Ichiro Suzuki became one of the best leading hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB) during his rookie season. ... Interestingly, even though baseball is such a famous sport in Japan, nobody thought Japanese players could play well in the Major Leagues in America. The reasons for that myth are the physical make-up of the Japanese players, and there had been no Japanese major league players in history. ... However, Nomo Hideo became the first Japanese Major League player in 1995. ... Their action and attitude in the Major Leagues proved that Japanese players could play as well as or better than ...

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As quoted in Business Week, women have "few Leagues of their own."" ... The WBNA is tagged as a "runaway hit- due to the fact that it is the first women's sport to sign a deal with a major network to air their games. ... This league was to start with a 2.5 million dollar budget. ... The NHL is now working on starting on plans for a women's league. ... The softball league, WPF, was backe...

• Word Count: 1978
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• Grade Level: High School

Health insurance and unemployment pension was never a major topic for Americans, but it was popular in Europe. ... Josephine Shaw Lowell thought that there was more to be done than just assisting the poor, so she founded the New York Consumers" League (1890), which spread across the US and later became the National Consumers" League (1899). Lowell and the League were trying to improve the working conditions and wages for female workers. ... Oregon (1908), the League's most important achievement, a woman's workday was limited to ten hours, due to the damage it did on women's h...

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Hollywood played a major part in producing a number of movies that provided a release for the war-weary. ... Sports also played a major rule during World War II. ... Shortly after the invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Landis thought it might be necessary to shut down baseball for the 1942 season as they had done during World War I. ... As families saw their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers depart they turned their eyes to baseball and even though five hundred Major League ball players served in the World War II, baseball continued. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, Quindlen uses cognitive as she contrasts three major publications" methods of handling then Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush's reference to a reporter as a "major-league @$$ho!...

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Those who spoke against the Sedition bill were accused of being in league with the Jacobeans. ... They began to accuse him of being in league with France, an agent of Tallyrand and an enemy of the people of the United States. ... With our established two-party system (in marked contrast to their conceptions of factions), the freedom of press as a well developed principle, and freedom of speech the cornerstone in American's sense of liberty; it seems that there would be a major revolt. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Last week, Kobe Bryant signed a contract with the major league basketball team Lakers based in L.A. ... Many criticize Wall Street's CEOs earning fortune and widening the gap between the rich and the poor, and for the same reason, I am an opponent of ridiculously high salaries allotted to a few players in the league. ...

• Word Count: 1936
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• Grade Level: High School

The dilemma of whether or not the taking of colonies or the annexation of territories beyond the bounds of the North American land mass was congruous with previous American policies, including the Declaration of Independence, remained a major foreign policy debate between the Spanish-American War, beginning in 1898, and World War I, beginning in 1914. ... Many Americans, such as members of the American Anti-Imperialist League, became very furious over what they considered violation of this principle, such as American action in the "war of "criminal aggression,"" being the American conquest of ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Outline Thesis: The American Civil War and the Reconstruction period that took place at the end of the war, and for many years afterwards, resulted in many changes for both white and black Americans throughout the nation. I. Pre-Civil War rights for black Americans. II. The Presidents duri...

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Equality was an important issue in many countries, especially Britain and America between the 1850's to 1950's and feminism and race equality major issues campaigned for. There was a major political idea behind the want for these changes, liberalism. ...

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According to Cheryl Perry-League, Director of Equal Opportunity of the Port of Oakland, every business operating on Port of Oakland owned land must have a standing affirmative action program on record and businesses bidding to do work for the Port of Oakland must have an acceptably diverse workforce. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United States had expanded all the way to the Pacific Ocean and was rapidly becoming a major industrial and commercial nation. ... The supporters of states' rights held that the national government was a league of independent states, any of which had the right to secede. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms i...

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