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Dollar GEneral's Financial Health

11% 13% -10% Basic Clothing 8% 9% -7% Source: (Dollar General Reports Increased September Sales, 2004) At $8.49, Dollar Ge...

Chinese Olympics and International Relations

The following examination and analysis of current literature endeavors to determine the role of the 2008 Olympic Games as an issue...

Assessing the Budget of the City of Orlando

altering them to operate as flex-fuel vehicles. As a policy guide, the budget "includes organization-wide financial and programma...

China’s Involvement with Tibet

hierarchies strengthened (Tibet - Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation, 2003). But it became clear that China was the predomi...

The Adidas Campaign in Beijing

closeness is fostered among those who understand the message. If you cant decode the message, you dont belong" (Lindstrom, Seybold...

Why Performance Enhancing Drugs Should be Allowed

fit but some are wary of the effects of performance enhancing drugs and argue that it will create an unfair environment. Of cours...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

The Film “Munich”

do it because you believe in the mission, but there is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating" (Schick...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...

SPORTS EVENT AND THE BIDDING PROCESS

This is why, for example, U.S. President Barack Obama flew to Copenhagen last fall in a concerted effort to bring the 2016 Olympic...

Culture and the Olympics of Ancient Greece

match for the ultimate prize, "possession of the earth" (Lovett, 1997, p. ix). The exact date of the competition also varies, and...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Tourist Money and Hosting Events

which has been generated by the various Olympic venues, there is more money in the economy and all seems well. However, this is ju...

Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

Arguments for Making Ballroom Dancing an Olympic Sport

In five pages the high degree of skill involved in ballroom dancing is included in an argument that it qualifies as an athletic sp...

Modern Ministers and Gods of Ancient Greece

given to the primary gods and goddesses; this was true from Homeric times on but perhaps it goes back to the Minoan and Mycenaean ...

1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

statement that Social Fascism and Nazism actually worked. At the time, the Games did the job: Shirer noted that "the athletes from...

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. ...

Meaning of the Olympic Games

In six pages this paper examines the purpose and global expansion of the Olympic Games in this historical overview. Five sources ...

Banning Steroids

In five pages this paper argues in favor of banning steroids which enhance athletic performance from any and all professional or O...

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

Popular Recreational Activity Known as Swimming

In five pages swimming is examined in an overview of its history, techniques, and rules regarding Olympic competition. Six source...

Olympics and the Relevancy of High School Athletics

In seven pages this paper examines Olympic training and the significance of high school sports and high school athletic programs. ...

Training Psychology of East Germany's Olympic Athletes

In nine pages this report discusses the GDR Olympic athletes in terms of the psychological training they must undergo that is in a...

Olympics and Impact of Technology

In five pages the Olympic Games are examined in a consideration of the impact of technology regarding communications, transportati...

Greek Culture and the Original Olympic Games

of the Games. Whether they existed before that year is unknown, and there was debate many years ago as to whether 776 BC could be...

Construction of Montreal's Olympic Tower and its Late Completion

In five pages this paper discusses the concept, symbolism, design, and building of Montreal's Olympic Tower, which was finished 7 ...

NYC's Metropolitan Area and Shipment Transporting

In five pages this paper discusses New York City's traffic problems with a solution offered by replacing trucks with ships and tra...

Home Town by Tracy Kidder

In five pages this Pulitzer Prize winning text is reviewed in terms of an average American city's sociological complexities. Ther...