Visual Rewrite- thesilentbutdeadlycineman

Describing What Happens in Get The Cure

0:01-0:05– The ad seems to be shot in the style of the Cops TV show (handheld camera operated by a cameraman following individuals in their usual activities). The cameraman is sitting in the middle seat of the back row of a car. As the ad begins, the only person visible on the screen is an average-looking, somewhat-overweight, middle-aged white man in a lab coat sitting in the front passenger seat of the car. The vehicle itself is rolling slowly through a deserted city alleyway during the middle of the night. The only light visible is coming from the car’s headlights, the outside streetlamps, and the camera’s personal light. While motioning his hands towards the view apparent through the front window, the man faces the camera and makes a remark about the general area’s current state, and how it is a mess, with a bunch of polyps running around. This mentioning of polyps is the first clue that the men are doctors.

0:06-0:09– All of a sudden a man dressed in a pink Hershey’s Kiss-shaped costume casually walks in front of the headlights a few feet from where the car is. He briefly stops in shock, like a deer caught in the headlights of a truck, before deciding to run further down the alley. The man in the passenger man quickly indicates that the costumed man is a polyp.   The driver, seen only by his hands and white lab coat, quickly places the car in Park. A siren coming from the car is heard, indicating that it is most likely an ambulance (further supporting the assumption that the men are doctors). Both the man in the passengers’ seat and the driver jump out of the car.  The passenger man can be heard grunting in frustration in having to pursue the costumed individual. At the same time, the camera man jerks to the right, showing him opening the door and running out to follow the action.

0:10-0:15– The shaky camera (due to the cameraman trying to keep up) shows the two men in the lab coats run furiously in the dim light after the man in the funny pink suit, similar to cops trying to catch a man attempting to evade arrest. This is an indication that he is a threat, as he doesn’t even try to cooperate with pursuers. In relation to the environment, the costumed man doesn’t seem to pose much of a threat yet, as he doesn’t appear very athletic or intimidating. Soon enough, the two men are able to capture the costumed person as he is trying to climb up a wired fence. They pull him off and tackle him on top of a pile of garbage bags and cardboard boxes.

0:16-0: 23– As the cameraman in walking backwards, the audience watches as the two men drag the costumed man by the arms back to the car. The audience can now see that the man looks like a stereotypical nerd with a slightly chubby face and thick glasses. He is in a giant pink spandex onesie  that looks like a cross between a chubby red Teletubbie and the aforementioned Hershey’s Kiss (in shape). The costumed man, as he is being dragged back to the car, is yelling around, and unsuccessfully trying to escape (in a manner that makes him look like he is a drunk person trying to walk straight).

0:24-0:26– The ad then switches to a white information screen with red words that read, “colon cancer. get the test. get the polyp. get the cure.” Below the words on each bottom corner of the screen, it is shown that the ad is produced by Ad Council, and sponsored by The American Cancer Society (both accompanied by their respective logos). Finally in the bottom middle of the screen, red words can be seen saying,  “1-800-ACS-2345 or cancer.org”. It can be assumed that the men in the car are performing a colonoscopy (the test), where they get the polyp (costumed man), thereby preventing any more trouble in the colon (the alley).

0:27-0:28– The ad quickly jumps back to the main action, where the costumed man (polyp) is shouting out to the camera, while being pushed into the backseat of the ambulance by the two men in lab coats (the doctors) with great effort. The “doctors” have successfully removed the “polyp” from the “colon”.

0:29-0:31– Finally, the ad returns to the information screen in order to reiterate the point, before fading to black.

Get The Cure | Colon Cancer Prevention | Ad Council

Missing Dollar-theshocker69

Essentially, the two dollars that was stolen was a tip. Which ended up with all three women essentially paying $27 for the meal, even though it was a $25 meal.

Since there were 3 women at the table, and only a two dollar “tip” was given, two women paid more than the other one. Which means that one whole number cannot be multiplied by a whole number in order to reach the actual amount of money spent accurately. The bill was $25, each woman in the end paid approximately $8.34 to pay the bill while only two of the ladies “tipped” the waiter one dollar each, and then three dollars was split evenly in between the three diners.

