...Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 18th, 1934 to Melchor Clemente, a sugar cane mil foreman, and Luisa Walker, who did laundry for the family of the owner of that mill. Roberto had four brothers and two sisters, he was the youngest of the seven children. Clemente grew up very poor, his family had always been poor, his ancestors worked on coffee and sugar plantains much like his father did. Despite his tough upbringing even from an early age it was apparent Roberto loved baseball. As a child Roberto was constantly sharpening his skills from throwing a tennis balls against the wall to hitting bottle caps with a stick, he was always making do with what he had. At 18, he attended a Brooklyn Dodgers tryout. Among the 70...
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...Immediately following his death and for many years following his death newspapers would continue to cover Roberto Clemente, his impact on the game of baseball in the United States but more importantly in the Caribbean, his humanitarian impact during his life and after his death, and memorials and remembrances to his legacy and name. The humanitarian efforts of Roberto Clemente ranged from giving aid to those who had been devastated by poverty and disaster, free baseball clinics to underprivileged children in Puerto Rico, and building of sports facilities for children and Puerto Rican youth to access for free. This incredible zeal, spirit, and determination to aid the suffering of the underrepresented and suffering people of the Caribbean and Latin America was what made Roberto Clemente a great man and role model unfortunately his love and passion was also what unfortunately what killed him as on December 31, 1972 after boarding a plane headed to Nicaragua loaded with supplies to aid the people of the nation which had been devastated by an earthquake, in order to ensure they reached the people who needed the aid and supplies the most, crashed almost immediately after take-off killing all those on board including Clemente. The majority of news coverage of Roberto Clemente’s life and legacy following his death to present day focus on the positive impact Clemente had on the communities he offered aid and support, his home island of Puerto Rico, and emerging star baseball players...
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...I chose to further examine the film Hoosiers from week 13 of class. After reviewing the film I will compare it with chapter 13 of Major Problems. Hoosiers really caught my interest as a great underdog story and that is why I chose to further study the 1986 classic. I always had heard people talk about this movie but I had never seen it. In this paper I will discuss the historical period Hoosiers is set in, compare and contrast major themes from the week, and evaluate the film based on its effectiveness. Hoosiers is a fictional movie that is actually based on real events in a small town in Indiana. It is based on a true story but does change some of the truths, as evidenced by the ESPN article. The message I gathered from the film was that anything is possible if you can work hard and accept change. The little town of Hickory was very set in its ways and uncooperative of the new basketball coach. Once the town and players learned to accept something different, the team flourished. The argument the film presents is to never count someone out. No matter how small a school or town is, hard work can trump talent and compete with the big boys. The message of acceptance resonates with the viewer and is most likely why Hoosiers is so highly regarded as a sports movie. The historical period that Hoosiers is set in is 1952 rural Indiana. In this time period, people are more centralized around common goals and the entire town knows when someone moves in. There are no...
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...Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente is one of a few people to have 3,000 hits throughout their baseball careers. Roberto hit a batting average of .317 over 18 seasons, collecting 3,000 hits, and placing in the Pirates’ Top Ten in basically every offense and defense category. He also won 12 Gold Gloves throughout his career. He was the #1 pick of the 1954 draft. He played in two World Series, was the National League Batting Champion four times, and was National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1966 and chosen MVP of the World Series in 1971. Due to Roberto Clemente’s accomplishments he is one of the best Pittsburgh Pirates ever. Leading up to Roberto’s baseball career, he had a pretty good childhood. He was born in Barrio San Anton in Carolina,...
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...“He played a kind of baseball that none of us had ever seen before… As if it were a form of punishment for everyone else on the field.” Roberto Clemente was an amazing baseball player and an amazing citizen. "Always, they said Babe Ruth was the best there was. They said you’d really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we have needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal." Roberto always tried to be a role model for the kids and adults (especially for the Puerto Ricans). There are more reasons that make Roberto Clemente the most effective citizen. Roberto Clemente was born in San Antón, Puerto Rico. Roberto had four siblings and he was the youngest out of the five. His father was Melchor...
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...and Reds Baseball. He has over 4,000 hits and over 3,000 games played, both the most by any player ever. Looking at that he should be in the Hall of Fame right? Well no, he is not. He bet on baseball during his playing career and was forever banned from baseball. However, the Hall of Fame is not full of saints and even other Hall of Famers like Hank Aaron went out and said they would like to see him get in. Therefore, he should be in the Hall of Fame. Since the Hall of Fame is a museum to honor the great players in baseball history, Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame (HOF). Dan Epstein wrote the article “Time Served: Why Pete Rose Should Be in the Hall of Fame” to explain the Hall of Fame is not full of saints. As Epstein states “Roberto Clemente's humanitarian credentials wouldn't have meant squat to the voters if he'd hit like Tito Fuentes. Ultimately, the Hall Of Fame is (and should be) a museum, not a monument to morality”(Epstein). Yes he...
