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Sport of the Gods by Paul Dunbar and Symbolism

In five pages this Harlem Renaissance period text is analyzed in terms of symbolism particularly in the title. There are no other...

Sports and Music in Book III of Plato's The Republic

between the citizens. Taken together, the guardians are people who are skilled in governing certain areas. However, these two type...

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...

Violence and the Role Models of Professional Sports Figures

enjoy playing sports, to adults who love sports and perhaps dream of being a professional athlete, professional athletes serve as ...

News Journalist and Sports Writer Dick Schaap

In four pages this essay considers how Dick Schaap deserves the label of journalist after having won several awards for journalism...

Sports Performance and Nutrition

a nutritional expert, had taken the "carbohydrate loading" to heart and were obtaining more than 70% of their calories from pasta ...

Scholastic Performance and the Effects of Sports Participation

In nine pages this paper examines the relationship between athletic participation and successful scholastic performance. Eleven s...

High School Sports and Drug Testing of Athletes

In nine pages this paper presents the argument against blanket drug testing of high school athletes. Seven sources are cited in t...

Individuals with Disabilities and Sports

In five pages this paper discusses the participation of individuals with disabilities from ethical and legal perspectives. Eight ...

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...

Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sports

This research presents a thorough overview of this topic, describing its historical context, prevalence, attraction, detection and...

Consumer Behavior

they have always purchased (Postrel, 2009). Consumers can no longer purchase a simple chocolate bar or a package of laundry deterg...

A New Kind of Psychology

disseminating positive psychology interventions to communities and organizations; and establishing schools and families who focus ...

Disaster Preparedness and Environmental Psychology

certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...

The Issue of Space in Environmental Psychology

an innate need to specify some physical space as their territory and to exercise some degree of control over this territory. This ...

Advertising and Its Relation to Psychology, Sociology, and Mass Communications

or negatively (Bharadwaj, Tuli, & Bonfrer, 2011). Moreover, both systematic and idiosyncratic risks can be managed effectively thr...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

Structure Design, Architecture, and Environmental Psychology

spurious claim - surely humans have control over themselves? Nevertheless, upon deeper reflection, it becomes clear that physical ...

Exploring Environmental Psychology

expectations imparted by the environment (Clayton & Myers, 2009). In addition to physical environment, the "environment" in enviro...

Developmental Psychology - Observations

I readily agreed. Right away, I began noticing that childhood development principles were playing out before my eyes. According t...

Helping Children Adjust to Divorce, Positive Psychology

characterized by hostility tended to exhibit decreased emotional wellbeing (Baxter, Weston and Qu, 2011). This study shows that th...

Ethical Evaluations in the Field of Psychology

application of principles and codes of conduct must be linked to the belief that these support an ethical and wise course of actio...

Psychological Hypothesis Testing

experimentation and inferential statistics (Jamison, 2012). The first of the five steps of hypothesis testing is to "state the re...

The Psychological Contributions of Mary Whiton Calkins

College, where she majored in classics and philosophy, having been inspired in both fields by an earlier family trip to Greece (Fu...

Statistics in Psychology: Descriptive and Inferential

10 anxiety" is higher than "level 6 anxiety", there is no exact quantifiable distance between the levels; we simply know that one ...

How Social Psychology Differs

counseling psychology and clinical practice. It differs from personality psychology because it focuses more on the influences of ...

The Theories of Carl Rogers

relationship (Capuzzi & Gross, 2006). Rogers defined a method for achieving an atmosphere that was conducive to healing ...

Milestones in Cognitiivism

through sensory experience. There are memories of those experiences. The third is transforming of those faint memories to thoughts...

Ideas From Two Books on Terrorism

met numerous times to discuss the possibility of attacking nuclear power plants and using chemical warfare in other venues, which ...