...Vincent “Bo” Jackson, just a boy from Bessemer, Alabama becomes one of the most dominate players in both the NFL and MLB. Not only was he the first to show it was possible to play both sports, he excelled in both of them. Bo Jackson showed through his short lived sports career he was capable of deeds of great strength and courage. On and off the football and baseball field he was a great warrior persevering through injuries, opponents, and people who doubted him. Lastly, Jackson was extremely humble and did what he did not for the rewards but because he loved the games. Bo Jackson gave American Sports something they have never seen before and became an Epic Hero while doing it. Every since he was a kid Bo should greats feats of strength that...
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...Bo Jackson has always been a larger than life ideal, possessing many characteristics of an epic hero. He played not one, but two professional sports. He was a superstar in both Professional Football and Professional Baseball. Even at a young age he was doing many things out of the ordinary. For example, he jumped over a volkswagon bug and landed the jump. This is just one of the many things that made him better than a normal person. Although he was born in a small poor town in Alabama, Bo is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, he possess humility, and he has traveled over a vast setting. Bo Jackson was born with incredible strength and courage. From a young age till his retirement he showcased his strength and...
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...Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson is hands down more qualified for the title as the greatest athlete. Jackson, the eighth of ten children, was born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama, and was named after Vince Edwards his mother's favorite actor. At a young age his family always noticed Bo was bigger and faster than the average kid, 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...
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...Bo Jackson was an epic professional baseball and professional football player who was widely known for his epic, previously never seen feats. When he was young, he could do things most grown men couldn’t. He could do a backflip in thigh high water and land on his feet. His skill made other professional athletes look like minor league players. Even though he came from a poor Alabama family he became a great hero who was strong, courageous and humble. Bo Jackson was extremely strong without working out or training. He was stronger and faster than his opponents. When he was a young child he would participate in crabapple fights with kids in the neighborhood. He would throw the crabapples through screen doors because the other kids would...
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...rockier style than Dion's earlier hits with the Belmonts. The Del-Satins were an established doo-wop group led by Stan Ziska (later known as Stan Sommers), who at the time were also contracted to Laurie Records, and who later formed the core of Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge. Musicians on the original recording included Bobby Gregg, Bucky Pizarelli and Johnny Falbo on guitars, Jerome Richardson on alto sax, Buddy Lucas on tenor sax, and Panama Francis and Sticks Evans on drums.[citation needed] Dion said of "The Wanderer":[2] At its roots, it's more than meets the eye. "The Wanderer" is black music filtered through an Italian neighborhood that comes out with an attitude. It's my perception of a lot of songs like "I'm A Man" by Bo Diddley or "Hoochie Coochie Man" by Muddy Waters. But you know, "The Wanderer" is really a sad song. A lot of guys don't understand that. Bruce Springsteen was the only guy who accurately expressed what that song was about. It's "I roam from town to town and go through life without a care, I'm as happy as a clown with my two fists of iron, but I'm going nowhere." In the fifties, you didn't get that dark. It sounds like a lot of fun but it's about going nowhere. However, on Maresca's original demo of the...
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...Bo Jackson was a real life eric hero. He was one of most strongest and fastest athletes to ever live. What was special about him was that it was all natural. You would expect him to get all his muscle from lifting weights or using steroids. In reality, all that power and speed came naturally to him. Even though Bo Jackson has all the characteristics of an epic hero, the obvious ones were him being capable of deeds of great strength and courage, him traveling over a vast setting, and Bo being a great warrior. Bo Jackson is the definition of great strength and courage. At batting practice for the Royals, Bo hit a ball so far it hit the crown on the Royals scoreboard. No one has ever done that before or after him. One time he was standing in...
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...Bo Jackson, a man who truly is the definition of a rags to riches story, a man who is a legend both in athletics and personality. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest to play both baseball and football, yet is not too recognized in either sport. He is a hero who has a fantastic story, one with lows and highs. His feats could be compared with that of even Beowulf. As a child, Bo grew up in a rough place, Bessemer, Alabama. His town was riddled with poverty, and his family was poor as well. He would play with the neighbor kids, and throw crabapples at each other, which taught him how to throw quickly in a way. When he got to high school, even then he astounded starting legends around the nation, such as when he jumped out of waist high water and did a backflip....
