...his mother uses the term “special” a lot when speaking about Bo. However, his mother is not the only person who saw Bo as special. While being a multiple sport athlete in high school earning the best accolades you can receive as a high school player, like all-state and he was also an all-American in football, track, and baseball. Immediately After High School, Jackson was selected by the New York Yankees in the second round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft, but he instead chose to attend Auburn for a full ride football scholarship. He was recruited by head coach Pat Dye to attend Auburn University. At Auburn, he proved to be a tremendous athlete in both baseball and football. Being one of the few to be able to come out of high school to enter college and start at two different sports. This is something extremely hard to do but Bo made it look easy by breaking numerous records for football and baseball for the University. While in college Vincent Jackson won the Heisman trophy, which is a trophy awarded to the best college football player. I know that may sound great but football was considered just a hobby to Bo and baseball was his true love. That means the whole time in college he...
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...com/1987-05-12/sports/sp-7530_1_john-scolinos http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-27/sports/sp-141_1_cal-poly-pomona http://www.wccsports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/050105aaa.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2009/11/john-scolinos-and-the-dodgers.html John Scolinos, a Los Angeles native died at age 91 due to age-related causes. A man known for his many awards and achievements, but also for creating and leaving a legacy as one of the most successful and iconic coaches in the history of collegial baseball. Scolinos life is nothing short of impressive. Graduted from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles in 1937, he played semipro baseball and was even signed by the St. Louis Browns. He briefly played in the minor leagues too, before joining the U.S. Army Air Force where he served from 1942-1945. According to a 1976 interview Scalinos did with the Los Angeles Times, "The war didn't keep me out of the big leagues," he said. "I wasn't consistent enough with the bat to have made it. I learned a lot about the game that helped me when I started coaching.” When the war was over he earned a bachelors degree at Pepperdine University, followed by his masters at USC, both in education. However, it was his coaching career that took off in 1946-1960 when he coached 14 seasons at Pepperdine University. In 1962, he became head coach at...
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...Robby Walker English 100 11/15/15 Lance Berkman Lance Berkman is my idol. In my opinion he is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, and New York Yankees. He has the most home runs by a switch hitter in Major League Baseball History. A switch hitter is someone who can hit from the right and left side of the plate. Berkman was well known for being a class act and a stand up gut in the Houston community. He now coaches for a baseball team in Houston, which is a branch off of my Major Kinesiology. Kinesiology is a huge, broad field you can do so many things off of this major, such as, Coach, Therapists, and teacher. Lance Berkman started his career late and that’s because he played in the Major League for 13 seasons. Now, he is in my field of study and he coaches and teaches now. Berkman played baseball at Canyon High School, Berkman then attended Rice University, where he played college baseball for the Rice Owls. He was named the 1997 National College Player of the Year. The Houston Astros selected Berkman in the first round of the 1997 MLB Draft, and he debuted in MLB for the Astros in 1999. Berkman was one of the Astros' "Killer B's" in the mid-2000s, along with Jeff Bagwell, Carlos Beltran, Craig Biggio, and Derek Bell. The Astros traded Berkman to the Yankees at the 2010 trade deadline. He spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the Cardinals, and the 2013 season with the Rangers...
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...This story is about a baseball player in 1952. His name is Hank “the hammer” Aaron. He was one of the best African American baseball players ever. He even shattered babe’s homerun record in 1974. He loved the sport and he didn’t care about fame or money, he just wanted to play ball. In high school Hank played football. He was the all star for his team an all American. He even got offers from Florida A and M but declined it for baseball. He became really good at base ball so he stuck with it for the rest of his life. Hank had an older sister that ran the family tavern and was a sever to make money. His brother Herbert jr. worked at a grocery store to make money. And as for Hank he mowed and picked potatoes to make money. His dad was an assistant for a boilermaker at the dry docks and his mom was a stay at home mom. They only made eight to nine dollars total. Hank had a brother that died at two because of pneumonia. And he had a son who had as an infant also. So Hank had a couple of thought things to deal with that had to be hard for him. Hank went from an all American football player to the world’s greatest baseball player. The reason why he went to baseball was he liked it more and he didn’t think he was that great at football. He always played base ball with his friends as a kid. After his choruses were done he would take a path that he made from his house to the park and would play ball there. In the 1960s he played in the Negro league. He was the best in the league...
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...the best athlete ever. I think baseball players are the most fun to talk about. I am going to tell everyone about Derek Jeter's achievements, personal life, early childhood, endorsements, and his professional baseball career. I am going to start off talking about Jeter's achievements. Derek Jeter was awarded many trophies over his 20 seasons in the majors. Jeter won one of the best trophies in baseball, the World Series trophy. Derek won that trophy 5 times and even own World Series MVP in 2000. Derek...
