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Vegetarian Athletes/Nutritional Needs

products, such as eggs or milk, or plant sources of protein have to be combined so that their protein content is complementary, th...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

Do Drugs, Get Banned Forever

(Albergotti). Some steroids apparently give a "boost" to performance that last for life, giving these athletes a permanent advanta...

Paying College Athletes is the Right Thing to Do

part of the curriculum, done for the love of the game. But things have changed dramatically and this paper argues that today, coll...

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...

The Case for and Against the Decriminalization of Drugs

view is not anti drugs, it is a matter of where the line is drawn and which drugs are and are not acceptable by todays values. Loo...

Reiman's "The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison" - Drugs

also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...

Ecstasy Use As A Party Drug: Cause And Effect

dosage will make them increase this aphrodisiac sensation will only experience acute nausea, seizures and eventual unconsciousness...

Students and Using Credit Card Uses

a more accepting attitude of debt also indicates that this is resulting in the use of credit cards and higher than ever before cre...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Dogs And Physical Therapy: How An Injured Athlete Can Benefit From A Trained Pit Bull

minds ability to help in this process cannot be overlooked. Social theory has long attributed animals to being a life-altering co...

Athletes, Congress, and Steroid Use

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

Fluid Retention Recommendations For Athletes

of fluid intake; at 2% body weight reduction, that equates to 200-300 mL over the course of each ten- to twenty-minute interval. V...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

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 ...

Female Athletes and Injuries to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

In eleven pages the reasons that women are eight times more likely to suffer injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament than men p...

Athletes and Sports

In twelve pages this paper discusses child development and achieving an identity through sports in a consideration of pressures, r...

African American Athlete Interview

In two pages a sample interview with an African American hockey player is presented with such issues as attitudes of the media, ot...

Motivation in Athletes and Performance and Motivation Correlation

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages motivation is considered from the perspective of physical education programming and mot...

Athletes and Advertising

In fourteen pages this paper examines the relationship between advertising and sports in a consideration of product endorsements a...

Female Athletes and Their Obstacles

can identify with Navritolovas experiences as they do not see the positive connection between achievement and sport (Widenhaus,199...

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...

Olympic Games, Professional Athletes, and Prejudice

In six pages this research paper considers professionalism as it relates to the Olympic Games and keeping them free of prejudice. ...

Homosexuality Perception of Female Athletes

that public image is just as much a part of the game as the ground stroke. People watch the Williams sisters because they are exce...

Literature Review of Athletes and Carbohydrates

Yet literature on the idea of carbohydrates and the athlete continues to be mixed, especially with the recent introduction of low-...

The Cultures of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and Athletes

"The crews are straining at the oars; the crowd on shore is cheering wildly. Each boat must sail out to sea, swing around...

Athletes and Issues of Violence

the off field violence takes place after the end of the season (Campbell, 2000). One area that has recently been explored is the ...