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anyone signed. Rickey brought him up to the Dodgers making him promise not to get frustrated about the racial taunts he was expecting (“Jackie Robinson” 3). After arriving in the pro’s, he promoted a few racially motivated actions, for example, the St. Louis Cardinals threatened to go on strike because of his arrival but stopped when the National League president threatened…

Now there is another thing that people bring up. How come the NFL just fines people for things like this and making these mistakes and the MLB just ban them for life. Yes there are many instances that have occurred during the time of baseball and football that they have had many differences. Like for instance PEDs in football you just get fined money. Some players were fined over one million dollars for using PEDs, but on the other hand players in the MLB get suspensions. Like Dee Gordon got a…

the official British flag was the Two-Crossed jack or the Royal Union flag. From 1801 the style of the flag changed. After the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, the diagonal Cross of St. Patrick was incorporated with England's St. George's Cross and Scotland's Cross of St. Andrew. This gave the Royal Union flag its present day structure. Union Jack was used across British North America and in Canada even after Confederation from 1867 until 1965. After and last flag that…

Patti Jefferson, A Children’s Picture and Nonfiction Marketing Workbook Author Patti Jefferson is on both sides of the creative tracks. “I use variations of my real name. My children’s books are written under my whole name so that my initials of PBJ can be used and my current marketing book was written under Patti Jefferson as a slight distinction.” So who is Patti Brassard Jefferson, alias PBJ, aka Patti Jefferson? “I was born in upstate New York in the early 60s. My father was in the US Navy,…

Your Guide to Moving to St. Paul, MN Saint Paul, MN, is the capital of the state and the second most populous city in Minnesota. There are nearly 301,000 residents currently calling the city home and it is rather densely populated. The city lies on the east bank of the Mississippi River and the Minnesota River is also nearby. The nickname of the city is the "Twin Cities", which it shares with neighboring Minneapolis. Between the two huge areas, there are lots of things to offer to residents.…

On January 28, 1986, Challenger, an American space shuttle exploded momentarily after lift off shocking the nation; including the children viewing from their classrooms. The crew of Challenger included seven members, but most notably was a school teacher Christa McAuliffe who was invited with the intent to teach school children from the shuttle. This incident received massive amounts of media coverage, and on the same day as the incident, President Ronald Reagan conducted his speech. Ronald…

It’s January 28th, 1986, a cold day at Cape Canaveral as we are ready to launch the 25th space shuttle mission. Space Shuttle Challenger sits there on the launch pad, like a huge giant ready to take on its journey to space. The crowd goes silent and the countdown begins: 3, 2, 1 . . . lift off! Challenger begins its ascent to the most unforgiving place: outer space. Carrying aboard the first teacher ever to go into space, the crew soars higher than the heavens. All of a sudden, tragedy unveils…

Quiznos is a sandwich shop based in Denver, Colorado, that sells hot toasted subs, as well as soups and salads. Over the past few years, the business has been declining rapidly. Three major factors that have led to the decline of Quiznos include, franchise woes, production failure, and store closures due to thriving competitors. As far as statistics go, Quiznos went out of business very quickly. First off, the business had more than 5,000 locations by 2007 (Strauss 1). However, the…

Mount St. Helen's is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range in Skamania County, Washington and is part of the Ring of Fire centered around the Pacific Ocean. Mount St. Helen's was created when the oceanic Jean de Fuca plate subducted beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle…

Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey both showed tremendous personal courage in the face of opposition that led to the success of “The Noble Experiment”. “The Noble Experiment” was an experiment in which Branch Rickey was trying to find the right black man to play baseball with white people. The right black man would show black people can play with white people. When Branch Rickey first started his noble experiment, he wanted to find the right man, a man that was good at baseball and one that…