Struggle; segregation; hard work; a few of many words that reverberate throughout your head when you think of, Oscar Palmer Robertson. Perhaps the most significant, valuable, and crucial word that comes to mind though, basketball.The “ How good is Oscar Robertson?” Red Auerbach - a highly respected NBA coach for many years- once said, “He is so good he scares me.” His sheer talent and dedication got him to the National Basketball Association (NBA), but his, hard work and will to win kept him there
If you went around asking people at school if they participated in any type of sport or athletic. “No” will be the most common answer. That can be for many reasons. Tons people see athletics as a waste of time and an inconvenience. Unfortunately, not many kids or adults know about the tremendous benefits of participating in athletics. They don’t know that it can help you become a better individual. Everybody should participate in some form of athletics for it allows you to make connections, get in
I first discovered speech-language pathology back when I was in high school, in a very unexpected way. I was talking with my grandmother, who had told me she received her Masters degree in Speech-Language Pathology after my father was born. My father has had hearing aids since the age of five, and had to continuously attend speech therapy while growing up. My grandmother told me stories of how she would sit with my father every night, away from his six other siblings, with the lights off and talk
Spitz was untouched, while Buck was streaming with blood and painting hard . And all the while the silent and wolfish circle waited to finish off whichever dog went down. As Buck grew winded, Spitz took to rushing, and he knocked Buck off his feet. Buck was gasping for air . Spitz walked back , not a scratch on him charged buck again . Buck rolled out the way at the second . Buck was smarter the Spitz he knew what to do … so he thought . Buck tried to go in for the neck but spitz got him down on
On August 16, 1963, a criminal was born. Larry Nassar. For over roughly 30 years he abused 150+ children in USA Gymnastics. The question of how this went on so long without being detected has lingered, but the answer is clear. It did not. It was detected, but covered up. Yet, the people least expected to know about it did. USA Gymnastics, an organization meant to protect gymnasts knew. They knew and because of that, it is brutally clear that USA Gymnastics is involved with the Larry Nassar cases
Dennis Banks, American Indian leader, teacher, lecturer, activist, and author, was born in 1932 on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. At age five he was separated from his family and placed at Pipestone Indian Boarding School. He left boarding school at age 17 and went on to serve in the U.S.Military and was stationed in Japan. In 1968 Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and Russell Means helped found the American Indian Movement (AIM), which was established to help end racism
In today’s society student athletes are often seen by others in a harsher light. They are viewed as having an expansive ego or being acquainted with a multitude of friends. Many athletes are believed to push their bodies to the limit when they attempt to improve their musculature and pay careful attention to their diets. The reality is that all of this is far from the truth as not all athletes are perfect. In fact, Athletes as whole are often misrepresented and misunderstood in today’s culture. The
The world has tried to continually, and in some instances, successfully fight injustice, inequality and discrimination brought about by slavery, colonization, and racism. The human race seems to still labor from yet another form of injustice and discrimination being championed by eugenics. Eugenics is defined by many scholars in similarly many ways, but for purposes of this paper, one definition shall suffice. Eugenics is “the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the
In 1917, a law was passed creating the Oregon State Board of Eugenics. Eugenics is the concept of promoting people with sought after physical and mental traits to reproduce in order to enhance society. The board was allowed to sterilize inmates and patients in prisons and mental institutions, and if they could not reproduce, the thought was it would improve society. However, in 1983 the law was abolished. Sterilizing people does not stop the following generation from having physical or mental abnormalities
feeblemindedness (Radford 1991). Another 22,000 sterilizations were performed in 27 states to prevent ID and other conditions thought to be heritable between the years of 1943 and 1963 (Reilly, 1987) In 1928, research by Penrose and contemporaries revealed multiple etiologies for mental illness including individual with disabilities the explanation causes not only heredity but include environmental factors, such as infection, trauma, and endocrine disturbance. (Beirne-Smith et al. 2006). Throughout
Bell. Carrie Buck, who was eight-teen, was institutionalized at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble minded. When she tried to challenge the law, an eight justice majority upheld the Virginia laws. Speaking for the majority decision, Justice Holmes suggested
In spite of eugenics being imposed by force, in the form of sexual isolation and sterilization, in other instances, it was utterly by one self-made choice. Today, the eugenics-minded government offers those that are not yet married cruises to intellectual women hoping that they will find husbands and replicate. By no means is this defiance to the reproductive freedom, even if it is reckless (Sheehy). Eugenics was the foundation for the progressive movement in some states in America, at the
1A. Ketchum feels very strongly against contracted motherhood for a number of reasons. She believes that contracted motherhood turns both women and children into property. Another complaint is that men are allowed to control the birth mother in various way. Also, women in under this contract are legally required to give up the children they bear, unlike in the case of adoption. 1B. There are many parallels between contracted motherhood and the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. In the novel, women
INTRODUCTION Literary Darwinism in the last couple of decades attracted a diversity of credible thinkers and lead to integration of literary concepts with a modern evolutionary understanding of the evolved and adapted characteristics of human nature. New age authors seem to be mixing this theory with their contemporary, speculative fiction. The Divergent series by Veronica Roth, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, The American TV series, LOST were all highly successful and set records with their readers
Bell was another significant case that had a lot of impact on this topic. Buck v. Bell was about Carrie Buck who was mentally ill. This case shows that poor white women are also mixed in with black women as burdens on our society. The superintendent of the state colony of the Epileptics and Feebleminded wanted to perform the operation of salpingectomy, cutting of the fallopian tubes, which would sterilize her (Buck v. Bell 1927: 205). The Supreme Court ruled that the “feebleminded” shouldn’t
the same thing that made Buck one of the best sled dogs ever, a Growth Mindset. Buck realizes that a growth mindset to survive and thrive in the new habitat of the Klondike region. Call of the Wild starts with introducing Buck, a mix breed between a St. Bernard and a Sheepdog. He lives on the wealthy estate of Judge Miller. Buck is soon sold into sled dogging and is sent to the Klondike region of Alaska and Canada. In Jack London’s Call of the Wild, the theme is that Buck not only uses a growth mindset
Throughout history, people have sought after a way to better and further the evolution of mankind. Most methods proved to be controversial and practiced poorly. Eugenics, a science based on improving the human population and condition through selective reproduction, is one of those methods. Many issues, such as the infamous concentration camps of Nazi Germany, surfaced across the early to mid-twentieth century. Cases such as this serve as a reminder of the dangers of putting the task of bettering
How the Buck v Bell Case Changed Virginia In Virginia, of 1927, mental facilities were allowed to perform a surgery to prevent “feeble minded” people from having children. This was because of eugenics, or the belief that mental illness could be passed down through generations. This is the reason behind the Buck v Bell case which is the only Supreme Court case that an intrusive medical procedure was considered a government policy (“3”). In June of 1924, Carrie Buck, an 18 year old Charlottesville
What prompted the rise of Eugenics in the United States was their increasing belief that deficiencies in humans were hereditary. Also, there was growing worry that Americans were providing too much support for the degenerates, and needed to place more emphasis on positively fit individuals to ‘improve’ the race. They defined an aspect of fitness with beauty while ugly as a defect (Pernick 94). Lower class people were deemed to be ‘unfit’ while the middle and upper classes were classified as superior
The bucks went 27-55 and didn’t even make a run at making the playoffs in the season before, after they got Ferdinand they improved to 56-26 and made it to the division finals before losing to the knicks. One season after he was drafted he took the bucks to the best record in the nba 66-16, and a nba championship. Alcindor won mvp of the regular season and of the finals that year