IMHO 2

The NFL has decided to put into place a new rule for tackling during games; the rule involves players using head first force when tackling another player. They have decided that this is the reason for the increasing number of concussions players are getting and they will now put it in the rule book as an illegal move. In my opinion this will benefit players who decide to abide by the rule. The reason they are putting this into place is for safety of the players, no longer can you tackle head first into another player, which officials believe will decrease the number of broken necks or concussions which are very common in the sport of football. The NFL has stated they are taking a very pro-active stand to prevent unnecessary injuries to players. Some players see it as changing the game of football by taking out the “explosiveness of the game” and not allowing players to go out and give everything they have to win a game. I’m not a football player but I see it this way, if you can go out there and memorize plays you can go out there and remember how to tackle the correct way with out breaking a rule. I do understand the point of changing the game, people want to see the hard and big tackles, but you can still put on a show and play the game without doing something that is potentially going to really harm someone. The players need to play smart. Since the rule has been put into place many players have already been fined for breaking the rule, some more than once. I’m not sure on what the policy is if it continues to happen but if they want this rule to be taken seriously they should think about suspending players if there not willing to figure it out, if they haven’t already.

Word of the week 10

1. Cordoned
2. Cordoned off there is what looks like a polygonal wading pool.
3. A continuous line or circle of persons or objects forming a barrier around a person, place, or building; a string or row of stones.
4. The wet concrete was cordoned off so that it would not be ruined.

Copy Edit the World

1. Destroit should read Detroit

2. Stuck should read struck
3. The number 4 should be spelled out for and the second 4 should be four.
4. Pop star should not have a hyphen.

Media Ethics Symposium

The Spuler Media Ethics Symposium featured four panelists: Marie Domingo, Shel Holtz, Jonathan Hirshon, and Ellen Leanse, all PR professionals. The main topic of discussion was the ethical challenges of social media in PR. The different reasons why social media has affected PR include being more truthful and accountable, society pays attention to what people are saying, and social platforms allow us to communicate with people in our community. The panelists each spoke on the topic briefly while chiming in with opinions of others.
In the past working in PR you never had to deal with real time, now its part of everyday work. The panelists also spoke about how important ethics are in the business. You need to realize that one persons ethics may be different than others. Jonathan Hirshon touched on the fact that if your not comfortable with what your doing at your job and it doesn't seem ethical, don't do it unless you can come up with a way to make it ethical and talk to your boss and let them know what you have come up with and how you feel the job you are doing is un ethical. I found the symposium very informative and took a way a lot of information on the ethics behind PR. Since PR is my major I feel this information will be very helpful in the future.

Japanese Internment Memorial

The Japanese Internment was the movement of 110,000 Japanese Americans along the pacific coast of the United States into camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 62 percent of those who were interned were American citizens. Japanese Americans during the time of the Internment that attended SJSU were forced to leave in order to go to the assembly centers during this time.
Ruth Asawa is a Japanese American born 1926 in Norwalk, California. In 1942 her family was moved to an assembly center during the Japanese American Internment. She graduated High School in the internment. She is a well known Sculptor and is the creator of the Japanese Internment memorial in San Jose.
The memorial depicts a variety of scenes in a somewhat time line order of the Japanese Americans being removed from their homes and into these camps. One scene from the memorial that caught my eye was a family with children getting off of a train going to the camp, standing close by the family is a soldier with guns. I can imagine how intimidating and scary this would be not only for the family but for the children, who most likely do not understand what is going on. Another scene from the memorial that I found interesting was how the families still did family activities or normal things even though they are being forced to be in these uncomfortable location.
In my opinion I don't think that something like this will happen again, but maybe that is just hope that people will not be ignorant and think things through.

In my humble opinion

A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle states that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have given preliminary approval to ban toys in happy meals unless they start to provide a more nutritious meal for children. I understand why they want to put a ban on the toys, but I don't entirely agree. Yes fast food meals and meals of the like are not the most nutritious choice for children but nowadays it is part of our culture. Just because you ban a toy from a child's meal is not going to stop the parents who are buying their children the meal from buying them, but who knows maybe it will decrease. I say that because my nephew who is five only wants the meal for the toy, so maybe that will stop kids from wanting the fast food. Unfortunately if parents our feeding their kids fast food then they are most likely not going to stop, and its the parents that control what their kids eat not the toy in the meal. According to an article on AOL Daily Finance "Such a ban would rob Californians of free choice and substitutes responsible parenting with government supervision," In my opinion its not up to the government to watch what kids our eating it's the parent or guardian that is responsible for what they put in their bodies.

See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/d6TQfE

Word of the week 9

1. Ruminate
2. To go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly
3. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most.
4. Growing up I was taught to ruminate the material for the test while studying.