In 1905, the intercollegiate lacrosse league was formed. ... The major surge in popularity of NCAA lacrosse started in the late 80's, when attendance to games first began to rise. ... This was what Fritz and Cline intended when forming the league as a way to attract fans and make money. ... Although the league had a shaky beginning, it soon changed its name into the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL) and grew into other cities such as Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Charlotte, and Boston. ... The monopolistic management and player discontent finally clashed in a major players strike in 199...

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Despite all the arguments the League of Nations Covenant was rat! ... The Assembly consisted of all League members and all had equal voting rights. ... The League's powers in the 1930's were in doubt due to its helplessness when major powers were involved mainly the events around WW2. ... The new United Nations is far more complex then its predecessor the League of Nations, but its intentions and structure are corresponding the UN Charter has provisions to address the faults if the League's Covenant. ... One major difference between the League and the UN in the UN became a genu...

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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...

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It was he who christened a new era in Major League Baseball "the Home Run. ... In 1946 the major leagues still represented only sixteen cities, none west of St. ... After the integration of the pioneer black professional player Jackie Robinson, still only a handful of African Americans had been allowed to enter the minor leagues after decades of exclusion. ...

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The areas that thes people travel to are places like Belgium, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States being one of the major ones. But all of these countries have major "pull factors" such as poverty. The United States is a major destination for traffickers and their victims, and its one of the ten countries on a list of 139 that is "very high" for human trafficking. ... In 1926 the Slavery Convention was created by the League of Nations. Even though the League of Nations ended in 1946, the Slavery Convention was adopt...

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This was to become known as the League of Nations that, ironically, the US Congress never ratified and thus never actually joined. ... Britain, being included in the League of Nations, not to mention being geographically close in proximity to the European continent, as well as being allied with France and Belgium (both of whom were invaded) were unfortunately sucked into the vacuum of conflict that had swept the globe into turmoil. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in...

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And, with the Depression in 1931, this desolate country took a major blow, especially in terms of their trading economy. ... The League of Nations comdemned this attack and Japan replied by withdrawing from the League. ... This agreement gave them the srength they needed to force major issues with thr U.S. ...

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Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest tragedies ever to Americans. However, very few things are said about the Japanese point of view, what their conditions were, what they did to plan out the attack, and what the consequences of this attack was, both long term and short term. While the attack on Pea...

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Noriega, Panama's defacto leader, was in league with the US, the CIA, and the Drug Enforcement Agency until 1986. In June 1987 violent popular demonstrations erupted in the streets, due to reports of election fraud and Noriega's involvement in major human rights abuses. ... A turning point occurred in February 1988, when the United States declared drugs to be the major threat to American society at the same time that Noriega was indicted in Florida for drug trafficking and money laundering. ...

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The first major change in sex and gender I want to mention is the first U.S. birth control clinic opened in 1916 by Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn, NY. ... Despite the law putting a brief halt to Sanger's cause, she did not hesitate as she then helped organize the National Birth Control League of the United State, which we now know today as the Planned Parenthood Organization. ... Another major difference in how sex and gender have evolved is due to the television. ... In conclusion I believe sex and gender has made a major shift in how they are viewed by today's public compared to a ...

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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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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. ...

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Since wheelchair rugby isn't a state by state team but a one country team, around 500 players throughout the United States try for a spot on the team and only twelve of the best get chosen, like any other major league or professional team. ...

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The society, peer pressure, and the media play the major part in gearing adolescents to finding out about, knowing, and finally engaging in sexual intercourse before they are both physically and mentally capable of handling the reality that accompanies sexual activities. ... "Even as late as 1993, a proposal in the New Jersey Legislature that required school sex-ed programs to stress abstinence provoked fierce opposition from establishment groups, ranging from the New Jersey Education Association to the League of Women Voters. ... On television shows like "Dawson's Creek", and "Gilmore ...

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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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He has owned oil business's and also part of a major league baseball team. ... In a confederalist government "the constituent states join for common purposes but retain the ultimate authority and can veto any major governmental actions." ...

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For instance, a good example of attraction was in the 1960s when Japan played a major role in affecting the neighboring countries found in Southeast Asia. ... In 1938, as the League of Nations fell apart the prime minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, used a new form of foreign policy in order to keep peace with Hitler. ... Almost all the news sources of major Russian television networks broadcast the exact same stories about the Crimean Crisis (Weir, 2014). ...

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December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. They came from Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He called upon these self proclaimed patriots to help him found a society of pro-American's known as the John Birch Society. "The ultimate reason that brought each man here,"" Welch said, "was a sense of patriotic duty, and deep concern for the future of his family and his country- (4). He felt America was at great risk to succumbing to outside forces. ...

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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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If the regional organizations such as the EU or the Arab League become stronger, they may assume the peacekeeping role played nowadays by the United Nations. ... The major powers struggled through months of difficult diplomacy for the culmination of a resolution. ...

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Should we allow performance-enhancing drugs in sports? "Only the most nave sports fan can be shocked-shocked!-that drugs and athletics go together like socks and sweats.""(Sharon Begley and Martha Brant: The real Scandal in International Sport: Doping 181). How nave are we as sport fans? Do we real...

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Citizenship of the Freed Slaves during and After the Reconstruction Slavery and the citizenship seem to be in contradiction of each other from top to bottom. Slavery is the state one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household whereas citizenship is the state of the status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges. The exhausting journey form slavery to citizenship cripples to depict the miseries of those countless people who were just turned out of doors with ingratitude and detestation, ruthless than the stabbing winter's wind. The men's ...

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It is backed by the nation's most prestigious civil groups, from the League of Woman Voters to the American Civil Liberty Union. ... The stand on abortion between the two major political powers of our nation seems just as unclear and deluded as the issue is among most people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs. ...

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