The Draft

be the best”, “The greatest ever to play the game”, “He WILL be one of the best”, “He will be drafted first overall” “The world of basketball is shocked that Cleveland won the first overall draft pick.” “He put up more points than Lebron and Kobe combined in college.” “With the first pick in the 2022 draft the Cleveland Cavaliers pick Jamoni Jones out of the University of Kentucky” Jamoni Jones walks to the stage and receives his jersey. His mother tears up and hugs his father. All the time and…

Norman Rockwell (1946-1959) The illustrations of Norman Rockwell tell the story of the average American after World War Two. As a result of the Baby Boom, the families were very large, consisting of three to four children (Slide 2). The bigger families led to more chaos and craziness within the household. The mother could finally catch a break once the school bus came to pick up the children (Slide 18). Rockwell also shows that this era was a time of dating and dreaming about finding the right…

Effects of the Vietnam War The Vietnam War induced the United States Congress to terminate the use of the military draft with an all-volunteer force, as a result of the negative effects of the draft on many young Americans. The way people viewed the United States involvement in the war also determined how many felt about the draft, to conclude with the idea that not all soldiers in the war were drafted, furthermore, some soldiers volunteered. In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien,…

where most of the patriotism among citizens comes from. The United States had to fight in a war with Britain in order to win their independence. In this war there was a draft, which means that every person who was in a certain age group had to enlist in the army and defend their country because it was their duty. Back then the draft was only for men because when men went off to war women were left to take care of their household duties and children. When Thomas Jefferson stated that every…

least four years graduated from high school in order to be eligible for the NBA draft. This changed in 1972 when Spencer Haywood, a basketball player who was in the midst of losing his status as a professional basketball player when the supreme court made a 7-2 decision in Haywood’s favor and granted “hardship cases” to players in financial need and allowed them to leave college early and to be eligible for the NBA draft. (US Supreme Court) Haywood’s case made it possible for future hall of…

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has had enormous success and a deep impact on American society since it was passed in 1969. Back then, it was a new simple and brilliant way of looking at the role humans play in the environment. However, over the years, NEPA has been frequently afflicted by a number of complications that impair its productivity and efficiency. NEPA, in its simplicity, is a human-environment statute that sets goals and requirements, but allots how these requisites…

Drafted Into A Man In 1917, during World War I, the Unites States government enacted the Selective Draft Act to build up the national army. This required men ages 18-45 to register for military involvement. Ultimately, it inspired a patriotic attitude and an honorable image making it very successful (Wikipedia). Today, they no longer require a draft because people volunteer to serve. The US army has changed the lives of Americans. I have seen this first hand in my brother. He was a high school…

There are many benefits to a country by women and men joining our government military. While there is a benefit I think the decision should be voluntary. Serving is not for everyone. I would never think a draft is a good thing, because it isn't right to involve a person to go to war .I can understand asking people who are for a war and in line with their government to go to war. I can't see anything spot-on in sending people who are of different political beliefs than their government, or…

I really enjoyed some of the writing technique essays that we read in class. I usually spend several hours doing just my rough draft. For some reason, I had never considered just doing word throw up on my paper to help develop my ideas. The first draft shouldn’t be the final. My first draft was terrible, because I just wrote whatever came to my mind often not in complete sentences. The way that is sucked however, really help me figure out what I wanted to write about and helped me form a more…

reinstating a mandatory draft. America should not reinstate a mandatory draft in peacetime because it would be a violation of freedom, some people wouldn’t fit in, and there is already an abundance of volunteers. To begin, reinstating a mandatory draft in the United States would be a violation of the freedoms for which our very country stands for. America is known as the “Land of the Free,” and in fact, this…