Olympics Constrain Host Cities

Notes: Tropical Cyclone Tracey caused an impact in economy of about 950 million dollars in. Also, Tropical Cyclone Tracey lead to a loss in population which dropped the people in jobs decimating local businesses. Tropical Cyclone Tracey destroyed over 9000 homes. Most of the buildings were not built to cyclone regulations despite they were in the cyclone belt. This would have cost them lots of money to rebuild everything again and would have taken a long time to regrow the environment to how it was before.

In the following quote from the Homestead strike reading is a reflection of what happened, “The Battle at Homestead will be remembered as an occasion where human greed and civil rights collided and neither one came out on top” The Homestead strike made the Industrial Revolution more harmful because it lost many lives that didn’t need to be lost. Carnegie company was one of the richest ever and it couldn’t afford to give poor men and women a small pay raise. Also, they created a horrible situation by sending in the Pinkertons to do their dirty work. The amazing thing is that Frick had a huge mansion ten miles away but he still had to starve families. In conclusion, the violent labor disputes made the industrial revolution more harmful and lost unnecessary

If they are caught before the event, they are not allowed to compete. If they are caught after the event, they must forfeit their medals and their records are erased. Sometimes, countries are banned from the Olympic. Because of the doping in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), decided last month, that the Russian Olympic team is not allowed to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics, taking place in Pyeongchang, South Korea. This is the harshest punishment in Olympic history.

A copious amount of wealth have been invested into previous games. Namely the investments inquired remain overdue after the games. During the 2016 games, The seaside city Rio de Janeiro, debate over the costs and benefits of hosting such a mega-event. A year passing, the city still struggles with debt in result of maintenance costs for abandoned facilities. In response, Candidate cities for future games withdraw their bids or scale down their plans.

The economic cost faced by the locals do not stop here; during the Olympics inflation rates are observed to become high in host cities making it difficult for locals to afford most goods and services. On the overall, the host country does not necessarily benefit from tourist influx due to Olympics as the other tourists planning to visit these locations are turned away due to the crowding of the host city. "According to The Economist, Beijing and London both attracted fewer visitors during their summer Olympics in 2008 and 2012 respectively than they had in the same period a year earlier" (McArdle). Therefore, it can be observed that the host eventually loses economically making it non-viable to have different Olympic site every

America’s Overlooked Economy The United States is known for training world class athletes. America comes out on top when our athletes compete on the national level. Likewise, this is the case when David Brooks defines our current economic standing. “Is Our Country as Good as Our Athletes?” By David Brooks provides why our economy is just as dominant compared to our athletes. The persuasive article educates the American people when Brooks uses examples of logos, rhetorical question, and tone to explain how our economy is thriving similarly to our Olympic athletes who are bringing home the gold.

Even though the fence along the U.S./Mexico border is already being built, it should not continue being built because it is expensive, hurts the environment, and immigration rates have significantly dropped. With the wall comes its high costs like the cost of materials to build it or the money paid to the workers that are building it. When President Trump was doing the presidential campaign, he predicted the border was going to cost about twelve billion dollars, but that turned out to be untrue. Vanda Felbab-Brown herself writes, "... A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal report in February put the cost at $21.6 billion, but that may be a major underestimate.” Most of this is due to the size of the wall and all the fees that come along with building the wall on other territories. You would think that Trump would pay for it all himself but, that is simply not the case.

During Kristallnacht (“The night of the broken glass”), 8,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 30,000 Jews taken to concentration camps. Almost 2,000 through 2,500 deaths were caused by the terrible events of that horrible night. This tragedy was not only the SS and SA carrying out this persecution but it was met with involvement of many German citizens. German citizens aren’t as innocent as history makes them. Now there were some Germans who opposed to the Holocaust, that were afraid to speak out because Hitler was so powerful at the time.

Pericles was not a hero because he brought a horrible plague to Athens. This begun when the Spartans marched into the Athenian countryside and started to burn their food supply. In response, Pericles rounded up all of the residents and animals of the countryside inside the city walls. Within the next 2 years, a horrible plague spread through Athens, killing 1/3 of the population. A true hero would not have been this careless to have a large concentration of people in such a small area,

When the day arrived, however, a massive snowstorm had blanketed the region, preventing King from reaching Memphis and causing the march to be rescheduled for 28 March. Memphis city officials estimated that 22,000 students skipped school that day to participate in the demonstration. King arrived late and found a massive crowd on the brink of chaos. Lawson and King led the march together but had to quickly call off the