Texas Syndicate

NFL Revenue Collection and Distribution Imagine being in control of the most widely known sports company in all the United States. The company makes billions of dollars in television deals alone, not to mention an additional few billion in ticket and merchandise sales. You oversee billionaire team owners and hundreds of millionaire employees. Your job is to coordinate all the deals and bring more and more success to the already growing league. The NFL’s player associating is always…

Introduction  Attention-Getter: Did you know that 60% of Americans spend a total of 1-5 hours watching football on Sunday according to tvbythenumbers.com. Now what if I asked you who this was (reference picture).  Relevance: Even if you don’t fall into that 60% chances are you still have heard it being talked about in the office school or amongst friends. As well as seen people wearing jerseys of their favorite player or team.  Credibility: I have vast amount of knowledge about football…

The National Football League had a notoriously bad last two years; some blamed the election as a distraction, but the most obvious audience deterrents were political protests which disrespected a "time honored [American] tradition," as well as the military and law enforcement. In response, a failed independent football league, the Extreme Football League, or XFL, announced that it will make another attempt at starting a league by creating one that eliminates politics and other elements that…

Essay #2: The Texas Governor and the President Over the years, it has been said that Texas has a very weak governor compared to other states. It has also been said that some people believe that the governor should have more power and that they should be a state 's equivalent to the nation’s president. Here, we will first analyze the differences and similarities between the Texas governor’s power versus the power of the United States president. This will allow us to further discuss whether the…

the construct of whiteness in Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affected the structure of society. Neil Foley is the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern Methodist University. His research concerns race and civil rights in Mexico and the American Southwest. Foley structures his book chronologically, beginning with the Texas Revolution in the first chapter and ending with the 1930s and 1940s. He focuses his study on Central Texas to examine the effects of the…

Throughout this book, there are many examples of different kind of awakenings, starting off with Edna awakening herself as an artist when she begins her painting career, here realization that she appreciates the music up to the point until she wakens to kind herself unfulfilled. Edna is not only waking up to understand herself as a human beings, and a woman who is not happy in a mans world he also awakens herself as a sexual being. For this essay I am going to focus on the stages that Edna has…

Texas has a long and rich in history, Texas was part of the Spanish Empire, also part of Mexico but in 1836 Texas acquired independence from the country. Since Texas was part of Mexico, there is many Hispanic influences that have been shaping Texas culture. But most of the important figures do not only come from Mexico, but from Spanish-speaking countries. According to pewhispanics.org the Texas population consists of 38% Hispanics, 88% are Mexican and 12% are non-Mexican. A total of 9,794 000…

A Search for Independence in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening The Awakening by Kate Chopin centers on the Pontellier family – Leonce, his wife Edna, and their two sons, Etienne and Raoul – residing in New Orleans during the end of the 19th century. The family spends their summer vacationing on Grand Isle at a resort ran by Madame Lebrun and her two sons, Robert and Victor. During this time, Edna’s emotions begin to shift as she wrestles with her traditional patriarchy duties and her desire for social…

When you hear the word ‘flood’ what do you think of? The majority of us probably think of the scientific definition of the word: a natural disaster that happens when a large amount of water covers an area of land that is normally dry (Merriam-Webster Online). However, in recent years, this scientific definition has been taken out of context to form a tasteless political metaphor. In the United States, immigration has/is frequently referred to as a flood, a stream, a tide, a wave, a tsunami, or a…

My First Culinary Competition I never thought I would ever be good enough to do it alone... but I underestimated myself. I had gone through three years of culinary arts thinking I could never be good enough to compete in the competitions. Everyone supported me: my teachers, my friends, and most of all, my parents. It took three years of culinary arts, iron chef, and convincing from everyone around me for me to be confident enough to participate in a competition and realize I had a true talent.…