Author: dragon570

Summaries- dragon570

1.) How football helmets fail to protect against some of the most dangerous hits:

It seems counterintuitive that the NFL helmets can stop a player from getting a head injury or even worse a concussion. Their isn’t a helmet out there that can say “It’s 100% concussion proof.” NFL helmets do help in a way, but people could still get injured.

The NFL helmets right now only protect from skull fractures and also, puts cushion to a players head from a direct hit. The NFL has made a rule that players cannot hit helmet to helmet or it’s results in a fine and maybe the player is ejected from the game. Football players that don’t have a concussion are at risk of a disease called neurodegenerative disease. Having neurodegenerative disease can result in memory loss and other major symptoms.

When I was looking for an article on Football helmets I came across an article that said we shouldn’t have football helmets. That took me for a loop seeing that even with helmets players can get injured. Having a helmet is a must in any sport that involves physical contact.

Industries are trying to add more padding inside the helmets to see if that could solve the problem. Padding doesn’t help if someone gets hit on the side of the helmet which could cause the head to twist/rotate. Direct hits probably aren’t the dangerous hits it could actually be the side hits that could be more dangerous.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/5/10919146/nfl-football-helmet-head-injuries-safety-protech-vicis

2.) How earbuds damage the ears:

It seems counterintuitive that listening to music can hurt our ears. Parents and elders always say “Turn that music down or you’ll go deaf.” In high school I would walk down the hallways and hear peoples music, whether it was their headphones or earbuds.

Nowadays, in school mostly everyone owns a pair of earbuds/ headphones and has used them at least once. Earbuds can cause major damage in hearing and not a lot of people know their hearing is lessening until it’s to late.

Their re some ways to prevent hearing loss. People could put the music on 60% instead of 80%, 90% or 100%. We only can have it at 60% maximum volume for 60 minutes. It maybe lower than the usual percentage we have our music on, but it will save our ear and us in the long run. If people continue having their music out loud in their ear can result in them having to wear hearing aids.

http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/earbuds.html

3.) The Real Reason College Tuition cost so much:

It is counterintuitive that college tuition would stay the same amount as it was when we first entered our freshman year. Back then tuition was from what people made with the money they got from their summer job. however, society has changed and now colleges ask for way more than what people make in one summer job, especially if they’re working at a place that only pays them minimum wage.

Inflation in our society is causing the tuition to go higher. Public universities like Rowan University was a little under $29,000 for 2015-2016 academic year. Exactly, one year later it increased to a little above $32,000. That’s a $4,000 difference that can break someones pockets. The more tuition goes up the more student have to take out loans to pay college off.

It’s like a domino affect because the public funding is getting cuts every year and a way for public universities to “keep their heads above water” after the funding cuts is to increasing the tuition every year for students. By that happening, students have to apply for loans and as a result of getting loans is having to pay them back and that can result in credit scores going down if they don’t stay up with their payments.

 

Moving Image – dragon570

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WWE Superstar Titus O’Neil was looking down at something. He was in a house, paintings were in the background. He reached down and turned up the radio that seemed like it was already playing. I saw him pouring a tray full of ice into a silver metal bucket. In text scene I see him pouring a bag of pretzels into a small blue and green bowl. It seems like he’s setting up for a party or a special occasion.

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Mr. Titus O’Neil goes into the refrigerator as if he is putting seething in the it. After, that I see him open a red door. I see him look down towards the ground. The camera is back farther and I see another person that is handing him food. The WWE superstar smile as if he is happy he came. The next scene you see Mr. Titus setting up a small green table . He places a black chair on the side of the table.

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The camera is now aiming at his hands that have cards laying flat on the green table. It seems like he is having a party where they will be playing card games. I see him shuffling the cards side by side. The camera is still looking at his hands as he passes the cards out to his opponents and himself.

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The camera cuts to his face. The cards are close to his face as if he doesn’t want his opponents to see them. His eyes are shifting from his left and right to keep an eye on his opponents so they wouldn’t look at his cards. The camera zooms out and you see a text appear at the bottom right corner of the screen saying “Titus O’Neil WWE Superstar” his card is brought down farther to the table. Their are two pairs of hands on either side of him. He looks to his opponent on his right side. Then, I see that the person he was looking at was a young boy that couldn’t be older then 11 years old. The screen is zooming out and you see the kids eating a sandwich and drinking some juice. It seems like the boy and the WWE Superstar are play arguing about the card game.