25/3= 8.33333…  (division of equal pay for final bill)

8.34*3=25.02      (equal bill set and paid)

25.02+2=27.02   (equal bill paid + $2 “tip”)

27.02+3=30.02   (Bill and tip + change back)

(The extra two cents appear due to the fact that 8.34 is the rounded figure of 25/3 which is 8.333 (repeating))

Open Strong-yeezygod21

Smartphones have been a great advancement in technology and in society. Like any other tool they help us with our daily tasks such as keeping us close to public safety officials, allowing us the ability to transfer money that helps us manage our lifestyles, and being able to check the safety of our families with a push of a button. Having the ability to talk to someone miles away has made life convenient and full of contentment for modern day people. It is safe to say that the phone is one of the most important tools ever made along with electricity, the telescope, and the wheel.

The practice of sending information has been a valuable assist to forming society since the renaissance. To be able to inform, people can be the difference between life and death in a state of war. The phone is another staple to humanity such as U.S presidents are to the development of America. However, not all presidents are helpful -to the well being of the country as such not all uses of phones are beneficial to our daily lives. Recently phones have been the bane of our daily progression as we constantly check our phones as we work. Our phones have been given as much responsibility to their owners as their owners’ function in society. Moreover, phones help us get things done. Now think for a moment about how someone could use that tool that helps you with getting things done with different intentions for its uses than to its owner’s purpose. There you have an issue; the privacy of one’s belongings is one of the most sought-after luxuries humanity has set for itself. The foundation of America was fought for the individual privacy to practice any religion. Forward two hundred and forty years into the future and we find us with a similar conflict with individual ownership boundaries. Most recently this conflict has been brought to light with news of terrorism in America. In 2015, a terrorist attack occurred in San Bernardino, California. The terrorist attack was a mass shooting carried out by a Pakistani couple that aimed their sights at a San Bernardino country department of public health Christmas party, where 16 people were killed and 24 people suffered non-fatal injuries. After being pursued the couple were killed in a shoot out with police. In all, a total of 40 people were harmed with the intent of causing terror in America. While investigating the remains of the couple, the FBI found an Apple Iphone that is understood to hold information on the couples’ activities. The modern day conflict with privacy was that the FBI wanted Apple to open the Iphones encrypted system to investigate the information that it holds. How does one feel when their government pursues access to one of the most powerful tools in the current age? Giving the FBI that kind of power is a serious bridge of trust. The FBI has made a case with the Department of Justice that would put Apple in the position to hold responsibility of the phones property having been the manufacturer. Apple being the entity that it is was adamant to allow the case to follow through without debate first. The company stands against the FBI when considering how much power they could give the government with just one case to decrypt a single iphone. Beyond this instance the government can use this knowledge to perform whatever surveillance deemed useful, which is a lot of power. The debate over whether Apple can be held accountable for it’s products second party uses after developing an issue with a third party can show the conflict of interest between the American people and the consumers of technology

Missing Dollar-Saints72

In this paradox there is no missing dollar. The money adds up. A $25 bill, the $2 “tip” kept by the waiter, and the $3 returned the customers. 25+2+3=30.

We are influenced to think that there is a missing dollar because of the extra math that is done at the end of the example, “Three times 9 is $27. The waiter has $2 in his pocket. Two plus 27 is $29.”. This math is unneeded and only included to distract the reader.

open strong- wvu hockey

The force of a professional boxer’s fist is equivalent to being hit with a 13 pound bowling ball traveling 20 miles per hour, about 52 g’s. Plopping down into an easy chair can generate up to 10 g’s. So, it seems that somewhere between 10 and 50 g’s is the threshold to permanent brain injury. This does not mean that accelerations over 50 g’s have to cause permanent brain damage. Football players are subjected to 200 g’s, and Indy race car drivers have been subjected to 80 g’s without permanent injury, but they were wearing helmets. This information is well known and we still have kids being injured every single day. Something needs to be done about the blatant head trauma young athletes are experiencing from sports.

