Miscellaneous Essays
Sports salaries
Sports salaries Money in Pro Sports Most people in America feel that pro athlete's salaries are too high. Current sports salaries are reaching astronomical figures. Players are signing 50 million-dollar contracts and up just because they happen to be pretty good at hitting a baseball. Just the other day Kevin Brown signed a contract worth over 100 million! Now pro sports are fun to watch and follow, but college games entertain just as well and they aren't receiving a legal penny. ...
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship The theories of sport mirroring society, violence as a result of economic incentive, and theinfluence of the crowd behavior are the theories that I feel are responsible for the increasing violencein sports. Most people when involved in a highly stressful situation where violence is around wouldprobably resort to a fight to resolve their differences. In sport, why should we expect any difference.In events such as hockey games, where people are expected to hit and make body conta...
Spot diagnosis
Spot diagnosis Spot Diagnosis Psychiatrists and Psychologists around the world are entrusted with the minds of millions of people who are in a less than perfect mental state. What is it exactly that we expect from these professionals when we send our loved ones into their offices? I am not sure what I expected from them, but I know that I put all my faith and trust in the hands of these capable professionals and felt less than faithful about their professionalism and q...
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka The first people to inhabit Sri Lanka, called Ceylon until 1972, were tribal people from India called the Veddahs. Vejaya, a prince from northern India, came, with other founders of the Sinhalese culture, to Sri Lanka in early 400's B.C., and encouraged the first major immigration movement there. The center of this Sinhalese civilization, that lasted from 200 B.C. until A.D. 993, was Anuradhapura, a city in northern Sri Lanka that housed ther major shrines and irrigation projects t...
St
St. louis communities "Where do you live?" If you have ever met anyone in St. Louis, this is probably one of the first questions asked. Whether you are from the city, county, north, south, east or west, most people in St. Louis are convinced that they can identify you by what community you come from. The actual city of St. Louis is broken into three main parts; the North Side, South City and the Central West End. The three areas combined have approximately eighty established neighbor...
Stakeholder relations
Stakeholder relations Brief Many organisations are addressing the relationship they have with stakeholders. Select an organisation that is currently changing its policies towards stakeholders and, acting the role of a key stakeholder representative prepare a positioning statement/report that summarises key issues for your supporters. Background In 1875 J H Mills in Bristol opened a small family grocery store, and in 1900 became a limited company with 12 shops. J H Mills Ltd....
Sport psychology
Sport psychology Sport Psychology: How it Helps Athletes In our society today it seems like sports rule the land. Everywhere we look, there is some kind of sporting event going on or being televised. Almost everyone could be considered a fan of at least one sport. Some people follow sports like a religion. With such an increased focus on sports, the athlete’s performances are put under a microscope. This puts more pressure on athletes to give a winning performance. No longer d...
Sports and culture do sports h
Sports and culture do sports h Sports and Culture: Do Sports Help Kids Become Better People? Many parents' major concern today is that their children "stay ahead of the pack", and keep "an edge" over the competition. For this reason, schools are filled with children in enriched and accelerated programs. Children are being started in competitive sports like swimming, basketball, golf and tennis at a very early age. Being exposed to such competitiveness and pressure, how does this effect a ...
Sports and money
Sports and money Anywhere you look today you can see Mark McGwire hitting a home run, or Kobe Bryant dunking over someone. Every time someone watches television or reads a newspaper these, and many other, athletes can be found. Professional sports are all around us; they’re a part of our culture. But, in the last few decades some changes have started to take place. As the popularity of professional athletics has increased, so has the cost to render them and their players’ sal...
Sports and society
Sports and society The disrespectful and unruly behavior of fans at sporting events has become a great problem over the past few years. There are several factors attributing to this behavior including drugs and alcohol, testosterone levels, and other psychological factors. The behavior of fans in a problem at many events, from youth little league games, to champion World Cup soccer. At a recent football game in Philadelphia several fans were dejected from the stadium for unruly behavior...
Sports entertainment ( wrestli
Sports entertainment ( wrestli SPORTS-ENTERTAINMENT Years ago sports-entertainment in the form of wrestling, was just another small business traveling through small towns entertaining few crowds. Now sports-entertainment is a multi-billion dollar business traveling all around the world and watched by billions of fans as the number one show on cable television. During its rise to the wrestling has undergone many changes, these changes may also be the demise of the World Wre...
Some tips on car restoration
Some tips on car restoration Some Tips on Car Restoration Whenever someone decides to take the initiative to restore a car, it requires a serious commitment. I have seen too many people begin work and never finish. The successful car restorer chooses a car that fits his/her personality and budget, and follows the job through to the end. One must have a love for the process as well as the product, or the project will be rushed and end up to be worthless. I learned this tedious proce...
