Greta is a powerful young female from Sweden who believes change is important. Global change is something that everyone wants, but nobody is really standing up to take a change because they’re “afraid to be unpopular”. Greta focuses on the future environment to assure that her kids can have a healthy life in the world “Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.” These problems can be fixed, with the help of the adults today who have the power to change the circumstances, absolutely , but it’s impossible when you move in the same direction with no change. “You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake.” Obviously they aren’t trying to make that big of the difference if that is the case of moving forward with the same ideas of the past that haven’t worked previously.
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Pink sends the message that it’s perfectly fine to be yourself regarding what other people think about you, have confidence within yourself
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Jalen Portis
October 1, 2020
Prof Fuslang College Athletics is the next step up from just playing highschool sports. With the importance of the sport coming with more time and emphasis, being a student-athlete can be difficult with the aspect of more workloads and responsibility than high school. The ultimate shift of college from highschool is that when you attend a university/college you are supposed to arrive at meetings when you have weight lifting times, while also having to receive treatment before practice. I asked a good friend of mine Jamal Jones, who also plays football “how is the transition between high school and college? “Jamal said “Yes, in college it’s harder to manage time because it’s a lot more to do while making your own schedule to see how everything plays out.” With Jamal being a Sophomore in college he had gotten past his freshman year with not as much of a workload but still managed to get by. The season in play makes things twice as hard with time management and school. I also asked Jamal “how do you plan to manage time.?” He says “ I discipline myself to finish one thing to start on another in between time to make sure I have time to get everything finished.” Being a student that does not play sports or have an extracurricular activity can be easier as far as just managing time on a daily basis to get your work done. Playing sports while going to school isn’t an excuse to not get your work done. According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), student-athletes spend anywhere between 30-40 hours toward their athletic endeavors. That equates to a full-time job! In addition to these hours, students are still expected to maintain a decent GPA.” There are plenty of ways to push through the obstacles by staying organized and attempting to stay on top of studying so you don’t fall behind.After having a conversation a freshman that goes to Morningside College named Colton Dreith. I asked him “what helps him best while he’s in college with keeping up with assignments?” His response was that I keep a planner and write everything down that I need to do for certain classes. Moodle is a big help in staying organized, while I try to stay to adjust to the college life.
NFL Covid Crisis
This NFL knew the day would come when teams would have to deal with the reality of Covid-19. The big questions remains to where is the NFL doing their very best to stop the spread of covid from spreading to other teams? This news is relevant to a certain crowd, but important information on how organizations such as the NFL are handling things differently since they don’t have a “bubble” such as the NBA OR NHL. Teams should be notified as well as the opposing team when some player has the Virus . “This is particularly interesting considering how Titans coach Mike Vrabel reacted to testing questions on Monday, appearing to get prickly when asked about the league’s COVID protocols.” Teams over the weekend such as the Las Vegas Raiders were seen without masks at a conference. The NFL is responsible for the safety of the players , but yet they are also responsible for their personal actions.
Interview
Interviewing Steven Postolka, a former Morningside College student has made the best of his experience and learning in college to help him be where he is today. After morningside college he attended the University of Iowa to receive his graduate degree in law. Postolka is now a litigator for a Law firm in Sioux City loving his job where he wouldn’t trade for anything else. With a student asking Postolka “What made you go into Law?” He says “I went to law because I wanted to be a journalist , or a political scientist. I chose law school because it made me think of practical things and I enjoyed doing that on a daily basis.” This was the first person I had really met that was a litigator , so I was curious on what aspect of the job would be the most difficult to handle. His response was that “People lie a lot , and it can be a difficult balance to make sure money is coming to the firm while keeping justice at the same time.” Although the firm he had received in Sioux City hired him in January ; the market in Sioux City was small compared to other cities that had a bigger population. I made a conjecture that maybe one day he would move to a bigger market/city. I asked him where do you see yourself in 3 years along with the question of would you want to move to a bigger city. He said no, because as he just said he had just obtained that position recently and he hasn’t had any problems, reasons to leave Sioux City. Overall Steven Postolka is a successful man on the right path to living out his dreams until he found out what’s next for him.
Four charged in connection of burning body in ditch
https://www.kcrg.com/2020/09/22/four-charged-in-connection-to-grinnell-man-killed-body-burned/
Reading this article and hearing this happen made me want to choose this article . This article is a very important story in my eyes , because of the change that the world has been trying to make for a while now . “On Wednesday, Michael Williams, 44, was found dead outside of Kellogg in Jasper County . ” A group of 4 elders Vogal, Cox, Garner and Johnson had burned a man of color (Michael Williams) and threw him in a ditch, afterwards hiding him in the basement until investigators asked . “Investigators said there was no indication that the alleged crime was racially motivated, and no hate crime charges are being brought. Williams and Vogel apparently knew each other and were in similar social circles.” With no evidence of racial crime I cannot assume that it is , but how long should our country have to deal with such hatred ?
