Monday, December 7, 2009

Wordle 

  Wordle: eng 1020
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Monday, November 30, 2009

RJA # 15

A.


B. I really enjoyed this class. The class was well structured and gave plenty of resources for research. I was unaware of the majority of websites covered in class. I will continue to use the delicious account and knightcite for future research projects. The knowledge of RSS feeds and using online databases such as 280 slides has helped with organizing and time saving. Overall, this course was beneficial to progress in my college career.
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RJA # 14

Flemming, David. Living Scared ESPN, n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3711336>


Florida Department of Corrections. Cost of Imprisonment N.p., June 2009. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/statsbrief/cost.html>.


NFL Games Continue to Pull Record Viewer Numbers, CW Sags on Sunday Ed. Watershed Publishing. N.p., 6 Oct. 2008. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/entry/33368/nfl-games-continue-to-pull-record-viewer-numbers-cw-sags-on-sunday/>.


Naqi, Kelly. Financial agreement avoids lawsuit ESPN, 17 June 2009. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4262751>.


Schmalleger, Frank. Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction. 8thth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010. Print.


"public defender." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 02 Dec. 2009. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/public defender>.






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RJA # 13

Fixmer, Andy. uper Bowl Draws 95.4 Million Viewers, Ranking Second N.p., 2 Feb. 2009. google. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aKFbmab1jWK8&refer=home>.


OFFICE OF GOV. BILL RITTER, JR. Colorado.gov N.p., 2 Nov. 2008. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1225627001806&pagename=GovRitter%2FGOVRLayout>.


Paolantonio, Sal. Burress begins sentence in gun case ESPN, 23 Sept. 2009. Google. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4493887>.


Werder, Ed. Apologetic Vick gets 23-month sentence on dogfighting charges ESPN, 11 Dec. 2007. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. <http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3148549>.



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Monday, November 16, 2009

Eli Manning Agrees To New Deal - ESPN Video

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Are NFL Rookie Salaries Too High? - ESPN Video

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

RJA # 12

A. Accomplished
  • Research facts for both sides of argument
  • Individual criminal cases for Professional athletes
  • completed formal outline
  • thesis
  • statistics on state spending toward corrections
  • statistics for Colorado criminal case sentencing
  • completed introduction
Still need
  • field research
  • book source
  • charts
  • visual aids
  • presentation
Will find still need topics while preparing for the power point presentation

B.

The presentation will include slides showing the popularity and influence of Professional football. This will show how many people are involved and how many people are aware of the athletes. Followed by the amount of money involved of professional sports and how much money athletes make. It will also compare criminal cases for athletes and the average crimes. The presentation will conclude with state budgets for corrections that will help illustrate the costs to the taxpayer and affects to the general public.

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Formal Outline

I. Role models
A. Media coverage
  1. How many players are involved per sport
  2. Money generated in sports
  3. Money generated in endorsements
  4. How many people attend sporting events
  5. Statistics on television- Super Bowl
B. Salaries
  1. Average per sport
  2. Highest paid
  3. League minimums
  4. Sponsorships
  5. contracts
II. Legal

A. Professional crimes
  1. Sentencing
  2. Fines
  3. Those involved
  4. Media coverage
  5. Public opinions

B. General public crimes
  1. Sentencing
  2. Statistics per crime
  3. Statistics per state
  4. Colorado opinions

C. Crime awareness
  1. Theories
  2. Community support
  3. Enforcement
III. Affects on the American people

A. American rights
  1. Bill of rights
  2. Constitutional law
  3. Administrative law
B. Courts
  1. Purpose of judgements
  2. Effects of sentencing
  3. Roles of the jury
  4. Media coverage and opinions of celebrity vs. "joe's" court cases
  5. Costs
C. Corrections
  1. Jail costs
  2. effects on tax payers

