they formed with only $1‚000 in capital. Knight peddled Tiger’s shoes at local track meets grossing $8‚000 of sales in their first year. In 1966‚ Bowerman‚ who had previously designed shoes for his university athletes‚ worked with Tiger to design the Cortez running shoe. The shoe was a worldwide success for the Onitsuka Tiger Company and was sold at the first BRS store. In 1971‚ BRS‚ with creditor support‚ started manufacturing their own line of shoes. Later that year‚ the first BRS shoe was introduced
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Cheyenne Barr Cortez Persuasive Aggressive‚ I think not. Just sit there for a second‚ close your eyes‚ and visualize this; a puppy no older than 5 months in the pouring rain‚ freezing‚ shivering‚ on your door step. You want to help but you don’t know exactly how to‚ you just watch almost in tears as this puppy stays there very gloom and soaking wet. You finally decide to take a leap of chance and help the puppy‚ you go outside and the puppy gently lifts his head toward you and you notice it’s
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that these myths are true or at the least‚ more correct than other myths; this is not the role of the historian. A historian of religion cannot cast judgement onto a religion’s myths‚ good or bad‚ for that reduces the scholar to the bigotry that was Cortez or the British in India‚ as O’Flaherty states it. The historian is‚ even if they love or hate a myth or religion‚ to understand that religions aspects through their myths and traditions. It is not the place of a historian to determine if a religion
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By the time contact between the old and New worlds was reestablished in the late fifteenth century there were around 100 million Native Americans‚ some living in scattered communities‚ but with two great flourishing civilizations. The Incas in Peru and the Aztecs in central Mexico‚ each containing some 25-30 million people‚ Despite the fact that both these populations far exceeded the size and density needed to sustain the acute infectious diseases. So descendants of the hunter-gatherers who
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In a patriarchal society it is expected for men to have the best or most well noted opinions when it comes to topics of feminism‚ writing‚ sexuality and much more. In Malinche’s Revenge‚ Chicana rebels work to discredit Octavio Paz’s views in his essay the “Sons of Malinche” from a Chicana‚ Lesbian‚ Working feminists point of view. This was done by using women in different scenarios at different times in history‚ in order to call out the sexist‚ racists and homophobic views Paz had in discussing
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Social change is an adjustment in behavioral patterns or cultural values over a period of time. An example is in Sojourner Truths’ speech‚ “Ain’t I a Woman?” which was given during the time of Women’s Rights Suffrage Movement. She invokes a sense of power to overcome race and gender inequality. Toward the end of her speech‚ Sojourner inspires her audience to act on the inequality and injustices that she and most women face. She does this by referring to the impact the Christian figure of the world’s
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PNOY’s ACCOMPLISHMENTS SO FAR 1. unconstitutional EO No.1 & EO No. 2 2. bungled hostage rescue 3. blatant lie about the $430 million MCC grant 4. wrongful deportation of 14 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China 5. release of morong 43 6. missing in action during the typhoon 7. first and second quarter’s GDP is at its lowest 8. unemployment gone from bad to worse 9. people suffering from higher cost of living and having depress wages 10. core inflation rate increased from 3.9 to 4 11. visitor
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Jose Rizal and the Revolution. Question: What was Rizal’s role in the Philippine Revolution? It is not surprising to see texts about the martyrdom of their most celebrated hero- Dr. Jose Rizal (b. 1861 – d. 1896) ‚ when we open the pages history books in the Philippines. The national revolution that the Philippines had from 1896 to 1901 was one period when the Filipino people were most united‚ most involved and most spirited to fight for one thing that they have been deserve - freedom. Though all
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The Aztecs were a pre-Columbian civilization which dominated Meso America from the 14th to the 16th century. The Aztec’s advanced military‚ stable economy and their stratified society were the foundations for the building and existence of a great civilization. The world remembers the Aztecs as an advanced‚ elaborate and wide-ranging empire which was later destroyed by the Spanish. At first‚ the Aztecs were a relatively small and unknown tribe who called themselves the Mexicas. In the year of 1100
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Nowadays‚ people‚ especially teenagers tend to be a fan of social networking sites such as facebook and twitter… But it is no just social networking…There are also sites for reading unlimited stories --- Wattpad… Wattpad is an online community themed around writing and story-telling. Users are able to post articles‚ stories‚ and poems about anything either online or through the Wattpad app. The content includes work by undiscovered and published writers. Users are able to comment
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