Ivy League

feel like. This happens about 100 times a game in the National Football League: a bone-jarring tackle that slams a player to the turf. With this in mind close to 1.6-3.8 million sports-related head injuries happen each year, with a shocking amount of 135,000 being diagnosed as concussions. How can we stop this? Well, an article from http://www.thepostgame.com/daily-take/201603/concussion-football-hitting-brain-june-jones-ivy-league has some strong words to say about this. Their opinion is that…

Kristaps Porzingis will still be a Knick, for now. The New York Knicks picked up the 2018-2019 team option on the 22-year old power forward/center from Latvia. But words are now spreading that he was almost traded by former Knicks president Phil Jackson for the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA draft in order to get point guard Lonzo Ball. The Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis as their fourth overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Many basketball enthusiasts were in disbelief and even disagree with…

As 2014 five of the countries 1.1 million high school football athletes have died from a cause of head or spinal injury. When a player is hit head on head with another player a concussion can occur. This is caused when the brain strikes the inner skull. When this action occurs extreme outcomes can happen. Long term incidents like MCI and CTE can develop and have an impact on the player for the rest of his life (“Impact”). Head to head contact has a lot of consequences. It can alter someone's…

It is in the postwar time periods of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I that Europe sees a new way of addressing the underlying causes of war in the attempt to prevent another: collective security. Collective security is when a large group of nations agree to not attack each other as well as preserve the provisions of their treaties and/or agreements. It is during both these postwar time periods that collective security is practiced. However, both time periods have differences in the way…

Everyone knows about war and the many deaths caused by it. Obviously the deaths are extremely grave (no pun intended) but, there are other effects of armed conflict of which people should be more informed. WWI and WWII are both periods of conflict which both had much wider effects than merely death. Aside from the casualties, massive wars like these usually result in social, economic, and technological development or deterioration. Most people recognize WWI to have four basic igniters which can…

To many people, nationalism has a negative impact on the world. There is a lot of evidence to prove that nationalism has taken a toll on many people. During the era of the French Revolution in 1789, Europe did not favour their citizens, people were treated like slaves and there was no citizenship in the Government. Many innocent people died for no reason in that time period. During World War 1 there were over 37 million military and civilian casualties. It was war derived and fought from the…

to 1921 and was the leader of the Progressive Movement. Wilson, joined with The Inquiry, made up a list of fourteen points of peace that he recommended to other countries which in due time lead to the end of World War I and the commencement of the League of Nations. “It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that…

Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany, was a massive undertaking by an ambitious dictator during World War Two. It was an undeclared attack, breaking a non-aggression agreement, and came as a smashing blow to the Stalin and a welcome development to the Chamberlin. It changed the course of the war, affecting foreign relations, resulting in the Axis and Allied Alliances we know today. The failure of Operation Barbarossa is commonly seen as a direct cause of Hitler’s…

Of the most prominent causes of the Second World War, the biggest was evidently Hitler’s rise to power. Though the outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles, the failure of the League of Nations and the failure brought about by appeasement played their own roles in the beginning of the war, it was Hitler’s tyrannical and assertive nature, and his motives that drove everything forward, leading the countries involved in the specific direction of World War II. Due to his efforts, and the way that he…

The Return of the Solider by Rebecca West left only shadows of the great war, but without the war the very title would not have been felt the same way. The war that shattered the main characters has built a beautiful mosaic that makes up this book. West has used the war in subtle ways that creep into the crevasses of the reader’s mind. The use of a child’s death to overcome the trauma that was the war was a silent plea to the generals. World War I was supposed to be the final war, but like the…