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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 ...

Role Models, Athletes, and Sports Violence

In five pages this paper discusses how athletes serve as role models to children in this discussion of violence in sports. Eight ...

Childhood Heroes and Athletes

In five pages this research paper discusses the child idolatry of athletes and why this respect is sometimes misplaced in a consid...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

Sports and the Connection to Crime

it either way; the most sensible conclusion has to be that since he was tried by a jury which acquitted him, and since they sat th...

The Influence of Sport in the Context of Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Ethnic Identities and Stereotypes

game, including the way the game may be associated with the national identity in terms of values in a manner not found in other sp...

The Role of Goal Setting in Sports

performance (Duda, 1993). Therefore, our first argument needs to be that goals setting is important, but not only in its e...

Legal Role of an Agent in Professional Sports

side in either the non-union or the union workplace. For example, even unorganized workers have the right to engage in unified act...

Pro Sports and the Impact of Sports Agents

money as a priority over all other considerations may urge a young player to begin a professional career instead of going to colle...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

Lasting Legacy of Baseball's Jackie Robinson

In eleven pages Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball player Jackie Robinson, who successfully broke through the sport's color barrier in 194...

Athletes, Congress, and Steroid Use

Shadows" hit the stands. Written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters publicly implicated several big name baseball players i...

Does an Economic Crisis Hurt the Entertainment and Sports Industries?

it seemed, the United States was plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. For the entertainment and spo...

Does the NFL Encourage and Condone Drug Use?

to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...

The Potential Issues and Career Possibilities for Up and Coming Nursing Professionals

Fifteen pages and 8 sources. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the information available about job opportunities fo...

The Impacts of Dentistry on Family Violence Intervention

result in spousal violence (2). Though children under the age of 18 account for approximately 21 percent of the population, they ...

AB 2989: Outdoor Environmental Education And Recreation Program

to outdoor environmental education and recreation programs in the quest to reacquaint them with appropriate social behaviors in an...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

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...

Coexistence of Media and Sports?

In eleven pages this paper argues that the sports and media are not dependent upon each other but could exist equally well indepen...

'Obscene' Salaries of Professional Sports' Celebrities

the fact that they are ostensibly playing a game for pay and that their talents are unique in all the world, the fact remains that...

The Role Models of Athletes

In six pages the ways in which professional athletes have emerged in society as role models are examined and considers if athletes...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Continuing Professional Development - Value in Flexibility

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2010b), one of the most respected institutes regarding standards for the practic...

Donald Shon's Critique on the Offshore Safety Professional

In five pages this paper discusses Donald Shon's critique of the Offshore Safety Professional and considers the professional and p...

Impact TV Violence Has on Children

million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...

Sam Smith's Biography of Michael Jordan

In five pages this paper examines the uniquely human portrait sketched Sam Smith in his biography of Michael Jordan which shows hi...

Inspirational Figure

offer and ear and support. He was very active, always helping people with things like fixing cars or lawnmowers, helping friend mo...

Communications Professional's Role

expectations that may make some messages unacceptable. For example, claims regarding a product being sold though marketing may be ...