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As the bright colors of confetti covering one of the cathedrals of European football, Stadio San Siro begin to settle and the blood, sweat and tears of both Atleti and Real Madrid players begin to encrust in history, from a neutral perspective, one cannot help but feel sorry for the Atleti players who once again have been stripped off of the title of grand conquerors of Europe by their fiercest city rivals, Real Madrid. The narrative itself would have been a Marxist dream. A team with…

Seth and Wells (2011) describe a commercial services airport as, “those airports that accommodate scheduled air carrier service, provided by the world’s certificated air carriers” (pg. 12). These are the types of airports the traveling public usually thinks of when an airport is mentioned. Big name airlines fly from these airports, these types of airports are notorious for long lines, security procedures, and flight delays. The primary role of commercial services airports are to safely and…

Spanish Super Cup losing to no other than Fc Barcelona by aggregate of five to four. Both games were heavily competitive the game winning goal was by one of the most remarkable players to ever touch a soccer ball in history, he goes by the name of Lionel “La Pulga” Messi. Then, there is the FIFA Club World Cup, Respectfully FC Barcelona has won the Championship twice compared to the one time Real Madrid has one it. In fact, in the last decade FC Barcelona has won twenty-one championships…

Introduction: as a young boy growing up with a dad that also loved the great sport known as soccer, his brother played for the national Malaysian team. Growing up, of course I loved the beautiful game growing up. Today I will be talking about what makes soccer such a beautiful game. Many people despise soccer/football, kids get bullied in school because they like to play the game known as soccer/football, hopefully today I can change your view about soccer players and show how the game brings…

The main character, Kino, is a poor Mexican-Native American man who lives in the small town of La Paz with his wife, Juana, and his newborn son Coyotito. One morning Kino and Juana spotted a scorpion climbing down the rope that holds Coyotito’s hanging box crib. As Kino tried to carefully remove the scorpion from the rope, Coyotito knocked the scorpion down, causing it to sting him in the shoulder. As Juana tried to suck the poison quickly out of Coyotito, his wailing screams and cries of pain…

In this essay, I will compare two movies which are Good Bye Uncle Tom and La Amistad. In La Amistad, the slaves were Kidnapped from their homes. In both movies, they were fed differently. In La Amistad, the slaves ate out of their hands. La Amistad was made for the screen in 1997 and Good Bye Uncle Tom was made in 1971. It’s a 26-year difference a lot happened in that period slavery became illegal in Cuba, but that didn’t stop some people from selling and buying slaves. Some names of the…

Summer Olympic wins (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012) and three World Cup wins (1991,1999, and 2015) while, the men have almost never stood on the podium let alone win a gold medal (History). Not to mention, a few of the female players are regarded to be better soccer players than the men. Players like, Abby Wambach, a forward for the female team, “has 184 international goals – more than any other man or woman in history” (Goff, 2015, par.1). Abby Wambach has broken the stereotype that women are not as…

Katherine von Drachenberg, or more familiarly known as Kat Von D is a famous tattoo artist that many know from the famous television shows, “Miami Ink” and “LA Ink.” Sephora approached her back in 2008 to help her set up a couple shades for her own liquid lipstick line. Since then the Kat Von D Beauty collection has vaguely developed into a diverse makeup brand with numerous different products to choose from such as, foundations, liquid lipsticks, eyeshadow palettes and much more. (“Kat”).…

Soccer star Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. Starting soccer at a young age, Messi would tag along with his older brother to demolish the field. At the age of eight, he was recruited to join the youth system of Newell's Old Boys, an Argentinian soccer club based in Rosario, Argentina, Recognizably smaller than most of the kids in his age group, Messi was eventually diagnosed by doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that stunted his growth. Growing up Messi’s…

Barcelona Sponsors As you may know, Barcelona is a pretty famous/well known soccer team from northern Spain. Barcelona has two FIFA Club World Cup trophies. They also have many partnerships with many different businesses. Their partnerships are referred to as their sponsors. Many of their sponsors you know and use in an everyday life style. Some sponsors include Panasonic, Gatorade, Nike, Head and Shoulders, EA sports, Toshiba, Qatar and many more. Some sponsors are more presentable then others…