The League

The History and Structure of the Inside Football League “Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time,” (Lombardi 2010). Vince Lombardi said this to his players while getting ready for the 1970 NFC Championship game. Like winning, football is an all the time thing that happens year round, whether one is training as an athlete for the regular season or is a spectator of the game, football is a major part…

the point where people may relate to them. The show I will be focusing on, in particular, will be one of my favorite shows from my childhood, Justice League Unlimited. Ultimately, this show incorporates many aspects from society but also portrays the superhero as being an idealized person. One of the main concepts that is present in Justice League Unlimited is…

While the League of Nations could be celebrated for its peacekeeping duties, the League has faced much criticism upon its flawed dependability in regards to European nations and their conquests. The League of Nations was an international organization established by Woodrow Wilson to maintain world peace and prevent another war as gruesome as World War One. Its main intentions were to reduce weapons, resolve conflicts between countries, prolong living conditions, and most importantly, enforce the…

at 7:00 pm. The Major League Baseball is the best league in the world that is consisted by two leagues, American League and National League, with 15 teams in each it, playing for being the best team of the world. Every year the debate of which league is the best captures the attention of fans and journalists, there is always the discussion and the comparison between both leagues; for example, what league has the best pitchers, what league is the best offensively, or what league could win the…

The PBS documentary League of Denial discusses the normalization of violence and masculinity. The documentary goes on to talk about the NFL’s denial of the connection of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and football. The NFL has been one of the United States leading representations in our cultures masculine ideologies. This men’s club view point of get back up and go back in, injuries be damned mentality, has allowed the NFL to keep the correlation of football head injuries mental health…

The defeat of ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and entry into the League of Nations was largely due to Wilson’s stubbornness rather than the opposition forces; the liberals, who believed the treaty didn’t provide a peaceful future, and the conservatives, who disliked the idea of any foreign involvement, which were only minor parts of these two contrasting efforts. Political leaders like Herbert Hoover urged the President to approve the treaty, not necessarily for its propositions but…

How to win your NBA Fantasy League Introduction The first fantasy league was invented by a sportswriter named Daniel Okrent. At the time the given name was “rotisserie baseball” because that is the name of the restaurant where they had lunch and play the game. The friends had their first draft and kept up with the statistics through the newspaper's sports section and recorded the statistics by hand. By the early 1980s fantasy baseball was gaining popularity. Tom Kane Jr. and Cliff Charpentier…

It was my senior year in high school until I realized what happens when one gets involved in their community. Being involved in the Miracle League not only helped the kids, it helped me as a person. I still remember the first time I went to the Miracle League. It was a tradition of my baseball team to go to the Miracle League once a year. I was nervous, and did not know what to expect. It was a steaming hot Saturday morning the day we went. I could feel the joy in…

peace after World War I. Those fourteen points went into the formal armistice with Germany. However, in negotiations with the Treaty of Versailles, Wilson had to compromise away many of these points so he could save the capstone, the League of Nations. The League of Nations became the main line of contention when Wilson attempted to pass the treaty in the Senate, and there were three factions in the Senate who had differing opinions on it. One group, the internationalists, led by Woodrow Wilson…

Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the United States had to decide whether to join the League of Nations. The League's purpose was to help maintain peace in the world by ensuring so many nations would not go to war at once again. Despite this fact, people in the United States remained split as the President favored joining the League of Nations and senators like William Borah opposed it; however, joining the League of Nations would have been the right move for the country to take in order to…