Mike Tyson

Failure manifests as numerous different things and presents itself in a variety of forms, none of which embody excitement, or joy, or even a tad pleasure. Failure is tough; it habitually feels dreadful and heart wrenching, and occasionally makes you want to crawl up into the tightest, smallest, most compact little ball you manage to muster, where you sit in a corner and hope and pray for it somehow to go away, for somehow the pain to stop. Other times failure results in embarrassment, take a…

God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America. By Robert J. Higgs. University Press of Kentucky, 1995. 400 pages. $17.50 cloth. God in the Stadium is a commentary on the developing relationship between sports and religion and how it has changes directly with the constant transformation of society. Parallel in some aspects to Don Johnson’s writings in Aethlon: the Journal of Sport Literature, Higgs comments on the relationship between religion, with a focus on Christianity, and sports…

the shooting of Tupac Shakur is probably one of the saddest, and most controversial shootings of a famous person in recent history. Tupac was shot in Las Vegas on September 7th, 1996. At this time, many eyes were on the city of Las Vegas. Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon were fighting in one of the biggest boxing matches in history at the MGM Grand Casino. This brought the likes of many sports fans as well as celebrities to the city to catch the big fight. Tupac traveled to Vegas two days…

. The average American earns little over $65,000 dollars a year. A professional basketball player in the NBA will earn $5.15 million each year. A baseball player in the NLB will make $17.9 million in only five short years. These athletes spend their entire lives playing games because it is what they truly love to do. A professional football player makes 20.1 million dollars a year in the NFL versus a Radiologists paycheck, which is $315,000 a year (Youn). The average teacher makes almost…

The politics of The Martian present a powerful counterpoint to the rise of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Whereas the heavy majority of big-budget space adventures set in present day or the near future pay little attention to scientific accuracy in the name of entertainment, The Martian is, at its core, about science. It is about the triumph of the scientific method and the value of education. Trapped alone on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney has to conduct what are essentially a series…

moments when people will try to take advantage of free speech and deliberately hurt others through words, but not all words should be censored. Students take small comments to be offensive, yet they may make a comment about someone else with ease; Mike Bloomberg provides an excellent example of why our freedom of speech should be justified without any restrictions as he says “What I do may offend you. You may find my actions immoral or unjust. But attempting to restrict my freedoms – in ways…

Everlast chose to align their products with the ethical values of the advertisement. Although the brand itself is already very credible–having been around for over a century and serving legendary fighters like Mike Tyson and Sugar Ray Robinson–ethos is further extended through the use of this technique. After the main message, “Boxing makes you bigger,” the screen fades and the Everlast logo appears. It is as if the creators are trying to convince the audience that…

Freddie Roach and Parkinson’s disease Of all the diseases that we have in this world, why did I choose Parkinson’s disease and Freddie Roach? Simply because I have been an avid follower of his since he handled the eight-division world champion, the fighter of the decade, and a Filipino professional boxer, Manny Pacquiao. I was dumbfounded when I found out that Freddie Roach has Parkinson’s disease. I was straightaway an enthusiast of his since knowing that he had Parkinson’s disease, and yet…

Phase four of the hiring process is known as placement. Hooray! You got the job, hopefully because you like doing it, rather than it being just for the money. Nevertheless, the negotiation process is not over, and it never will be. Once the induvial cements themselves in an organization, he/she needs to jockey for position within the organization. A common pitfall is for a new employee to focus on their starting salary when negotiating. In the article Making Salary Negotiations a Win-Win, Debbie…

The Correlation Between Islamophobia and Muslim Inmates In the years following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, there was a rapid increase in what has become known as islamophobia: a prejudice towards the nation of Islam and intolerance towards Muslims in general. In recent years, researchers have provided evidence that there has been a decline in islamophobia, which national Islamic civil rights groups’ claim is “small, but highly welcome” (Replogle, 2013)…