A STORY DRIVEN BY MINOR CHARATERS: A story-is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment: "an adventure story". The telling of a happening or connected series of happenings‚ whether true or fictitious. Driven- Operated‚ moved‚ or controlled by a specified person or source of power. A Minor character- is one who is not entirely important to the plot. That is‚ the story would still hold together without that character‚ but might be a little choppy. Waiting for
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failures of the League of Nations in the 1920s? The League of Nations could stop small wars and improved some people’s lives. But it could not defend the Treaty of Versailles‚ get disarmament‚ or stop powerful countries. It stopped some wars – e.g. it arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands (1921) and stopped the invasion of Bulgaria by Greece (1925). In 1928‚ the League arranged the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which outlawed war. The League also took 400‚000
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from six to twelve‚ doubling in size. The league would now be changed forever‚ its historical Original Six: the New York Rangers‚ Boston Bruins‚ Chicago Blackhawks‚ Detroit Red Wings‚ Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs‚ would be joined by six new teams: the California Seals (Oakland Seals)‚ Los Angeles Kings‚ Minnesota North Stars‚ St. Louis Blues‚ Philadelphia Flyers‚ and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The 1967 expansion was monumental for the league‚ legitimizing American sports and eliminating
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Is The National Football League A Honest Organization? National Football League (NFL) is an American gridiron football organization‚ founded in 1920 by Jim Thorpe as American Professional Football Association. Jim Thorpe was the first president of the association‚ he was a famous American athlete and league player. Later on‚ in 1922‚ the association was renamed as National Football League. In the beginning‚ league comprised of fourteen teams
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1. Introduction Traditionally in the MLB‚ Major League Baseball‚ a player’s relative worth was measured by his recent successes. The qualitative opinions of scouts‚ batting average and the number of strikeouts were a few of the various metrics used to gauge a player’s value (Lewis 2003). In 2002‚ general manager Billy Beane of the cash-strapped Oakland Athletics revolutionized baseball. He argued that current player evaluation was inaccurate and inefficient and that the use of new “analytical gauges”
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gambling. The eight men that threw a World Series might be recognized for participating in one of the worst known scandals in sports‚ but it isn’t the only time a Major League Baseball Commissioner has had to banish a player for gambling. Pete Rose is considered by many as one of the best baseball players of all time. On the Major League Baseball list of hits by a batter‚ Rose is the MLB’s career leader with 4‚256 career hits. Being the sports career leader in hits would most un-doughtily get a player
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Introduction: The UEFA Champions League is a European football tournament that is held every year across Europe. With over 300 million television viewers‚ the league’s final is the most watched annual sporting event worldwide. For an event of this magnitude‚ the stakes for everyone involved are very high (appendix 1). This essay includes a short description of the tournament along with an overview of the stakeholders‚ followed by an analysis of one of the sponsors‚ Heineken. Description:
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Jackie Robinson was the first African-American that played in Major League Baseball sure there were the Negro leagues where only African-Americans could play. Jackie Robinson played in the Negro leagues for his first couple of years. Then came the Major Leagues team the Brooklyn Dodgers they were a average team in the league. There manager is the only reason Jackie played in the Major Leagues Branch Rickey wanted a new player in the League. So he decided to call up the manager
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completion in Major League Baseball has been greatly imbalanced since the strike shortened season of 1994. Competitive balance should exist when there are no clubs chronically weak because of Major League Baseball’s structural features. Proper competitive balance will not exist until every well-run club has a regularly recurring reasonable hope of reaching postseason play which is parity. One of the primary reasons for the competitive imbalance that does occur in Major League Baseball is difference
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The League of Nations‚ an international organization initially proposed by woodrow wilson as one of his fourteen points was created after the first world war to prevent a repetition. This organization was created to be able to discuss international conflicts without things getting out of hand. Although the League of Nations included many promising countries‚ the one country who refused to join was the United States. The League of Nations effectively prevented war up until the year of 1936‚ when Italy
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