TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jock Sanders ? West Virginia junior receiver Jock Sanders  a former St. Petersburg Catholic standout  found himself last spring in a most precarious position.
 He was careening toward becoming a cautionary tale.
 In February  he was charged with driving under the influence and suspended from the team. Sanders  21  who was involved in a fight outside a Morgantown club a year earlier  had to clean out his locker and was barred from the training facilities.
 "I was isolated " Sanders said. "I was by myself. That's not what I wanted at all. I wanted to be a part of this team. I love the family here. I put myself in the situation where it scared me and brought be down to earth. I made a mistake  but I was determined to turn my life around."
 Sanders  reinstated just before August's fall camp  has blossomed on the field  too. He has a career-best and team-high 70 receptions (seven shy of the school record) for 674 yards and three touchdowns; 168 yards and a touchdown on 34 rushes; a team-high 146 yards on 17 punt returns and one kickoff return for 28 yards. That's 1 016 all-purpose yards. His teammates and coaches named him and running back Noel Devine co-offensive players of the year.
 "I'm very fortunate to be in the position I'm in right now; just to have another opportunity after my incident last spring " Sanders said. "I've just tried to make the best of that opportunity."
 That's something he readily admits he didn't always do. But he realized the hard way he had to change as he faced the ramifications of his off-field problems.
 While his teammates worked out and practiced during the spring  he went to class then a gym  where he hooked up with trainer Wes Brown.
 "I'm a person who wholeheartedly believes in second chances. I had plenty of them coming up " Brown said. "If someone wasn't there to talk to me and help me out  I wouldn't be in the position I am now."
 So he talked to Sanders  said he found him to be a "really quality individual" and offered his guidance and no-nonsense  ultra-demanding approach to strength and conditioning.
Sanders  said he found him to be a "really quality individual" and offered his guidance and no-nonsense  ultra-demanding approach to strength and conditioning.
 "Jock busted his gut every single day " Brown said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Majed Shafie Christian ? Majed Shafie  grew up in a prominent Muslim family in Egypt. But even at a young age  he  struggled with Islamic beliefs and practices.
 He  was also troubled by the persecution of people in other religions  especially when  he  started making Christian friends in college.
 Majed  says  âI saw how peaceful they are. I saw how forgiving they are. I saw the principles and the values that they have. So I didnât understand why you want to persecute people that they are that peaceful. And I needed to know what truth that this Christians have that I was not even allowed to hear.â
To get answers   Majed  went to  his  Christian friend tamer  who in turn gave  him  a bible.
 Majed  committed  his  life to Jesus Christ.
âThis feeling of freedom  this feeling of liberation  there is nothing like when you know that youâre a child of God and youâre not a slave â says  Majed .
 Majed  escaped  and continued  his  work.
3 months later  Egyptian police forced their way into  his  home and arrested  him .
 Majed  remembers  âAn officer came and he said  I need to know everything about you  who you are  who working with you. I told him I don't know anything  I don't know what youâre talking about  I don't know what organization and He told me you want to play tough we can play tough together. I told him tough is my middle name  you donât need to worry about that. Next day they transfer me to Abu Zaabel Prison. For the locals  Abu Zaabel Prison is called hell on earth.â
Trying to get information  interrogators began systematically torturing  Majed .
After two days   Majed  feared  he  would betray  his  friends.
âLying down in a pool of my own blood this was my prayer. I told  Him   Lord  I want to thank you for your gift on the cross. I donât regret believing in you. You died for  me  and I will live and I will die for you. However Lord  You made me out of flesh and blood  you know how weak I am. And my only request to you is to kill me before tomorrow morning â says  Majed .
The next day   his  captors brought in dogs.  Majed  braced  himself  for the attack.
âThere was absolute quiet and calm. So I removed my hand away from my face just little by little and thatâs what I saw. By God all three dogs sitting around  me . None of them moved one single step. Then another three dogs came. Sat in the same position with one little difference. The middle one took a step forward and  he  licked my face. I got the same message that the officers got. That maybe Iâm alone but Iâm not lonely. Somebody else here with me.â
 His  interrogator returned the following day. This time  he  made  him  an offer.
 Majed  says  â He  said you tell me the name of your friends  I will release you. I will make you witness in the case  I will release you.  He  listed everything that any man will desire. I looked at  him   I told  him  oh thatâs  thatâs a very good deal. I-I will take it. Go get me food and water and after that weâll talk together.  He  said  whatever you like I will bring it to you. I told  him  shish kebab.  He  went   he  bring an Egyptian food  I sit down  I ate.  He  told me now you tell me the name of your friends. I told  him  listen. We are a big group. Thousands of us. I will not remember all of us // But I can give you the name of our leader. He told me  okay  give me the name of your leader. I told him the name of our leader is Jesus Christ. If you can catch Him  catch Him.â

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John Kelly ? (CNN) From the second that  White House chief of staff John Kelly  appeared in the White House press briefing room on Thursday afternoon   you could tell something big was about to happen.
After all  President Donald Trump's administration had been consumed over the last 24 hours with a " he  said/she said" fight over what the President said to Myeshia Johnson   the widow of one of the four American servicemen killed in an ISIS ambush in Niger. Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson -- in an account backed up by a family member -- said that Trump had told the widow of her husband that "he knew what he was getting into" -- a phrase that deeply upset her. Trump insisted the call was polite and respectful  and that Wilson wasn't telling the truth for partisan purposes.
 Enter Kelly . A four-star general. A man widely respected even by those who roll their eyes at Trump. And  most significantly for the sake of today  a father who had lost a son in military combat. ( Kelly's son  Robert  was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 .)
 Kelly  stepped to the podium and delivered a moving and raw recounting of how soldiers killed in action are transported from the field of battle to their homes. How they are honored by their peers. And how they are the best of us.
It was incredibly powerful stuff -- made even more so by the back story of  Kelly 's firsthand experience with  his  own son's death. This wasn't a politician saying the right words. This was a man who knows loss intimately. Who knows what it means to make the ultimate sacrifice.
No one who watched those first few minutes could help but be swayed by the power of  Kelly 's words and  his  experiences. It was stunning.
Then  however   Kelly  transitioned into an attempt to clean up Trump's mess.
 Kelly  recalled what  his  best friend Gen. Joseph Dunford  the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former commandant of the Marine Corps  had told  him  when  Kelly 's own son was killed: "He was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed "  Kelly  said Dunford told  him . "He knew what he was getting into by joining that 1%. He knew what the possibilities were because we were at war. And when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth  his friends. That's what the President tried to say to the four families the other day."
Which is fair. After all  no one would dispute  Kelly 's contention that calling the families of men and women who have been killed in combat is the hardest job the President has to do. And  again with a nod to Kelly  no one would dispute that there are simply no words that can truly bring comfort or closure to a family in pain.
Where  Kelly  veered off the track  to my mind  is when  he  sought to scold Wilson -- and the culture more broadly -- for turning the sacred service of a member of the military into a political football.
That sentiment is a powerful one. The problem is that in some of what  Kelly  said next   he  seemed to be totally unaware of a number of  his  boss's past statements and views.
 Kelly  was presumably referring with disdain to the myriad allegations against Harvey Weinstein  a prominent movie executive and major Democratic donor. But it's hard to square  Kelly 's call to venerate women with Trump's lewd comments made in an "Access Hollywood" tape. "Grab them by the pussy" isn't exactly treating women as sacred.
Or  Kelly 's plea that Gold Star families be off-limits from the political back-and-forth ...

SOLUTION:
Negative