Players earned their places on the team based solely on athletic prowess, not social standing. ... Baseball seemed to offer a model of what it meant to be an American, part of a team. ... During the 1920s baseball's prominent team, the Yankees, seemed to offer something for everyone. ... The 1930s and 1940s brought with them the particularly rough eras of the Great Depression and World War II. ... It was this familiarity that brought them hope and strength during the hard times. ...

• Word Count: 1929
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

This brought consistency to the participating sports men and women who were able to compare their times with others who might be competing at different venues, they now know immediately their times and positions in the world, making sport itself more professional. ... This allowed sporting teams to compete against others even though they lived great distances apart. ... By competing against teams that may have different styles, different techniques and perspectives on the sport professionalism has been enhance. This has led to the need for strategies to be developed so that teams have an in...

• Word Count: 1917
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Russians were always being viewed as the toughest rival and the team to beat according to the US. It is similar to how teams think of the defending champions in a sport. The team playing the defending champions wants to come out hyped up and with their "A-game" every time they are competing with them. ... The Red Scare brought out one of the most "politically repressive periods" in U.S. history because it took away many freedoms of expression, political activism and press. ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"You let us go off to war saying yay team lets go fight Vietnam," said Sgt. William Marshall, "Now 1968 comes along and it's boo team come on homebut don't say nothing about it because we don't want to hear about it because it's upsetting around dinner timebut you got me over there and you brought me back here and you want to forget it?... World War II strengthened our economy and brought us out of the Great Depression. ...

• Word Count: 1532
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Philip Caputo spent his life acquiring the skills of killing, learning how to fieldstrip and assemble and M-14 rifle blindfolded, how to face death, and how to cause it. This was the normal lifestyle of Caputo's time, war. Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. His life ...

• Word Count: 1407
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Hope's Edge; Traveling The Edge of Possibility", an article by mother and daughter team Lappe and Lappe, argues that globalization hurts people from around the world, including America itself. ... Lappe also gives many examples of how people have suffered the effects of globalization, how it has brought them ruin. ...

• Word Count: 1553
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the end, on December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor which fully brought the U.S. to World War II. ... At the point when the Japanese arrived at Tulagi on May 3, carrier-based U.S. planes from a team directed by Rear Admiral Frank J. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Second World War created an atmosphere of instability, suspicion, and fear, which blanketed the entire western world. Threats real and imagined existed everywhere. Since confederation, anti-oriental sentiment has been a part of white Canadian society. Japanese-Canadians were specifically stig...

• Word Count: 2229
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Rickenbacker was in England organizing a racing team for the Sunbeam Motor Company. ... The Spad was much more advanced and brought more horsepower, but because of the complexities of the engine they were grounded for repair quite often. ...

• Word Count: 2088
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School