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2: Literature Review John F. Rooney Jr. of Oklahoma State University is the leading sports geographer and his research from 1974 in his book A Geography of American Sport from Cabin Creek to Anaheim is the foundation of sport geography research. In 1974, when Rooney did his research, he determined “The region encompassing Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and spilling over into several adjacent states is truly phenomenal as a player source region” (Rooney, 1974 p. 156). Rooney defined a player being…

Native American Policies during the Gilded Age Anthony Ciccariello 01 May 2016 HIST407 D001 American Military University Since the North American continent was discovered and inhabited by Europeans there was a distance or gap of misunderstanding between the settlers and the indigenous people. This distance and difference in way of life did not end after the inhabitants created their own country and won their independence from the Great Britain. The American government and the people of the…

The principal thing that rings a bell when considering John F. Kennedy is his assassination, however in his lifetime, he ought to have been known more for his achievements throughout his life, than the inequity of his demise. In spite of the fact that John F. Kennedy was a decent president, it wasn’t the future he initially had planned as a main priority when growing up. In fact, John’s original plan was to pursue his passion for journalism, as poetry was one of his favorite pastimes. He once…

On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy traveled to Dallas, Texas for a battle appearance. The following day, November 22, Kennedy, alongside his wife and Texas representative John Connally, rode through lizabeth Fitzgerald, was a Boston debutante, and his dad, Joseph Kennedy Sr., was an effective financier who made a fortune on stocks after World War I. Joe Kennedy Sr. went ahead to an administration profession as director of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as a diplomat to Great…

Jim Crow Laws In addition to Black Codes, these were a series of laws passed from the end of the Reconstruction era up until the civil rights movement, that segregated blacks from whites in all aspects of society. These laws were mostly passed in southern states, however the impact these laws had was felt around the whole country. Even though the laws were labeled as equal treatment towards colored people, in reality, the laws only condemned black people to inferior public facilities and…

Kanesha Brown Anatomy and Physiology 251L The University of Southern Mississippi Nervous System What is paraplegia? Paraplegia is the paralysis than can affect all or part of the bottom portion of your body, meaning the legs and pelvic organs. Paraplegia is a spinal cord injury that results from damage to the vertebrae, ligaments and disks (Mayo Clinic, 2016) For an injury to cause paraplegia one would have to suffer a traumatic injury to the spinal cord that may cause your spine to fracture,…

The Great Depression was a period of time that lasted from 1929­1939. All regions of the United States were hit hard­ some more than others. The Depression was a curious time in that it either created struggle in regions, or emphasized the struggle already present. This period certainly magnified the hardships that the Appalachian region was facing both socially and economically. These hardships, however, spawned far beyond the Depression, which led to the creation of the Appalachian Regional…

who is it? Jim Crow may sound like a person’s name but it is the racial law that segregated among the blacks and whites and it arose after Reconstruction that ended in 1877 and continued until the mid 1960s. Jim Crow laws were primarily seen in southern and border states. The African Americans were always looked down upon as second class citizens. The whites thought that they were superior to blacks in all ways and even after Slavery ended in 1865 with the South’s defeat in Civil War, slavery…

BART Bay Area Rapid Transit, known by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s. Origins and planning The idea of an underwater electric rail tube was first proposed in the early 1900s by Francis "Borax" Smith. There were also plans for a third-rail powered subway line (Twin Peaks Tunnel) under Market Street in the 1910s. Much of BART's current…

sexual extramarital affairs while he was both Governor of Arkansas and President of the United States. My mother was appalled that the Office of the President was disgraced with scandal. My grandmother, on the other hand, loved Bill Clinton and his southern charm. Although she too, remembered the scandals, it did not affect her opinion of President Clinton as much. My father just didn’t like President Clinton’s policies and felt he couldn’t be trusted. My family all agreed that the extramarital…