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RJA # 11

A.
The life of the typical professional athlete includes special treatment when in public. With media coverage of the daily lives and lifestyles of these athletes can cause additional pressures to perform as outstanding citizens off the field. Salaries and celebrity status make for potential victims, but also, targets in other criminal activity. Although, a small percentage of professional athletes are involved in crime, the media shifts the public spotlight on these negative events. These events become a celebrity court case and often generate the media to focus on the individual opposed to the professional team and organization. A small percentage of professional athlete crimes make it is as far as going to trial for the crime, often due to paying for expensive lawyers for representation to agree on heavy fines and community service pleabargains. Whereas the general public who cannot afford the top lawyers and ability to pay heavy fines, may find themselves part of the working criminal justice system and spend time in corrections for similar crimes. Does this present a problem to our own American rights by not treating everyone as equals, or does this show a criminal justice system that is trying to minimize tax payer's costs and promote crime awareness? The celebrity status of professional athletes gives the criminal justice system a needed piece to help promote criminal awareness and ability to give back to the community, however, this also gives the opportunity to promote and balance Constitutional rights during the legal process.

B. Professional athlete criminal photos
year of year crime statistics
Bill of Rights
Salary statistics for athletes
Media coverage rates
Salaries from endorsements
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

RJA# 10

A.
The celebrity status of professional athletes gives the criminal justice system a needed piece to help promote criminal awareness and ability to give back to the community, however, this also gives the opportunity to promote and balance Constitutional rights during the legal process.

B.
Does this present a problem to our own American rights by not treating everyone as equals, or does this show a criminal justice system that is trying to minimize tax payer's costs and promote crime awareness.

Should criminal cases be made available to the public?

Should Pro contracts and salaries be made public?

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RJA #9

http://www.ussc.gov/
a good source to find and compare public legal sentencing to compare with pro athlete legal sentencing.

http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/sent.htm
Bureau of Justice Statistics- good source for convictions and stats year over year on specific crimes

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109670,00.html
John Lott Jr., a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of The Bias Against Guns (Regnery 2003).
good opinion on why athletes are pressured to carry guns.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2006-05-04-community-service_x.htm
by Michael McCarthy and Jodi Upton, USA TODAY
View on light punishments and heavy fines for criminal pro athletes
Used for the opinion from writer

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Law
Has listing of Bill of rights and Constitutional and administrative law
used for displaying Facts

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n26_v96/ai_19437488/
Has the average and minimum salaries for pro athletes in different sports
Used to display facts. would need to follow up on other sources for exact numbers.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

RJA#8

A.

Supreme court opinion- actual cases in Colorado
DUI manslaughter case in Colorado
Relevance 2 of 5
have to search individual cases- cannot search by crimes

B.
http://deadspin.com/5311758/donte-stallworth-out-of-jail
used from googleblog search
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&topic=s&ie=UTF-8&q=donte+stallworth&btnG=Search+Blogs

posted many opinions on short sentence
relevance 1 of 5

C.
http://www.blinkx.com/videos/donte+stallworth
used from blinkx.com
shows actual footage of Donte Stallworth's accident
relevance 4 of 5

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Monday, October 5, 2009

RJA#7

  • Google.com search is the main search engine i use to conduct internet research. The different types of searching within google are helpful for narrowing down research topics. I frequently use the advance search option to reduce the many search related results. I will also use wikipedia.com to search a relevant topic and review the sources used to create the entry. This helps find sites dedicated to individual topics about an entry. This also requires research on the creditability of a website.

  • Some questions may include:
    1. Should professional athletes get special sentencing due to their status?
    2. Should professional athletes crimes be made public?
    3. Did Donte' Stallworth get off too easy for DUI manslaughter?
    4. Are professional athletes overpaid?
    5. Should professional athletes be allowed to carry weapons or have bodyguards to protect them while out in public?
    6. Was Plaxico Burress' maximum sentence too harsh? Did the case provide awareness to the general public on punishments for gun control?
    7. Should Michael Vick be allowed to comeback to the NFL?
    8. Should professional leagues be more selective on guidelines to play in the league?