0:20-0:26-

The young kids start dancing in their chairs probably because they won the card game. It shows that the WWE superstar throws his cards down in defeat. The screen fades to a black scene and in white lettering it says “It takes a moment… to make a moment.”

0:27-0:34-

It goes to another black screen showing a hashtag #makeamoment with the “a” being in orange color lettering and the rest in white color lettering. At the bottom left side of the screen it shows a URL fatherhood.gov and the bottom right side of the screen it shows the Ad Council label and other sponsors.

 

 

Stone Money- dragon570

When I think of coins I imagine of pennies, nickel, dimes, and quarters that can fit into my pant pocket. That’s a different story for the people of Yap who have coins that are taller, bigger, and stronger then themselves. They call it fei another name for it could be stone money. Their stone money is a type of rock called limestone. Yap is a tiny island that is in the Pacific Ocean. When I first heard this story I thought it was really silly because they cant move the coin when they claim it. Later when I read the article “The Island of Stone Money” it gave me a better understanding of it. David Kestenbaum and a couple of other people broadcasted about stone money. They were a little astounded about the size of the money. they also understood the value of money. Money is worth whatever we an get for it. It doesn’t really have a real value of it.

Planet Money team did a broadcast of Brazil’s fight against money. In the broadcast called “How Fake Money Saved Brazil” it talks about how inflation in Brazil reached 80% a month just because the government decided to use printed money to build a new capital. Luckily, 4 former graduate students helped save their country’s economy with “fake money”. Everyday grocery store prices went from cheap to expensive. For example, a bag of chips may cost $1, however, after a month it may cost $10 for one bag. People were tricked into thinking that money had value when that wasn’t true. They used something called “virtual currency”. It tricked them into thinking that their new currency was in URV’s (unit of real value), but in actuality it wasn’t. It was a good way to help the economy from heading towards bankruptcy.

My concept for money has change because all my life I always heard people say that money is valuable. However, after reading the essay, listening to the broadcast,and discussing it in class. I have more of an understanding of money. That money could be fiction because it’s what you can get from it. When I heard the story about the United States put gold in a drawer and labeling it “France” it reminded me of the stone money in Yap because they don’t have physical possession of it but we still left it in the drawer for nobody to touch and just put a label on it. Later, we could have used it towards the Great Depression it would have helped us get out of the hard thing this nation went through. If the people of Yap came to the United States and saw our currency and how we spend it I believe they would be shocked because we pay for everything with a swipe of a card.

In the essay, “The Island of Stone Money” by Milton Friedman. He talks about how an ancestor and a group of people went out to found stone money. They were on their way back to the island but there was a strong storm and they group of people had to let go of stone money to save their saves. It sunk to the bottom of the ocean and they came back telling story about their journey. The people of the island decided that the coin at the bottom of the ocean was the ancestors’. Even though it’s not physically in their possession it’s still labeled as theirs. In Caroline Lafargue article,” Yap’s Stone Money” she stated that  “And it could be easy to assume that the biggest stones would be considered the most valuable. But in reality the value can depend on each stone’s individual story.” Each person has a story to tell bout how they adventure to get this big piece of stone.

In the broadcast by NPR, they learned about the stone money at Yap and they figured out that the value of money isn’t really real. For example, when you get paid you don’t get money handed to you nowadays, instead it’s sent to your bank account the only thing that changes it the number you see when you go into your bank account. In my class discussion I found out that the more money I have the less the dollar is worth. For example, If I get paid $288 one week and go to the store to buy something that’s a dollar it doesn’t seems expensive to me because I have $287 left.

 

Work Cited

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.

Goldstein, Jacob. “The Island Of Stone Money.” NPR. Planet Money, 10 Dec. 2010. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Joffe-Walt, Chana. “How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR. NPR, 4 Oct. 210. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Koning, JP. “Yap Stones and the Myth of Fiat Money.” Moneyness:. N.p., 4 Jan. 2013. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Lafargue, Caroline. “Yap’s Stone Money: The Largest and Heaviest Currency in the World.” ABC Radio Australia. ABC Radio Australia, 11 May 2016. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.