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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...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Big Money and Big Sports

teachers? Teachers are certainly more important to society than baseball players?" To this perfectly legitimate question, Chass re...

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 ...

Journalists and Their Sports Influence

of any game, such as preventing specific players from participating. Rather, the most punitive injunction that the NCAA can impos...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

'Chucks' of Converse

their profit margin even further. The company subsequently closed its US plants and contracted with a firm in India for production...

NFL and the Effects of Instant Replay

to the playoffs after nine long years (Grumet, 1999). Their stumbling block to the playoffs was in the form of the New York Jets....

Mathematics in Sports

The baseball player performs, for example, in relation not just to his own body but to the equipment of the sport. The bat in eff...

Why Employers Should Pay Attention to Domestic Violence

to violence are absenteeism, lateness, inability to focus, nervousness, poor performance, unexplained injuries and inappropriate c...

Hockey Violence from a Sociological Perspective

In seven pages the violence in hockey is discussed from a sociological viewpoint and includes such issues as public response, team...

Proposing to End Violence Against Women Bill H.R. 1248

In a paper consisting of six pages the 106th Congress's bill proposal addressing the issue of violence against women is discussed ...

Prince George's County, Maryland and Domestic Violence

through its proximity to the capital, and from Andrews Air Force Base. Andrews is the home base of the 89th Military Airlift wing...

Domestic Violence, Policing, and Feminist Response in the UK

define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...

U.S. and Domestic Violence

only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...

When Acquisitions Go Wrong - Rover and BMW

The European Union was also changing in terms of competition, with increasing levels of competition from Asian countries such as J...

Homosexuality and Other Prevalent Themes in Federico Garcia Lorca's Works

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish Poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author discusses how two of Lorca...

Prevalent Themes in the Works of Eugene O'Neill

This paper analyzes recurring themes and plots in five of O'Neill's most famous plays. The author discusses, The Emperor Jones, D...

Violence in the Media and TV

In seven pages this essay condemns the increasing violence being shown on television and provides research study evidence regardin...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Violence and Video Games

top out at $500 million (Elmer-Dewitt, Dickerson and Jackson PG). "Mortal Kombat", one of the games which is considered more viol...

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Tiger or Trigger Abu Nidal

this call was rejected, the pan-Arabists were able to influence the final text of Faths internal regulations, approved at the thir...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...

Scholastic Performance and Violence in Schools

In five pages this paper examines how schools are addressing problems of violence and also considers if such violence has an impac...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

Music Lyrics and Violence

In six pages this research paper discusses the violence report by the FTC, entertainment industry marketing regarding children and...