...roaring crowd and everyone cheering them on and wanting them to well just so they can say they were there when they saw that person make history, and Jesse Owens had it all. Jesse Owens was one of the best track and field athletes to ever live. He played a large real in the cold war between the United States and Germany before World War II. Jesse Owens had a very outstanding track and field career way back from when he was a kid in high school all the way up to when he was competing in the 1936 Olympic Games. James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 (Turini). His family was a poor sharecropping family from Oakville, Alabama (Turini). Owens parents were named Henry and Emma Owens. His father was a son to former slaves and grew up in the same town as Jesse had. Henry spent most of his life afraid of...
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...of the most influential events in American history occurred when Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This accomplishment and others that he would achieve in his life time, given the historical context in which he rose to fame, inspired people for many generations. Jesse Owens created a historic legacy not just because of his record finishes on the track, but also due to the challenging times in which he competed. Born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama, Jesse Owens grew up working on several farms. Jesse’s father, a sharecropper, worked for little pay farming other peoples’ land. As young children, Jesse and his six siblings picked cotton on a rich man’s farm in Alabama. At age nine the Owens family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Jesse worked in grocery stores as a nine year old in Cleveland to bring in extra money for his family. (Raatma 8-9) Jesse began running track and field in middle school. In 1928 he set many middle school records including jumping almost twenty-three feet in the long jump (“About Jesse Owens” 1). Jesse went to East Technical High School in the 1930s where he continued to set records and develop as a track and field star. In fact, in his Junior Year, at the National Interscholastic Championship, Jesse set the 220-yard dash record and tied the world record in the 100-yard dash. The city of Cleveland, in order to demonstrate their pride, honored Jesse Owens with a citywide parade marking his debut into the spotlight. (Raatma...
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...Do you think it is possible to survive on raft in the middle of the ocean with little to no water and food for 47 days? I know for a fact it is because Louie Zamperini did in 1943. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (406 pages) is an amazing story of bravery and optimism, that everyone should hear. As a child Louie was a troublemaker who loved to make mischief. He was smoking by five years old and drinking alcohol at eight years old. He would rob his neighbors then “run like mad”, and that's how it all started. Louie was going to be thrown out of school when his brother, Pete had a great idea that changed Louie's life. His idea was to make Louie join sport so he could stay in school. His principal agreed and signed Louie up for Track. By his tenth grade year(1933) he was running a mile in 4:42. He continually got better and started focusing in the olympics. By 1936 his running dream was about to come true. He was going to run in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but not running the mile but in the 5000 meter run. He end up in 8th place and started to focus his mind elsewhere. Louie wanted to enlist in World War 2. His started in September of 1940. He was a liberator bombardier on a B-24 plane. He was in the air several times and always felt safe. That was until the Green Hornet. Louie's original plane, SuperMan, was no longer working so he boarded the Green Hornet on the sunny morning of May 27, 1943 in Kahuku, Hawaii. Louie boarded the plane not knowing his life would be changed...
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...Jackie Robinson had a hard childhood. His father left one day to go to Memphis to look for a new job and never came home. Being the youngest child Jackie could not help his mom make money like his older brothers and sister but whenever he got the chance to help he did. Since Jackie's mom worked all day and there was no one to stay home with him, Jackie went to school with his older sister Willa Mae. While she was in class he was outside playing in the sandbox. His older brother Mack was the athlete of the family while Jackie was little. He came in second place to Jesse Owens in the Berlin Olympic 200 meter dash. When Jackie grew up he attended his local high school. After breaking many sports records he had many college offers. Jackie decided to go to UCLA so his brother Frank could attend all his games, but a few weeks before Jackie's first college game was played Frank was killed in a motorcycle accident. It took him a long time to recover from that loss. ===================================================================== introduction Most people have seen the movie 42 and probably didn't get all of the information about jackie Robinson or get the truth about Jackie Robinson so im here to tell you the rest or the truth about jackie robinson. And he was a brave man and he ===================================================================== conclusion So based on what Jackie Robinson accomplished for himself and for all black people and based on the fact that...
