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A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

The Winning 'Zone' in Sports Psychology

In eight pages this essay presents a journal review on this topic. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Post 1960s Changes Regarding Women in Sports

or break through what were once thought to be impenetrable barriers in sports. The Sixties The sixties are most often associated...

Gender Equality and Sports Law

that: "Much has been written on the difficulty a school faces in being equitable to its students and fielding a football team. But...

Self Esteem and the Impact of Participating in Sports

In ten pages this paper examines how self esteem can be affected by athletic participation. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Sport Utility Vehicle Popularity

Indeed, while it was fashionable to be sporting a BMW or Mercedes at one time, it is now just as trendy to drive a rugged, off roa...

Women in American and British Sports

This paper discusses the athletic participation of women from an historical perspective and includes the United Kingdom's Brighton...

Teenage Gambling on College Sports

gambling. Spanier takes the view that part of the problem lies in the way in which gambling is perceived by society: as it is not ...

Black Community and the Impact of Black Sports Figuresty

talk to other tribes in North Dakota about education, lifestyle choices, success, character and health. Others will establish gr...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

The Great Depression History Firsthand by Dennis Nishi Summary and Review of Dennis Nishi's “The Great Depression (History Firsthand)”

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

History of Professional Football and How it was Affected by World and National EventsA History of Professional Football

This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...

UK Immigration History

a cosmopolitan city. 4. Iraq and Britain 4:a Iraqi cultures: diversity in the homeland. 4:b Relations between Britain and Iraq:...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Cocaine and its History

"stimulant, aid to digestion, aphrodisiac and life-extender" (Appelboom, 1991)....

Wedding Dress History

at" (Davies, 2001). In essence, in many cultures, if not most, the wedding dress was the closest most women would ever com...

History and SWOT Analysis of Federal Express

adopt its global brand name of FedEx Corporation (FedEx, About, 2006). FedEx acquired many companies over the years, such as its...

Corporate History and Mission Statements of Starbucks

to the organization. These principles address positive work environment; diversity; excellence; satisfied customers; social respo...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

“American History X": Sociological Analysis

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

History of Al Qaeda

is not new, though the 9/11 attack suddenly made everyone aware of it (Flaherty, 2003, p. 30). Americans can be remarkably blind t...

The Federal Reserve: Its History and a Prediction on What It Will Do

market operations ("FRB: Federal Open Market Committee"). This committee meets eight times annually ("FRB: Federal Open Market Com...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

U.S. Political Parties: History and Roles

"Political parties may be viewed as democratic equivalents of groups found in all governments- those supporting the established re...

Dell Computer Case Study

hold on until Dell can come back again and demonstrate its prowess. To its credit, it is not the only company doing poorly in this...

The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet: Insight into History

with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...