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1. Hobson, Will. “When Pool Is NCAA’s Basketball Fund, Conferences Have a Lot Riding on Games.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 18 Mar. 2014, www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/sports/ncaa-money/#:~:text=The%20men’s%20basketball%20tournament%20basically,largest%20piece%20of%20that%20distribution. 
2. The article breaks down the average revenue that the NCAA Basketball receives a year and also how it is disputed to colleges, etc. The main point of the article is that the NCAA has more than enough money to pay athletes that play basketball but instead keeps it doesn’t pay the players at all. Based on the article, NCAA makes billions of dollars a year and keeps 40 percent of the cut and the other 60 percent of the money goes to the colleges and it’s important to know that all the people that receive the money didn’t step foot on the court and put their body on the line to win games. Also to add the fact schools who participate in the March Madness tournament and win a couple of games before getting knocked out of the tournament get a bonus to what they already make. The author concludes the article with the most important thing and it’s no pay for play which is essentially the author explaining how athletes who play the game don’t even get a cent for the hard work and determination they put on the court. 
3. In my opinion, I love the way the author structured this article this is because he didn’t just start off at athletes should be paid but instead, he explains how the yearly revenue was disputed and how paying athletes isn’t just pulling money out of thin air it’s very much possible looking at how much money is made on college basketball.
4. Will Hobson, who’d graduated from Boston College earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Art in English. Hobson is a national sports reporter for the Washington Post and in 2014, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for his work on Tampa Bay Times stories on corruption with landlords being abusive to tenants. I think he’s credible to use his work as evidence because he focuses on sports and investigation and also Washington post is a very reliable source.
5.   The source can be categorized as an article this is because the issue is well written and also supported with many facts such as explain how the money is made and disputed in college basketball and how it related to the bigger issue. This article really informs the reader of what actually goes on. This choice of genre is really good when focusing on an issue because you are able to show all the sides of the viewpoint of how it looks on the problem which the author did a good job in.
6. Through the article there one quote that caught my eye instantly which is “The “basketball fund,” as it’s simply labeled, is the largest pool of money the NCAA doles out to schools and the only one allocated according to competitive sports success. A closer look at where the money goes illuminates the stratified economic landscape of college sports, where the rich schools get richer and the players remain amateurs.”. This is the key quote in my opinion because the way it has essential points such as how college basketball makes a lot of money which makes schools richer and richer and athletes who don’t go pro not make a cent from it. 

Condry, John. “What Is Television.” The Psychology of Television, Routledge, 2009, pp. 1–5. 

    Condry’s work The Psychology of Television analyzes the television timeline, where the television was first brought into society and its quick acquisition from American families; following the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933 and so on. This book goes deep into the psychological effects of television listing the major impact on people’s social skills. Condry’s book focuses on the evolution of the television, heavily analyzing sales and experiences using graphs or previous experiments, in my opinion the one flaw Condry possesses is not listing the positive influences of televisions in American households. The writing style is pretty simple, reliable, and easy to understand with compacted citations presented in the article. The purpose of this book is to make readers understand the history of television and how television is weakening life. Condry states “In every society into which television has been introduced, there has been a subsequent decrease in the time devoted to socializing… the introduction of television in a country increases the total amount of time devoted to mass media.” The purpose of this book is to enforce readers to understand that television is a social force; Condry’s views highlight the negatives that are rarely mentioned when learning or watching TV.

“What Cannabis Decriminalization Really Means”, Huff Post, April 10th 2021,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSiO4TYwZs

