Ever since the ancient years, we have admired athletes and the hard work that they do to achieve their goal of winning. We idolize them and wish we were more like them. What happens though when the realization sinks in that they are human too and that some of them do get greedy and selfish? …
In the short science-fiction novel The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr. (the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon), formal advertising as it is known has been banned. However, the businessmen of the fictitious GTX cooperation have no problems getting around this new law. They know, just as the advertising executives of …
Throughout sport the talented are painted as role models. But as a role model, who by definition is a person who is looked to by others as an example to be imitated, are the sports people of today really living up to the standards from which they should? The ever increasing wealth of these sports …
Anybody from the society has the potential to become a role model. These can be teachers, parents, civilian workers or family members. Those who make a difference in children and teens are the educators and progenitors. Mentors, because of the large amount of time spent with children in school. Where they began to understand , …
