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Papers On Sports & Culture
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Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix
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This 3 page paper focuses on the infamous 1919 incident where the White Sox threw the game and eight players were banned from the sport. This scandal involves a variety of stakeholders, inclusive of the players, the fans, the team owners, the gamblers, and the coaches. Stakeholders, their roles, and how they are aligned with the integrity of the game are issues discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA722Sox.rtf
Baseball v. Football
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the history of baseball and football and the perception that baseball is a more rural game, a more traditional game than football. Football is pictured as being faster, tougher, more urban, and, simply, more modern than the sport once deemed the "national past time." An examination of sports history demonstrates how these perceptions originated and that their validity is largely no longer applicable to these sports today. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khbv.f.rtf
Categories of Leisure
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This 5 page papers outlines the three main concepts of leisure; the use of residual time, leisure as an activity and leisure as being functional and then discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each concept. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TElescon.rtf
Cheating in Sports
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This 10 page paper examines a variety of sports including but not limited to the Olympics, professional baseball and bass fishing. Many types of cheating are discussed such as altering balls and bats to unfair judging practices. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: SA519cht.rtf
Children and Sports
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This 5 page paper provides an evaluation of how children are taught about sports. Group identification and being a team player is valued over individual competitiveness. This paper argues that children are unfairly indoctrinated into a competitive sporting world. An annotated bibliography is included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA411spo.rtf
College Football and Academics:
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This 5 page paper is an argumentative essay which asserts that college football players are not receiving a quality education overall. This paper discusses the reasons why this happens and the significance both to the players and to society in general. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: GSFootbl.rtf
Comparing Rocky Marciano and Mike Tyson
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This 5 page report
discusses two of America’s most famous boxers of all time.
Their lives and boxing careers are discussed and various
aspects of grammar and style such as metaphor, simile,
relative pronouns, and conjunctive adverbs. Comparing
Marciano and Tyson serves as an example that allows the
writer/reader to understand the ways in which the English
language is most effective and the ways in which various
styles and formats of language play an essential role in
explaining and comparing, as well as clearly making a
statement. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWgrammr.wps
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