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Research Project Presentation 

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Summary: The movie 13th by DuVarney, discussed the evolution of slavery and how it slowly became the inefficient prison system that the U.S. has today, and how the different reforms (Jim Crow segregation, convict leasing, and the “war on drugs”) only lead to more repression. The movie also touches on minorities are the main target the mass incarceration system created by the corporations involved with politicians and lawmakers. The main theme focuses on the prison system and the racial profiling, how the system targets racial minorities, specifically African Americans and does not help to rehabilitate those who are incarcerated. Assess: This source provides plenty of historical evidence about the mistreatment of African Americans, with historical films, pictures, primary accounts, and archives. It is useful in that each piece of evidence is completely objective. All the events happened, and they are presented in their literal forms, but Ava DuVarney can be a bit biased as she restricts counter-arguments more than we would expect. The overall goal of the source is to bring light to topics about the prison system and racial prejudice that may be overlooked at times, and it provides plenty of evidence to reach that goal. Reflection: For the most part, we find this source historically accurate and a useful source to have. The information and historical facts are reliable to an extent, there is no doubt that the information given is wrong. Although a lot of the information is new to us, it is tempting to want to take the side of Ava DuVarney without any doubts. She uses, history, real footage, and interviews to state her argument. In our personal beliefs, we believe that in order for a reliable solution to the issue at hand to take place, we must also understand the views of the people who are on the other side of the argument. It can be a bit bias due to this, but that is why problems never really get fixed; because there is still a side that does not agree with how certain things are being taken care of. Thesis statement: In13th, Ava DuVarney uses historical events, primary accounts, and archives to argue that the criminal and political system is heavily biased against racial minorities. This argument is effective in the sense that it provides plenty of support for the main argument but ineffective because it only shows the argument from the minorities position. Outline: The target audience of our paper would be adults that do not know about our prison system. The argument of the paper would be focussed mainly on ethos. The more facts, quotes, and archives that are included, the harder it is to deny the relation between the American prison system and its historical targeting of racial minorities. We would use the main points from the movie that discuss the connections between racial profiling and the statistics of how many African American citizens are abused by the justice system. Other supporting facts that are useful are the connections between the scare tactics from the times of slavery to modern political campaigns or the labeling of African American teens with terms like “super-criminals.”

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Reading List

Works Cited

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 Byers, Walter, and Charles H. Hammer. "The Business of Our Business." Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 1998. 13-14. Print.

 Hoffer, Adam J., and Jared Pincin. "The Effects of Revenue Changes on NCAA Athletic Departments' Expenditures." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 40.1 (2015): 82-102. SAGE Journals. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

 Karcher, Richard T. "Broadcast Rights, Unjust Enrichment, and the Student-athlete." Cardoza Law Review 34.107 (2012): 107-70. Cardoza Law Review. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

 Mitten, Matthew J. "Why and How the Supreme Court Should Have Decided O’Bannon v. NCAA." The Antitrust Bulletin 62.1 (2017): 62-90. SAGE Journals. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

 Moore, Kenny. "The Campaign for Athletes' Rights." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 445.1 (1979): 59-65. SAGE Journals. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

 Nocera, Joe. "Let’s Start Paying College Athletes." New York Times. N.p., 30 Dec. 2011. Web. 19 Feb. 2017.

Roessler, Victoria. "College Athlete Rights After O’Bannon: Where Do College Athlete Intellectual Property Rights Go From Here?" Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law. 18.4 (2016): 935-63. SAGE Journals. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

 Sanderson, Allen R., and John J. Siegfried. “The Case for Paying College Athletes.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 29, no. 1, 2015, pp. 115–137., www.jstor.org/stable/43194698.

 "Should College Athletes Be Paid?" Diss. Santa Clara U, 2012. Abstract. Institute of Sports Law and Ethics, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

 "Should NCAA Athletes Be Paid?" U.S. NEWS. N.p., 2 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Feb. 2017.

 “So You Want to Be a Millionaire While You Go to College?” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 27, 2000, pp. 56–57., www.jstor.org/stable/2678998.

 Wallsten, Kevin, Tatishe M. Nteta, Lauren A. McCarthy, and Melinda R. Tarsi. "Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes." Political Research Quarterly 70.1 (2017): 209-22. SAGE Journals. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

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Pitch Memo

Why should student-athletes be paid?

 The debate has been going on for the past few years in the NCAA as the college sport generate more and more millions every season in any of the 24 different sports that NCAA offers to student-athletes. But as the debate opened in the website of us.news.com said “the players themselves don't see any of that money, even as they risk career-ending injuries every time that they step onto the court, field or rink.”. And that is the truth any of those athletes that make possible all that money, don’t see any of it and lately more and more people are thinking that’s wrong. But when experts start to consider the idea, the problems start to appear Michael Wilbon, ESPN Analyst a Washington Post writer observed “Where exactly would the money come from? How could you pay college football players but not baseball players or members of the women's field hockey team? And how in the world would you pay men in a way that wouldn't violate Title IX?”. There are many obstacles that must be overcome to get to the point of being able to treat all the sports the same way when it comes to money and it looks that the NCAA is not ready for it.

 My research plan is, first find 12 good articles in which relay my research. Important and credible sources that go deep into my topic and that not all of them have the same opinion/point of view. Find statistics to see how the fact of athletes being paid would affect the NCAA and the school’s tuitions. Extract the claims and arguments of all my sources, and structure them in my own paper.

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Response Paper #1

Question: How to self check fake news? Quote #1: Stopping the proliferation of fake news isn't just the responsibility of the platforms used to spread it. Quote #2: The company leaders behind the platforms these stories are shared on are trying to figure out how to fix the issue from their side, but they are also trying to make sure not to limit anyone's right to freedom of speech. I think this two quotes are important because it talk about the solution to a very important issue, fake news, and how to solve it. As the first quote says, stopping it is not only the plataformas job, us as readers have to be critics with what we read and analyze it and double or triple check, the article mainly explain the best tricks to spot a fake new rapidly, the second quote explains why is mainly the readers job to identify fake news. That's it because in this country the freedom of speech is granted by the constitution so the platform leaders can't really stop their workers from posting these fake news without cutting their freedom of speech. Claim: Fake news are an important problem. Arguments: They confuse people, can cause kaos, and problems such as shootings or fights. Using URLs similar to news channels like ABC or NBC etc confuses and make people stop trusting the original site. Warrant: Fake news = disaster in the society. Claim: Following the 6 steps of the article helps find fake news. Arguments: checking the website you are in, reading the quotes and looking them up on Google, if you don't find them probably they aren't true. Reverse search the picture if it use many times probably fake new. Reading about us of the website, checking the language used on it, need to be straight forward. Warrant: Really hard to not discover if the new is fake following all the steps.