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...The day came Cincinnati were gonna pick who they want before The Yankees. Derek stated picturing himself in the Cincinnati uniform.At the last moment phone rang and it was the Yankees offical , Cincinnati had picked someone else and Derek was now on the Yankees. Before he signed the contract with the Yankees he asked them if they would pay for his collage and they agreed and Derek had to sign a 700,000 dollar contract to play for the Yankees. The Yankees sent Derek to their Rookie league minor league and he did horribly.His defence was horrible his batting average went from .578 to .200 and got worse. After Every bad play he made in his game after he would call his parents and spend more than $300 a month to talk them and he started losing confidence. Derek packed his bags and headed to North Carolina where the Yankees told him go for his new assignment the Greensboro Hornets of the South Atlantic league. They put him in Class A so he can develop new skills. 1993 he started his first season as a pro. He was focused to make his defense better. In the 1994 season The Yankees decided to move Derek from Class A league to the Class AA league and it seemed like it was easy for...
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...kitchen cooking myself a pork chop when suddenly my father came in and asked me what I was doing. I’d reply, I’m making myself a pork chop and then he’d reply how ever did you become so smart as to know how to make a pork chop and then I’d reply that I had taken a cooking class when I was in school. I might have eaten the pork chop right away if it hadn’t been for me burning myself touching the hot stove and the hot pan of which I had no idea that you had to use cooking cloves with because I was never told even in cooking class. My father having seen me scream because of me burning my hand quickly ran to my side and then asked me if I was alright and I would say that I was. Other times me and my father would play catch with a baseball, sometimes he’d throw a baseball to me and I would hit it, other times he’d play basketball with me and then football throwing me the football and then running after me to tackle me where I would laugh when he caught me. I remember the first song I ever listened to with my father. It was about the time when I was 7 and Bill Haley and the comets were popular and a song called rock around the clock would come on the radio and I would listen to it all the time. There was even...
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...“Field of Bull” Realism is all about showing the truth. A realist will try to defend the assumptions that their film ideas are not influenced, but are a true mirror of the actual world. We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; they often aim for a gritty look, with the idea that if it’s too pretty, it’s false. Their films are about everyday people and everyday situations. At the opposite side of realism, we have Formalism. Formalist directors have no desire to show reality. They want to show their personal vision of the world and how they want their audience to view it. They are concerned with mythical and spiritual truths that can best be represented by distorting the image of reality. Classicism to bring in a third theory is all about ideal storytelling, it lies somewhere in between realism and formalism. (Understanding Movies 5) The goal of a classicist is to tell a story in the best way possible. They want you to get caught up in the characters and their problems, to feel what they feel, but not be distracted by the filmmaking techniques. The two films we screened in class Bull Durham directed by Ron Shelton, and Field of Dreams based on the novel Shoeless Joe directed by Phil Alden Robinson both demonstrate these film theories throughout their movies but in a very different matter. Bull Durham is a great realistic example of what the sport of baseball means to the men who play it. It's all about the dreams, the desire to compete, and the ultimate goal to one day...
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...“Field of Bull” Realism is all about showing the truth. A realist will try to defend the assumptions that their film ideas are not influenced, but are a true mirror of the actual world. We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; they often aim for a gritty look, with the idea that if it’s too pretty, it’s false. Their films are about everyday people and everyday situations. At the opposite side of realism, we have Formalism. Formalist directors have no desire to show reality. They want to show their personal vision of the world and how they want their audience to view it. They are concerned with mythical and spiritual truths that can best be represented by distorting the image of reality. Classicism to bring in a third theory is all about ideal storytelling, it lies somewhere in between realism and formalism. (Understanding Movies 5) The goal of a classicist is to tell a story in the best way possible. They want you to get caught up in the characters and their problems, to feel what they feel, but not be distracted by the filmmaking techniques. The two films we screened in class Bull Durham directed by Ron Shelton, and Field of Dreams based on the novel Shoeless Joe directed by Phil Alden Robinson both demonstrate these film theories throughout their movies but in a very different matter. Bull Durham is a great realistic example of what the sport of baseball means to the men who play it. It's all about the dreams, the desire to compete, and the ultimate goal to one day...
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...Video Games: Friends or Foes Individual Research Paper JRSB 311: Ethics Fundamentals Online Class Chaitanya Patel March 22, 2013 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Introduction to modern games 1 The history of gaming 2 1976 2 1985 3 Early 1990’s 3 1997 3 Modern gaming 4 Influence of violent games 5 Other Factors 6 Ethics Point of View 9 Government Policy 10 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Introduction to modern games Everyone loves playing games, whether it is a two year old or a 20 year old; it is the kind of game they play is different. The younger generation has turned towards playing video games; with every generation of new graphics card comes out a new level of realism is achieved, and the developer tries to make more games that look like and has feel of a real life. We already spend hours out of our daily routine either killing zombies in walking dead, or killing other people and dealing drugs to become a crime lord in Grand Theft Auto, or sometimes just living a completely different life style in a role playing game like second life and World of Warcraft. We prefer to sit home and play video games rather than go out and play hide and seek. Most of us who are not good at physical sports like soccer or baseball, tries to play and be good at those sports in video games like NBA and Tiger Woods. We try to be a person that we are not or in some cases we cannot be, in video games. Someone tries to live their fantasy of...