     In this video it mentions the recent bill that Governor Coumo signed making it legal for marijuana to be used recreationally. It was said that cannabis offenses in New York were specifically targeted in minority and marginalized communities. Melissa Moore who is an New York State director claimed it was never about the cannabis plant being illegal but using it as a prohibition tool to target communities. This video claims there have been over eight hundred thousand arrests made for low level cannabis offenses; majority of the arrests being latino and black New Yorkers. Even though cannabis use is at about the same rate within each race group. But time and time again the communities that get more attention are the low income communities and communities where people of color are the majority. Melissa Moore goes into detail about how the smallest offense can withhold a person from a lot of resources such as education, housing, loans, and employment. These sources does not usually get stripped for other worse offenses such as drunk driving and sexual assault. However, the new legislation is designed to help the communities that criminalization affects. Communities hardest hit by criminalization from  marijuana offenses will receive forty percent of revenue made by programs to rebuild and educate their community. People with prior marijuana convictions will have them expunged from their record in the near future. Further allowing them access to resources that they could not have before. The bill promises to deliver future cannabis business licenses to fifty percent of citizens as a social equity license. Which means a person who is or from a community that was affected by disproportionate criminalization. This video explains how the communities will educate the youth and citizens about cannabis instead of representing it in a negative way. This video helped me further understand the bill and educated me about what is to come in the future. Before this video I thought the bill will do nothing to help those affected by marijuanna convictions but now I realized they have been taken into account. Melissa Moore did a great job on giving examples when she had made a claim to further give the viewer an understanding of what has been going on in our justice system. Melissa Moore has fifteen years of experience focused on criminal justice reform, community led international development and resource rights. Her knowledge on marijuanna convictions and plans to further solve the issue is highly credible. Her style is to educate New Yorkers about what is going on and how we can benefit from it. 

1.Huang, Wei‐Jen. “An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education.” Family Process” vol. 44, no. 2, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 161–73, doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00051.x.

2.The author of the article “An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education” Wei-Jen Huang is the Chinese clinical psychologist who was born and raised in Taiwan, and later trained and based in United States. According to the article “An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education” which was written by Wei-Jen Huang (2005), author wants to point out the general trends in the institution of marriage, divorce rate and couple relationship education among Asians in China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and India.

The author asserts that, “Thirty years ago divorce was very rare in most Asian countries. However, in recent years, the pattern of marriage and divorce has changed dramatically in many parts of Asia.” Moreover, Wei-Jen Huang reports that, the divorce rate in some Asia countries, has increased quite dramatically (for example: Korea, Japan, and Taiwan), while in others, divorce rates have increased more gradually (for example: India). On the other hand, in Malaysia, the Muslim divorce rate has actually decreased in the last 2 years. Also, this article implies some key influences on divorce across Asian countries.

The first influence is “Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and the changing cultural norms in Asian societies.”  Nowadays, the modern society is more focused on a carrier advancement and wealth, which leads to negative impact on both quality and stability of marital relationship. priority. The second influence is “Enhanced choice through educational/employment opportunities for Asian women.” In modern society, women in Asia have become more educated and economically independent, they have more choice to divorce with the partner who abuse them and make relationship in an unacceptable way. Third, “The loosening of social control over marriage.” Fourth, “The divorce laws in most Asian countries have become more lenient” Fifth, “The growing individualism”. The last of is “The rise of ‘‘romantic love’’ and the gradual decline of arranged marriages.” The first contribution is to stop the arranged marriages. The second is to rise the education level which leads to decrease of divorce level.

In conclusion, author Wei-Jen Huang strongly believes that high-quality marital education, therapy, and supervision are needed in all Asian nations in order to prevent divorces. In addition, author asserts, in order to build healthy marriage, people must address values and concepts such as commitment, forgiveness, responsibility, self-reflection and sacrifices.

3. In my opinion, Wei-Jen Huang’s article is a good beginning point for preventing divorces in Asia countries, because it has good research which is based on his own experience of conducting information, statistics and reliable sources.

4.Derived on Wei-Jen Huang’s experience, who was studied in the United States and working as a clinical psychologist, he is highly credible. Huang’s style of writing is academic and his purpose to inform reader about trends of marriage and rising of divorces in Asia countries.

5. Moreover, the genre of the article is a peer reviewed journal. I believe that author chose that genre because he is working as a psychologist and he conducted a lot of research while he was working with patients. I think that, Huang’s article is a good for the intended audience who is interested in marriage education and divorce rate in Asia culture.

6.“Given the data on the negative effects of marital conflict and divorce (Markman &Halford, 2005) and the increasing divorce rate in various parts of Asia, we can start to imagine the pain and distress experienced by Asian family members. As marital disruption continues to increase, more and more Asians will be motivated to seek help, both in terms of therapy and prevention.”

I think that, this quote is very helpful and informative because author tried to research a lot and show that divorce rate is increasing in Asia countries therefore, people should ask for help in terms of therapy and prevention.

