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Media Representation of Black Professional Athletes

openly voicing their dislike for the player. Some writers even speculated that a new Bonds record would only benefit the game beca...

Community Role of Black Professional Athletes

center on black male athletes, and the role that they serve in their community. The Good Guys An example of one of the really goo...

The Role Models of Athletes

In six pages the ways in which professional athletes have emerged in society as role models are examined and considers if athletes...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

A Methodology on Sports Psychology

In this paper consisting of eight pages negative athlete feedback and proposed methological research regarding this link are discu...

Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing

bias in the system which seeks out blacks and instills upon them harsher sentences is a highly controversial topic. Inter...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

Sports and Economics

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary sports in a consideration of economic conditions such as community impact and athl...

Nonwestern Media, Justice, and Crime

In ten pages the media representation of crime is examined within a Saudi Arabia context with a consideration of controls exercise...

Race and Unfair Mass Media Representation

the stereotypical racial images portrayed in media today. Racism, which is the belief that skin color "determines intelligence, c...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

Sports Public Relations Pros and Media Control

& Johnson had determined it was safe to do so, and it used its PR department to keep the public informed. As a result it came out ...

The Mass Media and Black Americans

6 pages and 7 sources. This paper relates the fact that the mass media has promoted a variety of ways of viewing African American...

Portrayal of Racial Stereotypes in the Media

to recognize the implications of such attitudes is the only way to fight against its continued allowance. Descriptions of such ra...

Clarke County, Georgia's Lynching

his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

Legal Role of an Agent in Professional Sports

side in either the non-union or the union workplace. For example, even unorganized workers have the right to engage in unified act...

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...

Brian Bosworth

In six pages analytical, psychodynamic, and personality paradigms are applied to former professional athlete Brian Bosworth as dep...

Athletes and Drugs

In twenty pages this paper considers the drug use among certain athletes and the negative effects this has had upon professional s...

Childhood Heroes and Athletes

In five pages this research paper discusses the child idolatry of athletes and why this respect is sometimes misplaced in a consid...

Sports Negotiating Effectiveness

it is true in assembly line work. In 1994, it was professional baseball players who went on strike in protest over managements d...

Gambling in Sports and the Pete Rose Betting on Baseball Case

In five pages this paper discusses gambling by athletes in professional sports in this consideration of the case involving former ...

Steroids

slugger Barry Bonds will be followed by the specter of steroid use as he chases major-league baseballs home run record" In this ar...

Business and Professional Athletes

of a game to be a business, and too much of a business to be a game" continues to provoke curiosity because the very nature of cor...

Hero Worship

In eleven pages this paper examines the societal pros and cons of hero worship with professional athletes including OJ Simpson, Dw...

'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...