The reason for this was because the incumbent Sala Burton died. So as a recommendation of Sala Burton and her husband Rep. Phil Burton ran and completed Sala Burton’s term. This was the beginning of her long history in the House of Representatives. The next step of her career was gaining the position of House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003. After her year as the House Whip she accomplished another great honor of being the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007.
One can only speculate yes, if her last appearance with Barbra Walters could be considered to be a clue. When Sara Palin was asked by Barbra Walters whether she thought if she runs in 2012, would she be a winner over Obama, her answer was a yes without hesitation, “I think so” she said. With all this exposure that she has accumulated it would be a shame for it all to go to waste, would it not? With her new reality T.V. show “Sara Palin’s Alaska” she is bound to attract more followers, her opening night net 5 million plus viewers.
Doing this Sparta and Athens won the war against the Persians, but ended up losing to Rome. Leonidas impacted our generation today by giving us entertainment, courage, and a basis for a need for a strong military. He lived from about 540 B.C. to August 11, 480 B.C. in the battle of Thermopylae.
Ruining Dreams The United States won the gold medal for softball in the Olympics for the last 6 consecutive years. Because no team was a challenge for the U.S., Softball was taken out of the Olympics in spring 2009. Young girls who looked up to the Olympic players were robbed of their ability to aspire to be just like them. The Olympics provided a reason to keep playing and gave professionalism to the sport. Thus, softball should be a sport in the Olympics.
Factors that helped shape the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002 were social, economic and political factors. Sybil Newall from Great Britain competed in the 1908 games that were held in Great Britain. Only 2 percent of the athletes were women. The percentage went higher in 1992 from 2 percent to 29 percent. Hassiba Boulmerka an Algerian competitor, who competed in the 1992 games in Spain states that she wins give her confidence for all women in her country.
The First U.S. Woman’s Gymnastics Olympic Gold Medal Have you ever heard about Kerri Strug? If you haven’t than you are missing out. If you have heard about her then you probly know what an amazing person she is, or wait a minuet do you even know what she did to be so great? Kerri Strug was on the 1992 and the 1996 Olympic Gymnastics teams. Kerri helped lead the 1996 Olympic gymnastics team to get the gold medal, and may I add it was the first time for the U.S. Woman Olympic Gymnastics to ever win the gold medal.
Her design was very significant and also unique. There was a lot of controversy when her design was picked because what she stands for and her beliefs. Her name was not even mentioned at the dedication of the memorial in 1982. After the dedication of the memorial, she coped with the painful controversy by returning to Yale University as a graduate student. The Vietnam Memorial is the most-visited memorial in the nation’s
How the Chairwomen Conquered All Obstacles to Save FDIC and Banks--Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair Sheila Bair, as the ex-chairwomen of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, took actions to solve problems in F.D.I.C. and the crisis even though she conquered all obstacles from many different aspects. As we all know what happened in the summer of 2008, many banks and industries went to bankruptcy and the Wall Street and the whole world`s economies faced the financial crisis. Time between 2006 and 2008 should be the Golden Age of American financial industry, however, some larger banks went downhill due to some deregulations and other avoidable problems. In 2006,
On Your Mark When assigned to write an essay on the Olympic Games from a functionalist and conflict point of view I immediately thought, “Well what exactly are the Olympic Games?” The Olympic Games are defined as the following: “An international sports contest: a large-scale international sports contest intended to promote international goodwill. It has been held every four years since 1896, except for 1940 and 1944, in different cities around the world.”(Bing: Dictionary) To me; however, I do not think this technically. I simply think of a tremendous gathering of individuals hording together to watch a few of the world’s greatest athletes. Unfortunately, when I imagine “the world’s greatest athletes” women do not appear. I am almost quite certain that the “average Joe” does not exactly visualize an image of a perspiring woman, in mid-stride, thirsting to cross the finish line before her female adversaries.
As a result of, the recent recession the group hardest hit were youth, the elderly, indigenous people, the disabled, and women (Social trends and emerging challenges and their impact on public health n.d.). It is social problems such as this that demands the most attention, from our public personnel. If problems such as this are going to be dealt with, by either a private or public agency, or the combination of both of these, there will be a need to hire extra staff, more employable hours will be needed, and the finances to do it (Schottland,