, it can also determine a football player's future. So with a payment for each game a player
plays while on the field, can help those players who may get a possible injury. In which by using the money
that they earned playing football can pay for most of the expenses, if at all. By which, I think Football players
should be receiving salaries based on their football experience in college.

I will be going over a few main reasons why we should be paying Football College Athletes. These reasons include
from the sources, Should College Students Be Paid? And The Myth of the Sports Scholarship.
 If an injury happens on the field, and they lose their scholarship. They would then have to pay their whole tuition in
full, which could take many more years now without that scholarship and without being paid. On top of that,
they would even have to pay for the expenses of each and every injury that had occurred to them while on
the field. But on the down low, there could be other players who get paid more than the other player. 
Then with the fact of College Sports bringing in so much money every year, not all of it is being used, sometimes it
just is being distributed amongst bigger companies while the students are doing all the hard work. With their
hard work, some colleges aren’t giving students that type of opportunity to get more money to use towards
their education and learning. Which is sometimes not allowing college students to keep going to school. As
you know though, school is the most important thing. But College comes with a cost. How would you expect
a newly graduated college scholar to pay all that money back? Well, that answer is simple, pay
the students accordingly, help them pay their schooling, and let them enjoy the years of college while
they have them. Another low could be the students overworking themselves for the best scholarship, or
the best play, and sometimes that isn't fair either.

There is said to be that the NCAA provides insurance, but only 12 have been accepted in the last 20 years. Why?
Well because that player has recovered, even in the slightest bit possible. Then those who are permanently
hurt from playing football, are the ones who get the insurance.  So without that insurance many people are
in trouble there as well. The medical bills will just keep racking up without some kind of good insurance
that will cover most of the expenses. So even if players do get paid, that will help them immensely. 
There are also times when people are trying to get scholarships that their coaches will try to make a “good” deal with
their recruiters. When in reality that said coach will most likely never give you an exact number. And that is
what worries me the most. They say they will give you the best scholarship ever, but in reality only be such
a small percent of a full scholarship. So with smaller scholarships, more people are out of luck. So having
them paid will help with all the expenses that a player will ever endure. 

But then of course, there's the one person who declines the said argument of paying student athletes. And that was
Christine Brennan. She had pointed out a good argument and said that if one sport was being paid, Why not
other sports? The single most important thing here is the fairness of paying for other sports as well. It’s
strong because she actually has a point, what about the other players of the sports world? What will they
do without that extra payment on top of their scholarships? Well, they would probably have a
complete riot if that was the case. It would be fair to pay for other sports as well. But that's not my
side of the matter.

Trauma and Heatstroke

 In Football High, there were many different problems that the documentary had covered. But there were two that had really stuck out to me. One being the inclination of CTE in high schoolers and two being the rise of heatstroke of high schoolers with the rising heat index. These are two different scenarios of high school football athletes, and I think something needs to be acknowledged. Highschool Football is getting to be more aggressive, which can lead to others being hurt, some being killed over time due to trauma. 

Trauma in Football is caused by the brain progressively and repeatedly getting concussion after concussion. CTE also known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, has become more common in High schoolers due to the more force that they take and endure compared to college students. And those smaller athletes have been said to hit with their head, and by that, their actual heads, causing more trauma to their brains. You would think that a high school student wouldn’t have something like CTE. But in recent years, it's been becoming more common among younger students. 

As you’ve noticed our summers have been relatively hotter as the years go by, and that is due to the possibility of climate change. This problem of the heat index rising has caused many high school students to pass out from the heat possibly having a heat stroke. Which can be deadly if not dealt with properly and as quickly as possible. In the Documentary, it covered two different students from two different schools. Will James and Tyler Davenport were two students who had both collapsed from heat stroke the same Month of August 2010. Yet the only one to come out of the coma was Will. Why was this? Well, Will had an athletic trainer on field, at all practices, while Tyler in fact, did not. So in that case, Tyler was left to the hands of his coach and his teammates to do something, when they didn’t know what they were supposed to do. Which led to his body being above the regulating body heat it was supposed to be at, which then caused his body to be more damaged. 

Some types of possibilities that can decline the inclination of CTE and Heat strokes in high schoolers/college students are listed. 

For CTE: immediately take a player off the field if they are having symptoms of a concussion. Possibly get better helmets for the players or better protective gear in general. Remind your players it's never good to use your head in a situation, even if the other team is stronger. These are only some ideas that I thought of for preventing CTE. 

