Essays on Gerdy

I. Introduction There is an ongoing debate about whether participating in athletic activities is beneficial to academic performance. This is an important issue in the field of education, as educational leaders must take into consideration those matters that have a direct impact on the performance of their students. Some educators argue that academics should not be mixed with athletics because college “should be a place for cultivating the mind, not the body” (White and Billings, 348), therefore, educational institutions should not be turned into a recruitment place for individuals interested in professional sports. This is based on the premise ...

The cohesive and all-sided education policy in the U.S. and some other Western countries includes a strong focus on the ‘holistic’ development of young individuals, which means combining development of not just mind alone but also body. Therefore, athletics has been literally embedded in the academic culture in multiple levels (Sitkowski17). However, given the nature of the issue, the correlation and impact of both athletics and academics on the individual’s performance and development outcomes have been debatable. Supporters of athletics and especially intercollegiate sports typical for the U.S. education system argue that sport is extremely helpful in building ...

Both the cases of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. (1968) and State v. Perkins, 358 N.J. Super 151 (2003), dealt with search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment. The first case involved the constitutionality of ‘stop and frisk’ conducted on the grounds of reasonable suspicion. The second case, on the other hand, dealt with the issue of admissibility of an illegal weapon seized under a domestic violence law in a criminal trial against the defendant. The Terry case illustrated substantive law while the Perkins case demonstrated procedural law. Substantial law “creates, defines and regulates rights” (Walston-Dunham 2011, ...