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The instant you look at something or observe it you react to it. Consciously or subconsciously you always react. It is human nature to do so. It is for this reason advertisement is a multimillion dollar industry that will never go away. The opportunity to invade your life is a constant thought to advertisement and marketing companies, so it comes to no surprise that the 2016 Olympic games would be riddled with advertisements. Capturing the compelling stories of an athlete fuel advertisement…

Olympic drug testing in international athletes is a huge topic on todays Olympic games. A lot of opinions are shared and a lot of problems are to be dealt with. Performance enhancing drugs should be legal to provide better and faster healing, but anti-doping efforts should be betterly enforced for fairness of competitions and legitimacy of gold medal winnings. With the various arguments against doping or with doping, you can 't deny the fact that there are many perils of using performance…

Bart Conner Dedication to one thing in life is hard to accomplish, especially if the one thing requires hours and hours of dedication every week. Bart Conner, an Olympic gold medal winner for the United States and a National Championship at the University of Oklahoma was very dedicated to his career. Bart’s journey to become the outstanding gymnast he is today was long and hard, but it eventually paid off. Even though he had to mature in a hurry, he soon realized that his childhood dream would…

Olympic hero, icon, role model, and transgender are all things that can describe Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner made the transition of a life time that many people have mixed feelings about. However, thousands of people look to her as a role model for her act of braveness and courage. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, was born on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York. Jenner was first known as an Olympic hero during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. At the age of 39 he won…

Should You Compete? Officially starting in 1896, the Summer Olympic games have been a national competition that was derived from ancient Greece in eighth century B.C. (History). Every four years, the most elite athletes, ranging from swimmers to ice curlers, are sent from their countries to represent them on the world stage. In the year’s prior the 2012 Olympics, there were 206 separate National Olympic Committees designed to promote and encourage athletes to partake in the games (National). Due…

There have been many changes in the Olympic Games ranging from the diversity to women and men competing to the security of the athletes. The Olympics made its first start in a small part of the world named Olympia Greece dated back in 1896 marking it the first summer Olympic Games to be held. Only a few participated and there were little games to be played. Men were the limited ones to attend the games while women sat and watched. As the years went on they finally started participating. No one…

After watching the video we can see that Coca-Cola wants its viewers to associate drinking their products to winning an Olympic gold medal, to me the product has no relationships or connections to the Olympic Games. This made me think, why do corporate sponsors align themselves with sports? From watching the Coca Cola 's Gold Feeling commercial, it is clear that the brand wants its name to be seen by the ever increasing audience of the Olympic Games and what better way to do this by comparing…

The Dreams of Success Everyone in America is given the chance to achieve success. The Olympic Games gave equal opportunity to Michael Phelps, Kerri Strug, and Serena Williams to achieve success in the personal live allowed them to leave their mark on history, with hard work, determination, and initiative. Michael Phelps had a rough childhood. At the age of seven he was diagnosed with ADHD. Phelps recalls this life event by saying, “ADHD was hard for me but I quickly overcame it. But it aided me…

Murderball An inspiring documentary Called Murderball focuses on the life of paraplegic athletes. They are in the rugby US team and played in the 2004 Paralympics. This sport is a very aggressive game, in which players in a modified wheelchair clang into each other making the other player to fall out of his chair. The main purpose of the game is to take the ball to one of the extremes of the court in order to score. Each of the players in the movie became disabled for different reasons, but all…

The Life and Works of Lorraine Hansberry Alveda King once stated, “Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit” (Brainy Quotes). In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family lives in South Side Chicago and faces racial discrimination. The entire family…