Gladiators 2000

Home Means Nevada “All For Our Country” Nevada was the 36th state to become part of the union. It became a state on October 31, 1864. Maybe that’s where Halloween came from. The state colors are blue and silver. Nevada goes by many names, you may know it best as the Silver State, but it is also nicknamed the Sagebrush State and the Battle Born State. The state flower of Nevada is the Big Sagebrush which grows in the desert and rangelands of Nevada. Native Americans used to use Sagebrush for…

The race for the presidency in the year 2000 was very controversial. Now after watching the movie Recount it is obvious that George W. Bush illegitimately won the election. Firstly, older voters were confused on how to fill out the ballot, which ended up in a significant amount of dimpled chad that were not counted by the machines, therefore robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the presidency…

George W. Bush ran for president in 2000. The candidates running against Bush included: Al Gore for the Democratic party and a third party candidate Ralph Nader. During the election, the United States was dealing with many different issues. Some of these issues were health care, the economy and education (George). Bush made promises for his campaign based on the issues that the United States was associated with. Bush’s 2000 campaign was successful because of his domestic promises, Gore’s…

The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somewhere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over the latest electronic games from Asia. Though taken from a distance of forty yards by a man dodging rather heavy mall foot traffic, the photo was clear and revealed a nice face, clean-shaven with strong features and boyish good looks.…

incredible experience. Organization Overview The Quicken Loans Arena, originally known as "The Q", is a multi-purpose arena downtown in Cleveland, Ohio, The building is the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Lake Erie Monsters, and the Cleveland Gladiators Football League. The Quicken Loans Arena seats about 20,562 individuals in the arena and up to 20,056 for the ice hockey, making it the third…

a bad thing. The news media was talking about it constantly, which only contributed to the panic and the fear.” As doomsday approached people and communities began stocking up supplies, preparing for an extended period with no technology to begin 2000. Fanatics created survival guides for the crash, as “preparing for the worst doesn’t mean you believe it will happen, it only means that you accept that the possibility exists.” According to the Y2K Family Survival Guide, the necessary proponents…

year of 1999, the real concern for technology failure had become an enormous topic for people around the world, “It does the whole coast and the whole country and wraps around the globe” (Maney). This is the year that data would need to change to the 2000s, which is a problem that was not prepared for. New Year’s 1999 would become known as the end of the world, and referred to as Y2K, “The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December…

The story begins like so many others. A boy meets a girl. Friendship sprouts. Time goes by. They become best friends, the kind of friendship that seems hard to come by now. I still sometimes wonder how she came to know me so well. It was so natural. Everything just seemed to fall into place with her. First and foremost, she was my best friend. We told each other everything. She opened up about her past. I almost couldn 't believe what she told me. No one had ever been that open with me. We…

Sweet Gum Slough Can you remember a time where something joyful happened? Most of us tend to cherish the joyful moments because it was once a time of happiness where nothing else mattered but that. In this essay, a little girl 's journey filled with joy during the 1930 's in Florida will be shared. She will meet new people that will bring out the best in her, mention her father’s journey about his beloved sport and World War I, and face difficult situations where she learned to face her fears…

Pieper’s and Descartes both have different ways on how they view “the truth in all things”. Pieper stressed the close connection between moral and intellectual virtue, his main idea was that we aren’t able to create truth; instead they must belong to the truth of things given during its creation period. Descartes on the other hand has a completely different view. Pieper’s understanding of truth relates too being, while Descartes doesn’t believe in the truth of all things really in any way.…