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Law and Gambling in Professional Sports

hoping no gambling is occurring, thus there is no sensible regulation. As a result, we dont protect the integrity of any game bec...

Business and the Law

The writer looks at a number of different facets of the law which impact either directly or indirectly on businesses. The consider...

Overview of Collegiate Sports' Title IX

previously were. In offering some information regarding the history of Title IX we present the following: "* On June 23, 1972, Pre...

'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...

Sports' Success and Motivation

they mean and how they affect the team can give us some of the insight to the motivating factor that affects any team and the indi...

Achievements of Baseball Legend Ted Williams

baseballs "magic numbers" (InfoPlease.com, nd; Baseball Almanac, nd). He was the last player to bat .400. He was also selected for...

Power in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper examines how power is portrayed by Wilde in his poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and in the plays A Woma...

Vancouver Canucks and Hockey Community

In five pages this report discusses the communal aspects of hockey fans in a consideration of the Vancouver Canucks. Five sources...

Brad Pitt and Why Women Find Him Appealing

In six pages this paper discusses Brad Pitt's adoring female fans and considers such films as Thelma and Louise, Meet Joe Black, I...

Timelessness of the Grateful Dead

In ten pages a fan of the Grateful Dead's music discusses the classic band's influence and legacy. Six sources are cited in the b...

Stephen King's Misery

well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...

The Use Of Nonlethal Force By Police

in order to achieve the same results; beanbag shotguns, tasers, stun guns, pepper spray and light blindness are just some of the a...

Superstition in Baseball

Athletes that are motivated with a particularly profound need to succeed seek to control events and situations by any means possib...

Longevity of the Star Trek 'Franchise'

evolve? What is the connection or what is the appeal. Is it truly a matter of fantasy or some form of a desperate attempt to be pa...

Cultural Producers and Fans

literary authors, but also came to include all aspects of media industry, including artists (i.e., painters, sculptors, architects...

Fan Culture Ideology and Music

dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...

Jenkins' and Massumi's Look at Popular Culture

let the media do what it wants. Another question looms large. How does politics invade the culture? It seems that today, politics ...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism's Damage

censured by Congress, McCarthy was the instigator of the investigations of so-called Communists within the government of the Unite...

Human Relationships and Baseball

more millions than they already receive (Kaplan, 2002). A comment from Kaplan sums up how many fans feel about baseball players: "...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Singer and Songwriter Ani DiFranco

fragmentation of her family, the choices she watched her friends making, and the state of life in her hometown and her country (An...

Controversial Musical Artist R. Kelly

him or helping him . . . and why. What is likely to happen is that well see what weve pretty much always seen; which is that famo...

Downfall of Napster Inc.

infringers to locate items to copy. Questions 1. Based on the facts in the Napster case, who do you think should have control over...

The Elbowing of James Harden from a Sociological Perspective

Guardian, 2012). It is noted that the current suspension will hurt the team as well as Artest as it means he will miss the playoff...

Marketing the Corvette

which the Corvette is far from being "politically correct," however. It gets 16 mpg in the city, 26 on the highway; at 4200 rpm i...

The Alabama Crimson Tide

mud. At any rate, the name stuck; it appears that "Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News" did more to populariz...

Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Deceptions

to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...

The Fans of Grey's Anatomy

because the characters often participate in interwoven plotlines that become quite complex. The stories involve sex, romance, divo...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...

Judiciary and the Changes in the Interpretation of the Law After the Human Rights Act

European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with the section indicating the law should be in interpreted in line ...