Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson-


http://www.biography.com/people/magic-johnson-9356150


http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/fl/Magic-Johnson.htm


Interview
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?adlt=strict&q=magic+johnson+interview&view=detail&mid=349EE4C1EEC4C61EAFAC349EE4C1EEC4C61EAFAC&FORM=VIRE

Eugenics
Who: people who were involuntarily sterilized by the state
What: sterilizing 7,600 people
When: Between 1929 and 1974
Where: North Carolina
Why: North Carolina was sterilizing people in order to create a more perfect society.  They were trying to rid their population of birth defects and disorders. In a 1950 pamphlet, the Human Betterment League of North Carolina said the board was protecting “the children of future generations and the community at large,” adding that “you wouldn’t expect a moron to run a train or a feeble minded woman to teach school.”

 http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article60630546.html

Affirmative Action
Who: Eastern New Mexico University
What: Affirmative Action for recruiting
When: current
Where: New Mexico
Why:  Eastern New New Mexico University allegedly follows affirmative action and equal opportunity employment.  Eastern New Mexico University subscribes to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity receiving federal funds. Eastern New Mexico University subscribes to Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in any program or activity receiving federal funds. 
http://www.enmu.edu/public-docs/affirmative-action-equal-opportunity-employer

top 5 issues links

1. Jobs
2. Empty promises
3. Gun control
4. Terrorism
5. To much information

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/year-ahead-project/#part1

http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/political-issue-priorities/pages/3/

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/barack-obama/economy-or-terrorism-which-issue-most-important-voters-n495091

Most Influential People From  1900-1980

1. Magic Johnson-http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/fl/Magic-Johnson.htm
2. Frank Sinatra-http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Frank-Sinatra.htm
3. Jane Adams- http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Jane-Addams.htm

 

babe ruth



Babe Ruth

1) What was your nickname?

Babe actually was my nickname, my birth given name is George Herman Ruth Jr.  Some of my other nicknames were "The Sultan of Swat" and "The Great Bambino" because I slap dingers.

2) What were some of your career highlights and achievements?

2× All-Star (1933, 1934)

7× World Series champion (1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932)

AL MVP (1923)

AL batting champion (1924)

12× AL home run leader (1918–1921, 1923, 1924, 1926–1931)

6× AL RBI leader (1919–1921, 1923, 1926, 1928)

AL ERA leader (1916)

New York Yankees #3 retired

Major League Baseball All-Century Team

Major League Baseball All-Time Team

3) When did you start playing in the MLB?
When I was 17, I didn't play any college ball.  I went straight from my orphanage to the big times.

4)What teams did you play for?

• Boston Red Sox (1914–1919)
• New York Yankees (1920–1934)
• Boston Braves (1935)

5)What is your birthday?

My birth date is now widely accepted as Feb. 6, 1895, but I lived my entire life convinced that I was born on Feb. 7, 1894. The birth certificate with that date was for an unnamed male child in the Ruth family. My parents lost six children in infancy, including two pairs of twins, with only George and his sister Mary Margaret, known as Mamie, surviving.

6)How did you end up on the Red Sox?
The Orioles sold me to the Boston Red Sox on July 9, 1914 along with two other players as part of a fire sale by team owner Jack Dunn, who found himself in financial straits when the presence of a Baltimore franchise in the new Federal League obliterated the Orioles’ attendance.

7) Are you married?
On Oct. 17, 1914, less than two weeks after my rookie season ended, I married Helen Woodford, a 16-year-old coffee shop waitress I had met on my first day in Boston.

8)What was a wild story you have from the time you spent with the Yankees organization?
During my first spring training with the Yankees in 1920, I went into the stands after a heckler who subsequently pulled a knife on on, but Ernie Shore, the man who preceded me to the Yankees, intervened and any actual violence was avoided.

9)How much money did you make playing ball?
My top single-season salary was $80,000, which I made in both 1930 and 1931. I was actually the first player ever to earn $50,000 in a season when I made $52,000 in 1922. According to a CPI inflation calculator from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $80,000 in 1930 is the equivalent of a little more than $1.1 million in 2016. (For the record, President Hoover made $75,000 in 1931).

10)When did you retire?
In my final game, on May 30, I struck out against Jim Bivin a pitcher for the Phillies in the top of the first inning, then hurt my knee chasing a fly ball in leftfield the bottom of the first and came out of the game. I got replaced by Hal Lee. Two days later I officially retired.

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/5099384/highlights/325151455