Flags

Red Flags: Madoff’s ponzi scheme lasted from 1991 to 2008. During that time period, there were several red flags that showed that Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was involved unethical behaviours. Whistleblower Harry Markopolos attempted to prove that Madoff Securities was involved in fraud from the late 1990s to Madoff’s arrest in 2008. Markopolos approached well-known economists, market analysts and the Security Exchange Commission multiple times in order to incite an open…

It was the big day. It was our flag football championship. Now, you may be thinking "who cares about flag football, it's not even a real sport. Yes it is. In fact, flag football games get just as intense as any other football game. It's still a contact sport too. Not to mention the fact that we are playing Olweiler in this championship game. They are huge. Their smallest guys is about 6'1 and they are actually all players from the same real school football team. Their goal: win with no…

this is just how the media, and pop culture has portrayed pirates. Real pirates are nothing like what we see in most forms of media, that is except for the case of the game; Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag. Black Flag very accurately depicts the lives of pirates during the golden age of piracy. Black Flag a game about Edward Kenway, a pirate who becomes an assassin, joins the pirate republic and fights alongside famous pirates from the golden age of piracy The famous pirates that were depicted in…

but we have to get through these differences. The trailer “My So Called Enemy” shows girls bonding, even though their countries are fighting a war because of their differences. Both articles, “Texas vs. Johnson” by William J. Brennan and “American Flag Stands for Tolerance” by Ronald J. Allen state that you shouldn’t incriminate someone for their beliefs. We must be willing to accept different people and different opinions. To begin with, we as human beings must be willing to accept that…

So I was sitting there and Chavez was doing his stretches. His Fresno State flag on the ground, and I was just waiting for the game to start. It was Tuesday afternoon and Chavez was scheduled to be one of our refs for soccer. Yes, it had to be Chavez. After his five minute stretching session, he stood up and started doing jumping jacks. All those stretches just to run around a field carrying a whistle and a flag. The good thing was that our main ref for the game was Mr. Navarro. After five…

The Confederate flag must be removed: Many Americans think that the Confederate flag should be removed for many reasons. One woman, author Monica Potts, wrote an article “ Why the Confederate flag must be removed,” published in 2015 in Vogue, and she argues that the flag not only represents hatred- slavery, the bloody aftermath of emancipation, Jim Crow, lynching- but hatred that is still with us. Potts begins by telling a personal story about how the flag was connected to the world she knew.…

of American history that influenced the civil right movement. What caught my eye initially was the N.A.A.C.P. Flag “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” memorabilia. It very important to see that even though the NAACP did not have a significant presence in the southern states, that the organization alerted the nation of the heinous crime of lynching. To walk to down the street and see that flag waving is vital because lynching was the dehumanization of African Americans. Lynching not only…

reading, playing video games, and other generic nerd activities. If you had asked me if I wanted to play a sport, I would have laughed at the prospect, so I surprised even myself when I answered yes to my mother’s inquiry about joining my school’s new flag football team. I worried about it for the weeks leading up to the first practice, but eventually I decided “Why not? It may end up being fun.” Soon enough, the first practice arrived on a scorching Florida summer’s day. If I had to describe…

In sixth grade, I wanted nothing more than to make Lusher’s middle school flag football team. I had dreamed of being on the team from the very first day I heard about it; all of my friends were trying out with me; and we had grand plans for a year of non-contact, semi-athletic exertion ahead of us. Having been anxiously awaiting the lunch period when the team roster would be revealed, I was thusly dismayed, disappointed, and disheartened when my name was not one of the eighteen posted on the PE…

and all around fun that comes with sailing the high seas. With tails of Captain Hook and Blackbeard we catch glimpses of what it was like during that time. Though what happens when it comes time to separate fact from fiction? Through “Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates” by David Cordingly, it becomes clear that life on the high seas wasn’t a magical as we were lead to believe. There are so many ideas that Hollywood and book publishers want us to believe…