Steel, Alix, “Special Report: EVs: On the Brink of Change,” news: Bloomberg markets and Finance, February 22, 2020. https://youtu.be/MOcyXjRpPNc

Alix Steel in her “on the brink of change,” from Bloomberg Market And Finance published on Feb 22, 2020, questioned that, Is the electric vehicle, right for mass adoption? The price of the battery is still high that why consumers are not still adopting it. The experts are expecting until by 2024 the price of the electric car will remain higher than the regular gasoline car. The Alix also reminds us the electric vehicle is not new the history of electric vehicles starts in the 19th century.  The Alix thinks that the sedan car is going to disappear and whether it’s an SUV or Truck power by a better power EV or hydrogen fuel cell, the vehicle that transports us and how it transports us on the bricks of change.

I think that the documentary was very informative they discussed all the aspects of the electric vehicle. In the report “on the brink of change,” they discuss how the journey of the electric vehicle start, what’s the present condition and what could be in the future. There was also a lot of analysis on the report what makes it more practical and acceptable to everyone. I also like how they organized to present the data.

Steel Alix graduated from Northwestern University, earning her bachelor’s degree in communications, and studied business journalism at New York University. Steel Alix is a news anchor currently working for Bloomberg News based in New York City. She has been nominated for the SABEW award many times. I think she is creditable for this documentary because she is experienced, and she knows what she is doing. I like her presentation, she shows us how the transportation industries moving toward the electric vehicle.

The genre of this source is a youtube video and it’s a documentary about electric vehicles and how the transportation system is changing. It shows how everyone in the automotive industry is trying to move towards electric vehicles, and how the transportation industry is moving towards driverless transportation systems.

“Vehicle that transport us and how its transport us it on the brink of change.” nowadays, most of the vehicles that we use are gasoline cars, but the future is moving toward electric cars.  Someday when you call a taxi maybe there will be an electric car that showed up with no driver on it, and maybe your pizza will be also delivered in a driverless car, this idea is what going to be the future in-vehicle industry and everyone investing in it.  

Charles W. Hoge, MD Jennifer L. Auchterlonie, MS; Charles S. Millikan, MD Mental health problems, use of mental health services, and attrition from military service after returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. jamanetwork-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/202463

The article says soldiers from the army when they are deployment they need to see if they need health care when they come back. The article gives us studies the army soldiers and marines that completed the post deployment health assessment between a period and when they return from the operation ensuring freedom in Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and other locations. The health care utilization and the occupational outcomes were measured after of one year of deployment. The reading studies all about the soldiers that need health care after Deployment. My opinion is that the soldiers should be able to have health care if they need it. The soldiers risk their lives for us so we could have lives. Some Soldiers that come back from deployment may be dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, or other mental health problems. The health care will help them take care of these problems that they deal with. The authors credentials are good and detailed in the article. The authors writing style is easy to read and interesting. The authors purpose is Mental health problems, use of mental health services, and attrition from military service after returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. The authors are credible with what they are writing about. The author chose a good genre because it kept the audience engaged in the article. The fact that they talk about the soldier’s lifestyle when the soldiers come back after deployment is interesting. They also study the soldiers and make percentages of the studies of what is happening in the article like the prevalence of reporting a mental health problem was 19.1% among service members returning from Iraq compared with 11.3% after returning from Afghanistan and 8.5% after returning from other locations. Some of the soldiers have mental health problems because of combat experiences like seeing their friends die in front of them or seeing body parts flying everywhere and seeing explosions and hearing gun fire planes bombing buildings and more things. This will change you mentally and physically. In the article it says that 35 percent of Iraq war veterans accessed mental health services in the year after returning home; 12% per year were diagnosed with a mental health problem. More than 50% of those referred for a mental health reason were documented to receive follow up care although less than 10% of all service members who received mental health treatment were referred through the screening program. The soldiers need our help to get the health care they need.

Melinda, Smith. “Dealing with Teen Depression.” HelpGuide.org, 2020, www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/teenagers-guide-to-depression.htm. 

