Lawrence Summers

When most people hear the word Olympics, the first thing that comes to mind is the sporting competitions that house worldwide athletes every four years. But for the Intuit people of Alaska, the word Olympics represents something more. For generations the Intuit people have been participating in what they call, The World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. Their Olympic games consist of activities that challenge the mental and physical abilities specific to the Eskimo lifestyle. Although now these games are…

Every four years the Olympic games are held in another country, in the 2012 Olympic games over 2.1 million people have attended the events in the first three days. (Degun, 2012). One of the Olympics worldwide sponsors is McDonalds, who has been an official sponsor of the Olympic moment since 1979. McDonalds has served a Varity of menu choices to over one million athletes, their families and fans. (McDonalds, n.d.) This year McDonalds has agreed to sponsor a new event taking place prior to the…

Mentions of sled competing first appeared in accounts from Norway in 1480 and the Erz Mountain province in 1552. The first worldwide luge race took place in February 1883 with 21 participants in lieu of six nations, as well as the United States. The four-kilometer race, from the Swiss resorts of St. Wolfgang to Klosters, and prearranged by inns in Davos, was won by Georg Robertson, a scholar from Australia, and Peter Minch, a mailman from Klosters, who each raced to an indistinguishable first…

We, so often as people come across mysterious and unusual cases on the news, which in the end creep the hell out of us. They creep the public out or sometimes astonish us or sometimes even mess with our minds as we try to differ truth from lies, right from wrong. There was one particular person who did this to the public his name was Eric Rudolph. Rudolph was a person who thought of himself as righteous, he believed that his course of actions were right. What he did was wrong to many people, but…

From its very beginnings physical culture has been established with political and economic relationships. Although some may argue that it is possible to separate sport from politics and economics, it is inevitable. The Dialectic Thesis, which states that physical culture is influenced by the society its in, and that society is influenced by physical culture (Clevenger, 2016), supports this concept. Physical culture has been used by politicians and businessmen to shape society. From as early as…

Olympics. With Boston’s uniquely difficult navigation and asymmetrical lay-out, Boston would not be able to handle the influx of people, nor build the stadiums necessary to have a successful summer games. The Massachusetts capital city would not benefit from being the United States nominee for the 2024 Summer Olympics because of the event’s economic power such as, stadium…

Key Activities Understanding the Olympic movement and operation history, learn from previous hosting cities’ experience Finding connections between Olympic Games and Urban development, and explore how would them affect the modern Stadium design Compare and contrast similar structural design and construction method, revise and design to accommodate “modern circus” practice Simulating reconfiguring scenarios, and examining possibilities Key Resource Pitts, Adrian C., and Hanwen Liao.…

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…

As just an 18-year-old, it is next to impossible to know what you want to do with the rest of your life. I had always known I wanted to work in the fashion industry, but I wanted to go into the business side of it, while still being heavily involved in the exciting parts of the industry. I decided to take on a difficult quest and attend the University of Mississippi, majoring in Integrating Marketing Communications, and hoping to one-day intern in and later move to New York, New York. My quest…

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…