Something wicked this way come
Something wicked this way come Scholasticism If you can conceive of a God, does it prove one must exist? If we cannot see a moral truth does that mean it can't be? Are we one universal humanity or are we differentiated individuals? These are some of the questions that caused the development of Scholasticism, the intellectual discipline which sought to bridge the gap between religion and reason. Scholastic Philosophy is the love, desire and pursuit of wisdom. Taken in its broade...
Sophistic movement
Sophistic movement The vast majority of today’s society isn’t the slightest bit aware of the tremendous influence the sophistic period of thought has had and continues to have on modern western politics. But how could a supposedly highly educated and intelligent people be so ignorant of such an important and significant epoch in our history? It was during the fifth century B.C. when the sophistic movement, founded by a man named Protagoras, was at its prime. The sophist were rec...
Spanish labor systems and indi
Spanish labor systems and indi In the US it is very common to still hear of the poor way African Americans were treated in the early part of this nations History. We hear stories of black slaves working 18 hour days picking cotton and the trauma of slaves being beaten for disobeying their masters. For many African American families, it seems, that was the way of life not long ago. While it is very important to realize what these African Americans went through, I think it is ...
Speech the effects of smokeles
Speech the effects of smokeles Smokeless Tobacco General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will know about smokeless tobacco and the risks involved with using smokeless tobacco products. Central Idea: Smokeless tobacco poses many threats to the health of its users. Introduction: Using smokeless tobacco is nothing to smile about. It’s a habit that can ruin your health and your life. It’s as addictive as cigarettes and ...
Speed kills
Speed kills Speed Kills The high speed limits are often causes of accidents that cause serious injuries and even death. The speed limit should be lowered so we can control accidents caused by high speed driving, pollution, and the high cost of operation and insurance. First of all it is obvious that a motorist driving over the speed limit has more chances of getting into an accident that a motorist who is traveling at the average speed. One who drives fast does not have proper and t...
Sociology an overview
Sociology-an overview Sociology is the study of people and thier relationships and behavior in groups. Sociology studies how and why people of certain groups possess certain characteristics. Sociologists feel that human behavior possesses truths that can be discovered. They also study defferent types of groups stemming from the largest, a society, to smaller groups such as religions and cultures. To make these discoveries, sociologists develop theories. These theories are generalizations t...
Socrates
Socrates Socrates was an ancient Greek thinker whose work proves a major turning point in Western Philosophy. He invented a method of teaching by asking questions, which was called the Socratic method. This method searched for definitions and turned Philosophy from the study of how things are to a consideration of the health of the human soul. Much of this work was brought out by his student, Plato. Socrates was born in Athens, Greece and lived there all his life. When he did leav...
Socratic method
Socratic method The Socratic method The Socratic Philosophy is basically a quest for the virtuous life; the main pillar of the Socratic thought is a virtuous life. Although, to his death, he did not offer any definition of a virtuous life--his life itself is the answer. The Socratic method consists of the question and answer mode of inquiry. It draws from the existence of the person. It does not impose certain assumptions of the interlocutors. It releases the person from his/h...
Software ownership 2
Software ownership 2 Software is composed of many programs that all together fulfill a certain task. Programs are strict instructions that tell the computer what to do. A computer is a complex machine that uses directions like programs and software to operate, without it it’s useless. In other words, software brings life to a computer’s hardware. More precisely, it represents what fuel is to a car. There are two categories of software; operating systems and applications. Both ...
Solutions for trash and landfi
Solutions for trash and landfi � Introduction Did you know? Americans use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as a football field and as high as the World Trade Center Towers. We even throw away so much aluminum every three months that we can rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. Each person, yes, included you, in America creates about 4.4 pounds of trash every single day. Did you also know? That it takes 100 years for tin to break down, 500 years for aluminum, ...
Socialized sexism
Socialized sexism Running Head: SOCIALIZED SEXISM Abstract This paper asserts that sexism in America is socialized. Examples of sexism in America from a very young age to an old age are given to support the idea that sexism is engrained into American society in an endless loop of discrimination and harassment. Socialized Sexism Results of Yale University’s Implicit Assumption Test (IAT) On the gender test I received a score of: “You have a moderate automati...
Societal changes to improve li
Societal changes to improve li Today's society is much different than society was a century ago, or even thirty years ago. Society is constantly changing and reforming to improve the conditions under which we live. Technology, medical health, and social acceptance are all examples of areas that were changed and reformed to improve our living conditions. Technology has advanced more in the last century than it has since the dawn of time. We've seen developments to every aspect of life, f...
Society 2
Society 2 Samuel Langhorne Clemens How society affects and reflects in his writings. Often the environment and culture surrounding a writer will affect the styles and subjects of literature in any certain era (Local Color). William D. Howels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell are such writers who were under this influence. However, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was not only under this influence but he wrote accordi...