Depression is a serious matter, feeling hopeless and lonely all the time is a sign of depression. Teen depression is very serious, we tend to go through so much during our teenage years. Getting angry and sad over the littlest things, crying all the time, or even having sleepless nights. These are all signs of depression; overtime depression can get worse for some people in which teens become suicidal. This happens when you can’t find any solution to your problems, or you just start to feel like everyone, and everything is against you. But at the end of the day, you got to remember no matter how you feel just know these feelings will pass. Teenagers go through so much pressure, that’s what causes depression. They have so much going on they don’t know how to deal with it. On top of that in the new generation, people don’t know how to understand each other. Instead, if someone tells us they’re depressed our response to them would be “go see a doctor”, “it’s not that serious”, “we all go through it”, “you’ll get over it”. We really never understand anyone’s emotions, that’s why many teens suffer because they’re afraid to tell anyone how they feel. Another reason for teen depression would be family problems, that’s a big one that affects most teens. There’s so much drama going on in our household that we get tired of hearing it every day, which we then want to find an escape from. Living in a toxic household could get very frustrating, having your parents fight can have a bad impact on us teens. “It can be hard to open up about how you’re feeling—especially when you’re feeling depressed, ashamed, or worthless, accepting your feelings and opening up about them with someone you trust will help you feel less alone”. This quote caught my attention because it’s true that many people out there don’t know how to share feelings, talking about myself personally I have a very hard time talking to another person when I feel upset or annoyed, because I just think “what can they possibly do to help me feel better nothing”. But talking to someone and letting that person know how you feel can make it so much easier for you, you’re letting go of all negative energy. This can help clear your mind, this is so important because we relieve stress. This will help you connect to one another when you feel lonely.

Nathaniel bailey

Horning, Colin. “Pay for play, compensate student athletes.” UWIRE Text, 1 Apr. 2021, p. 1. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A657020484/STND?u=cuny_nytc&sid=STND&xid=a11e5200. Accessed 6 Apr. 2021.

According to the article “Pay for play, compensate student-athletes.” Ms.Colin is stating that college athletes should be getting  payment for the work that they are putting in either on the field, cort or in the stadium. Of course, they wouldn’t be getting paid millions as if they were pro athletes but they should still be getting some sort of payment other than scholarships for their college, they also need money for their daily lives and dorm room essentials. This has been a discussion for the NCAA for a while now and after years of the altercation, there has finally been some traction being gained. The United States Supreme Court is currently hearing oral arguments on the case of NCAA vs. Alston ( “The United States Supreme Court case dealing with the compensation of collegiate athletes within the National Collegiate Athletic Association”)and so far the direction in which the discussion is going it seems as if the issue will be coming to resolve soon. I believe Ms.Colin Hornings article is a credible source because upon reading the article I also did my own research about the case of NCAA vs. Alston and it seems like her statements are correct. I believe Ms.Colin chose this as a topic because she seems to be interested in issues that include the supreme court and the people. The author chose an article because she is giving facts about the issue regarding college students but at the same time in certain parts she is starting to state her personal opinion on the matter and how she feels towards it and although I might agree with her, her feelings toward the matter may seem bios to other people that might be trying to form their own understanding of the situation. But this article was not only for factual input it was also to state how it affected her hearing about college students that didn’t get paid and struggled to get food and still put forth their efforts to participate in the school sport. A prime example of her stating facts and putting her opinion behind it when she states “after years of debate over whether college athletes should be allowed to profit off of their role should be in place or not, there is finally some traction being gained. That being said, why has it taken so long for this discussion to become more mainstream, and what will likely be the end goal of it?” In this statement, I believe she’s saying this issue has been going on for so long so as an end result the athletes should get a small bonus for having to deal with lack of payment for so long.

Ubaiduloeva Zarrina

English 1101, Prof. Scanlan

Date: 04/06/2021

Divorce in the different cultures.

1st Annotated Bibliography

Huang, Wei‐Jen. “An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education.” Family Process” vol. 44, no. 2, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 161–73, doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00051.x.

The author of the article “An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education” Wei-Jen Huang is the Chinese clinical psychologist who was born and raised in Taiwan, and later trained and based in United States.

According to the article “An Asian Perspective on Relationship and Marriage Education” which was written by Wei-Jen Huang (2005), author wants to point out the general trends in the institution of marriage, divorce rate and couple relationship education among Asians in China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and India.The author asserts that, “Thirty years ago divorce was very rare in most Asian countries. However, in recent years, the pattern of marriage and divorce has changed dramatically in many parts of Asia.” Moreover, Wei-Jen Huang reports that, the divorce rate in some Asia countries, has increased quite dramatically (for example: Korea, Japan, and Taiwan), while in others, divorce rates have increased more gradually (for example: India). On the other hand, in Malaysia, the Muslim divorce rate has actually decreased in the last 2 years. Also, this article implies some key influences on divorce across Asian countries.

