... men's minor sports. Adding to this, is the problem of football making compliance with Title IX very difficult and almost impossible. Many feminists and supporters of Title IX are claiming that the closures of men's minor sports are due to men's football sucking up all the resources. This is not true! College football is usually the only profitable sport at most schools. The only ... thing that football does is cause proportionality to be very hard to reach, because football has so many male athletes on their rosters. This large number of male athletes ... , then many more men's sports, ...

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... for past years and how one back surgery fixed it all. He spoke of his childhood and how Dick Butkus was his hero and how football saved him from the "steel mills". He went on to be a college athlete and figured out that sport is one area, along with many, that pain is more important than pleasure. Sabo explains that he does ... the game!" Don Sabo, born and raised in western Pennsylvania, grew up in a steel town where it is football or factory. From the time he can remember he was urged by society and people close to him to play football. He played football from the time he was a little...

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... are born with the notion that involvement in sports is necessary to portray a masculine image. Woolf describes the importance that is placed on male-related activites by noting that while " football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial"..." (p.74). Men have this masculine importance drilled into their heads from and early age. From the baseballs ... and basketballs embrodered on their baby blankets, to the pressure of highschool football tryouts and the fear of rejection by their peers, men are brought up with the notion that sports are an im...

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... in athletics by dropping many men's sports, such as wrestling, men's gymnastics, and men's swimming, some have gone as far as cutting football programs. Since 1991, 20,800 male sports have been eliminated while only 5,800 women's sports have been added. Title IX has now turned into ... . There is no excection for the "nontraditional" undergraduates (students older than 23), who are now making up almost half of the countries college students. Among today's female undergraduates 29 percent are "nontraditionals with children, 11 percent are single mothers and 79 percent have jobs. Californi...

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... , held to higher expectations yet given lower standards? "When you don't allow women to play sports it deters women from developing and participating as athletes" (Sexism In Sports). College Sports Prior To Title IX A time existed when playing collegiate sports was not an option. Even when opportunities started to increase most women did not participate. In the 1900's women ... 's collegiate sports started to increase (Sexism In Sports). Participation did not begin to increase until the introduction of women's basketball in college sports (Sexism In Sports). Around 1969 women started doin...

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... is a person who is in and out of jail for constantly breaking the law. Ricky is the star athlete who is being recruited by the University of Southern California for football. Everyone treats him better and his mother gives the better treatment to him. With the help and support of his dad, Tre has grown into a very smart young man. You ... any motivation behind you? Tre's father stayed on him constantly and encouraged him to do things with his life. This led to him going to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Tre's girlfriend went to Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Ricky played ...

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... and impacted my attitudes towards the female vs. male genders in ways I never thought possible. The topic of reproductive rights greatly influenced me, considering that I plan on having children after college. Right now, I have the choice to use various forms of birth control to prevent pregnancy at a time which child birth would be very inconvenient. This is a right that I hold and ... tried to have abortions and were unsuccessful. It made me really appreciative of birth control methods that we have today. The list of instruments used for abortion included: a curtain rod, a football pu...

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... and impacted my attitudes towards the female vs. male genders in ways I never thought possible. The topic of reproductive rights greatly influenced me, considering that I plan on having children after college. Right now, I have the choice to use various forms of birth control to prevent pregnancy at a time which child birth would be very inconvenient. This is a right that I hold and ... tried to have abortions and were unsuccessful. It made me really appreciative of birth control methods that we have today. The list of instruments used for abortion included: a curtain rod, a football pu...

• Word Count: 1086
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School