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...Vincent “Bo” Jackson was born on November 30, 1962, in Bessemer, Alabama. He was a constant trouble maker growing up. His cousins and siblings compared his toughness to a wild boar hog, and gave him the nickname “Bo.” It was very obvious early on that Bo was an extraordinary athlete. For example, he could dunk a stick into a basketball hoop in the 8th grade. After Bo and others killed $3,000 worth of hogs, the minister encouraged Bo’s mother to send him to reform school. Bo realized he needed to change his behavior. He turned his anger into energy for sports. Bo Jackson is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, a great warrior, and humble. Bo Jackson exhibited great strength and courage without having to put in much effort. His natural talent was unremarkable. At a young age, Bo saw practice as a waste of time because he was so far ahead of everybody. Bo showed an incredible amount of courage by choosing Auburn over Alabama. He didn’t care about the Alabama’s winning past. Instead, Bo cared about what impact he could make to help his team. His coaches at Auburn would introduce skills taught in the NFL and Bo would master them in a couple of days. Bo’s first...
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...Bo Jackson is a machine like athlete who was able to create his own epic story through the NFL and MLB. As a little boy he began to make a name for himself as a boy that wasn’t like the rest. In high school, Bo was able to set records in track and Field and even become a two-time state champion in the decathlon. Bo was so good at sports that he reached a point that practice was pointless. Bo was a legend that came from a poor family but even that was able to help shape his epic story of national heroism, of a great warrior of great strength and courage. Bo was a great warrior fighting against the best players and even himself as well. Many great players in the football world tried to take him and even a former seattle player who many said...
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...Chapter 4 RnR erupted in 1950s ~ kind of… Major RnR songs: “Rock around the clock” by Bill Haley and his comets 1955 “Crazy man crazy” by Bill Haley 1953 “Sixty minute man” by Dominoes 1951 Definition is vague, as it has to deal with RnB, sexual context and the actual genre of RnR. Sexual context of the term dates back into the mediaeval times. E.g. Shakespeare RnR was very multicultural. A simple algebraic formula for RNR is RnB + CnW = RnR, but it is overlooking some other significant elements that contributed to the creation of the RnR. RnR meant ethnicity and working-class African American contribution was also significant White and Black performers were equally performing Black church from jazz/gospel Ray Charles (I got a woman), Clyde McPhatter (Treasure of love), Sam Cooke (You send me). The Orioles, the Crows, the Chords, the Penguins created the sub genre of RnR “doo wop”. Barely any females in RnR. Only occasional females in charts like Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker Women did not sing, they were sung about, often in sexual connotation songs. RCA, CBS, Decca, and Capitol released more than 80% of all weekly top 10 hits. What allowed independent labels to compete with others: * poorly capitalized independent radio stations * Development of lightweight 45 rmp record no the 78 rmp. In early 1950s patterns of ownership started to change from individual stations to “chains” Todd Storz and Gordon McLendon both owned radio chains, who solved...
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...James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues” is yet another literary masterpiece encompassing the adversity and perseverance of African Americans throughout history. Entranced by the metaphorical weight of the blues, I heard its heaviness intertwined with the throe of the characters as the deafening melody of Harlem’s woe rang from the pages. Baldwin depicts his underlying theme of oppression in the experiences of his characters. Early in the story, the narrator reflects on the day of his father’s funeral when his mother tells him of his uncle’s unjust demise. “Your father says he heard his brother scream when the car rolled over him, and he heard…them white men shouting…And, time your father got down the hill, his brother weren’t nothing but blood and pulp.” (Baldwin 56). Even the narrator himself recalls the tragic death of his two-year-old daughter, Gracie, and the desperation that led to him contacting his brother. Moreover, Sonny was lost in a sea of torment and addiction. “I can’t get anything straight in my head down here and I try not to think about what’s going to happen to me when I get outside again. Sometime I think I’m going to flip and never get outside and sometime I think I’ll come straight back. I tell you one thing, though, I’d rather blow my brains out then go through this again.” (Baldwin 51). Baldwin also illustrates the theme of oppression in his portrayal of Harlem. But houses exactly like houses of out past yet dominated the landscape, boys exactly like the boys...
