At 4:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on January 17‚ 1994 Northridge‚ California was hit by a magnitude 6.7 Earthquake that shook for nearly 20 seconds. The natural disaster was a blind thrust earthquake‚ which occurs along a thrust fault‚ but shows no sign on the Earth’s surface‚ thus the term “blind”. The Earthquake was centered in Northridge‚ which is approximately 20 miles west/northwest of Los Angeles. The powerful shock was felt at distances of 400 kilometers from the epicenter. It produced
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In all corners of PVAMU‚ you can find students with plenty of potential and aspirations‚ however there are only a select few who take their potential and aspirations and create it into tangible goals for a higher purpose. Jahi Harrison‚ who goes by his stage name “Lani Jae‚” is among those select few. A senior born in Texas‚ and raised in Los Angeles‚ is a “triple threat” in the entertainment industry‚ which translates to an individual skilled in acting‚ dancing‚ and singing or rapping. With all
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Henry Louis Aaron (Hank) Aaron    Date of Birth: February 5‚ 1934(the day before Babe Ruth turned 39). Birthplace: Mobile‚ Alabama‚ United States Date. Circumstances of Death: Living Early Life: The second of nine of Herbert and Estella Aaron ’s ‚ he weighed just 2 and 1/4 pounds at birth. Hank was a quiet boy who just had one or two friends in the neighborhood. When Hank was eight he saw his first major league game. After the game he knew
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James Francis Thorpe of the Sac and Fox Tribe‚ was born May 22‚ 1887‚ on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation‚ Prague‚ Oklahoma. His Indian name is "Wa-Tho-Huk" which meant "Bright Path." Being Indian brought some challenges with it in his early life. When Jim started primary school‚ he hated it because of the discipline. "The government believed that the only way to break in Indians to white culture was through a strict regime" (Richards 21). The discipline was used if Indians used Indian language
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson and integration are two phrases that cannot be segregated. Whether he liked it or not‚ he played the star role in the integration of society during the time that he played Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. His heroic journey that landed him in the Majors shows‚ “how integration has come to baseball and how it can be achieved in every corner of the land” (Robinson 16). But this amazing triumph over the Jim Crow laws could only have been
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Crooked Saints In todays sports there is no place for bounties. Especially‚ in American football where the line between a physical play and a play with the intent to end players career is very thin. You can hear these words uttered by just about analyst or average Joe off the street that has an opinion on this situation. Recently after a lengthly investiagation the New Orleans were busted for putting bounties on other players during a game. These acts have an great effect on the pop warner league
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Mariano Azuela’s The Underdogs‚ is about a brotherhood of the Mexican people taking a journey with only one thing on their mind; revenge against Huerta and the Federales. In this story‚ we as the reader are confronted with characters‚ such as Demetrio Macias‚ who is destined to lead his people into the depths of retaining an incorrupt lifestyle and hopes to find peace from the effect of war. Although Demetrio is seen as one of the main characters in the novel‚ we are also briefly engaged in the other
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Parties Involved: Players; Professional Baseball Players Association (PBPA) Owners; Owner-Player Committee (OPC) Bill Ahern; Arbitrator CONFLICT: Players feel that they should share in the teams’ profits will be biased towards accounting that yields higher net profits so that they may argue for a stake in the profits feel that the owners are hiding their profits through accounting tricks Owners contend that the teams are actually losing money each year will be biased towards accounting
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$200‚000 per game‚ $3.5 million dollars base salary per year‚ $48.97 million for a 7 year contract that was signed only 1 year ago‚ that is what All-Pro wide receiver‚ Terrell Owens is losing "for conduct detrimental to a team." Controversy has always followed T.O.‚ he was suspended (for one game) in 2000‚ by San Francisco’s coach Steve Mariucci for his touchdown dance on the Dallas Cowboys’ star logo. He had a heated dispute with Coach Reid‚ this summer and received a one week sit-out from
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Jackie Robinson once said‚ “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. “Jackie was the first African- American baseball player to win National League Rookie of the Year and the National League’s Most Valuable player of the Year. Jackie Robinson’s distinct challenge to accept the policies of the organized sports confirmed that change was possible and he deserves to be elected into the Hall of Fame. The problems he faced in the early years of his life made him a stronger
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