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Papers On Social & Political Issues In Sports
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Increased Ticket Pricing of Basketball
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This 5 page report
discusses the fact that professional basketball ticket prices
have skyrocketed in the past few years. The average fan cannot
afford a ticket, much less a ticket for a good seat. One has to
wonder what sort of impact the lack of affordability and the
elitism that has evolved around basketball will ultimately have
in terms of game attendance, present behavior of spectators, and
the future behavior of fans. A number of factors have combined to
cause such a situation and team owners and management must
develop a number of creative ways of responding to the situation
if they are to continue to maintain a full house of fans on game
nights. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWtixNBA.wps
Increasing Violence in Sports
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This 3 page paper discusses the issue of violence in sports, and whether it is increasing or is only perceived to be increasing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVVioSpt.rtf
International Sports Federations
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This 7 page essay discusses the concept of
international sports federations and the ways in which they have a distinctly economic
impact on the world. The past few years have not been some of the best for the various
international sports federations of the world in terms of their image and prestige. At the
core of many of the issues is the one that governs so much of modern life -- economics.
Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWintspo.rtf
Mad As Hell Doesn't Begin to Say It
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This five page paper presents a discussion on the book " Mad As Hell : How Sports Got Away from the Fans-And How We Get It Back" by Mike Lupica. The belief of the author that the sports world has gotten out of control with greed and attitude is the main themes of the book. The author feels the fans have to ability and power to change it back to the way it used to be using simple strategies that are outlined in the book. Bibliography lists one source.
Filename: CWmadhel.wps
Major League Baseball and the Umpires Association
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This 8 page
report discusses the controversies that have revolved around
labor issues of Major League Baseball and baseball umpires.
Certain fundamental labor issues are in force, however, the
unique aspects of professional sports adds to the overall
complexity of the process. The decision by the umpires to “quit”
rather than strike in September of 1999 ultimately backfired on
them and they have had to work to reconstruct some type of a
professional association for collective bargaining. Bibliography
lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWumpbb.wps
Malamud's "The Natural": Novel and Movie.
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(5 pp). Bernard Malamud's (1914-1986) first novel,
The Natural, an allegory about the rise and fall
of a baseball player, was published in 1952.
According to Rothstein (1986), it is different from
most of his work in that there are no Jewish
characters. After the book was made into a movie
starring Robert Redford in 1984, Malamud said in an
interview that he was grateful for the film because
it allowed him ''to be recognized once more as an
American writer'' as opposed to a Jewish writer.
But The Natural is similar to his later novels and
stories in that it lies in the realm of a morality
play. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BBmalmud.doc
Men's Magazine Ads: Representation Of Masculinity
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5 pages in length. Historically, the media have not earned the most stellar of reputations when it comes to portraying reality; indeed, the manner by which magazine advertising skews the perspective of male masculinity has come to represent a commonplace approach to capitalistic consumerism. Proponents of magazine advertising contend that there is one phrase for those who are prone to the deceptiveness of media marketing: caveat emptor. They argue that it is not up to the advertiser to be responsible for the buyer's gullibility, even if that buyer happens to be an impressionable male seeking to emulate the ad's buff model. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCmenmg.wps
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