American Anti-Imperialist League

On Sunday February 5, 2017, Super Bowl LI took place in Houston, Texas. The best teams from the AFC and NFC face off to see who is the best of the entire NFL. The NFC team was the Atlanta Falcons while the AFC was the New England Patriots, both with high powered offenses and decent defenses. The Falcons started off on fire going up 21-0 with a pick six, rushing touchdown and a passing touchdown. At the end of the half the Patriots only scored a field goal which put them down 21-3 at the end of…

Super Bowl 1 Report January 15, 1967, the NFL (National Football League), hosted an American Football Championship game. The game was a major hit, it was played before about 62,000 fans at the stadium to watch! The NFL teams playing against each other were the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Bart Starr was the quarterback for the Packers he was very important because he was the one who made all the throws for the team if it weren't for his amazing coordination and planning…

York: Brentano’s, 1920. Bartleby. Web. 23 Oct. 2015. The book titled Women and the New Morality was written by Margaret Sanger. She lived in the Roaring Twenties. Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, Social Reformer and a nurse. In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Also, Sanger wrote multiple books on women and the freedoms they needed. Within the chapter, it talks about…

Why is gaming considered as a sport? Gaming is a worldwide phenomenon now that keeps getting bigger and bigger every day on multiple consoles or computers. But now everyone is thinking is it going to be considered a sport. Well in some parts of the country and outside our country it is already considered one. Sports are a physical activity that is engaged in for pleasure (“Sport.” Merriam-Webster.com.) Its other definition is a particular activity (such as an athletic game) so engaged in…

effort. While the reformers reoriented American social thought, novelists and journalists reported corporate wrongdoing, municipal corruption, slum conditions, and industrial abuses. Magazines like McClure’s and Collier’s stirred reform energies with articles exposing urban political corruption and corporate wrongdoing, some magazines later appeared as books. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized the authors as “muckrakers” publicizing the worst in American life, but the muckrakers actually…

The interview that was selected for this project was from a 60 minutes episode in which Pam Oliver interviewed Victor Cruz, CC Sabathia and the main interviewee the sports executive for Jay-Z ‘s Roc Nation Sports Shawn Costner, also known as Pecas, who is an avid sneaker collector. Pecas has over 1500 pairs of sneakers that consist of autographed, rare releases, customs, and multiple pairs of his favorite sneakers. In this interview Pam used multiple technics to make him feel comfortable and…

Reporting Information Article Assignment - Analyzing a Report James Fallows wrote a report called “Throwing Like a Girl,” it explores the art of throwing a baseball and the misconceptions that lead to the phrase “throwing like a girl.” He goes on to tell us about the time that the Clinton’s, Bill and Hillary, threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Cubs game in 1994. Bill Clinton was wearing an Indians cap and warm-up jacket when he threw the pitch. She was wearing a dark jacket, a scarf, and…

The film A League of Their Own can be considered a feminist film that stands for the individual rights, justice and freedom for women. The film depicts women, as strong and independent if need be, yet still capable of being good wives and mothers. Throughout history, baseball was always known to be an all American sport - played by men of course, however the film takes a turn on history; rather than showing the manly all American sport as everyone knows it, the film shows women playing the sport…

their husbands went off to war to fight for their country baseball was dwindling. Since there wasn’t any entertainment in baseball there was a candy manufacturer by the name of Walter Harvey who started an all women's baseball league. This league was called the All-American Girls Professional…

Although Spanish-American War ended with American victory, the conflict was not necessarily an easy win. The war faced numerous oppositions from the population of the involved nations and their territories that wanted to avoid the conflict. However, none of these group were able to influence the government and public interest enough to prevent the war or annexation. Groups that opposed the Spanish-American War included american businesses, the Spanish population and the Anti-Imperialists.…