History of North Carolina

What Makes a Player Perform: Does Attendance Affect Performance? The Carolina Hurricanes is North Carolina’s premier hockey team having won the Stanley Cup in 2006. This victory means the Hurricanes are the only pro sports team in North Carolina who has won a major championship. Lately, however, attendance has been down and the Hurricanes have not experienced the same level of success as years past. This lack of success has fueled relocation rumors and while relocating could help, it is not…

important event in history. What started the beginning of the Civil War was the debate between two presidential elected candidates, about slavery (Gannon 244). During the debate Abraham Lincoln mentioned abolishing slavery, in hopes to stop the spread of slavery. The North and the South regions of the United States, didn’t see eye to eye; the North wanted to abolish slavery, and the South did not. The main focus of this paper is Florida’s role in the Civil War, such as the background history of…

soon moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. In Jordan’s younger years he played little league baseball. Jordan was to tiny for his basketball team, therefore he was shortly cut at the start of sophomore year; but, he played baseball, football, and ran track. Growing from five’ eleven” to six’ three” he was given the chance to play through his sophomore and junior year (Smith). At the start of his senior year he accepted a scholarship to play for the University of North Carolina at Church Hill…

Ever since I could remember, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. Although my desired future occupation would change periodically, I always has a reasoning of why I wanted to be that certain occupation. In elementary school, I wanted to be a veterinarian because I was sad about my science class dissecting an owl pellet which contained a mouse skeleton. In junior high school, I wanted to be a lawyer because of the controversial Jena 6 of Louisiana. When I initially became a student of…

Wake Technical Community College is the largest community college in North Carolina. Enrollment reached a record high of 22,000 students for the fall, 2014 (The News & Observer, 2014). Furthermore, a significant number of classes are taught online, and as of last year, more than 3,300 students were in online programs; a number that has doubled within five years (The News & Observer, 2014). According to Bryan Ryan, the Senior Vice President of Curriculum Education Services, states that “while…

Native American Indians did not have a concept of land as a commodity or a possession like the European, Colonist, or Americans. The Native American Indians signed many treaties giving land in order to maintain the balance between a conquering force and providing for their own people. The relationship between the European settlers brought many things to trade with the Indians such as axes, guns, knives, alcohol but the most devastating item that the Indians received were the germs that their…

“London is one of the world 's centers of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobia ' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.” (Nick Cohen.) What is…

Racial Segregation was a huge problem in the south during the 1960’s. African Americans were treated very differently then White Americans. Blacks and Whites had to be segregated in public bathrooms, public places, public transportations, public restrooms, and public restaurants. It was a very hard time for African Americans because they couldn’t get jobs and they weren’t treated right. A lot of times they were met with violence even though they were doing non-violent acts. On February 1st,…

The English and the Algonquins at Roanoke. • It was late August 1590 when English ships made their way north through rough seas to Roanoke Island, (off the coast of present-day North Carolina) • Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in America. • Walter Raleigh, a wealthy adventurer who saw prophet and prestige by organizing an English colony to compete with Spain Powerful Empire in the New World. • Although Manteo, from the village of Croaton, argued that their technology would make the…

The Civil War was a pivot point in the history of The United States. Between 1860 and 1861 Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana were the first seven states the seceded from the Union and carried on with their own political affairs and government hence leading to the Civil War. After the War began in 1861, the seven states were joined by four other southern states, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas. These eleven states formed the Confederate…