With head trauma being the most common sports injury, Something needs to be put into affect immediately to change this. Head impacts and concussions caused by contact sports are a quickly growing epidemic among young athletes. 3,800,000 concussions have been reported in 2012, double what was reported in 2002. What athletes don’t know is that this could easily affect them for the rest of their lives if not treated properly.

Open Strong – thathawkman

The “truthful” studies that we believe because they are backed by scientific research may be completely wrong. Society as a whole views studies that are backed with scientific research as the complete truth for something as meticulous and methodical as research leaves an indication that something that went through thorough trials must be true. However, the data that is brought from many studies can be easily manipulated to show a correlation between two different variables that shouldn’t have anything to do with each other. It is completely viable for data for something that is pushed for something Democratic to easily be manipulated to push something Republican with the same data. The issue lies with how these studies that imprint a certain vendetta may only be truthful under certain circumstances and can be influenced by the people funding them. And with the lack of replication test that is highly underfunded and underappreciated to refute these false studies, the companies that fund a study may be able to press a flawed version of the truth.

 

Companies that fund

 

 

Missing Dollar-thesilentbutdeadlycineman

There has never been a missing dollar. The situation says that each woman paid $10 for a bill of $30. The cashier then reveals that the actual bill is $25, and gives the waiter five $1 bills to return to the women. The waiter keeps $2 and returns to each woman a $1 bill.

So now the bill is $25. Since each woman was given back $1, they each ended up paying $9, for a total of $27. From this total, the waiter took $2 for himself, bringing the total down to the $25.

Each woman originally paid $10 for a total of $30. They were later given back each $1 in return, bringing the total to $27. With this new total, the women each had to have paid $9. However, the actual bill is still $25, meaning that they have still overpaid. To solve the problem, the waiter takes $2 for himself, causing the total down to the bill’s amount.

“Now, each of the ladies paid $9. Three times 9 is $27. The waiter has $2 in his pocket. Two plus 27 is $29. The ladies originally handed over $30.” It is the wording of these sentences that confuses readers. With each woman being given back $1, each woman has now paid $9, meaning that the adjusted total is now $27 (something these sentences do not specify). The $2 from the waiter’s pocket is from the $27, and therefore cannot be added to that total. The new adjusted total after the waiter’s removal is $25, which is exactly what the bill needed.

Here is math to illustrate my point one final time:

$10 + $10 + $10 = $30 (original bill)

$25 (real bill)

$30 – $5 = $25          

$5= $1+ $1+ $1+ $1+ $1

Woman 1: $1     Woman 2: $1   Woman 3: $1

$10 – $1= $9

$9 + $9+ $9= $27 (adjusted total)           $30- $1 – $1 –$1 =$27

Waiter: $1 + $1

$27 – $1 – $1 = $25

The restaurant has $25 which is what the real bill required ($25).

Basically, there is no missing dollar.

 

 

Open Strong- Beyonce1234

“You play ball like a girl!” This used to be one of the worst insults of all time. In today’s day, it is quite a complement. Softball seemed as only the girl version of baseball. The girl’s who couldn’t compete with “the big guys,” played softball. That underhand pitch, the size of the field, how much bigger the ball is, seems easy. In reality, it just makes it harder. Recent studies shown us how much harder hitting a softball is than hitting an over-hand pitch of a baseball. The angle, speed, distance, and spin are just a few aspects of the windmill pitch’s difficulty. In reality, hitting a 95 mph, over-hand baseball pitch from 60 feet away is more difficult than hitting a 65 mph, windmill softball pitch from 43 feet away.

Has anyone ever really heard of a famous fast-pitch softball hitter? We hear about baseball homers all the time. The reason we don’t know about quality softball hitters is because there aren’t any. There are many more aspects about the windmill pitch that make it much more difficult than hitting an over-hand baseball pitch. The angle, speed, distance, and spin of the ball coming to the batter is completely different than baseball. The only true similarity of the two sports are the rules. Though people think softball is the easier version of baseball, it is not.