For Heat Stroke: Some ideas may be to possibly get an athletic trainer to be on your field, or someone who knows what to do in a bad situation. Make sure to watch your players closely, if any sight of weakness or struggles, don't overload them especially on a very hot day. Make sure water is on the field, at all times, make sure there are many breaks given to any athletes, even the non-fit ones. 

Tricky Stores

Normally Stores have different ways of advertising, whether they completely change their view of a product, or if they try to change the use of it. But sometimes that can confuse the minds of consumers of what the product is actually to be used for. Down below is two sources that I have explained about the actual meaning of the product, and the perceived use/meaning of the product from the image given. 

To begin with, Softlan is normally supposed to be pictured as a fabric softener to clean your clothes and to add a sense of softness. Well duh, but from the picture that was assigned, and what it said on the advertisement. They are changing their position to more of something that calms someone down, instead of cleaning your clothes. From that scenario though, it shows someone who is completely calm, while in a wrestling match. I really don’t think you should be relaxed while someone is trying to pin you. But the goal of the original purpose is to be against other competition. They say that their product will calm wrestlers because of their very soft fabric softener, and disagree that other companies could do the same.

Then, Pilot Pens, the water resistant ones to be exact. They are normally something you would most likely write with. But with the whole water resistant factor, they are rewarding someone by writing a note in the bottom of the bowl. They want to make sure their kid is eating all their food, so they reward them with television if they make it to the bottom of the bowl. But against other competition, this kind of pen has an unique attribute. As you know, normally not all pens are water-proof. But this pen has that attribute that makes it different from other pens.

So by positioning the actual product into a whole complete different meaning the producers can get different consumers to buy their product. So instead of people who would just use it for laundry or to write with, they can actually get that new meaning out to people and gain more consumers that way. To be fair, positioning always has had been a huge part of the marketing system. So I say we just be grateful for it, and be glad of the products we do have. Even if they don't always mean what they actually say.

Media and It's Cultures

Social media is everywhere around you, yet you never notice the most common ones. For example, there is Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, even Youtube!

    In the video Generation Like, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are seen multiple times. Facebook is meant to meet friends and share everything in your life, mostly positive. Twitter is a place where news, fake and real is shared. Whether it is a new movie coming out, or the president being injured in a bombing. Youtube is then a place where videos can be shared. These videos can be clickbait, truthful, or again, fake. 

    Facebook is seen at the middle beginning of the video. There is a group of teenagers around a table, all on their computers on this site, Facebook. They are mainly focusing on each other's profile pictures and their statuses. As you know, your profile picture is your identity, who you perceive yourself to others on the internet. And what you say in your status can also give more identity of a person. So if you have a really good photo, that photo will perceive you as someone who is normally looking. But if you or a friend posts an abnormal photo of you, it would change your identity of what others see of you. Likes, shares, and comments come into the play as you post anything. They say the more likes you have, the more popular you are. So when one of the girls say she’s gotten a huge amount of likes a photo, even the camera crew is surprised. 

Youtube is a big part of this video and honestly, it's not surprising. Youtube is a huge community of a bunch of different categories of all kinds of videos. Clickbait and trending videos are always on youtube, no matter where you look. Tyler Oakley used the formatting at first to show what he liked on youtube and gave actual opinions on products that he showed. Youtube can also be used for advertising as well, but it's mostly for personal use. Tyler Oakley introduces his subscribers to multiple small channels, which is called collaborating. And his subscribers may choose to subscribe to that person if they may. 

Twitter is used to spread news, drama, or just random things around. Ceili and her friends used Twitter on a daily basis over the movie The Hunger Games. Ceili grew so popular, that even the page for The Hunger Games tagged her and responded to her. She even became more popular because of the response from their page. People looked up to her for more news and responses to the books and movies from the series.

But not all social media is good for everyone. Cyberbullying, harassment, and harmful comments, videos, and profiles are all over the social media world. People could seriously harm themselves if someone were to say something very insulting to them. Youtubers, tweeters, and vloggers can take things seriously and their mental health can deteriorate. Also, people look good on the internet, sometimes take it too far and start to eat less, physically hurting themselves, and losing a lot of weight just to look like someone who has a lot of followers to gain likes and "fame”. So social media can be good, but it can have its bad parts, so be safe in the world, and take care of your personal life.