The first influence is “Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and the changing cultural norms in Asian societies.”  Nowadays, the modern society is more focused on a carrier advancement and wealth, which leads to negative impact on both quality and stability of marital relationship. priority. The second influence is “Enhanced choice through educational/employment opportunities for Asian women.” In modern society, women in Asia have become more educated and economically independent, they have more choice to divorce with the partner who abuse them and make relationship in an unacceptable way. Third, “The loosening of social control over marriage.” Fourth, “The divorce laws in most Asian countries have become more lenient” Fifth, “The growing individualism”. The last of is “The rise of ‘‘romantic love’’ and the gradual decline of arranged marriages.” The first contribution is to stop the arranged marriages. The second is to rise the education level which leads to decrease of divorce level.

In conclusion, author Wei-Jen Huang strongly believes that high-quality marital education, therapy, and supervision are needed in all Asian nations in order to prevent divorces. In addition, author asserts, in order to build healthy marriage, people must address values and concepts such as commitment, forgiveness, responsibility, self-reflection, sacrifices.

In my opinion, Wei-Jen Huang’s article is a good beginning point for preventing divorces in Asia countries, because it has good research which is based on his own experience of conducting information, statistics and reliable sources.

Derived on Wei-Jen Huang’s experience, who was studied in the United States and working as a clinical psychologist, he is highly credible. Huang’s style of writing is academic and his purpose to inform reader about trends of marriage and rising of divorces in Asia countries. Moreover, the genre of the article is a peer reviewed journal. I believe that author chose that genre because he is working as a psychologist and he conducted a lot of research while he was working with patients. I think that, Huang’s article is a good for the intended audience who is interested in marriage education and divorce rate in Asia culture.

“Given the data on the negative effects of marital conflict and divorce (Markman &Halford, 2005) and the increasing divorce rate in various parts of Asia, we can start to imagine the pain and distress experienced by Asian family members. As marital disruption continues to increase, more and more Asians will be motivated to seek help, both in terms of therapy and prevention.” I think that, this quote is very helpful and informative because author tried to research a lot and show that divorce rate is increasing in Asia countries therefore, people should ask for help in terms of therapy and prevention.

Amira Webbert

Prof. Scanlan

Natural Disasters

  (1) Reilly, K. M. & Casteel, T. (2012) Natural disasters: investigate Earth’s most destructive forces: with 25 projects. White River Junction, Vermont: Nomad Press.

           (2) Tsunamis have been occurring for centuries, and it either gets worse, or manageable. I say manageable because although a huge wave of water that can kill millions can never be conversant with, people still know what to expect when it happens due to the protocols in their current living area. Earthquakes and tsunamis have many similarities, even though they create their own “natural disaster”, they also work together in a certain way. For example, earthquakes are formed by the shift in tectonic plates within the earths crust, and the bigger the earthquake, the bigger the tsunami will be. Tsunamis major hotspots are the Pacific Ocean near the subduction zones, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Chile, Philippines, Japan, etc. The author Kathleen M. Reilly is a science teacher and also an award winning writer for her many books, while Tom Casteel is an illustrator and cartoonist; Tom also illustrated over two dozen books for Nomad press and graduated from a cartoonist school in 2011. The author’s intended audience is children of a certain age who one likes to look at pictures to have a better understanding and two, children of a certain age who is learning about the topic as well. (3) In my opinion, this story was helpful for it’s age group. The author used more pictures and models for better understanding to her intended audience and stated as much details about the tsunamis, and their hotspots as possible, etcetera. (4) Although, I do not think the author is credible because her writing style was weak, and her purpose was not explicitly established. (5) Therefore, I believe the author chose this genre because it is a simple topic, and easy research. I also feel like the topic is not much of a challenge, anyone can google the hotspots, the reason why it occurs, the amount of damage it causes, and write a story about it as if it were their own idea, their own hard and dedicated work that came up with the conclusions and results to why and how this disaster occurs. (6) One key quote that I find important to this disaster is, “A tsunami can completely devastate an area”. Now you may ask, “what is so interesting about this quote?”, “why would it be labeled as a key quote?”. I label this quote as a key quote because it gives the word tsunami it’s meaning. If no one could ever understand what a tsunami does through all that scientific talk, all they must know is, a tsunami can devastate an area, a tsunami can bring more destruction to earth than anyone can imagine, a tsunami can grow bigger and bigger with or without a warning and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Water is not harmless, and neither is the earth in general.