Thursday, May 2, 2013

essay #4

what do I already know? that players are not paid as of to day

what do I still need to know? Who will pay them. How much money does the ncaa bring in each year the list goes on

what did my research tell me? Everything I dint know all my un answered question and then some

thesis plan of development. college players should not be paid. if you pay them it will ruin college sports, change the role of a student athlete. Also you cant evenly distribute the money to all colleges and all sports

topic sentences for each paragraph. against... this will change the role of the student athlete and diminish the value of a college education.
it can and will ruin college sports as we know it.no more playing with passion desire and heart.
you cant pay one school with out paying them all.

for...the amount of money the ncaa makes is in the billions and players get not one cent of it.
jerseys shirts and other merchandise is being sold and made off these players and they still see no profit from any of it.
playing a college sport is a full time job so why not get paid for it

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013



Name Isaiah harper
Writing process log for Essay 3: complete this chart and submit it with your essay and post progress on your blog.




 
 
Date Due
Date Started
Date completed
Time spent
Posted to the Blog?  
Prewriting
What do I already know?
3/14
3/15
3/15
1hr
x
 
What do I still need to know?
3/16
3/16
3/16
30min
x
 
What did my research tell me?
 3/19
3/18
3/19
45min
x
Organizing
Finding a focus
3/19
3/19
3/19
20min
x
 
Thesis and plan of development
Topic sentences for each paragraph
3/21
3/20
3/21
15min
 
 
Quotations Selected
3/26
3/25
3/25
10min
x
Drafting
First draft completed
3/28
3/28
3/28
25min
x
 
All relevant points included and sources identified
Quotations Introduced and integrated.
 3/30
3/30
3/30
15min
 
Revising
Second draft      
4/2
4/2
4/2
30min
Peer review
 
Transitions show how ideas relate
4/3
4/3
4/3
20min
x
Proofreading
Draft ready to be assessed for a grade
4/4
4/4
4/4
20min
x
 
 
 
 
Total time
4hrs 15min
x
Thesis and plan of development- The lockout caused the NBA more harm than it did good.With numerous effects.on players business and economy
What did my research tell me ? - Everything
What do I still need to know- more effects, more dates, players, names

writing chart

What do I already know- dates, causes, some effects

Sunday, March 10, 2013

first draft general idea


Then and Now

The National Basketball Association league has been around for about 66 years, founded in the year 1947(http://www.nba.com/history/draft_evolution.html). Since the beginning of the league players and agents shared quite similar roles. Back in the 1940’s players would normally represent themselves or their fathers or family would represent them and become their agent. With the advancement of time comes the advancement of technology. Technology has affected the career of an NBA agents career from past to present, in the aspect of globalization as well. How they are hired and paid professionals that do nothing but represent their players (….agent league) .With parents and or players representing themselves educated or skilled in the necessary fields such as contract reading. So many players would end up with faculty deals. But as of now in today’s generation agents are fully trained and fully educated in order to do the task at hand.  

Obviously, times have changed from the dialogue, to color television, to mass media, even to society’s sense of style; things have changed. The thing that has changed the most would have to be technology. In today’s day and age everything is all about the technology. Compared to when the NBA first arrived there were no endorsement deals no TV advertisements and no mass media craze like how we have today. In a way being an agent in the day was much simpler than today. There was Nike contracts to be read or signed, no sport drink endorsement deals. But in the same breath the technology has made things easier, such as travel arrangements, communication, and networking much simpler.

In today’s day in age that we have most defiantly gone global, through technology and how fast society is growing. Globalization “is the act or process of globalizing; the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets”( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/globalization) For example not only do we have a professional league for basketball in the United States with agents representing players, the game of basketball has also migrated overseas with over seven hundred leagues excluding the NBA. All in which players still have agents representing them.

Through the advancement of technology being an NBA agent has become simple, much simpler than how it was done back the 1940’s. Globalization has made more room for growth and expansion, but it makes the competition much fiercer. Over all the change of societies has been good to the4 NBA players and agents.