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Honoring Native Americans with Mascots Atlanta Braves, Chicago Blackhawks, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs, and Washington Redskins – these are all professional sports teams that use Native American names and imagery to promote their team. The use of indigenous people’s cultures and names in sports has recently become a widely debated issue in the area of sports. One side sees the names as disrespectful and stereotypical towards Native Americans. The other argues that they are showing…

The American Civil War was inevitable; it could have happened earlier or later than it did, but there was no way to avoid this bloody war. Slavery was a controversial topic in the United States and was bound to be the catalyst of a civil war. The Civil War was a result of failures of leadership, the differing societies of the North and the South, and extremism. The citizens from both of these regions of the United States were very close-minded and had their minds made up about where they…

History of Soccer Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the globe in the world of sports. Also, known as football in the rest of the world, The fist apparitions of soccer dated back about 2000 years ago, in Ancient China during the Han Dynasty. The People would dribble balls made out of leather and filled with hair feathers in a military exercise called Tsu Chu. They would kick the ball into small nettings that were fixed with bamboo canes and at the same time they had to protect…

The article “Job Market or Marriage Market?” was published by the History of Education Society on May 2007. The article can be found in the History of Education Quarterly’s 47th volume in the second issue. Joan Marie Johnson, author of Job Market or Marriage Market?, got her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and Ph.D. in the University of California Los Angeles. She is currently the Associate Provost’s Program Coordinator in the Northwestern University . Prior to this, she was the…

Air Pollution as a Tragedy of Commons Zachary Preston EVSP414 October 22, 2017 Air Pollution as a Tragedy of Commons The Tragedy of the Commons can be described as the depletion of shared resources by people acting rationally and independently, according to their self-interest despite being aware that abusing the common resource contrary to their long-term best interests. The Tragedy serves as a model of a myriad of current resource-based problems affecting the society. It applies to the…

that holds his character sheet and loose-leaf paper. In front of him is one of the black, wooden dice boxes that I had crafted for the group. He uses an array of dice but his main ones are a translucent green with white numbers. To Massey’s left is Preston who brings with him multiple small, black notebooks stacked on top of each other. He also has his black dice box with sets of white, frosted glass dice with white numbering. And to his left is Joseph who has his dice box as well as a metal…

This quantitative study regarding eye gaze and eye contact explains a new and important aspect of nonverbal communication in doctor consultations: the incorporation of technology and electronic health records. According to the study, there are both positive and negative consequences to electronic health records (EHRs), but communication techniques have to adapt in order to make sure the patients are engaged and can build doctor-patient relationships. Each of the authors either works at a…

The first obstacle that needed to be overcome was to accept and receive the money. While this may seem like a simple enough task, it was fraught with dispute. Many Southern Congressmen such as William C. Preston and John Calhoun were against accepting the bequest (Crusade p123). Some believed that it would be beneath the United States government to take the money and doing so would open up an opportunity for “Every whippersnapper vagabond that has been traducing…

As of 2015, there were 73.6 million children under the age of 18 in the United States (“NUMBER OF CHILDREN…”). Of those 73.6 million children, 5.5 million of them have at least one parent that is an illegal or undocumented immigrant in the United States (Cohn and Passel). That is 13% of the children in the United States. Even if all children of illegal immigrants were born in the United States they would still live a more complicated life than children of native-born parents. While the education…

Dara Alberti Mr. Binef U.S. History 3 April 2015 Historical Origins of Amusement Parks and Mass Recreation. Amusement parks or mass recreations are places where groups of attractions, fun rides, games and shows are located for the enjoyment of families and friends. "The settlers who planted the first English colonies in America had the same instinctive drive for play that is the common heritage of all mankind" (Dulles 3). The importance of these parks has been forgotten throughout time because…