Canton

1905, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, alarmed at the increasing number of injuries in football games, established a committee to make the sport safer. The first professional game was played in 1892. The National Football League was born in 1920 in Canton, Ohio, which is now home to the Pro Football…

emotional pull to them, or else they sort of inadvertently transition to lectures rather than a form of persuasion. Actions can still be carried out in more logically oriented speeches, but that passion to push someone could be lost. In Eugene Debs’ “Canton, Ohio”…

The local community could have been so wrong in thought the community in Canton Mississippi should have blamed three juror’s that by Danny Padgitt family to make sure that Danny Padgitt would be released. The evidence was so, overwhelming, and the witlessness that the Danny Padgitt family bought for the defendant trial was…

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…

concession stand. The organization receives a portion of the proceeds. We encourage you to join with a friend. They can be an alumni or just someone passionate about furthering Mount Union Women. We currently have chapters in the Alliance and Canton/Massillon…

The Question of Hu showed lot interactions between Chinese and Europeans in the early eighteenth century, most of them are about the religion and the trades. Because many missionaries like Father Jean-François Foucquet came to China and persuaded people be drawn into their religion. There was more and more Chinese follower, including the main character Hu, one of the followers. “Hu’s devotion to the Christian faith, moreover, is well known and of long standing.... At his baptism Hu took the name…

My journey will begin in the Costa-Rican canton of Talamanca, home of the Indigenous Bribri. The Bribri operate matrilineally, meaning that solely mothers can transmit clan membership. In addition, land-ownership is reserved to women. The Bribri primarily inhabit rural and isolated communities in the mountains, which has enabled the preservation of ancestral practices and has kept them largely self-reliant.Though Bribri men sometimes travel away for formal employment, most communities solely…

Political Economy: The economy in Switzerland is one of the most competitive and stable in all of Europe. According to the Economic Freedom Index, Switzerland is the best economy in Europe, and is ranked fourth in the world. (“2016 Index of Economic freedom” 2016) Since there is a distinct lack of natural resources, Switzerland relies on a combination of a highly skilled service and financial sector, along with the exportation of refined luxury items and high end technology. The GDP of…

Throughout Chinese history, many events have lead to radical changes which have affected China in some way or form. Many of these events have been internal, involving strife within China. Others have been external, such as the Opium Wars. The Opium Wars were two conflicts between China and Britain which arose when one of China's officials, Lin Zexu, had attempted to suppress the opium trade after British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases…

For centuries, the Chinese empire have remained isolated from the problems and politics of the western world. But everything began to change when the British and the Chinese empire stated to have disputes because of trading rights. Later the dispute transformed into a full-scale war. But the British won the war with ease because of the superior weaponry and training. This could be seen as the most humiliating defeat the Chinese empire have to endure. The whole ordeal ended with The Chinese…