Union Cycliste Internationale

There are a number of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational forces that could explain exactly why Lance Armstrong cheated in his numerous Tour de France victories. I believe it takes an equal amount of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors to cause an average athlete to cheat. To become a full time cyclist takes hard work and dedication. You have to thoroughly enjoy cycling to do the training to become a world class cyclist. To become a successful cyclist in recent years has involved the taking of performance enhancing drugs. In cycling this is referred to specifically as doping. This is so prominent that “from 1960 to 1967 no professional cyclist would take part in an important race without being doped” (Brewer, 2002). Getting to professional level is based on intrinsic motivation, but being successful is where extrinsic motivation comes into play. It is common to hear cyclists being pressured into doping in order to maintain their performance. Extrinsic factors such as pressure from teams are what motivate the majority of cyclists to cheat. However, in the case of Lance Armstrong I suspect that this is not the case. Armstrong showed throughout his career in many ways that he has an aggressive character. In races he would constantly be attacking people in order to win. In public interviews he would always argue that he had never taken performance enhancing drugs and in many cases, verbally abuse interviewers who asked such questions. He has consistently explained how…

The Twisted Jackson Hanson was working on his one of a kind 1958 Flathead V8 motor in the pitch black, Jackson was beat after working his midnight shift at the local car shop. He was trying to improve the flathead V8 motor because he was set to compete in the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car show was in the next two days so he wanted it ready for this great event. After a while, Jackson had to go to the bathroom and he heard something drop from the building. He rushed outside to check what…

by the Belgian Congo. Once Lumumba brought the Soviet Union into the situation by receiving their aid and weapons in an attempt to stabilize the government, it gave the United States the opinion that it was moving down a communist path. The United States’ fear of Communism infecting one of their suppliers of raw materials is evident…

the German Wehrmacht’s lighting warfare, and the Soviet Union enjoying the Molotov Ribbentrop pact, or as its commonly known its treaty of non-aggression with Germany, all hope is lost in Europe. However, the situation quickly changed in the following years. By 1940 Great Britain still hasn’t crumbled under the German pressure and remained as strong as ever. Hitler quickly theorized the only reason why Britain hasn’t fall was that Britain was anticipating the arrival of the Soviet Union’s…

Lakin Fix 25, April 2016 Analytical Paper II The Cold War had a major influence in international affairs. It was a continuous competition mainly between the United States and the Soviet Union. Arne Westad argues that “the Cold War was a continuation of colonialism through slightly different means” (Westad, 396). I believe this statement is a description of World War II’s colonialism ways transitioning onto another international conflict; the Cold War. The Cold War began as a disagreement between…

During the Civil War, a lot of people played different roles on both the Confederate and the Union sides of the war. There were spies who used their seductive powers to get information out of the officers and women who dressed up as men to be accepted as a soldier 's. The Civil War influenced much of society by beginning segregation, secession, and gave rights to slaves. According to the biography on her website, Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City,…

Recycling has become more popular in recent decades, but is it enough? Only twenty-four percent of the United States’ waste is recycled or composted, compared to the European Union’s forty percent. Another sixty-nine percent is put into landfills while the European Union puts almost half as much of their waste into landfills (Lacey figure 3). Although some landfills around the United States are creating technology to generate electricity from methane emissions, only about one third of the…

The choreographer named Vasily Tikhomirov created this ballet piece in 1927. The Red Poppy ballet is about “a watery agitprop ballet that pitted “good” Chinese Communists against “bad” Chinese and Western imperialists…” Many working Russians attended these performances. Additionally, this piece appealed to the New Economic Policy men. Once the ballet was released to the public, multiple items were sold because of the fact that they branded or smelled like red poppy. Some critics after seeing…

and because they had made no economic reform favorable to the citizens. The second stage of the Russian Revolution, was the real Revolution Red Communist, led by radical socialists, who constituted the majority (Bolsheviks) a popular movement that completely destroyed the old regime of privileges and inequalities and transformed the autocratic and despotic empire of the monarchy, essentially feudal in a Communist Federal Republic, led by the working class which, since 1923, denominate Union of…

The ability to determine fact from fiction is one that is relegated to those who hold the power, especially within a communist nation. Throughout Darkness at Noon, Rubashov demonstrates the Party’s inability to make mistakes, a trait that also existed throughout the Soviet Union during the communist rule. The Party holds complete control over the people who believe in its cause and a members of the organization, whatever the Party says is what is accepted. By being in control of so many people…