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This paper discusses how the amateur athletes of the NCAA are part of a multi-million dollar industry that supplies many universities with vast sums of revenue. The legal aspects of the firing are explored as well as the ethical consequences. The behavior of Bobby Knight is contrasted with several truly aggregious examples of unacceptable behavior by coaches.

Tags:bobby knight, firing, issues

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This paper discusses the climax scene from the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer". The paper relates that this film is based on actual people and events, and this specific scene portrays the lead character as balanced, calm, and basically worthy of his victory. The paper breaks up the scene and talks about camera work, lighting, genre, ideology, and actors.

From the Paper
"The scene is a space full of young chess players seated at tables in a long, dark room. At the end of this elongated area is a table with a chessboard, chess pieces, and a timer. An overall brown color prevails with splashes of light coming through one side of the span from the non-curtained windows. A young man, Jonathan Poe, is seated at the left side of the table at the end of the space waiting for his opponent to arrive. Walking into the room is his challenger, Josh Waitzkin, a prodigal chess player. This moment is dramatic, nerve-racking, and full of anticipation."

Tags:chess, drama, lighting

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This paper analyzes three different stories by Bobbie Mason. According to the paper, Mason's plots involve seeing how difficult life can be seen through the eyes of different main characters. The textual analysis shows that Mason used two specific themes, similar plots, similar settings, descriptive images, selected characters, and a mood of depression with the main characters wishing they could relive their lives.

From the Paper
"This wish has been expressed by many people. It is this wish that can be found in these three stories by Bobby Ann Mason. All three of her stories could be written for an older group of adults, yet the stories have meaning for most people because sometime or other a person wishes that they could relive their lives. A study of Mason's three stories will show that she understood the lives of the elderly, but Mason also shows how even the best marriages take work and understanding. Mason's plots on the stories on how difficult life that can be seen with different main characters looking back at the mistakes..."

Tags:characters, analysis, plot

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This paper gives a documentary type exposition of the 1973 Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs match held in the Astrodome and televised to an audience of nearly 509 million viewers. The paper highlights how King's victory impacted the development of female marketability as a result.

From the Paper
"Sports for the most part has always been thought of as a man's field. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey -- all men. Only tennis has some meaningful women athletes now. And their prize money doesn't come close to what the men tennis pros earn. However Billie Jean King was the ranking female tennis pro. This year she won Wimbledon for the fifth time. And then a different kind of fame became hers when an old pro well past his prime, Bobby Riggs, claimed that he could beat..."

Tags:Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, feminism, female athletes ABC-TV, Astrodome, Howard Cosell

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The paper briefly reviews the history of the Civil War battleground at Shiloh, when a drunken General Grant battled to preserve the Union, then moves into an analysis of the story. The paper makes a comparison of the history of the battle with the battle between the husband, Leroy, and wife, Norma Jean; the drunken General Grant is contrasted with the stoned Leroy. In conclusion the writer, noting the unresolved tension in the story's abrupt ending, hopes that Leroy will keep battling for his own continued union with Norma Jean.

From the Paper
"In historical terms, the title setting of Bobbie Ann Mason's, Shiloh, was a Civil War Union camp under General Grant's command. Grant's aim as a military representative for President Lincoln was to keep the nation united. The camp turned bloody battleground in 1862 when the Confederates' made a daring attack in attempt to gain freedom from the Union. There "General Grant, drunk and furious, shoved the Southerners back to Corinth," successfully thwarting a stab at secession by the "boys in gray.""

Tags:General, Grant, drunk, stoned, Leroy

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This paper presents in great detail, the life and crimes of four serial killers. By using various theories, the author tries to find reason or cause for these crimes. Sociological and criminal theories include - head trauma, Patterns of Episodic Aggressive Behavior, Picquerism, Theory of Violence & Childhood Abuse, mental retardation, the Triad, cross dressing & cannibalism and finally environment of abuse, childhood trauma & isolation.

From the Paper
"Robert Joe Long was born on October 14,1953 in Kenova, West Virginia. He had a rather unremarkable childhood as serial killers go - he was not a victim of any psychological or physical abuse. Bobby Joe was however, a victim of a series of physical injuries. These injuries are what eventually led Bobby Joe down the bloody path of rape and murder."

