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of sports fans and how they act during a game varies on how much they know or care about the sport they are cheering for. Specifically there are three types of fans that seem to be the most common; obsessive, “band wagon” and the part-time fan. The first type of fan that I mentioned is an obsessive fan otherwise known as the die-hard fan. These are the fans that have a favorite team and truly care about how the team will do throughout the entire season. When you watch TV and see the fans…

Write a one paragraph summary of the article This article discusses the advent of daily fantasy sports websites, like Draft Kings and Fan Duel, and why these websites are legal, but the direct betting on sports is illegal. These websites have values of over one billion dollars and are currently completely legal. They operate similarly to casinos; big payouts for little investment. Althought these websites have generated a lot of winners, they have generated far more losers; again, this pattern…

century (Wang 2008). “Dojin” in Japanese is people who share the same interest, or fans of…

Bandwagon Fans Do you know of a person who always roots for the best team in each sport they like to watch? Does this person switch teams each year based on which team is number one? If so, this person is more than likely a bandwagon fan in the sports society. I see people every year who wear different sports team shirts because the team they liked the previous year isn’t as good as they were, and I think it’s a disgrace to true fans like myself. People create problems by being bandwagon fans…

There are instances where meritocracy is not taken into consideration as of why sports fans like certain players and why some sports fans do not like certain players. When meritocracy is not a factor, fans are often influenced by the persuasive words of sports commentators. The sports commentator is considered to be a legitimate authoritative figure and an expert in the sports world, since that person can provide his/her expertise and voice his/her opinion when analyzing a play or a player. When…

between IRL fans and other motorsports fans is their degree of loyalty to the fans favorite teams, drivers, and sponsors. IRL fans tend to watch the race without being extremely loyal to one driver or team. They tend to watch for an enjoyable race with high speeds and spectacular crashes. Motorsports fans from other series tend to identify better and have more loyalty to their favorite sponsor, team and driver. Other series such as NASCAR and NHRA Drag Racing sometimes seem to be more fan…

responders identified as heterosexual. Furthermore, in response to the question “Do you identify as belonging to a gender, sexual, or romantic minority?”, 53% of 9,589 responders answered yes. As a final point, though about 90% of respondents identified as fans of male/male slash, on about 30% identified as boy female and heterosexual (centrumlumina 2013). It seems that although the demographics of fanfiction…

be reading fanfiction. Fanfiction is a story written by fans that takes elements from a previously established setting and transforms the already fixed plot into something entirely new. The elements that pre-exist might be characters, locations, objects, or institutions adapted from another source. A fanfiction author typically writes a story using one or more characters from these developed settings. These stories offer new scenarios that fans have not seen or read before in the original…

Honors Academic Writing ________________________________________________________________________ Ethan Fan December 22, 2015 To whom it may concern, When I look back on my childhood, I think of fun filled memories with toys, friends and games, not once ever would I think about fighting in an all out war. My name is Ethan Fan and I have been educated upon the subject of child soldiers here at Bensalem High School. I have learned that instead of living happily, these forced child soldiers…

the episode, fan-subs. Fan-subs have allowed me to understand and enjoy the new art form I was introduced to. By having easy access to thousands of online fan-subbed anime I have never needed to…