1. Carter identifies himself with Dan for social comparison. When Carter is informed about his new job he is delighted. Although he is only twenty-six years old, he feels confident about making Sports America remarkable. During the first meeting with his employees Carter preaches the importance of “synergy.” He reminds them about his dinosaur cell-phone idea and suggests to team up with "Krispity Krunch” so they display their sport factoids. Carter does believe he can manage as effectively as Dan. When Carter and Dan first speak, they are both surprised about their age differences. Carter tells Dan he is a fast learner and describes himself as a “machine.” Dan also compares himself to Carter. When he sees how young Carter is, he cannot believe …show more content…
Dan has a different perception about his employment than Carter does. The most obvious dilemma they have is their age difference. Carter tells Dan he is older than his father, which makes Dan feel uncomfortable since the beginning. Dan believes he should not have to listen to Carter because he has more work experience. He is shocked when he finds out Carter has no knowledge in run ad sales. During the first employee meeting Carter suggests they put sport factoids on cereal boxes he also says they can team up with tech line cell-phones and put sport factoids on their browser. Lastly, Carter tells his employees that for every 100,000 hits on the internet they should be awarded with one sport ad. The first person to react to Carters ideas is Dan and claims that is “cheating.” Two of Dan’s coworkers believe he will be the first one to be fired because he is “prehistoric.” Dan selects Carters information during the meeting because Sports America interest him and the sport ads mean something to him. Dan’s coworkers choose his response to Carter because they know he is old fashioned. At the end of the meeting, all of the employees start cheering for Carter because they organize the ideas that have been presented to them. Carter also organizes his ideas because he wants to make the company great and believes they all have it in them. Dan is not good with expectancy he is accustomed to his way of working and fails to accept Carters
He “grew up” in Chapel Hill, “believing that Dean Smith, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball-team (who retired recently after thirty-six years), embodied virtue and goodness as surely as Jesse Helms represented hate and ignorance.” This shows us that Williamson has been greatly affected by the culture around Chapel Hill and finds the actions done by Chapel Hill to generally be those of “virtue and goodness.” This influence has built him into a person that deeply cares about college sports, athletes, and the events that revolve around college sports. Also, his childhood revolved around college sports such as how “from age 12 [he] watched Michael Jordan and others from a court side perch as an operator of UNC’s old manual scoreboard,” and this has given him a strong sense of pride for UNC sports. We notice more of this pride and determination for college sports when he describes how he “[strives] to keep the game in perspective,” when watching a game and when he “[feels] elation when the Tar Heels win and supreme dejection when they lose.”
Kristi is interested in the local boy, Ryan, whom Catherine hates for ridiculing David disability. Kristi wants to go on a double date with Catherine to a community center dance on Saturday. Kristi sees a portrait Catherine drew of Jason in her sketchbook and asks Catherine to invite him as her date. Catherine cannot bring herself to confess that Jason is handicapped, as she fears it might jeopardize her friendship with Kristi. Catherine grow close with Jason, and in an emotional moment she races him in his wheelchair around the parking lot to give him a chance to feel the sensation of running. Jason invites Catherine to his birthday party, which is the same day as the dance. Catherine agrees, figuring it's a good excuse to not go to the dance and have to deal with presenting Jason as a handicapped person.
Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol, is set in a future where science, and not religion, has taken over society. A new form of discrimination has arisen, called genoism, discrimination according to one’s genetic purity. The story follows a man named Vincent Freeman who was born as a god child this means he was genetically inferior to people born with the aid of technology. Vincent faces extreme genetic discrimination and prejudice, making it harder for his life long dream of being an astronaut. But we soon find that with courage and determination Vincent can rise up and live his dream despite being
Dan Stella, Monica’s boss was passive yet overall supportive of Monica. However his communications to her were interpreted as vague and while he supported her he did not coach Monica on building relationships and garnering buy-in from key parties and stakeholders prior and during the project. Dan was a hands-off leader who would benefit greatly from project success.
