Dayton, Ohio

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…

Henry Louis Gates Jr, an African American literature scholar, asserts, “No poet in the tradition was more crucial in the shaping of a distinct African- American poetic diction or voice than he, [Paul Laurence Dunbar]” (68). Dunbar’s ability to communicate the struggles of America through the black experience, with the assistance of Negro dialect, elevated him to become one of the most influential African American poets of his time. His success with written language allows today’s readers to…

Family Relationships Family of Origin: Ms. Lowe stated that she was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. Her parents were Teresa Lowe and Ricky Cunningham. Ms. Lowe reported that her mother and father were together until her mother passed away in 1994 from liver failure. She reported that her father was not in a significant relationship thereafter. Ms. Lowe stated that went to reside with her grandmother, Betty Lowe. She reported that grandmother cared for her until she became an adult. She…

professional job. By the late 1890’s there were 5 professional football teams in Pennsylvania alone. A team in Massillion, Ohio had a payroll of $1,000 by 1904. (Crepeau 4) The first African American, Charles Follis, to be payed in football was paid in 1904. American football had spread all the way to the west coast now. On August 20, 1920, four teams from Canton, Akron, Dayton, and Cleveland, formed the American Professional Football Association. (Crepeau 6) In the next meeting, eleven more…

unemployment and insufficient access to medical care. In an effort to reduce the IMR in the State of Ohio Governor Kasich is enacting a plan to assist pregnant women in having greater access to medical care and to train community workers to act as advocates for communities such as the South Linden area where there is a high IMR. As a part of this plan Ms. Zeltner states in his article that Ohio, “Health Transformation Innovation Fund is also supplying $900,000 for a two-year pilot project of a…

That idea of white trash is prevalent in the south, and it’s possible her family was the definition of it. Parents that married straight out of high school for the mother to escape an abusive family. A family with a father that openly cheated on their mother, and a mother who stayed at home, running a beauty shop from their basement, whose reactions to her husband's actions were the talk of the small Baptist church. Growing up on a street of only the Call and Baldwin family, she was surrounded…

anyone know that soon Orville and Wilbur, the Wright brothers, would transform the world forever, making what seemed impossible, possible. Wilbur Wright was born April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana. Orville Wright was born August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio. Reuchlin and Lorin were their two older brothers and Katharine was their younger sister. All five siblings were the children of Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Koerner. The Wright’s home environment allowed the children to be intellectual and…

Consequently, The Dayton Accords made Bosnia and Herzegovina 's political structure one of the most complicated in the world and based on ethnic divisions that continue today. The central institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina include a directly elected tripartite presidency…

Darrow and His Adherence to the Underlying Truths Clarence Darrow was widely regarded to be one of the best criminal defense lawyers in American history. Born on April 18, 1857, near Kinsman, Ohio, Darrow attended Michigan University (Clarence Darrow, 1). After one year, he was quickly admitted to the Ohio bar and began to defend the anarchists who were charged with murder after the Haymarket Riot. Darrow mainly defended labor unions and also successfully defended several people in criminal…

production nor a major industrial center.” It left the historical city of Dresden in ruins, and killed between 35,000 to 135,000 civilians. Vonnegut described the aftermath as a scene of sadness and empty spaces. “It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground.”(Slaughterhouse Five, p.1) The bombing made Billy unable to cope with a post-war world. So Billy made his own dimension. In Billy’s world, he could travel through…