Roger Scruton

What is the Rooney Rule? The Rooney Rule was established to encourage diversity in coaching or any top management position in the National Football League. It required teams to interview a minority candidate before making a head coach or head management hire. Do NFL officials still need the Rooney Rule? Yes, the Rooney Rule has helped force owners to cast a wide net, going from who you know system to who’s the best system. What should be done about the lack of minority coaches and general managers

Once upon a time in a zoo in Virginia, there lived a snake named Cecil. This story takes place in the year 2017. One Friday night, Cecil the snake was going to commit a serious crime. This is how he did it. Cecil watched the digital clock in the reptile room. He was waiting for the clock to switch from 7:59 to 8:00. “Closing time,” Tyler the mouse thought as the clock struck, “Time to go hang out.” Tyler lived in the cage next to Cecil. “Attention,tourists",the zookeeper said on the announcements

Feminist issues have always been controversial throughout history and gender topics remain debatable matters in the context of the democratic society of the 21st Century. Over and over again these representations are revisited, seeing just how many degrading representations the modern-day woman can overcome before finally adopting these stereotypes as the norm in her everyday life. It is almost like a game to see how many obstacles women can overcome; each obstacle yet another generalised representation

In stories, there is always a pattern that they all have in common. This certain pattern is known as the Hero’s Journey. There are varying descriptions of the Hero’s Journey steps but only the steps that are set by the teacher is used. These steps are the “The Call”, “Allies”, “Preparation”, “The Guardians of the Threshold”, “Crossing the Threshold”, “Road of Trials”, “Saving Experience”, “Transformation”, and ”Sharing the Gift”.This essay is explaining what the Hero’s Journey is in the book Whirligig

What Dreams May Come Vincent Ward’s “What Dreams May Come” breathed brilliant life into the tragic story of a family pulled apart by death and the journey one man makes through heaven and even hell to save his soul mate, based from the book, What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson. This movie is boldly beautiful and a rollercoaster of feelings that brings you to the emotional edge but sadly doesn’t quite get us all the way over. In the beginning of the movies, events occur rather quickly. Chris

Grace Wohlgemuth #54 Language Arts 8-1 November 15, 2017 A Night Divided By: Jennifer A. Nielsen The book “A Night Divided,” is a great book. It is about a girl named Gerta and her family. She has an older brother Fritz, a brother Dominic, her father (papa) and her mother Frau Lowe. The Berlin Wall had just gone up after the Second World War separating East and West Germany, and her and her family live in the West. One night her brother Dominic and her father decide they need to get through the

Athletics combined to hit 91 Home Runs in the 1987 season. This ushered a change in baseball in regards to power hitters. Leading up to the 1994 season, there had only been three players that hit 50 or more home runs in a single season, since 1961 when Roger Maris hit a then record 61 long balls. Throughout the 1990s, 50 Home Runs in a season by a single player became common (The Steroids Era, 2012). The drastic increase in the number of Home Runs hit began to raise some questions, and the summer of

convictions. Despite sharing common English heritage as well as branching from the Anglican and Catholic church, religious views on liturgy and deontological ethics differed greatly amongst the settlers. This can be seen in the works of John Winthrop and Roger Williams. While both men’s religious beliefs stemmed from the same roots, each held different opinions on how rigid religion and liturgy should be held throughout the community. During the time of English colonization and settlement, John Winthrop

Throughout the Edgewater and Rogers Park community, my focus was on the physical health and well being of the members of the community. The assets identified were doctor’s offices, small clinics and clinics that are a part of a larger chain. Each of these assets show the diversity in the medical care offered in the Edgewater and Rogers Park community. For example, the assets that we found were mostly privately owned and the clinics that are part of a larger chain such as the clinics in Walgreens

Between 1885 and 1908, Belgium’s Leopold II ruled Congo, a region in central Africa, as his personal colony, exploiting the resources and inhabitants for his own gain. Leopold allowed and encouraged Europeans and other Westerners to enter Congo and set up companies whose primary purpose was to gather rubber, which was abundant but difficult to get to in the Congo, using the Congolese as the laborers for the Europeans. Rubber gathering in Congo brutally exploited the inhabitants of the Congo, while