Jackie Robinson, Why Him? The story of Jackie Robinson has become one of America's most iconic and inspiring stories. Since 1947, American history has portrayed Jackie Robinson as a hero, and he has been idolized as a role model to the African American baseball community. It is an unarguable fact that he was the first to tear down the color barriers within professional baseball. The topic of Robinson’s role in integration has long been a point of discussion amongst baseball historians. Researchers
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have heard about the recent incident that occurred about the reporter in the paper’s Moscow bureau. It has brought about attention in adding new disciplinary actions to take care of any foolish acts such as the reporter at the Moscow bureau did. The Los Angeles Times have always prided ourselves with strict discipline when it comes to journalistic ethics. I am writing to inform you all regarding new policy changes towards handling e-mail privacy violations. They include the following penalties: Reassignment
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him have an easy shot. This became known as “Hack-a-Shack”. He became the first player in NBA history to earn player of the week in only his first week in the league. He would be with the Orlando Magic from 1992 to 1996. Shaquille O’Neal, with the Los Angeles Lakers, would be one of his most set destinations over his career. After Shaquille became a free agent in the 95-96 seasons he would sign onto the Lakers roster for a seven year, $121 million dollar contract. He insisted he did not join the
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Hornets, then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. As a rookie, Bryant earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest. Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive championships from 2000 to 2002. A heated feud between the duo and a loss in the 2004 NBA Finals was followed by O'Neal's trade from the Lakers after the 2003–04 season. Following O'Neal's departure Bryant became the cornerstone of the Los Angeles Lakers franchise. He
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Running head: A LEVERAGE BUYOUT 1 Graves Dancer Takes Tribune Corporation private in an Ill-Fated Transacti A LEVERAGE BUYOUT 2 Introduction A leverage buyout (LBO) is a kind of acquisition where the buying price is financed via debt and equity. The cash flow or assets of the target company are used to secure the debt and repay it. The returns on equity increase as the debt increase as debt has a lower cost of capital compared to equity. In other word a LBO is
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Dalton Bass Biography book report Professor Jacobsen 5/7/13 When trying to decide on what book I wanted to do for this biographical book report I decided to do something that interests me and that is sports. I wanted to come up with someone who made an impact on not only the sports world, but the entire world. Jackie Robinson is considered a hero to me and that is why I chose him. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig tells us all about Jackie Robinson breaking
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Final Paper on Donald Sterling Ethics MGT511X 6/8/14 Caitlin Filteau Case Background Donald Sterling came into the ethical spotlight in April 2014, with a voice recording of him talking to his then mistress, “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.”Don’t
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BUSM 20 April 2, 2012 Current Event/Article My current event is based on an article I read on the Los Angeles Times website, the article was titled “Consumers left in dark during fight between Tribune and DirecTV” by Joe Flint. The article talks about the fees dispute between Tribune Co. and DirecTV, this dispute led to the shutdown of channels KTLA and WGN, which went dark on Sunday, April 1st leaving customers without access. This dispute goes back to the battle over fees between the programmers
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Today NBA Commissioner Adam Silver historically announced in New York City his decision for Donald Sterling’s racist rant over the weekend. His decision comes three days after the initial audio leak from TMZ. Silver presented his punishment of banning Sterling for life extracting him from anything related to the Clippers organization, and the National Basketball Association as a whole. He also added a hefty maximum amount fine of 2.5 million dollars, which will be donated to organizations promoting
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assume they need to be somewhere important like work, school, or possibly an appointment. I have noticed some other people that appear to be a bit more relaxed more so just enjoying there morning. These people can be found sitting inside reading the Los Angeles Times while sipping on there hot coffee. Some people appeared to be checking up on emails or maybe even completing assignments. Because I did see a few people using there MacBook’s. All in all I find that most people are just so consumed with
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