observation
Doing this assignment I was doing the observation in the lobby of the Plex, one of the three residential halls on campus here at morningside. The plex wasn’t that busy with people so I decided to go to bucks where it’s a little more active. Bucks is an alternative to the cafe which is downstairs in the olsen building next to the bookstore. Students can come here to do their homework, but in my personal opinion the food is way better than the cafe food that is upstairs. Listening to people’s conversations around I heard people talking about many different subjects. A group of females were talking about how the school was going to shut down sooner than later and the cases are going up around campus, because she had friends who are in quarentine. One group of soccer players who I just met were talking about the LA Lakers vs the Houston Rockets game,and how the rockets were going to come back. I had to intrude the conversation and say the Lakers are going to win of course. His response was “ I’m a rockets fan bro, so i have to act like they are going to beat them at least.” Since Isaac is from the UK I had asked him to pronounce the word nike which was a different pronunciation than what we would call it.
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Jalen Portis
Comm 208
Professor Fuglsang
09/15/2020
Black Lives Matter Support In Sports
The topic that I chose was the support of Black Lives Matter in different sports.Throughout the hectic year of 2020, Black Lives Matter along with the Coronavirus have become the center of attention in the United States. From basketball to tennis, teams and individual players have used their platform to support and spread awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement advocating for non-violent protests against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.
Back in July, the NBA decided to start back up in “The Bubble,” located in Orlando, Florida. “The Bubble” is a place where the players and staff are away from the public and staying all while playing basketball with virtual crowds. Although the start up was exciting with close games like the Lakers and Clippers, “…the restart of the NBA season was bigger than basketball. Every NBA player kneeled during the national anthem, wearing “Black Lives Matter” shirts” (CNN). One of the most famous players around the world, Lebron James, is a leader for this movement in the league as well. “After Thursday’s game, James stressed that while there’s been progress and the league has been supportive of Black Lives Matters efforts, there’s more work to be done” (CNN).
About 3 weeks ago, the players of the NBA were again in support of the movement by boycotting and not playing their respective games in wake of the Jacob Blake shooting. This really disrupted the professional sports as the boycotts followed from WNBA, MLB, and MLS teams. “Players from the N.B.A. and the W.N.B.A. have long been at the forefront of protests against racism and police brutality” (NYTimes). About 3 hours after the first boycott came from the Milwaukee Bucks, George Hill, a point guard for the team, gave a team statement saying, “We are calling for justice for Jacob Blake and demand the officers be held accountable” (NYTimes). Other players from other leagues also took to social media to share their frustration with police brutality and support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
One of the most famous players in tennis has been shown to be one who is in full support of the movement. In the US Open, Naomi Osaka came out before each match, wearing 7 different facemasks for each round, which named an African American person whose names were cited multiple times in nationwide protests about racial injustice and police brutality. Of Japanese and Haitian descent, she said, [the masks were her way of using her platform to protest this injustice and advocate that Black lives matter (NYTimes). After being asked by a reporter after the tournament what her message was, Osaka replied with, “Well, what was the message that you got was more the question. I feel like the point is to make people start talking.” People are now starting to state that politics are trying to take over sports , which is not the case. People Just want equality, especially if we are playing on the same platform as everyone else.
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/lebron-james-black-lives-matter-nba-spt-trnd/index.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/sports/basketball/nba-boycott-bucks-magic-blake-shooting.html
- https://time.com/5888583/naomi-osaka-masks-black-lives-matter-us-open/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
Covid interview
Interviewing my classmate Chloe about her view on the corona virus on campus she thinks that the numbers have been getting worse because people haven’t been taking the right precautions. She thinks people don’t want to wear masks unless they have too. Most classrooms are doing a good job of spreading out around campus and having enough space to social distance from other students. Chloe also thinks that there will be a big jump in numbers for cases, probrally leading us to go all online classes for the future time being.
Restaurant owners are upset at Covid-19 laws
Throughout the whole pandemic different states and cities had regulations for their counties with mask mandating, and civilian capacity inside of buildings. Pennsylvania Bar owner Rod Ambrogi doesn’t agree with the capacity limit on indoor restaurants, or the rule of having to stop serving drinks at an earlier time, 10pm. He believed that it was stupid until now to even put on a mask which had them not following the rule with masks in the building. With the precautions to stay safe restaurants and bars were losing money left and right, so the fact of the matter that they could only hav 2-0,.. or maybe even 50% capacity was frustrating for owners who needed to make money now. Majority of owners; especially in Philadelphia were just happy to be open for the pandemic which they did follow guidelines which followed more people to attend their establishments instead of theirs. I do not believe this kind of article is news worthy enough to be important on the Washington post, because every state had their problems with following the rules and dealing with the closing of public places. Yet the lead was well put together and the title is what caught my attention with restaurant rebellion I was interested to see what happened.