The Summit League

Ladies and Gentleman, chairman, timekeeper, Mr Mcilwain. My team mates are Kiani, the first speaker, Dillion the second speaker, Harry the third speaker and me, Kira the forth and final speaker to sum up our argument. As you know, we will be taking the negative side of the topic that ‘sport stars are overpaid’ which means we are settling once and for all they are not overpaid. Picture yourself in the perspective of an average, hard working accountant with the ambition of being the top of…

179) thus allowing them to maintain their prestigious status. Furthermore, it can be inferred from Stiglitz’ case that Ivy League students are the wealth of the markets, which Wall Street was targeting through methodologies that allow it (Wall Street) to increase its power and reduce competition, giving other professions less opportunities to even make an appearance at Ivy League schools or to gain the interest of some of the students, though these careers can draw much more attention if given…

After the United States entered the war a number of German-American businesses were confiscated by the United States government. An example of this was the German-American Lumber Company which was seized in 1918. While it was later sold in 1919 the former owners were never compensated. https://www.floridamemory.com/blog/2015/06/23/a-cloud-of-suspicion/#more-11913 During World War I there was no formal system of rationing. However, there was an attempt By Hoover to establish voluntary rationing.…

This creativity has another side; with the improvisation, the thing which makes the Brazilian game so beautiful to watch, comes a disregard of tactics, of system. Again this is rooted in the origins of the game in Brazil and its development in a country plagued by racial and social inequality. According to Brazilian myth, soccer was brought to Brazil by the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Sent to England for school, Charles Miller came back with a different type of education.…

The United Nations was created in the aftermath of World War II and served as a replacement for the ineffective League of Nations. The purpose of this intergovernmental establishment was to promote international co-operation and to preserve a firm foundation for peace. However, the United Nations is remarkably more than simply an organization that secures peace and resolves conflicts. It is engaged in an expansive array of work that focuses on improving the lives of many around the globe; it…

After the armistice was agreed on, a treaty had to officially end the Great War. So in Versailles Paris on June 28, 1919, the treaty, soon to be known as the Treaty of Versailles, was signed. The treaty was conjured up at a peace conference by four men. They were named, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando, and Woodrow Wilson, well known as the big four. The big four created three key points party of the Treaty of Versailles that could have influenced W.W.II.. One key part…

treaty opens with, “from coming into force with the present treaty, the state of war will terminate from that moment, and subject to the provisions of this treaty official relations with Germany and its German states.()” After outlining the tasks the League of Nations are expected to fulfill, the treaty continues to express in over 200 pages restrictions which only apply to Germany. It began with Germany’s borders. To start, Germany must relinquish all control over Belgium and Luxemburg.…

The most basic deficiency the Treaty of Versailles had was that when the German made a request for peace after their surrender, they believed that the treaty would be more like the Woodrow Wilson’s well known “Fourteen point”, which were more reasonable and diplomatic. On June 8, 1918, Woodrow Wilson presented his vision to Congress of an after war world that had “diplomatic relation, multilateral demilitarization, facilitated commerce, opportunity of the oceans, and settlement of question by…

Despite President Woodrow Wilson influencing and starting up the League of Nation the United States of America not being apart of the organization was a huge deficiency because the legitimacy and power the United States had. Why was the United States not apart from the League of Nations? President Woodrow Wilson would have had to convince the Senate to approve of the U.S. joining the League of Nations and at the time the United States practiced a policy of isolationism, the belief that they…

Germany” but Wilson’s plan didn't include any of those things (Staff).Wilson’s whole plan failed but it was the basis for the new treaty called Treaty of Versailles. The treaty only included 5 out of fourteen of Wilson points. They were a creation of League of Nations, countries would receive their independence, Poland would be created and no seas blockades. The treaty did little to advance Wilson's quest to establish freedom of the seas, free trade between nations, and military disarmament”…