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race “The Bunny” or “Hare”. In 1837 English schools started having formal cross country meets.The first established national championship for the United States took place in 1890. The first international championship meet wasn’t held until March 28, 1903. Since then, this sport has become more and more popular. Overall,…

been many different representations of the vampiric figure. From the beginning of the twentieth century it is possible to find some tales of the genre such as “The Tomb of Sarah” by F.G. Loring (1900) or “Luella Miller” by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman (1903). Later in the 1930s it is possible to see the tale by H.P. Lovecraft “The Shunned House” (1937), which presents a vampire very different from…

Introduction: Ageism from a definitional perspective is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s age. In simple terms, ageism occurs when employer tend to considered employees in middle age or older as enervate, unworthy of attention, or inappropriate for employment, then harmed those workers by any decision in their workplace, based on their age, that may be considered illegal age discrimination. While most people have a limited knowledge or understanding of ageism,…

different origin and backstory. In 1901, my great-great-grandfather was born in Tunisia, North Africa. His name was Matteo Pecoraro, originally from Italy. His family were traveling from Italy to America at this time and officially arrived in Utah in 1903. Salt Lake City, Utah is where the Pecoraro family settled in. This is also where Matteo met the love of his life, Elizabeth Schmidt. They married in 1924, and had two children, one of which, continued my history. This was Margaret Pecoraro. …

succeed (Morley and Tiernan 2013). For one area to succeed, the other must be equally as effective. Like Fayol, Taylor also progressed his management thought and ideas from his experiences and further quoted those in his two books, Shop Management (1903) and Principles of Scientific Management (1911). Taylor developed four main…

507). Monopoply is such a big hit in today’s world of board games, but the wrong person is getting credit for the lucrative game. The real inventor gets overshadowed in the history of the game while the man people say made it really took the idea. In 1903 Elizabeth Magie invented a board…

William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States. William Howard Taft was President through 1903-1913. Taft was the fattest president ever. William Howard Taft was the first and only president to be Chief Justice of the United State Supreme Court. (Goldman) His father was a member of President Grant's Cabinet and a minister to Austria-Hungary and Russia. (Barkas) William Taft attended Yale University from which he graduated second in his class in 1878. William went to Cincinnati…

Bullets and guns are important in today's technology, because we use them for hunting, sport shooting, and in war. In 1424 the first recorded bullet was made. Henri-Gustave Delvigne who was born in 1799, was the inventor of the cylindrical bullet. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and designed innovative rifles. When he was younger, he joined the French army. When bullets were first made, they were shot by putting powder into the barrel, then put in the bullet, then you would pull the trigger and…

I believe that the Baseball Hall of Fame should stay in New York, but be relocated to Brooklyn. New York has many historical ties to the game of baseball, and it’s more of a central location comparted to Cooperstown. The legend of Abner Doubleday was said to have stated playing baseball in New York in as a rural past time in 1939. Even though this is just a myth many baseball fans associate the beginning of baseball with the state of New York. In 1845 the Knickerbockers were created as a…

life, he had quite a few important experiences. Of Mice & Men was one of the three books he wrote on labor issues in California. Steinbeck grew up in Salinas Valley, uncoincidentally where Of Mice & Men takes place. Steinbeck wrote to his friend in 1903 “I think I would like to write the story of this whole valley. Of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills.”1 Though Steinbeck was directing that towards the beauty of the town, Of Mice & Men declares the…