Hubert Humphrey

Why are personal interviews so vital when trying to evaluate the past? Perhaps it is because their firsthand accounts of a particular occurrence are something that can not be obtained from a book. These primary sources are crucial to anyone trying to recollect information about a certain topic about the past. However, the interviewer must be cautious when taking someone at their word regarding a certain event for fear of bias and a possible hazy recollection of the actual circumstances surrounding

Chris Matthews, who has written Hardball, has truly changed my perspective on how politics should be perceived and how to win within the political world through the “hardball” (13) way. “Hardball” (13) is an idea how politicians could win and gain highest political status through “clean, aggressive Machiavellian politics” (13). I have originally viewed the book as uninteresting because I had lacked knowledge about politics in general. However, Chris Matthews had made the book engrossing on how he

The politics of the ultratight resonated deeply with Richard Nixon. Nixon had cut his political teeth as a young Red-hunting member of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. His home district in Orange Country, California, was widely known as a Birch Society stronghold. The Los Angeles-area Birch Society claimed the membership of several political and economic elites, including members of the Chandler family, which owned and published the Los Angeles Times. According to the writer

It was the was the beginning of a new decade, Americans believed the 1960’s were going to be the dawn of the golden age. Many historical feats are occurring, John Steinbeck wins a noble peace prize, Nixon and Kennedy have the first televised debate, Mohamed Ali wins a gold medal and the Civil Rights Movement is at the precipice in America. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Governor George C. Wallace are two prominent figures throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Individually, they deliver historical

It was the was the beginning of a new decade, Americans believed the 1960’s were going to be the dawn of the golden age. Many historical feats are occurring, John Steinbeck wins a noble peace prize, Nixon and Kennedy have the first televised debate, Mohamed Ali wins a gold medal and the Civil Rights Movement is at the precipice in America. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Governor George C. Wallace are two prominent figures throughout the Civil Rights Movement. Individually, they deliver historical

The year was 1963, as the chaos of segregation was unfolding in the Southern states, Governor George C. Wallace and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, are at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. In the beginning of the year, Governor Wallace will be addressing his constituents with his well-known, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” speech. Nevertheless, it will be seven months later, that Dr. King will convey his message in his famous, “I Have a Dream” speech. Individually, they deliver historical

In 2013, the NFL’s Vikings and the The Minnesota Metropolitan Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) agreed to construction guidelines for the new Vikings stadium. Replacing the eyesore of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the new stadium called for a modern design with a glass façade that would reflect Minneapolis’s downtown. While the design seemed innocuous to most, ornithologists immediately objected to the plan: large expanses of glass would confuse migrating birds by reflecting the sky. The birds

A very recent example we can see of stadium bargaining is with the Los Angles Rams. It has been a popular practice to threaten to move an NFL team to Los Angles ever since they lost their team in 1994. Since 1994, there have been twenty proposals by NFL teams threatening to move in order to get stadiums publically financed (Wickersham, Natta, 2016). The St. Louis Rams were no different, they wanted to get as much money as possible from St. Louis even though the city had been going through tough economical

The Young-Wise Memorial Plaza creates a closely-knit community of the students, faculty, and alumni of Hendrix College who either support the soldiers who had fallen or enjoy the pastime sport of football. The plaza connects the memorials of Robert Young, who died in combat during World War I, and brothers Jeremy and Benjamin Wise, who died in separate actions during the war against Afghanistan, in an area that resembles a park. Young and the two Wise brothers were former Hendrix students who volunteered

Stadiums have been shown to benefit the economy as a whole. “In this article it was talked about having 4 steps that stadiums help the local economy in which those would include the following: building it creates construction jobs, people who attend games or work for the team generate new spending in the community, expand local employment and team attracts tourists and companies to the host city, further increasing local spending and jobs” (Johnson 34). This is more of a strong theory than exact