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Athletes and Drugs

In twenty pages this paper considers the drug use among certain athletes and the negative effects this has had upon professional s...

Gambling in Sports and the Pete Rose Betting on Baseball Case

In five pages this paper discusses gambling by athletes in professional sports in this consideration of the case involving former ...

'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...

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...

Hero Worship

In eleven pages this paper examines the societal pros and cons of hero worship with professional athletes including OJ Simpson, Dw...

Community Role of Black Professional Athletes

center on black male athletes, and the role that they serve in their community. The Good Guys An example of one of the really goo...

Business and Professional Athletes

of a game to be a business, and too much of a business to be a game" continues to provoke curiosity because the very nature of cor...

Media Representation of Black Professional Athletes

openly voicing their dislike for the player. Some writers even speculated that a new Bonds record would only benefit the game beca...

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 ...

Steroids

slugger Barry Bonds will be followed by the specter of steroid use as he chases major-league baseballs home run record" In this ar...

Athletes, Academics and the Failure Rate

their image of dummies who are terrible academically but are passed by their professors because the team needs them, are in fact l...

Language and Prejudice

for they will immediately assume this doctor is an idiot, despite the fact that language, ones particular style of speaking, has n...

Computer Games and Gender Prejudice

conspicuous, while at other times remain quite subtle; however, one thing is certain: the formation of these variations originates...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Marriage

status. However, her best friend Charlotte Lucas was considerably less romantic and much more practical. In Chapter VI of Pride ...

Five Game Winning Streak of the Boston Red Sox Halted by the New York Yankees on April 20, 2001

Manager of the Red Sox Jim Williams, says Nomo "just misfired off his location, and Martinez got it. Martinez became just the fif...

Avatar Game Interaction

before going onto the next phase of the game, which may be a level of may be a new area or task. If we consider this in term of...

Analysis of 19th Century European Painting by Lorenz Eitner

to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there...

Outline of a Medieval Game Plan

get all ten men around the board and back to their starting positions. Whoever first accomplishes this is the winner of the game....

Video Games and Social Responsibility

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY - AN OVERVIEW

the 1977 launch of the Atari 2600 and its quaint two-dimensional game Pong, the demand really didnt take off until the late 1990s ...

Navajo Gaming

filing for the rights to land and then, as one author notes, "In virtually all these cases tribes have made clear that they would ...

Home Video Game Industry Case Study

"take" was enough to convince him that he was on the right track. He was-it was the start of an entire industry. Bushnell talked ...

Flight Control

to increase credibility for many firms is the way that other users review the products. The app store allows for this and ion the ...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Impact on Those Who Play Computer Games

There has been a debate about the impact of action and violent video and computer games on those who play them. This especially pe...

Monetary Greed and Professional Athletes

In five pages this essay considers the motivation of monetary greed in professional sports particularly as it pertains to NBA bask...

Errant Professional Athletes and Image Enhancement

In ten pages this paper considers how crisis management can be successfully undertaken by professional sports teams with examples ...

Athletes and Use of Erythropoietin Drug

In 5 pages this paper examines athletes' illegal use of the drug Erythropoietin. There are 5 sources cited in the bibliography....

High Athlete Salaries

other jobs? A Hollywood movie star can make about $25 million (Fischer, 2003, p.54) per picture and the President of the United ...