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...My Hero is Joel Dave Gonzalez My hero is Joel Dave Gonzalez was born on August 17, 1946 in Corpus Christi, Texas. His parents were Consuelo B. Garcia and Edward Gonzalez. He attended Corpus Christi schools and attended Victoria High . That is where he played the saxophone in the school band. Everyone called him JD. Shortly after he graduated in 1964 he enlisted with the United States Air Force so he can travel to places regardless of dangers, because he wanted to take part of what he believed in such as being there for our country. He spent four years in the Philippine’s where he was a chef and in charge of feeding all of the soldiers and officers. After he was discharged from his service in 1968 he wanted to be near his family and friends. That is when he made Port Lavaca, Texas his home. A year later in 1969, JD, began to work at Alcoa Aluminum Plant a gas analyst. He worked there for 20 years. Despite of his schedule In addition he was active with the church as a 4th degree member of Knights of Columbus. Also he served his community as a American Legion which is a veteran’s organization. In addition, he was Lifetime Committee member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. My mom mentioned and showed me pictures that JD participated in the barbeque cookoff’s After he retired from Alcoa in 1989 he took on the job of being the bus driver for local and distance event. would always had things scheduled back to back. In 1992 the Texas Association...
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...Roberto Clemente Young Baseball Hero Alejandra Norris EGN/290 – Children’s Literature in a Pluralistic Society April 24, 2013 Identify the primary biological foundations of psychology linked to behavior biopsychology (or behavioral neuroscience). Instead of studying thoughts, feelings, or fears, behavioral neuroscientists (some of whom are physicians or biologists rather than psychologists) investigate the electrical and chemical processes in the nervous system that underlie these mental events. The connection between brain and behavior became increasingly clear during the nineteenth century, when doctors began observing patients with severe head injuries. These patients often showed deficits in language and memory or dramatic changes in their personality. One of the most famous cases was Phineas Gage, who worked as a foreman on a railroad construction site. After Gage accidentally set off an explosion on September 13, 1848, the tamping iron he had been using went straight through his head, crushing his jawbone and exiting at the top of his skull behind his eye. As you can see in the photograph, this tamping iron was no small piece of equipment, measuring 3 feet 7 inches long and weighing over 3 pounds...
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...The team was founded in early 1925 by Magallanes' footballer David Arellano, who led a group of young players leaving the club after institutional problems.[13][14] Finally, on 19 April, Arellano and the other youths officially established the club after meetings and negotiations, where Luis Contreras chose the name of «Colo-Colo» for the club,[15] which refers to the homonymous Mapuche cacique Colo Colo. The team began to play friendly games, but in 1926, Colo-Colo took part in the Metropolitan League of Honour, where they were proclaimed champions and earned the nickname of «invincible».[16] The following year, Colo-Colo became the first Chilean football team to participate in a tour across Europe. However, on 2 May, during an exhibition match against Real Unión Deportiva at Valladolid, the team founder and captain David Arellano was critically injured after suffering a collision with an opposing player that caused him Peritonitis.[17] The inflammation would lead to his death the next day.[18] Despite the great impact caused by the death of Arellano, the club won the tournament of the Central League of football — then renamed Asociación de Football de Santiago — in the 1928,[19] 1929[20] and 1930[21] seasons. In the 1931–32 season, Colo-Colo suffered its first institutional crisis because of financial problems, which led to a salary reduction for first team footballers and board members, with their consequent resistance.[22] The team played another tournament final that...
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...- If Roberto Bolaño's “Woes of the True Policeman” were a pop music CD ... The novel offers readers plotlines and characters that supplement or .... the fate of Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison (about whom Mr. Bolaño also wrote), ... Impressions: "The Insufferable Gaucho" by Roberto Bolaño ... juliangallo66.blogspot.com/.../impressions-insufferable-gaucho-by.html Dec 22, 2014 - Impressions: "The Insufferable Gaucho" by Roberto Bolaño ... First, there's Jim, the shortest of the five, about a Vietnam veteran watching a fire ... Police Rat, in which the main character is actually a rat, tries to solve horrific ... Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño ... quarterlyconversation.com/nazi-literature-in-the-americas-by-roberto-bol... Assuming the format of an Everyman's dictionary of writers, Robert Bolaño's novel Nazi ... Jim O'Bannon is “equally susceptible to the allure of force and a yearning for delicate, ... References to Charles Olson, Conrad Aiken, Zane Grey, and other real -life ... Without the complexity of a plot and the interaction of characters, ... Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0811220508 Roberto Bolaño, Ignacio Echevarria - 2011 - Literary Collections Roberto Bolaño Ignacio Echevarria ... At thestartof El gauchoinsufrible, too, comes “Jim,”which Bolaño originally wrote asa column forLas ... far from trying toconceal its very miscellaneous character, Bolaño himself would have underscored...
