In addition to (host) the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing successfully hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics after winning the (elect) in 2015. Xu Haifeng won our country's first-ever gold medal. Then Liu Xiang became the first Asian (win) the gold medal in the men's 110-metre hurdles at the...
France superstar Kylian Mbappé, who led his country to the final for the second straight time in 2022 before losing to Lionel Messi and Argentina, once posed with Trump's daughter and son-in-law; Mbappé posed for a photo with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at the 2022 Wo...
The 2004 Major League Baseball season was unlike any other in my lifetime. The World Series was pure magic, legendary. It's the stuff that baseball dreams are made of. Not only was the 2004 season historic in that it was the first time that the Boston Red Sox won the World Series sin...
Defending Masters champion Jordan Spieth entered the back nine of the 2016 final round with a five-stroke lead but went into a tailspin that crescendoed with a quadruple bogey on the 12th hole. The famed Rae’s Creek sits at the bottom of the short par three, protecting the front of the...
CHAPTER 6 Global Mass Society The most important development that accelerated contemporary globalization was the universalization of capitalism when the Cold War ended. Capitalism advanced into the separate economic system led by the Soviet Union, which collapsed by 1991. In the name of "free trade,...