Andrew Zimbalist

college and transfers, they are forced to sit out a year, yet coaches can break their contract at any time and coach another school immediately. Players do not need to be paid millions of dollars, but some combination is due. In the film, Sports for Sale, players on the SMU (Southern Methodist University) football team shared that some nights, they would go to bed starving because they did not have extra money to go out and buy something to eat. The NCAA states that taking money out of consideration makes it easier for the athletes to focus on their academics. Even though the NCAA says that they are just student athletes, the NCAA schedules games and tournament games requiring athletes to miss multiple days at a time out of the classroom (Zimbalist). The NCAA is using and treating athletes as modern slaves that do not have the right to speak out on issues or to protest. Not only is the NCAA not living up to paying the athletes, they are not making sure that the athletes get the degree that they are so called, “promised.” So what is a college degree…

1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than 30,000 were left.” This decrease was due to the idea that “our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent.” Once the cotton gin was established in 1793 and more slaves were needed as well as land because of the climate needed to grow cotton. In order to obtain that land, they needed to remove Indians. In 1823 the Supreme Court ruled that their “right of discovery” is more important than Indians “right of occupancy.” …

Social Conditions in “Meet You In Hell” Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had…

Carnegie Steel Corporation, the second being labor; the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers. Working conditions were severely poor, with long hours and little pay. “As William Livingstone said: harder work, longer hours, less pay and no security: ‘New machinery is constantly displacing the men…The longer days came in soon after the strike. Sunday work was a later development. Under the twelve hour day men have no time to themselves. The work is hard and hot…The heat is…

peaceful if the northern aggression of a revolution had not taken place. Ultimately though the Union plowed through the Confederacy and destroyed everything that they could lay their hands on. In the end after the last show as fired, the south was mortally wounded and the southern men limped back their plantations and farms defeated and without purpose. The process of Reconstruction was a novel idea but it had no fail safe and thus the blacks were left out in the cold without any real plan of…

However, on April 15, 1865, America was forever changed. Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction and peace following the Civil War were destroyed, leaving the racist and oppressive President Andrew Johnson to take over. Booth’s actions had cultural, historical, and social consequences on America. John Wilkes Booth impacted the United States by assassinating one of the most loved presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Without his actions, the world would be different because Lincoln would have gone on to do…

Edmund Ross’s Influence on the Impeachment Trials of Andrew Jackson “He is a man off courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” Socrates quote greatly expresses the courage and determination Edmund Ross showed in the impeding impeachment trials of Andrew Jackson. Edmund Ross played a major role on American History as he fought whether to vote with his conscience or with the majority vote. First, a history on Mr. Edmund Ross is important. Edmund G.…

The material from this book and the material we learned in class in exactly the same. Mr. Estep and Patricia Brady do an excellent job of presenting the material. The only difference between the two is that they choose to add different details to different material. The documentation that the author provides throughout the story is tremendous yet still making the story interesting. All of the documentation material comes from The Papers of Andrew Jackson. The most significant information I…

"A slow-moving Category three hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004. Hurricanes are natural disasters that cannot be prevented but can be prepared for. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23rd, 2005. Over the last hundred years, hurricane Katrina is one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of United States of America. Hurricane Katrina has…

powerful nation, one that is not about to divest itself or its non-Indian citizens of large acreage in the name of its own laws. (Clifford, 284)” This land claim lawsuit was between the Mashpee Indians and the Federal Government. It shows how the ethnocentrism of the American nation overshadows any tiny Indian tribe deemed inferior. The Indian Removal Act, signed into laws by Andrew Jackson and congress in 1830 ratified an agreement to move all Native tribes west of the Mississippi in exchange…