I Love America Analysis
America: land of the free, home of the brave. Named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant and cartographer who explored large parts of what is now South America, this country historically always had an enormous attraction on immigrants. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these homeless, tempest- tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door. This famous part of a poem written on a plaque on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty sums up perfectly what the United States is all about.
It doesn’t matter who you are and where you’re from, Lady Liberty welcomes you.
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Rutgers University and Princeton University played each other on November 6, 1869. Rutgers won this game by a score of six to four. This game, however, was still played by the English Football Association rules, which meant that players were only allowed to kick the ball and each side had twenty- five players. Almost six years later; in 1875, Harvard University and Tufts University played a game of Football that had more recognizable aspects of modern day Football, like; having eleven players per side on the field, picking up the ball, and running with it and stopping the ball carrier by tackling him. Players, however, had virtually no protection and serious injury’s and even deaths were not uncommon. In 1905 alone, eighteen players died as a result of playing Football. This led to several important colleges banning Football as a sport. In 1910 reforms led to the creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA for short. To this day still, the NCAA is the main governing body for all collegiate sports events. On a professional level there were two conferences. The American Professional Football Association was founded in 1920 at a car dealership in Ohio. The American Football League (AFL) started in 1960 by a team owner whose team was refused entry to the existing league. The two conferences merged into the National Football League (NFL) in
It doesn’t matter who you are and where you’re from, Lady Liberty welcomes you.
I love America. Even with its faults, it still has an enormous …show more content…
Rutgers University and Princeton University played each other on November 6, 1869. Rutgers won this game by a score of six to four. This game, however, was still played by the English Football Association rules, which meant that players were only allowed to kick the ball and each side had twenty- five players. Almost six years later; in 1875, Harvard University and Tufts University played a game of Football that had more recognizable aspects of modern day Football, like; having eleven players per side on the field, picking up the ball, and running with it and stopping the ball carrier by tackling him. Players, however, had virtually no protection and serious injury’s and even deaths were not uncommon. In 1905 alone, eighteen players died as a result of playing Football. This led to several important colleges banning Football as a sport. In 1910 reforms led to the creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA for short. To this day still, the NCAA is the main governing body for all collegiate sports events. On a professional level there were two conferences. The American Professional Football Association was founded in 1920 at a car dealership in Ohio. The American Football League (AFL) started in 1960 by a team owner whose team was refused entry to the existing league. The two conferences merged into the National Football League (NFL) in