focusing on basketball and football. The show will strive to be much like Real Sports and 60 minutes which have HBO and Showtime have found great success in. The reason for selecting Tony Dungy as the new host for the show is because he is a Super Bowl- winning head coach. Dungy is also recognized for who he is as a person, Sports Illustrated has said that he is “Football’s high priest, the oracle who passes judgment on all moral questions.” NBC has decided to name the show “Inside the Locker…
One of the most popular sports in the United States today, is football. The National Football League games are watched by millions of people during the football season. A football player mainly plays on one of three subsets of the team. The subsets of a football team are the offense, the defense, and the special teams. Although all of these subsets are important to a team, there are differences. The offense is the part of the team who has the ball at any given point in the game. Most of…
The Dust Bowl In the 1930’s and the early 1940’s, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and Kansas. Once a semi-arid grassland, the treeless plains became home to thousands of settlers when, in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act. Most of the settlers farmed their land or raised cattle. The farmers plowed the prairie grasses and planted dryland wheat. As the demand for wheat…
Chase Cummings ET Essay Thoreau and Emerson, a group of transcendentalist who brought great ideals with them, through a time of struggle in the mid 1800’s. The NFL, or National Football League, where stars can shine doing what they love for millions of fans. Just as Emerson and Thoreau present their ideas in Civil Disobedience, the players in the NFL still emulate their ideas, maybe not all of the ideals, but they all feel they consist of a “majority of one.” A first example of an NFL player…
A Perspective of Rock and Roll’s Impact on Society “Rock and roll keeps you in a constant state of juvenile delinquency,” stated Eddie Spaghetti; this quote captures the essence of Rock and Roll. It speaks its truth about the influence on attitudes towards authority and implies how society reacted to the new revolution created by Rock and Roll, transforming the world into what it has become today. The music of rock and roll influenced the social and cultural beliefs of youth and threatened the…
economy and political policies and, in his Commonwealth Club Address, he offers a solution with the regulatory state and “enlightened administrator”. One area that desperately needed a solution was the agriculture industry, specifically in the dust bowl, as detailed in Timothy Egan’s novel The Worst Hard Time. The unchecked production and prevailing individualistic mindset of the farmers had created an ecological problem of disastrous proportions. With the aid of new programs and leaders, the…
Steinbeck about the struggles that arise for the Joads as they fight the harsh conditions the economy puts them in. The Joads, a family of Oklahoma residents, move away to California in search of a job after they are kicked off their land by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Their journey to California creates many hardships, as they try to prosper while helping others. John Steinbeck values and respects the people throughout the book who sacrifice themselves for other people’s needs.…
A track star since he was little boy, RG3 (Robert Griffin III) is an unbelievable athlete. Griffin III lead Baylor to its first BCS bowl game in school history this year and won in a shootout. RG3 won a lot this year, including the most prestigious award in all of college football, the Heisman. When career stats are compared between Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III it is quite…
Early Jamestown Imagine landing into a new place, a new world, a place filled with opportunities. Next thing you know, by the end of December most of your friends and family have died. Living in early Jamestown sure wasn't easy. In 1607 colonists from England came to make the first permanent settlement in the New World. Out of the 110 colonists that came only 40 were alive by the end of December. A resupply ship came in January but two- thirds of the settlement died in the winter of…
Perpetuating on through to chapter twelve depicts the movement of the migrants on Highway 66 as they traveled westwards to California (Steinbeck 117-122). In Chapter thirteen, the Joads are visually perceived traveling on Route 66 and spending the first night of their journey. Along the way, Grampa dies of a stroke and is buried by the roadside. Tom and Al repair the Wilson's car, and the two families decide to continue their travels together (Steinbeck 123-149). Chapter fourteen outlines the…