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Gapminder is a non-profit venture that provides free statistics in visual forms of animated bubble chart, bubble map and mountain chart known as Trendalyzer. The Gapminder team creates surveys online using the survey software called SurveyGizmo to collect their data. It helped portray the data in a way that enable users to understand without being confused by the complicated conventional lines and bar graphs. Users can access the data straight from the website or download an offline version into…

Gender Inequality in sport: Why are women inferior to men? The gender inequality issue is worth exploring as, lately; this topic has come up more frequently in sport than ever before. Women are becoming more vocal on gender issues. And, they’re becoming more involved in closing a gender gap within sports, becoming a major part of the sporting industry on and off the field. Slowly changing over time, sport is no longer “a man’s game.” Still, as women drive forward with inequality issues, women…

A: Sport as a Unifier 1. I believe sport has brought people together all around the world. It has the potential to unite a country. Sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup bring nations together to compete, not in war, but in games and events. An example of sport as a unifier is when South Africa hosted the Soccer World Cup in 2010, it had a huge positive effect on the national morale. In addition, all the construction that went on to prepare the country’s infrastructure and…

Charles Lightoller was the Second Officer and only surviving commanding officer on the maiden and final voyage of the White Star Line’s ‘unsinkable’ Titanic. After the ship collided with an iceberg, Lightoller oversaw the of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, famously only allowing one man on all eleven lifeboats. Lightoller, after a narrow escape from death after going down with the ship, went on to give key testimonies for both the US inquiry and the British Board of Trade…

Sport does play an important role in Nation building Introduction According to the Cambridge dictionary sport can be defined as “a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job.”[1] Throughout history sport has been used as a binding tool that allows nations and its people to rally up along sports teams in support. This is an occasion where many people are bound together under a unifying cause. In this…

The FIFA World Cup, or more commonly refered to as the World Cup is a global sports event that is organized once every 4 years. The most recent World Cup is hosted in the largest country in South America, Brazil, which is held from the 12th of June till the 13th of July of this year. The event has caused many troublesome effects on Brazil as a whole such as, rising inflation, decreasing jobs after the event, and spending government resources badly. According to Oxford English Dictionary,…

History Women playing basketball professionally was unheard of until April 24, 1996 it was televised all across the world. This all began with a press conference that included star players such as Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes. Later that month, a man Val Ackerman was named First president of the WNBA. The First game began on June 21, 1997, starting two teams The New York Liberty and Los Angeles Sparks. The WNBA is currently about to enter their 19th season. Success The WNBA…

ancient Greeks. As a result, they basically created our Olympics. They mostly had the same sports and some of the same rules, though we have changed some of the rules drastically. In their Olympics they had sports like horseback riding, and track and field. They had a lot of the same sports that we do. They also…

The idea for the Titanic, a passenger liner that would epitomize luxury and be bigger than any other liner, was born out a collaboration by Bruce Ismay, chairman of White Star Line and J.P. Morgan, American financier. It was to be part of the “Olympic” class of liners; the White Star Line’s answer…

In twenties century of 1912 America suffered one of the big unforgettable historical disasters. The most gigantic and luxury steamship instead of getting to the New York seaport, it sideswiped to the iceberg in North Atlantic ocean and dive to the depth of the sea. Theretofore, the Atlantic sea witnessed many ships and vessels ply in various purposes between Europe and America. It may many ships sank into the sea for different reasons, but nobody thought this kind of a ship with having such a…