Hudson Bay

In 1959, the Green Bay Packers had a record of one win, one tie, and ten losses, the worst in team history! After Ray McLean resigned, Vince Lombardi was selected as head coach. In his first year of coaching the Packers, they had seven wins and five losses. Vince Lombardi received the award of Coach of the Year. The following year, the Packers won the regional title and were on the brink of winning the Super Bowl. The third year the Packers won the Super Bowl. These were the same failures that…

It is NFL playoff time. All fans are buzzing with excitement, hoping that this is the year for their team. Teams are preparing, trying to make a splash in the playoffs. In the NFL playoffs, anything is possible, upsets and unexpected victories happen all of the time. So as the divisional round of the NFL playoffs rolls around, let us take a look at each team’s chances at surviving the round. Eagles (1) vs Falcons (6) This might be the most intriguing matchup in the set of games. The Eagles…

I believe there is a large fiscal impact on cities that host Super Bowl events. In 2015, Glendale Arizona hosted Super Bowl XLIX. This week-long event gave the local economy a $720 million increase. An estimated $295 million was flowed into the local economy by domestic and international visitors from January 24th to February 1st. The overall economic impact an NFL championship game has a rippling effect on the local community. Visitors spend money throughout the host’s city, which circulates…

On February 7th 2016 in the Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California the Carolina Panthers played the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl 50. The Broncos took home the win against the Panthers with a score of 24 to 10. On the day in attendance there was 71,088 people at the stadium, however, the game averaged about 111.9 million viewers over TV.(statista.com, super bowl tv viewership) The super bowl is considered the biggest American football game of the year, it takes the top team from the AFC and…

In 1959, the Cuban Missile Crisis began with the Bay of Pigs, when a guerilla warlord named Fidel Castro overthrew the current dictator of Cuba, General Fulgencio Batista. Originally, Castro promised the people of Cuba democracy, instead he instituted a socialist dictatorship. Over 100,000 Cubans fled their home with many coming to America in order to seek shelter from Castro’s regime. In April 1961, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) had a plan to invade Cuba using exiles as a trained Army…

Mary Rowlandson was a settler in the Americas during the early periods of colonization of America. She lived in Massachusetts, in a small unprotected border town called Lancaster. Rowlandson, like many other settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was a Puritan. Rowlandson was the daughter of a wealthy land-holder in the Massachusetts colony, and eventually settled in Lancaster. Her husband was the minister of the parish in Lancaster, and as a result she lived a very public life. However, the…

To describe a human being, you would have to pick many qualities in order to truly paint a solid picture of a person. You can describe them and the subject might say “yes that sounds like me” but the reality is that we probably missed something. This is a really tough situation to be in and you could either insult someone because you missed something about them or they could think you do not really know them. Now imagine having to do it on yourself. You will read about how I am a mentor, how…

Castro was respected by his followers for he brought them a sense of hope; he promised general elections, free land, free speech and improvements to their quality of life. He promised to free them from the oppression under the regime of President Batista. His Marxist views resonated with the poor and uneducated in Cuba and the life he sought for them and the vision he conveyed allowed him to build followership and elevate his power and status. “It is true that it (the revolution) follows its…

The Rookie The first movie that I will go over is called “The Rookie.” This movie is about a young boy named Jim Morris, who loves baseball. In the movie, we learn that Jim spends quite a bit of time practicing alone just throwing a baseball at a fence. This repetitive practicing displays intrinsic motivation, which is defined as “motivation that comes from within the individual.” This motivation from within can also be called “love for the game.” Jim played in little leagues when he was…

with this world. He is one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony is the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth. Massachusetts colony, like Plymouth, was mainly occupied by puritans except that Plymouth colony’s population never rose above 7,000 which lead it to be, after ten years, overshadowed by its larger neighbor, the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop was also a lawyer. The question is how did Winthrop get…