Street-Ball: The Myth of the Ghetto Basketball Star

In recent decades, countless scholars have examined the developing trend of African American dominance in United States’ professional sports. Many have hypothesized that this over-representation is caused by the presumed reliance on sports as an avenue out of poverty for the African American youths. This trend, it is believed, has a highly detrimental effect the African American community. In actuality, this argument is flawed because it works under the stereotypical assumption that the overwhelming majority of African Americans come from abject poverty. To dispel this fallacy, the author has analyzed the upbringings of each All-National Basketball League First Team player over the past thirty years. The author discovered that while the majority of the players selected were African American, only a small percentage of these athletes were raised in a poverty-stricken environment. Logically, this would not be the case if poor African Americans relied more heavily on sports than middle-class African Americans. This data proves that stereotypes, not empirical evidence, are the substance of nearly every previous study conducted on the topic.

Antonie Labitzky als Eurydike, Rollenbild, in: Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in der Unterwelt

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F01028

Rosa Papier-Paumgartner als Orpheus, Rollenbild, in: Gluck: Orpheus & Eurydike

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F01464

Ellen Richter, Rollenbild, in: Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in der Unterwelt, München: Künstlertheater

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F06014

Albert Seibert als Tannhäuser, Rollenbild, Hüftbild, in: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, Frankfurt a. M.: Opernhaus, 1934 - Emmy Hainmüller als Eurydike, Res Fischer als Orpheus, Szenefoto, Doppelbildnis, in: Cristoph Willibald Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike, Frankfurt a. M.: Opernhaus, 1935 - Jean Stern als Wotan, Rollenbild, Hüftbild, in: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, Frankfurt a. M.: Opernhaus, 1938 - Rudolf Gonszar als Escamillo, Rollenbild, Kniestück, in: Georges Bizet: Carmen, Frankfurt a. M.: Opernhaus, 1937

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Dragonetti, Carmen and Fernando Tola, On the Myth of the Opposition between Indian Thought and Western Philosophy, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 2004, 293 pp

Fil: Rollié, Emilio Federico. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Dragonetti, Carmen and Fernando Tola, On the Myth of the Opposition between Indian Thought and Western Philosophy, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 2004, 293 pp

Fil: Rollié, Emilio Federico. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Globalization, Eden and the Myth of Original Markets

Peer reviewed

Innovative Tourism Clusters: Myth or Reality? Empirical Evidence from Benidorm

Paper submitted to TCVT3 Bozen/Bolzano, 10-12 April 2014, International workshop on Tourists as Consumers, Visitors, Travellers

Myth, Language, and Complex Ideologies

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: (1) language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions, (2) connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhetoric must be known, and (3) the notion of ideological information is a neutral notion that does not imply the valuation of ideology or its conditions of veracity or falsification. Rhetorical figures like metonymy, metaphor, parable analogy, and allegory are defined as relations. Metaphor and parable are order relations. Operations of metonymic and metaphoric substitution are defined and several theorems derived from these operations have been deduced.

The chronic food deficit of early modern Portugal : curse or myth?

Two historiographical currents have debated whether early modern Portugal was cursed by an excessive dependence on foreign food imports as a result of being unable to feed its population, or not. In this short paper, the first long-run systematic quantitative study of this question, we show that the former view is a myth and therefore could not be a curse. Throughout the entire period, a certain amount of grain was in fact imported but cereal purchases abroad never represented more than a diminutive percentage of total food consumption. More importantly, the country carried out a diversified trade in foodstuffs which was seldom seriously out of balance. Portuguese agriculture showed itself consistently capable of specializing in different foodstuffs for export. It was thus not hopelessly inefficient and succeeded reasonably well in meeting the basic nutritional needs of the population.

La consécration du critère de l’« accès au marché » au sein de la libre circulation des marchandises: mythe ou réalité? = Consecration of the criterion of "market access" in the free movement of goods: myth or reality? Research Papers in Law, 04/2011

No abstract.