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... Some people might conclude that the Award Winning film called “La Vita e Bella”, Life Is Beautiful, a film reviewed by Tom Dawson of the British Broadcasting Company doesn’t show the reality of the severeness for the Jews in the concentration camps and many find it offensive. Guido a Jewish and Italian waiter living in Italy moves in with his uncle who owns a restaurant in a fancy Hotel. On his way there he meets a lady named Dora who literally fell into his arms and since that day Guido fell deeply in love with her. Ever since that day Guido tried everything to win the heart of his princess as he called her. Eventually Dora falls for the charms of Guido she fell for that goofy and romantic way of his. Together they raise their son Giosue until the day came that Guido and Giosue were separated from Dora and were taken to a concentration camp. But Dora couldn’t live without her family that she rather die with her son and husband. So decide to board the train with them even though she wasn’t Jewish. Arriving at the concentration camps Dora still is apart from Guido and Giosue but she doesn’t lose hope that she will see her family once again. As for Guido, before arriving to the concentration camps Giosue asks him that where are they going. Guido being the way he is, he determined himself in protecting his son from the harms from the Nazis and others that might hurt him. To protect his son from this horrifying event Guido hides reality from Giosue by telling him that this trip is...
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...A Story of Love and Courage Love is a very powerful emotion. It provides people with courage and causes them to act bravely. To have someone to love, and therefore someone to act bravely for, makes one capable of more than expected. Love leads to bravery and can get people through terrible times. In the movie Life is Beautiful, director Roberto Benigni shows the quality of bravery through the experiences of the main characters as they attempt to survive a concentration camp during World War II. When Guido Orefice, an Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo, he meets Dora, who comes from a wealthy Italian family. Even though she is engaged, she falls in love with Guido, and they marry and have a son, Giosue. At Giosue’s fifth birthday, Guido and Giosue are taken by Nazis to a concentration camp, and Dora insists on voluntarily going with them. At the camp, Guido convinces Giosue that everything is just a game, and he will earn points towards winning a tank. Unfortunately, when Guido goes looking for Dora, he is caught and shot to death by a Nazi soldier, but Giosue and Dora survive. Love is a powerful emotion which leads to acts of bravery, that people perform, even when they are scared. This is shown by Dora’s love for Guido and Giosue, by Guido’s love for Giosue, and by Guido’s love for Dora. Undoubtedly, Dora loves her husband and her son with all her heart; she shows courage when she runs away with Guido, and later again when she volunteers to join Guido and Giosue at the concentration...
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...ends up in a concentration camp with his family, including his son and his wife. The story is considered a comedy-drama and uses comedy to convey its rather harsh story of the Holocaust. Many critics have shot down this movie for not portraying the actual events and the darkness of the Holocaust. Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami, chose this storytelling tool to help develop a sense of deep underlying dramatic irony. They use the theories of survival that were originally developed by Viktor Frankl. His theory is founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for life. Frankl defined his theory on the thought that humans can develop mental health issues and insanity without a sense of meaning in life. He developed this theory while he was in a concentration camp....
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...Aristóteles en la Ética a Nicómaco, del bien máximo que es la felicidad-, Platón y el mismo Aristóteles advertían de la necesidad de seguir un método con un conjunto de reglas o axiomas que debían conducir al fin propuesto de antemano. Sócrates, Platón y Aristóteles, entre otros grandes filósofos griegos, propusieron los primeros métodos de razonamiento filosófico, matemático, lógico y técnico. Durante la época medieval, serán los filósofos, físicos, matemáticos, astrónomos y médicos del mundo islámico quienes hagan suya, desarrollen y difundan la herencia de la filosofía griega -entre otros Alhazen, Al-Biruni y Avicena-. También se debe reconocer a quienes contribuyeron a la difusión de dichos conocimiento por Europa; figuras como Roberto Grosseteste y Roger Bacon junto con la imprescindible labor de Escuela de Traductores de Toledo. Pero no será hasta la edad moderna cuando se consolide una nueva Filosofía Natural. Descartes (1596-1650) en su obra el Discurso del método define por primera vez unas reglas del método para dirigir bien la razón y buscar la verdad en las ciencias.2 Aún con diferencias notables fueron muchos los que defendieron la necesidad de un método que permitiera la investigación de la verdad. Desde un punto de vista empírico o científico tal y como ahora lo entendemos se debe mencionar a precursores del método científico como Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Copérnico (1473-1543), Kepler (1571-1630) y Galileo (1564-1642) quienes aplicaban unas reglas...
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...away, one could reasonable fear that this useful and intelligent reaction against the Italian aesthetic of the superspectacle and, for that matter, more generally, against the technical aestheticism from which cinema suffered all over the world would never get beyond an interest in a kind of superdocumentary, or romanticized reportage. One began to realize that the success of Roma Citta Aperta, Paisa, or Sciuscia was inseparable from a special conjunction of historical circumstances that took its meaning from the Liberation, and that the technique of the films was in some way magnified by the revolutionary value of the subject. Just as some books by Malraux or Hemingway find in a crystallization of journalistic style the beat narrative form for a tragedy of current events, so the films of Rossellini or De Sica owed the fact that they were major works masterpieces simply to a fortuitous combination of form and subject matter. But when the novelty and above all the flavor of their technical crudity have exhausted their surprise effect, what remains of Italian "neorealism" when by force of circumstances it must revert to traditional subjects: crime stories, psychological dramas, social customs? The camera in the street we still accept, but doesn't that admirable nonprofessional acting stand selfcondemned in proportion as its discoveries swell the ranks of international stars? And, by way of generalizing about this aesthetic pessimism: "realism" can only occupy in art a dialectical...
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