They recruit guys from soccer, basketball, a farm and even other football teams to come and play for them. Lengyel has a new vision for Marshall, and calls them the “Young Thundering Herd.” Jack is the person to do things that most coaches wouldn’t do because that just in his personality. As a result he seeks out help from Bobby Bowden, the coach of the University of West Virginia. Jack asks him “if He and Dawson can see the coaches’ videos, plays, and handbooks and even if he had any tips for them.” Bowden laughs at first and asks “if Jack was serious…” He then see that the men are serious and allows them to view the tapes, rules, handbooks and anything else they wanted. He does this because Bowden understands that a team is in grief and confusion. When this happens Dawson’s disbelief that he had about the team and Jack trying to help changes and he becomes a little bit more optimistic about the future of Marshall and the town.
When the athletes turn up to training late, they run. As well as negative motivation, negative reinforcement is present in the scene where Coach Carter is giving statistical feedback to his athletes. "Mr Worm, you were five and four… five turnovers and four missed free throws." As a result of these errors, Coach Carter decides to add an extra practise session every morning at 6am to teach his players the fundamentals of the game.
NPDU is fundamentally a social problem. Popular sentiment intuitively relates the drug problems to the dissolution of families and other traditional social institutions (Murray, 2013; Reding, 2010). Scholars have long suspected that the disruption of social bonds may constitute an underlying structural force behind the nationwide increase in NPDU. For example, Shannon Monnat (2016) showed the correlation between the abuse of prescription opioids in electoral areas with declined social bonding institutions and the reactionary sentiment that culminated in the 2016 presidential election . Conceptually, social bonds refer to the attachment and commitment to conventional institutions. As argued by Hirschi (1969), social bonds such as family ties,
The recruiting phase or the “courting” or “dating process” begins with the initial stages of developing the players’ relationships and to confirm the mutual independence. Colleges and universities are suggesting that they would be equipping them for the future and all the sweets they want. Similar to Friday Night Lights, Colleges and universities heavily court, two star players on the Carter team, Derric Evans and Gary Edwards. They received free trips to tour the universities. Derric Evans and Gary Edwards are jetted around to different schools in the nation. Their mediocre academic scores did not seem to be an issue with these Colleges. Both Derric and Gary are tempted with a bright future and everything from luxury campus residence to
Dan becomes smitten with Michelle, but every time they get together, she abruptly leaves. He also sees her with a mysterious man that she claims is her ex-husband, PAUL. Dan’s not sure what to think.
Coach carter used a lot of positive and negative reinforcements where he wanted to help alternate the bad habits/behaviors of each player. Coach Carter had a positive influence to everyone, Carter strived to encourage and help everyone to work to
She looks forward to their meetings, but Gilbert begins to grow bored with this affair, which increase his disappointment in the job. However, this problem is has a great potential for change since the new supermarket seems to be active and could serve as a potential job. Although I see now weakness, regarding this problem, Gilbert’s strengths are he lives close to the potential job and shows great discomfort about not being finically stable. The new supermarket could encourage Gilbert to seek another job, but aside from that opportunity the environment has no other formal or informal immediate resources to promote this
Question: Bailey and Casey spend a lot of time interacting online. They're Facebook friends and follow each other on Twitter and Instagram, as well as playing online games together. Unbeknownst to Casey, though, Bailey is not a human being. Bailey is a computer program. Given that Bailey is maintaining this sort of complex relationship with not just Casey, but an entire network of online friends (none of whom suspect that Bailey is not human), are we justified in concluding that Bailey has a mind?
1. I agreed to this interview Randy Dandy because there is no pot of contention for you to stir. There is no supreme news story here. Bob can walk back into this company as easily as he walked out. He took with him all he fancied.
Still Life with Iris is a play set in the fictional land of Nocturno and is about a girl chosen to live with the ones in charge the goods. The goods only have the best of everything and so they only have one. Iris gets miserable until she finds friends and they try to escape and prove the goods are awful and are stealing people The entire play is a really good with how it carries out and leaves a lot of subtle hints as to what happens next while also making you think a lot of things that are not true the entire play is very unique and is a very cool idea of a fictional story about a girl who is taken from her very normal yet very weird life and is brainwashed to not remember anything have a terrible life and then make friends until they are taken away then she
Coach Carter is a 2005 movie which was based upon a true story. The movie underlines the social structure and stratification of life in the American ghetto. The theme of the movie is the outcome of such societal boundaries on this group of students who play basketball; how it outlines their life, affects their social life and also their life goals. The movie depicts a Structural-functionalist of society