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...One Girl Changed My Life My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts. And books, big Braille books that came with me on streetcars, to the table, and to bed. Then one night at a high school dance, a remark, not intended for my ears, stabbed my youthful bliss: “That girl, what a pity she is blind.” Blind! That ugly word that implied everything dark, blank, rigid, and helpless. Quickly I turned and called out, Please don’t feel sorry for me, I’m having lots of fun. But the fun was not to last. With the advent of college, I was brought to grips with the problem of earning a living. Part-time teaching of piano and harmony and, upon graduation, occasional concerts and lectures, proved only partial sources of livelihood. In terms of time and effort involved, the financial remuneration was disheartening. This induced within me searing self-doubt and dark moods of despondency. Adding to my dismal sense of inadequacy was the repeated experience of seeing my sisters and friends go off to exciting dates. How grateful I was for my piano, where—through Chopin, Brahms, and Beethoven—I could mingle my longing and seething energy with theirs. And where I could dissolve my frustration in the beauty and grandeur of their conceptions. Then one day, I met...
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...“The Tank” Logan Lupo 4-15-15 Research Methods Miss Rosario Lupo 2 Logan Lupo 4-15-15 8-1 Research Methods “The Tank” Bo Jackson is nothing but an athlete. He’s a self-taught man growing up with a family of ten. It was hard for Jackson not getting much attention for his parents. But somehow Bo Jackson managed to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, to find great success in both football and baseball. Bo Jackson didn’t have it easy growing up, considering it was a family of ten. His Mother gave him the name Vincent Edward Jackson but later nicknamed him after a wild boar “Bo”, as he would constantly get into trouble. There family didn’t make the most money but it was enough to live off of for Bo and his family....
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...Bo Jackson grew up in a not very wealthy area and had a tough time fitting in. Ever since Bo was a kid he always had something about him that made him different from the rest of the kids. Bo Jackson has multiple stories that are hard to believe to be true but when people consider his skills in life and sports, they all want to believe them stories. People say that he has jumped over a car, dunked a stick in a basketball goal in eighth grade, and leaped over a forty foot ditch after killing pigs with stones. These things are all the types of things that a normal teenage kid would or could do. With the force and skill that Bo has it is easy to see that he falls under the category of being an epic hero. Bo Jackson is considered a hero because of his great strength and courage, his traveling over vast settings, and his humility....
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...Sistematización del desarrollo de las competencias laborales de jóvenes emprendedores rurales integrados en el Gruppo Salinas y su incidencia en la generación de empleo, calidad de vida de sus familias y la economía local a partir de 1970 hasta 2014. Salinas se ubica al norte de la provincia de Bolívar. Actualmente, existe una población aproximada de 10.000 ciudadanos. Por otra parte, el sector agropecuario en el Ecuador el sector representa en forma directa el 8,39% del PIB y sien embargo adolece de problemas estructurales. Aproximadamente el 42,03% de los habitantes rurales son pobres y un 17,39% están en situación de pobreza extrema. La incidencia de la pobreza rural es casi 2,4 veces la de las zonas urbanas y la pobreza extrema, casi 4 veces. Estructura Organizacional Luego de más de 40 años de trabajo, y con base en los éxitos alcanzados y los fracasos (muchos proyectos fracasaron), han surgido nuevas microempresas, cooperativas y entidades de apoyo. Actualmente, todas estas entidades están agrupadas y regidas bajo la figura jurídica (creada en el 2006) de Gruppo Salinas. Emprendimientos implementados Actualmente se producen y comercializan cerca de 150 productos diferentes (para el consumo local e internacional). Los emprendimientos de las microempresas familiares conformadas y que brindan un gran servicio a sus comunidades se cuenta con: Producoop que produce derivados de leche, quesos, mantequilla, yogurt; Confites Salinerito es una microempresa administrada...
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