Tags:killer, serial, sex, sociological, theory, torture, triad, unusual, agressive, childhood, abuse, retardation, trauma

Abstract
This paper explains that the likelihood of Luke Cool's receiving damages in this case depends on whether the actions of Super Bikes and La Brute Manufacturing can be described as having been executed using "reasonable care". The author points out that Luke may be entitled to both pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages from La Brute; however, Luke will likely only receive pecuniary damages in his suit against Super Bikes, as in contract law recovery of non-pecuniary damages is very rare. The paper concludes that, given that Luke was extraordinarily negligent in this case by not only continuing to ride the bike knowing it had a dangerous flaw, but also by riding on a difficult path and without a safety helmet, it is likely that his award in this case will be reduced significantly.

From the Paper
"Luke would have no likelihood of successfully suing the employee of Super Bikes who sold him the bike, or the employee who told him to return another day as the part was not in stock, as the law generally distinguishes between those who have a contractual obligation to perform, and those who may due the actual work. While he may sue the employees on the basis of tort of negligence, this is unlikely to be successful due to negligence being defined in the law as failure to show "reasonable care"."

Tags:reasonable, pecuniary, non-pecuniary, helmet, employee

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This paper examines how one of the most important ideas that both authors, Barker of "Regeneration"and Mason of "In Country", seem to be portraying is that experience of war is not restricted to the soldiers, the combatants, those on the front line. It looks at how they are trying to get the message out that war effects everyone, as a collective and as an individual and how it it affects women and children and the men that were not fighting. It examines how "Regeneration" follows the stories of several men in a World War 1 hospital in Scotland for those suffering from shell shock whereas "In Country" is set eighteen years after the Vietnam War and uses opinionated narration from the view point of an eighteen year old girl who just missed the war.

From the Paper
"One of the most powerful ways that Pat Barker and B.A .Mason show that experience is not restricted to the front line is in the fact that neither author use front line action in their novels. The novels are very similar in this respect. The lack of action from the war is startling, but the portrayal of it in both novels is very real. The authors it seems, from the very beginning, set out their ideal that it is not contact and combat that are the experience, but the effect of the war upon the person. Women cannot engage in combat in either of the novels, but in both the authors show women to have experience of the war. The authors set out this idea by the consistent opinion of the male characters that "women weren't over there, so they can't really understand", while continually challenging this with the female characters."

Tags:vietnam, ww1, soldiers, combatants

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This paper reviews and analyzes Bobbie Ann Mason's short story "Shiloh" with an emphasis on the characters' struggles to find and define their identities. First, the story examines the male protagonist, Leroy, and his lost sense of masculinity because he can no longer work in his occupation following an accident. Then, it considers the development of the female protagonist, Norma Jean, who is married to Leroy. She is also on a quest of self discovery, which the paper describes through her many new activities and interests. The review also stresses Norma Jean's challenging relationship with her mother. The paper concludes by stating that Leroy and Norma Jean both have dealt with issues in their lives that have hindered them from discovering their own identity.

From the Paper
"Leroy decides, after having built a miniature log cabin, that he wants to build a real log cabin for him and his wife Norma Jean. He realizes he is good at building little things so he feels he is capable of building something bigger, but his wife strongly dislikes the idea of living in a log cabin. Leroy is trying to identify with craftsmanship because he thinks it will help discover who he truly is. Not only that, but Leroy also wants to build the log cabin because he wants to reestablish his role as head of the household since he has been injured and not able to do much. His wife has been working everyday and bringing in the money while he sits at home and does crafts. Norma Jean even takes a body building class because she wants stronger muscles."

Tags:Bobbie Ann Mason, short stories, masculinity, self discovery

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This paper compares these two works and goes through the mental states of the characters. The writer shows how Bobbie Ann Mason?s "Shiloh" is the definition of a normal short story, with its easy to follow plot as well as clear beginning and end. However, Charlotte Perkins Gilman?s "The Yellow Wallpaper", makes little to no sense on the first reading. What contributes to making "The Yellow Wallpaper" so difficult to clearly understand at first is the unorthodox storyline and complex language used by the narrator.

From the Paper
"The simplicity of Shiloh is clearly evident after reading the very first paragraph of the story. An example from the first page of the text is, "Leroy is a truck driver. He injured his leg in a highway accident four months ago" Nothing spells mundane more than those lines from this text. The name Leroy in addition to his truck driving career equates to normality in the reader's mind. People can identify with such a common name, and his average profession. Leroy has a wife Norma Jean, and a mother-in-law who annoys both of them. Leroy is rehabilitating from the aforementioned injury he obtained while on a long drive in his truck at which time he was under the influence of the drug Speed. People get in automobile accidents, and people often take drugs to make their lives appear better than they really are. Leroy is like a lot like these people, who work less than spectacular jobs, and want to take drugs as a way to lessen the feeling that they are wasting away their lives."

Tags:ann, bobbie, mason, perkins