1. Collaborative Processes
A Sport Painted With Controversy Paintball is a rapidly growing sport that began in the nineteen eighties. Farmers used paint markers to shoot their cows and mark them as their own. People soon took the markers and used them to play war like games with each other. Since then paintball markers, o...
There is a situation in society that continues to concern me and needs to be seriously be addressed. To me, the problem is that steroids are Illegal to use in sports and for recreation. Anabolic steroids have been a part of sports since their creation in the 1940's. How can something that has actual...
In an article on MidlandDailyNews.com, sports-writer Chris Stevens is quoted as saying "Pro athletes, especially in sports such as hockey and football, take a tremendous amount of physical punishment, and their bodies are banged up and bruised for much of the season. ... As a young African-American male we mainly flocked to sports such as basketball and football but suddenly baseball was an attractive sport for all of us and it made many of us join baseball organizations in our area. ...
Sports are a very important part of the American society. Within sports heroes are made, goals are set and dreams are lived. The media makes all these things possible by creating publicity for the rising stars of today. Within society today, the media has downplayed the role of the woman within spor...
Sports Figures as Role Models Since the beginning of time people have strived to be the best they could physically and athletically. Sports have always played a large role in society from the Primitive games to Greeks to modern day cultures. Through out time everyone has wanted to be the superstar ...
Millions of people watch sports contests such as baseball, basketball and football everyday. None of those millions want to see an unfair game. By letting athletes take the easy way out and not making them work hard to reach their peak performance is not only hurting the athlete but also lettin...
There are many ways that using performance enhancing drugs in sports that can affect your life and everyone else's around you. Have you ever considered what your fans would think if they ever found out you were using enhancement drugs? What about your parents, wife, children and team? Have you...
Racial Integration American history cannot be studied without focusing on the civil rights movement in the 1900's. Furthermore, we cannot discuss the civil rights movement without covering the integration of African Americans in baseball. When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier it resemble...
Are Athletes Role Models? Lately, a topic of great controversy has been whether or not athletes should be looked upon as role models by their fans. Does an athletes" responsibilities pertain solely to his performance on the field of play or does it also extend to his personal life as well? T...
Walking along the road, I was really tired and bored. But then as luck would have it, I found a huge mansion. It looked a bit rusty, but I was glad to stop somewhere since all the houses seemed a bit boring. I entered the house and when I knocked on the door, it fell down. Now aren't doors supposed...
Double Standard Of Masculinity In Gender Role Socialization Masculinity is a topic that has been debated in our society extensively, through research as well as in informal settings. Many wonder what it means to be masculine, and if we can really assign a definition to such a subjective term. Afte...
Marriage and Family All of the marriages that I chose to observe are good and happy families. One of them is the marriage of my neighbors who have two children, both boys. I also observed the marriage of a friend of mine's parents who have two children, a boy and a girl. The last I chose to...
In the past, youth sports used to be fun for everyone. Everyone would have an equal amount of playing time and winning wasn't everything. As Doug Abrams, a law professor at the University of Missouri scans through databases for reports of outrageous behavior at amateur sports events, he claims he ...
Throughout the years, and more recently, with the emergence of the feminine movement, masculinity is a topic that is being debated extensively. Through research as well as in informal settings, many men of today wonder what the true meaning of masculine is? Is it possible to assign a formal defini...