Bill Sikes

Historic sporting events over time have shaped the way fans view the sports, who they cheer for, and the entertainment value for the fans. These events impact the sports industry in fan attendance, television views, and merchandise sales. Sports have been around for centuries, and have been popular in the United States since the early 1900’s. Throughout sports history, there have been many important, or defining moments. Moments that have shaped the way we see these sports and the excitement…

In order to pursue his/her agenda, the president can use both informal and formal powers. Informal powers are similar to the "necessary and proper" clause of the constitution because they are not explicitly stated. However, they include: - Executive agreements which are international agreements with power and authority like a treaty, ability to meet with world leaders because he/she is one - In case of emergency, President can get control and spend money if he/she deems it necessary. Lincoln…

The New York Times Magazine uploaded an article called the “Safe on the Southbank” written by Elliot Ackerman, talking about his experience seeking his right home. At the age of nine years old, he was living in Los Angeles until he moved and arrived at Heathrow where he then discovered, the Southbank. Southbank was British’s center location in the Thames for skateboarding. He loved the area, feeling the tingly sensation of skateboards crashing, where graffiti artists were not bothered, homeless…

Mr. Trump’s Fallacy Donald Trump during his presidential campaign has been attacking his competitors on a very personal level. Donald Trump has committed the fallacy of ad hominem when he claimed Carly Fiorina should not be president because of the fact that she is a woman and because of her past failed business endeavors, and when he attacked Dr. Ben Carson on the personal fact that he has been violent in the past as a reason for Dr. Carson not to be president. Carly Fiorina is a candidate…

MATH 1201: COLLEGE ALGEBRA DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT UNIT 4 Let D be the set of all calendar dates from 4/30/1789 to 9/25/2014. Let P be the set of names of U.S. presidents. Let F be the set of names of first ladies of the U.S. Consider the following two functions pres : D→ P where pres (d) is the name of the president of the U.S. on date d (the incumbent on inauguration days, to avoid ambiguity) and: P → F where lady(p) is the name of the first lady of the U.S. during the presidency of President p.…

Donald Trump will be a bad President on Obama’s opinion Donald Trump was sharply denunciated by Barack Obama. He criticized Republicans for this choice and said their nominee unfit for presidency. Trump repeatedly criticized Barack Obama. He called the politician the disaster and the worst US President. Obama didn’t leave a favor unanswered and brought out his opinion about Trump’s presidency even before he became a leader of the US administration. "The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as…

What if you woke up one morning and you never were embarrassed in front of people and you didn’t care what others thought or said about you, you just do what you do. Well, that is exactly how Donald Trump lives his life. My hero is Donald Trump because he doesn't care how people think of him and he will do what he thinks and knows is best and not what ever anybody else tells him to do, and he is working on getting our country out of debt, he is still investigating Hillary Clinton, and he…

Running head: GEORGE W. BUSH 1 George W. Bush: Bush, like father like son Jared M. Baldini Pioneer Jr Sr High School GEORGE W. BUSH 2 Abstract George W. Bush was accepted into Yale University in 1964. In 1968 Bush enlisted into the Texas Air National Guard and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and earned his fighter pilot certification during June of 1970. George W. Bush was discharged from the reserves on November 21, 1974…

Honduran journalist and television star Salvador Nasralla is poised to win the Honduran presidential elections. According to Marcos Ramiro Lobo, an officer in the Honduran electoral commission, Nasralla was ahead by a 5 point margin with 70% of the total votes cast already counted. The election officer said that the margin was too large for his rival, incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez, to overcome. Nasralla is a bonafide member of a left-right coalition called the Opposition Alliance…

During the American rapper, record producer and actor Ice Cube dropped by at Bloomberg, Ice Cube talked about the presidential hopeful Donald Trump. The rapper pointed out the resemblance of the GOP front runner to the "American dream." As stated by Billboard, Ice Cube said about Trump's appeal to Bloomberg, "Donald Trump is what Americans love. Donald Trump is what Americans aspire to be -- rich, powerful, do what you wanna do, say what you wanna say, be how you wanna be." "That’s kind of been…