Amateur

weeks earlier that he had been using androstenedione, a compound that temporarily boosts levels of the male sex hormone testosterone” (7). This revelation drew attention to the serious problem of performance- enhancing drug use in professional and amateur sports. In the world of sports, performance enhancing drugs and blood doping can cause health problems, damages to…

I was torn with a choice of a sports movie that I have seen in past or movie that I have yet not seen. I decided to experiment and learn something new. Therefore I decided to do some research, by research I mean Netflix. I was determined to find a movie worth watching. I came across The Perfect Game. The title of this film seemed familiar but I yet had to see it. It appeared to have fair ratings so I decided to give it a shot. Religion, human desire for competition integrated throughout the…

definitions of masculinity and femininity” (1). She illustrated how gender shaped history from 1800-1940. This work analyzed the amateur history written by women in the nineteenth century and trivialized by the scientific minded professional male historians. She juxtaposed the professional historian, who explored archives and sought universal truth—which tended to be male—to the amateur,…

The history of the Olympic Games is a good example of showcasing the amateur-professional divide. When the modern games as we know them were revived in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee at the International Athletic Congress. Enforcing amateurism was central to Pierre de Coubertin’s vision for the Olympics. Competitors at the first Olympics in Athens in 1896 were all wealthy, white, aristocratic men. It is important to look at the Olympics when researching the…

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Vineyard Theatre to let you know about our newest show that your department may find interesting. Vineyard Theatre’s world premiere of THE AMATEURS by Jordan Harrison and directed by Oliver Butler. We feel this production is relevant to theatre history programs as it is based in 14th century Europe, with medieval pageant players on the run from the plague. The Amateurs features a 14th century pageant cart players traveled with and used to perform in different towns throughout Europe. This…

real critics reviews. Whereas people like us who write movie reviews on social media such as Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, and etc. are called amateur critics. The difference between amateur critics and professional critic is the professionalism that a professional critic gives a review. Professional critics do not hold any value in today’s society because amateur critics reviews on movies have taken over all social media society. Even though critics take people right…

Television and the Internet are, in the 21st century, replacing radio. In fact, advances in technology have allowed people to access an increasing amount of information, through different forms. A person wanting to learn about world news can now go on the Internet, read a newspaper, watch television or listen to the radio. The technology behind radio as well as its inventors is the reason why, nowadays, people have an unlimited access to information; it began in 1844, with the invention of the…

She only had the job so she could play basketball on an amateur team. She led the team to the championship game in the Amateur Athletic Union, also known as AUU. She was known for her track and field instead of basketball. In the 1932 AAU championship, she was in 8 of the 10 events. She won five of the events. In four of the events, she set…

As she states this subject has always contained a lot of controversy and thus another view on the life of both civilians and soldiers during this historical period can clarify some misunderstandings. Through Amateur Eyes addresses the ‘problems of hermeneutics’ by looking from a unique perspective at a series of still and moving images taken by German soldiers and civilians, both Nazis and non-Nazis during World War II. A lot of these pictures depict the death…