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...gangster, shooting at each other, unafraid of cops or actual gangsters shooting back, because the cops don’t shoot us and the gangsters are imaginary. This is the first story, and it ends with attending college preparatory school; it ends with trusting cops to protect and serve; and it ends with the privilege of writing essays about racism when we’ve never experienced it ourselves. The second story begins a galaxy away, on the streets of Baltimore, with nothing but the fear of losing your body and mind, where remnants of racism aren’t found in nods or looks but through the conditions of the schools, the preservation of the roads, and the state of your family, where power doesn’t come from your career, instead from the thrill of death and the game of the streets, a place where the kids don’t get to choose to play gangster, but where they have to for survival of both the body and the mind, where mourning is done over bodies not possibilities, for there are none, and where Skittles and toy glocks are in evidence rooms and not in shopping malls, where you beat or are beaten, where the unknowns of the street are known—a place lived in from birth to death, where Meccas can only save a few. This story is told by Ta-Nehisi Coates in his book Between the World and Me, a piece chronicling the experience of what it is to be a black man in the United States. Addressed to his son, Coates uses fervent emotional expression to articulate his ideas about dreams, race, and struggle. Instead of a traditional...
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...spend that free time playing video games. Video games are a good way of stress relief, a way to get away from the realities of everyday life and into a virtual world. Some will say that video games have lead to kids being more obese because they don't get outside and play. They say that video games contribute to violence, because acts in games are reenacted by individuals. Video games have also lead to addiction like those from drugs and alcohol. Games have done more to benefit society, than harm it. Video game simulations are used in many fields from the military, education, medical, and the science field. What was once just a break from tedious task on the job has now turned into a billion-dollar industry that doesn't have any signs of slowing down. Some of the negatives of gaming are now being overshadowed by the overwhelming positives. With introduction of the Nintendo Wii we now have interactive video game system that requires users to interact with the game. Gamers no longer sit back and play games but now they are required to interact with them. With games becoming a more integral part of everyday life, the real potential and benefits are now becoming realized. Games are being put into use as educational training aids, that making learning fun and seamless. They are blurring the lines between virtual and reality. With an industry with so much potential, where is it headed? History of videogames The first electronic games were not played at home or even at...
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...WRIT001: Academic Writing (Business Research Track) AY2012/2013, Term 2 Title of Essay Assignment 3: Business Report by Name: Nguyen Huy Phuc Student identification number: G0671469U Group No. G6 Course Instructor: Professor Dawn I declare that this Assignment is my original work and all information obtained from other sources has been cited accordingly. 1800 16% Signature Assignment Word Count (words) Turnitin Similarity Index (%) 06/04/2013 Date April 4 Application of exergames and technology-‐based weight loss intervention in reducing obesity among Great Eastern’s employees and increasing other benefits To Board of Directors Human Resources Manager Marketing Director Nguyen Huy Phuc Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................
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...100 years. - The world of sports has helped to grow the business of tv, while tv has enable sports ventures, worldwide, to become high-end family entertainment. By the end of the '50s, what happened to sports programming and where during the weekly programming schedule did they find their place? What were the factors mentioned in the text that contributed to this change in programming? Other genres began to mature and develop their own loyal audience, most of which were women. Sports disappeared from prime time tv, settling into a very profitable and successful weekend niche. In the'40s and '50s in what way did sports impact tv? - During this era, sports fans became TV set owners and no sport had a larger following than baseball. - Putting...
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...Running Head: Online Game Addiction Perception of and Addiction to Online Games as a Function of Personality Traits Searle Huh University of Southern California and Nicholas David Bowman Michigan State University Online Publication Date: April 26, 2008 Journal of Media Psychology, V 13, No. 2, Spring, 2008 Abstract With the growing popularity of online video games, there have been anecdotal reports suggesting that these games are highly addictive, with some gamers spending in excess of 40 to 50 hours per week playing. Thus, research into the individual characteristics that lead to excessive play is warranted. This paper examines two individual variables – personality and perceptions of media – and explores how they relate to online game play, specifically online game addiction. By presenting a revised metric for online game addiction, this paper explores the relationship between addiction and both personality and perception. Online addiction is presented in this paper as a process addiction with four unique factors: perceived social sanctions, excessive play, uncontrollable play, and displacement. Both personality and perception are found to be significantly associated with online game addiction. These results are interpreted and discussed, and future research direction is suggested. Keywords: online game addiction, Big Five personality traits, media perception, MMOs Perception and Addiction of Online Games as a Function of Personality Traits ...
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