Baseball is known as America\'s most excellent pastime. Nine players take the field for a nine-inning game. The pitcher, which also is referred to as part of the defense\'s battery, is a vital position in baseball. The pitcher is responsible for keeping his team in the game. He does this by using co...

America's Favorite PastimeThere is only one sport in this country that everyone loves passionately and follows intimately. This is the most intense and exciting sport ever known to mankind. Everyone in America is glued to the television set every night, watching intently, wondering what exciting p...

Rituals are a significant part of our society and the way we live our lives. They are important because they give us a sense of security and loyalty to a group. Rituals are also a main aspect of religion, and studying the differences among cultures helps us gain a greater understanding of how ritual...

Stealing Second"Peanuts, popcorn! Get your hotdogs," all ties together with America's favorite past time, one full of tradition, pride, and superstition. Yes, superstition, the unwritten laws that define the game. In some cases, it makes it much more than just baseball. There are so many things th...

America's Pastime Boosts America's Cultural FadsWhat does one usually envision when they think of America? Stereotypically responses include apple pie, cheeseburgers, liberty, and baseball. All the previously mentioned things have a significant cultural place in America. For example, baseball has...

Sports in America What does the word sports mean to Americans? To one person it could mean a since of togetherness while sitting in the stands with their father, watching their favorite baseball team hit home runs. To another, looking up to their favorite basketball player as a role model type, ...

Are Athletes Role Models? Lately, a topic of great controversy has been whether or not athletes should be looked upon as role models by their fans. Does an athletes' responsibilities pertain solely to his performance on the field of play or does it also extend to his personal life as we...

American Sports History (1865-Present) 1. Introduction 2. End of civil war 3. U.S. Sports at the Turn of the Century 4. The Twenties 5. Changes: The Late 20th Century 6. Bibliography 1.Introduction Being that my topic was sports history I found a lot of information, whether...

Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America The role of middle-class Victorian women is the focus of Women and the World and Women and the Home. The wives, mothers, belles and virgins' only role and purpose in this era were to dedicate their lives to the needs of their hus...

"Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations" said Walt Whitman (Lee). The United States of America, now the most powerful nation in the world, was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, colonized by 1700, freed from British rule in 1776, split in civil war in 1860, ...

Participating in some type of organized sports has become a rite of childhood for most children living in the United States. You would be hard pressed to find an American youth not participating in some type of sport. Many of today's youth participate in many different sports and remain acti...

Today in America, from elementary schools to high schools from colleges to professional league sports, we have given a mascot name to each. Nothing is meant by the mascot's name except to show pride and support for the team or school that you are behind and what qualities the people believe t...

The United States has a history of violence. Americans fought for their independence, fought with countless other countries, and fought themselves. It would be an understatement to say that the United States has a problem with violence and aggressive behavior. The nation sees violence everywhere:...

The Connection between the Industrialization Era and 'Jim Crow' in relation to Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven Industrialization in the United States came about late in the 19th century immediately following the era of post-Civil War reconstruction. It was a time in which eve...

One of the major problems in today's sports scene is the use of performance enhancing drugs. Professional athletes are always looking to get a leg up on the competition, but this is taking it too far. Even though certain performance enhancing drugs are banned, the drug tests are not frequent enoug...

1985 - Winner of the 51st annual Heisman Memorial Trophy as the Outstanding College Football Player in America ... Consensus All-American, tabbed by KODAK Coaches', Football News, Walter Camp, Football Writers, AP and UPI ... The Sporting News College Football Player-of-the-Year ... Walter Camp Outs...

The Roaring Twenties: a Time of Injustice The "Roaring Twenties" was the age that was supposed to have been a blast when people were becoming free-willed. The real scoop is the 1920's were a time of injustice and murder. It was a time that sent our great country into debt. There were m...

Returning from WWII, black Americans, just as those three decades prior, expected to find America land of equality for all people and specifically a land endowed with increased black civil rights. Although the late 1940s and 1950s are not generally considered a period of social advancement for black...

Professional athletes bring about an aura of disgust to many American citizens. The "greedy", "overpaid" "criminals" that we call athletes sicken many upper class individuals. Whenever a professional athlete signs a multi-million dollar deal, America always hears ab...

The idyllic 1950's to the turbulent 1960's represented a dynamic shift in American culture. The end of World War II prompted a boom economy and the American dream of a your own house with the white picket fence was born. Although the 50's were picturesque in some respect the end of WWII entrenched ...

Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party, which you a...

The America of the early 1980s was characterized by concerns relatingto the Cold War. On June 21, 1981, for example, the Soviet Union launcheda research satellite to dock with the Salyut 6 space laboratory. Thoughostensibly for research purposes, the thought of a permanent orbitingSoviet sta...

- Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party...

This television is impossible to turn on, all these buttons on this remote N.A.S.A must've made this thing. I just got used to turning this V.C.R on thanks to my grandson. But now he's telling me about this D.V.D contraption. I didn't think watching "I Love Lucy" would be so difficult. I remem...

We call America \"land of the free\", a place where dreams come true and discrimination is only found in history books. Would you agree with this? For years people everywhere fled their homes in search of freedom and more opportunities, but only a select few benefited; white men. We have come a l...