The University of Dayton Men’s Basketball Program There have been many historical moments with the University of Dayton Flyers Men’s Basketball team, but Mark Weaver recalls of the one that meant most to him. It took place on March 24, 1967, in Louisville’s Freedom Hall for the Final Four of the NCAA (National College Athletic Association) tournament against the highly favored North Carolina Tar Heels (Collett 228). This was the third straight NCAA tournament appearance for the Flyers, but their
The Montgomery County Fairgrounds “When people arrived in the morning on the 17th there was a display of horses, cattle and farm products” (Drury 807). “The first Montgomery County Agricultural Fair was held in Dayton at Swaynie’s Hotel on East First Street October 17th and 18th, 1839” (Drury 807). 1853, the state fair was held on Washington Street, the same year the county fair was held there (Drury 807) then in 1874, “the Southern Ohio Fair Association began having fairs on the Montgomery County
Speech #2: Informative Speech Attention Statement: How many of you have seen or heard of the Disney movie, “Cadet Kelly?” For those of you that have not seen the movie, there’s girl named Kelly that goes off to military school, and while she’s there she develops an interest in drill team, which in the movie, involves a group of people doing various marching drills and spinning rifles. During high school, I was a part of something similar but a little less militaristic, and a little bit more artistic
built the SkyCycle, a pedal powered blimp in 1907, which he flew at Driving Park. The world’s first commercial cargo flight was conducted by Phillip Parmalee, on of Wright Brothers exhibition pilots, flew two packages containing 88 kgs of silk from Dayton to Columbus in a Wright model B. It was the time during the World War I, the military aviators of Columbus distinguished themselves. Eddie Rickenbacker led a team of six Columbus pilots and achieved 42 kills, which is ten percent of the United States
The Role of Women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In the Fourteenth Century, Feudalism and its offspring, chivalry, were in decline due to drastic social and economic changes. In this light, _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ presents both a nostalgic support of the feudal hierarchies and an implicit criticism of changes, which, if left unchecked will lead to its ultimate destruction. I would suggest that the women in the story are the Gawain poet's primary instruments in this critique and reinforcement