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...Jesse Owens The seventh child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his new schoolteacher gave him the name that was to become known around the world. The teacher was told "J.C." when she asked his name to enter in her roll book, but she thought he said "Jesse". The name stuck and he would be known as Jesse Owens for the rest of his life. His early life was marked by poverty and he was forced to take many menial jobs such as delivering goods and working in a shoe repair shops. However, he was able to develop his passion for running and athletics; from an early age he was marked as having great potential talent. In later life he gave much credit to Charles Riley, his high school coach who encouraged him and made allowances for his difficulty in making evening training sessions because Jesse had to work in a shoe repair shop. Jesse Owens rose to national prominence in 1933, when he equalled the world record (9.4 seconds) for the 100 yard dash. He attended Ohio State University, but without a scholarship he had to continue working part time. At the time, America was a highly segregated society and when traveling with the team, Jesse had to suffer the indignities of eating at separate restaurants and staying at different hotels. One of his great athletic feats occurred in 1935, where in one track meet he broke three...
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...Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri. James and his brother Frank served for the Confederate Army before embarking on criminal careers in the Old West. The James brothers made a name for themselves as bank and train robbers, leading the James-Younger gang. Robert Ford killed Jesse James in 1882, after which James became a legend among the old west and outlaws. Early Life American outlaw, robber and legendary figure Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri. Jesse and his brother Frank James were educated and raised by a prestigious family of farmers. Their father, Robert James, was a Baptist minister who married Zerelda Cole James and moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842. In the summer of 1863, the James farm was attacked by Union soldiers....
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...He could hit and bunt and steal and run. He had intimidating skills, and he burned with a dark fire.-Roger kahn. Jackie robinson was a huge impact on the civil rights movement. Not only that he was an impact to major league baseball. Jackie Robinson was an astounding athlete with an amazing background and many achievements. He is remembered a hero. Firstly Jackie Robinson was an amazing,fantastic and outstanding athlete. “He was born on January 31, 1919. He actually played all sports. Baseball was the one he was worst at.” -history.com His brother was a silver medalist at the olympics. He played many sports and he was super athletic. He played stuff like football, basketball plus many others. Secondly he was an amazing ball player he...
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... Because this person led so many slaves to freedom, he or she was sometimes called by the nickname Moses. 6. This person studied in Cuba and Kenya and worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand before going on to become famous. 7. One of 13 children, this person's birthname was Isabella Baumfree. 8. The president named this person to be the first black to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. 9. In 1962, this person became the first black player inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. 10. This person's performance at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games made him famous. George Washington Carver Frederick Douglass Mae Jemison Thurgood Marshall Jesse Owens Rosa Parks Jackie Robinson Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Booker T. Washington Step 2: Choose one of the famous black Americans above and write a short (2 or 3 paragraphs) biography about him/her in Word. Answer the questions below to help you create your paragraphs: Person’s Name: Date of Birth: Date of Death (if he/she is still alive, you can leave this one...
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...African American girl to attend a white-school in the South. Ruby knew that people were saying horrible things about her, but she still fought for her right to go to this school. Frederick Douglas was born into slavery in 1818 in Maryland, and became the leader of Abolitionists. He became one of the most famous intellectuals writing many biographies, and lecturing to thousands on a range of cases including women’s rights. Medgar Evers was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and gain social justice and voting rights. Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president. John F. Kennedy was the 35th U.S. president, Negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and initiated the Alliance for progress. He was assassinated in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He fought tirelessly to give African Americans the same civil rights as whites. Abraham Lincoln is known as one of America’s greatest heroes for his huge impact on the nation. He was a emancipator of slavery. He was also our President during the Civil War, but was assassinated after. Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger...
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...While describing a room in the African American museum where visitors can go to reflect on what they’ve seen in the rest of the museum, Charles Yetter, the museum’s Senior Project Manager, said “You’ve all seen all the bad and some of the good, and you can come here and think about what you saw.” I see this quote as an indication that the museum’s exhibits won’t focus entirely on the problems faced by African Americans, nor will they focus entirely on the accomplishments of the African American community. As a result, I think I ought to select one item that demonstrates the progress that has been made towards racial equality, and one item which demonstrates the fact that America is still plagued with racial issues. Of the five items to choose...
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...Darwin’s Influence on Discrimination Many regard Charles Darwin as the Father of Evolution, a scientific breakthrough that is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in science. Little does the general public consider the social effects that his contributions made on racism, as well as sexism, not only in his lifetime, but also for the generations following his research. His recognition in one area of study automatically made him a voice that echoed for centuries against women’s suffrage, pro-slavery, and influenced Hitler’s ideology. Apart from his genetic research and theories of evolution, Darwin was not afraid to compare the human race to that of other animals. This analogy caused a lot of the discrimination that he blatantly labeled as scientific fact. In the Descent of Man, “Darwin noted that the inheritance of special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, good and bad temper, and so on is evident in dogs and other domestic animals, and that the same pattern is seen in almost every human family” (Paul, 226). Darwin was not afraid to make non-scientific comparisons between the human race and other animals. Although many of Darwin’s findings are scientifically rational, and others simply deny his theories because of their religious faiths, it is difficult to ignore the consequences of his “Origins of Species” or “The Descent of Man” writings. Although Darwin wrote that all men shared a common descent, he used societal observations...