  • http://www.exalead.com/search/
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

RJA#6

  • Protopage Link

1. Library of Congress search

  • "DUI court cases"
Relevance= 2 of 5
Results 1 - 20 of 42
Nuts & bolts of criminal practice in Philadelphia Municipal Court
( c2008 ) ( Book, Periodical, Manuscript )
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog


2. Google Fastflip

  • "DUI court cases"
0 results

  • "Michael Vick"

Relevance= 3 of 5

Articles 1 - 11

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/search?q=michael+vick
Agent: Michael Vick re-signs with Nike

By RACHEL COHEN (AP)

P Retail Writer Sarah Skidmore in Portland, Ore., contributed to this report.

QB Michael Vick to repay $416,000 to pension plan

By SAM HANANEL



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Thursday, September 17, 2009

RJA#5

  • Public Court cases
Google search for "supreme court opions"
Results 1 - 10 of about 37,400,000 for supreme court opinions. (0.25 seconds)

"Courts cases in Colorado"

Relevance= 4 of 5
http://www.courts.state.co.us/

https://w3.courtlink.lexisnexis.com/cocourtdata/

http://www.courts.state.co.us/Administration/Program.cfm/Program/11
ray lewis

http://www.denvergov.org/

http://www.cscl.state.co.us/


  • DUI manslaughter for Donte Stallworth

Google search for "Donte Stallworth sentencing"
Relevance= 5 of 5
Updated: June 17, 2009, 7:04 PM

Financial agreement avoids lawsuit

ESPN.com news services
Kelly Naqi is a reporter for ESPN's "Outside The Lines." Information from The Associated Press was used in this report
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4262751


Search for "vehicular manslaughter" using google books
Relevance = 4 of 5
http://books.google.com/books?id=nWfswSfyU9kC&pg=PT140&dq=vehicular+manslaughter&ei=8KvKSqmPL4askATslsTGAw#v=onepage&q=vehicular%20manslaughter&f=false

Criminal law‎ - Page 228

by David C. Brody, James R. Acker, Wayne A. Logan - Law - 2001 - 652 pages
Charged with a variety of offenses, defendant was acquitted of second degree
murder but convicted of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and ...

Books 1 - 10 of 1,067 on vehicular manslaughter. (0.11 seconds)



  • Michael Vick sentencing



Search for "Michael Vick Criminal Case"
"Michael+Vick" sentencing using google books

Books 1 - 10 of 1,207 on michael vick. (0.07 seconds)

http://books.google.com/books?id=7ToDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51&dq=michael+vick&ei=s6jKStWqKZD-kQTW2NigAw#v=onepage&q=michael%20vick&f=false

Criminology‎

by Larry J. Siegel - Law - 2008 - 633 pages
PREFACE During the summer of 2007, my family and I, along with the rest of the
nation, debated the behavior of Michael Vick. On August 27, 2007

Relevance= 2 of 5

Jet Magazine

Michael Vick Busted In Illegal Dog-Fighting Operation‎ - Page 51

Magazine - Jet - Aug 6, 2007 - v. 112, no. 5
SPORTS In Illegal Doe-Fighting Operation Altanta Falcon's star quar- H terback
Michael Vick was recently indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly
http://books.google.com/books?q=michael+vick&btnG=Search+Books
by Imani Josey

Relevance= 2 of 5


  • Sean Talyor
Search "Sean Taylor" using washington post
Relevance= 2 of 5

1 - 10 of 47 results

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092902051.html

Two Years After Sean Taylor's Death, His Mother Faces a Wall of Hardshi

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 30, 2009



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313041,00.html

Redskins Safety Sean Taylor Dies One Day After Being Shot in Home

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Showing Results 1 - 10 of 52819 for

sean taylor death

Relevance= 4 of 5


  • Plaxico Burress

Google Books Search for "Plaxico Burress"
Relevance= 1 of 5

Books 1 - 10 of 169 on plaxico burress. (0.05 seconds)


Plaxico Burress‎

by Robert Grayson - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2008 - 64 page

http://books.google.com/books?q=plaxico+burress&btnG=Search+Books




ESPN.com search for "plaxico Burress arrest"
44 Results for your query
Relevance= 5 of 5
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=munson_lester&id=4412230
Originally Published: August 20, 2009

Fame and funds didn't help Burress

By Lester Munson
ESPN.com


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