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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 ...

Sport of Horse Show Jumping Overview

direction. The goal is to jump cleanly over a complicated course within a specific amount of time (Show jumping). This can be over...

4 Journal Articles on Youth Sports

at different ages (Libman, 1998; Stryer et al, 1998). Childrens mental and physical abilities develop at different rates and this ...

Literature Review on Sports Performance and Caffeine

Problem In recent years, attempts to employ different substances to enhance sports performance, including speed and endurance, ha...

Self Esteem and the Impact of Participating in Sports

In ten pages this paper examines how self esteem can be affected by athletic participation. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Gender Equality and Sports Law

that: "Much has been written on the difficulty a school faces in being equitable to its students and fielding a football team. But...

Post 1960s Changes Regarding Women in Sports

or break through what were once thought to be impenetrable barriers in sports. The Sixties The sixties are most often associated...

Sport of Kickboxing

other sport, there are certain injuries that are peculiar to it, which is why it pays to do research in advance of taking up any s...

The Winning 'Zone' in Sports Psychology

In eight pages this essay presents a journal review on this topic. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

The Great Depression History Firsthand by Dennis Nishi Summary and Review of Dennis Nishi's “The Great Depression (History Firsthand)”

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

History of Professional Football and How it was Affected by World and National EventsA History of Professional Football

This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...

History and Development of Chase Bank

was established through the acquisition of the Equitable Trust Company of New York, where Rockefeller was the major shareholder. ...

Women's Roles Thorough History: Ancient Times Through 1600

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

America's Democratic History

the Declaration of Independence. While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfl...

A Short History of Apartheid

there was a great deal of protest (Lewis 6). That was only the beginning of the history of apartheid. Money, at it usually does ...

Questions on American History and Politics

elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

American History

and helped many people make sense of what was going on, with a more clear understanding of the direction that should be taken. And...

American History

Britain and Britain had no right to anything that was produced or created in the new nation. The student could also look at Thomas...

4 Questions on the History of Psychology

In five pages this paper examines psychology and its history in a consideration of four questions pertaining to the ideas of Erik ...

History of Weaponry in the United States

an increasingly common part of the archaeological record after 1600" (Of Stone and Stories: Pueblitos of Dinetah, 2009). They were...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

An Early Church History by Eusebius

the holy apostles; ... 2. to relate the many important events that are said to have occurred in the history of the church; 3. "to ...

A Short History of Cigarette Advertising

focusing on the positive aspects of cigarettes, tobacco companies would encourage smoking and they would often target certain grou...

Legendary Pro Quarterbacks Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw 'Passing into History'

territory to a Bayou country boy. Pittsburgh was a hardened steel city comprised of rabid sports fans desperate for a professiona...