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...HOW TO Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae Revised Edition Acy L. Jackson and C. Kathleen Geckeis Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-142626-4 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-139044-8 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve...
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...I O N In This Issue: Executive Pay and Corporate Governance Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues A Remedy for the Executive Pay Problem: The Case for “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” Developments in Remuneration Policy Corporate Culture and the Problem of Executive Compensation Taking Shareholder Protection Seriously? Corporate Governance in the U.S. and Germany University of Rochester Roundtable on Corporate M&A and Shareholder Value 8 Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, and Jesse M. Fried, University of California at Berkeley 24 Jeffrey N. Gordon, Columbia University 36 Alastair Ross Goobey, International Corporate Governance Network and Morgan Stanley Europe 41 44 Arthur Levitt, Jr., The Carlyle Group Theodor Baums, University of Frankfurt, and Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford Law School and Hoover Institution 64 Panelists: Robert Bruner, University of Virginia; Cliff Smith and Gregg Jarrell, University of Rochester; James Owen, The Bank Street Group; Marla Sincavage, Ernst & Young; and Matt Ostrower, Morgan Stanley. Moderated by Mark Zupan, University of Rochester. Takeover Defenses and Bargaining Power Is U.S. CEO Compensation Broken? Top Management Incentives and Corporate Performance Letting Go of Norm: How Executive Compensation Can Do Better Than “Best Practices” Finance, Politics, and the Accounting for Stock Options 85 97 Guhan Subramanian, Harvard Law School John E. Core and Wayne R. Guay, University of Pennsylvania...
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...UNIVERSAL PICTURES and EMMETT / FURLA FILMS Present A MARC PLATT Production In Association with OASIS VENTURES ENTERTAINMENT LTD / ENVISION ENTERTAINMENT / HERRICK ENTERTAINMENT / BOOM! STUDIOS A BALTASAR KORMÁKUR Film PAULA PATTON BILL PAXTON JAMES MARSDEN FRED WARD and EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Executive Producers BRANDT ANDERSEN JEFFREY STOTT MOTAZ M. NABULSI JOSHUA SKURLA MARK DAMON Produced by MARC PLATT RANDALL EMMETT NORTON HERRICK ADAM SIEGEL GEORGE FURLA ROSS RICHIE ANDREW COSBY Based on the BOOM! Studios Graphic Novels by STEVEN GRANT Screenplay by BLAKE MASTERS Directed by BALTASAR KORMÁKUR –1– CAST Waitress Margie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDSEY GORT Roughneck #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HILLEL M. SHARMAN Robert “Bobby” Trench . . . . . . . . . DENZEL WASHINGTON Roughneck #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AARON ZELL Marcus “Stig” Stigman . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK WAHLBERG Roughneck #4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HENRY PENZI Deb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAULA PATTON CREW Earl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BILL PAXTON Admiral Tuwey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRED J. WARD Quince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES MARSDEN Directed by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BALTASAR KORMÁKUR Papi Greco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Screenplay by . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...511-060 Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa Nike Football revenue had grown from $40 million in 1994 to more than $1 billion in 2008. In just under 15 years, it had reached a sales level that took some of its competitors over 50 years to achieve. Although not the end goal, the 2010 World Cup was another unique moment in time for Nike to create separation between the company and its competitors. Edwards knew he had to seize this opportunity and pull his team together to deliver a campaign focused on delivering innovative products and compelling consumer experiences. Creating deep consumer connections during the World Cup would be vital for fueling continued growth for Nike football in the years ahead. Football and the FIFA World Cup Some people believe football is a matter of life and death . . . I assure you, it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and legendary Liverpool Manager1 Football was a game played between two teams of 11 players each, 10 field players and a goalkeeper per team. The game lasted 90 minutes, consisting of two 45-minute halves of running time. It was played with a round ball, on a rectangular grass field (often referred to as the “pitch”) with a goal on either end. Excluding the goalkeeper, the ball was controlled only with the feet, legs, torso and head (the use of hands or arms was prohibited) and the team scoring the most goals by the end of the game was the winner. Football was the most popular...
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