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for skaters to make plays on both sides. I also agree that strategic fouls are a fair form of cheating because they can add an incentive for a player to help their team win. On 2/3/2016, I was working the Ball State Women’s basketball game against Akron. During the game, I saw women from both teams taking strategic fouls in an attempt to help their team achieve victory. While fouls are considered ‘cheating’ within the game and players who foul are often penalized for their actions. On the other…

It was in 1851, when she gave her most famous speech on poor and working women during the Ohio feminist in Akron. In 1864, she met President Abraham Lincoln and worked with volunteers assisting the black refugees. During 1870’s Truth worked for the rights of the Blacks, initiated efforts to find them jobs and carried lectures for the rights of women. However…

Ryan Erik Adamsons,based in Chicago, is an active composer, performer, and educator. He received a Bachelor of Science Degrees in Jazz Studies and Brass Performance from the University of Akron (OH), and a Masters of Music concentrating in Jazz Composition from DePaul University in Chicago (IL). He currently works as an Artist Advisor at the Denis Wick/Vandoren Musician’s Advisory Studio in downtown Chicago, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Jazz Orchestra as their Director of…

When he dropped out of high school he went to work at a tire factory in Akron, Ohio. After that he went to work at an unpaid theater company because he wanted to go into the acting business. In 1919 Clark went to work in the oilfields after his stepmotherś death. He needed to help his father out at that hard time. Then he worked…

from Egypt who could not read or write but instead had people read to her passages, especially one’s from the Bible, for inspiration for her speeches (Sojourner Truth Memorial). Her most famous speech was delivered at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Truth’s “I Ain’t a Woman” speech was recorded by several sources at the time but was not recorded by the president of the convention, Frances Gage, until nearly twelve years later. Gage wrote the speech in a Southern dialect but…

Social and Personality Development in Childhood What makes people who they are? There are many pieces that contribute to what makes a person who he/she is. The way in which a child is raised is one of the most influential contributors. Parents play a vital role in their child’s personality development. Furthermore, nationality also is important because culture influences the way in which life is lived. Another major contributor to personality and social development is the school, and the…

Thorough Reading of Abolitionist Literature Throughout abolitionist history there have been works of literature that have changed the outcome of history as we know it. Abolitionist worked hard their entire lives trying to change the perspective of how people looked at slaves. Writers who were abolitionist used their stories and speeches as a movement in the Romantic era to get their beliefs known throughout the world. Writers such as Frederick Douglass, William L. Garrison, and Sojourner…

Baseball and football were both very different in the 1920’s. There was a lot of change over time. This is important to me because it’s fascinating. Without baseball and football in the 1920’s it wouldn’t be the same today. Baseball and football has changed over many years. Until the 1920’s there wasn’t real football or baseball teams. Football was big in college, but there weren’t international teams at the time. The first African American to play in major league baseball was Babe Ruth. He hit…

The salary cap in sports is nothing new. Its origin in basketball can be traced back to the league's $55,000 salary cap for the league's first season, 1946-47. Most players earned between $4,000 and $5,000, but there were a few exceptions. Tom King of the Detroit Falcons for example. He drew the league's highest salary, $16,500, not solely because of his playing ability, but also due to his front office duties as the team's publicity director and business manager. Philadelphia's star scorer, Joe…

inspiration (holy spirit), and being read to, and reading the little text that she could (Painter). Luckily, she had made a friend, Olive Gibbert, who always transcribed Sojourner’s narratives and speeches, like her most famous one pronounced in Akron, Ohio (1851), Ain’t I a Woman?…