Bowls

In the summer of 2012, the NCAA announced that college football would be getting rid of the previous postseason championship system, the BCS bowl system, and have a four-team playoff to figure out who will be the next national champion. The BCS bowl system was a selection system that had the two highest ranking teams, based off of rankings from the Associated Press (AP), face off for the national championship. The new system involves a group of twelve people that decide who the top four teams in

the Super Bowl. The first Super Bowl championship game was between the NFL (Green Bay Packers) and AFL (Kansas City Chiefs) champions at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. While the excitement and hype over the Super Bowl has increased in recent years, so has the economic benefits for the surrounding communities. Even large-scale companies use the opportunity to advertise during the Super Bowl game due to such large viewings on multimedia. In the same way, the profit for the Super Bowl rises, costs

Super Bowl “But I haven’t met a player or a coach whose goal isn’t to win the Super Bowl,” Pete Rozelle states. The Super Bowl, with an audience reaching to approximately one hundred and thirty Americans, continues to one of the most populated United States television broadcast (Redelmeier). The Super Bowl is the National Football League (NFL) American football competition where thirty-two teams compete for the championship in February. There is a total of twelve teams that have the chance to be

championship, also known as Super Bowl I, was played January 15, 1967. While Super Bowl I had an attendance of 62,000, Super Bowl XVII had the highest attendance of 103,667. Super Bowl LI in Houston had an attendance of 70,807. Including, the Super Bowl attendance and the two full weeks of events, Houston expected 140,000 out-of-town visitors, 1 million people to attend some type of Super Bowl event, and an estimated profit of 350 million dollars, according to “Super Bowl 51: By the Numbers.” This year

During the Dust Bowl many people and kids have suffered, many lost their home and their towns got ruined. One of the people who has suffered in the Dust Bowl is Ashton. When Ashton went to his school he was immediately pulled in by his teacher Mrs. Kam. He was then told that the entire middle east was affected by the Dust Bowl and that a black blizzard will hit very soon. Then the winds outside started to get faster, the windows getting hit by all the dust gathered from the storm, but luckily for

Lucia Martinez Professor Kim Wombles English 1302 September 21, 2015 The Dust Bowl Imagine a great wall closing in on you with nowhere to run. Imagine sweeping a floor of sand that will never go away. Imagine having a terrible cough that leaves your throat irritated and raw to the point where you are coughing up blood. Imagine the disappointment of realizing a possible rain cloud is really a wall of dust rushing your way. For people living in the Midwest during the 1930s this was

“One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete” (Beyoncé, 2016). On Sunday, February 7th, 2016 the NFL Super Bowl 50 was hosted where the Panthers played against the Broncos. The halftime show was headlined by Coldplay, with special guest performers Beyonce and Bruno Mars. Beyonce took over the stage and with her performance the female singer was trying to make a serious political statement. At the halftime show, Beyoncé sang her most recent song called

“Surviving the Dust Bowl” is an episode of the T.V. series American Experience, a historical documentary show created by Henry Hampton and Stephen Fitzmeyer. This episode outlines the struggles of living in what became to be known as the Dust Bowl from early to late 1930’s. Devastating droughts had become to affect midwestern and southern plains in 1931, causing many crops to die and large areas of land to become infertile. “Surviving the Dust Bowl” persuades the viewer to experience the perseverance

For my project, my goal was to illustrate the sorrow and grief many farmers and their families experienced as they were evicted from their homes and land; due to the tremendous impact of the Dust Bowl. Additionally, I wanted to demonstrate the struggles of their journey westward toward California, where they sought work to provide for their families who usually were already starving, exhausted, and grieving for what they lost back home. I chose these particular lines from John Steinbeck’s The Harvest

Kansas resident Imogene Glover remembers the Dust Bowl this way: The farmhouses looked terrible - the dust was deposited clear up to the window sills in these farmhouses, clear up to the window sills. And even about half of the front door was blocked by this sand. And if people inside wanted to get out, they had to climb out through the window to get out with a shovel to shovel out the front door. And, ah, there was no longer any yard at all there, not a green sprig, not a living thing of any