Oakland Raiders

Tebow’s first game to start in was against the Oakland Raiders on December 19, 2010. Unfortunately, Tim Tebow’s NFL career did not go well and he decided to become a sports talk show host. In 2013, Tim Tebow was hired by ESPN to be a college football analyst. Tebow was asked to be the co-host of ABC’s “Good…

Bowl into a manifestation of American cultural excess is the perfectly imperfect complement to the slow build of NFL history, which makes each successive failure to win the Super Bowl far more oppressive than it was when the Eagles lost to the Oakland Raiders in the…

Whether internal or external, many people suffer from all different types of problems and their coping mechanisms all differ. One thing people fail to realize is the effect that the arts can have on people. The “arts”, whether they’re music, literature or painting, all serve as escapes for individuals going through life’s constant problems. Few know exactly what the phenomenon is but, the arts have an odd way of not only linking people together in their pain or suffering, but also helping them…

Hip Hop in society is anything but a word. It is a living thing that grows, changes, and expresses itself as it goes through this. No matter how it may change though, it has always had one single meaning for its existence: peace; and with this meaning for existence, there must always be nine elements that are presence in order for Hip Hop to fulfill its purpose. The first element of Hip Hop, is dancing. Usually those who dance in Hip Hop are considered either the B-boy or the B-girl, and they…

Should Drug Testing be initiated in School? Lyle Alzado, a former defensive end of the Oakland Raiders, was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma. He said that the sickness was triggered by using anabolic steroids (Courson). Athletes say they use steroids to seek improvement in their athletic performance, yet may not realize the long-term effects of using steroids and other drugs. There should be more drug testing in high school sports because young children and teens are influenced by their so-called…

Gender roles and masculinity are social themes that are frequently discussed in our society and apply uniquely to Latin@ culture. ‘Macho’ is simply the Spanish translation of ‘male,’ but it has taken on connotations that relate to having masculine qualities. In the context of Latin America, ‘machismo’ is a term that relates to male sexuality; it is “a concept that dictates many aspects of Latin American male behavior,” (Kobashigawa). Such qualities are performative in that men and women are…

The constant efforts to compete and one up the other are characteristics traits of masculinity. More importantly, through observing these two songs, we can get a better understanding of what men in general believe. This is true because most males believe similar traits are masculine. Also, their messages of masculinity will be absorbed by their listeners, and in turn their listeners will develop the same beliefs about masculinity as are portrayed in the songs. Thus, by listening to these songs…