BASEBALLIt was a glorious afternoon, sun shining, birds chirping, and just a great day to play baseball. So I thought. It was the Hal Shafers annual baseball tournament, the biggest senior youth tournament in the United States, all the scouts would be there. My team, the Findlay Royals, play ...

BASEBALL It was a glorious afternoon, sun shining, birds chirping, and just a great day to play baseball. So I thought. It was the Hal Shafers annual baseball tournament, the biggest senior youth tournament in the United States, all the scouts would be there. My team, the Findlay Royals,...

Who knew one baseball game can shape a person entire focus on their dreams and aspirations? I don't think many people realize that one simple event such as baseball game can have such an impact on a person's life. I remember my first baseball game; my dad took me to it when I was 7 or 8...

The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth is about the great American game of baseball and its players, both good and bad-but mostly bad. In fact, the title of Roth's novel is bitterly ironic, given that the subject of the novel is the worst team of the Patriot League, the bottom-tier league of...

Philip Roth's novel The Great American Novel is actually a novel within a novel. The narrator of the story, Word Smith, purports to tell us about the greatest cover-up in baseball history – and perhaps the history of the United States of America, as well. Smith narrates the story of th...

Stress is in everybody's life. From the President of the United States to the farmer, we all have stress. Webster's defines stress as a factor that includes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in the causing of disease. There are many different types of stress that comes from ...

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, ...

Anabolic Steroids? Are the current laws on anabolic steroid use valid? The issue was officially decided a decade ago with the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990. Anabolic steroid users were said to have an unfair advantage in competition sports. In retrospect, banning the usage of steroids jus...

November 25, 2002 What can be done to control the proliferation of guns in the US? Guns are a main cause of death in the United States. Approximately 75 people each week are killed or wounded because of guns. There are many ways to go about bringing that number down, but which way would be m...

I have chosen to go into the field of elementary education. I have experience of adolescents and I expect to enjoy working with them. Teaching has been my dream for many years. I have given much thought about becoming a teacher and my family is very supportive of the career path that I have chose...

Popular Soccer is one of the most rapidly growing sports in the United States and probably the most renowned sport all over the world. Nobody knows why it was never a popular sport here in America but generally Americans preferred football or baseball. That dramatically changed when the bigges...

Shooting Stars "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. All your heart desires will come to you." Disney writers and most other people do not realize that when they see a shooting star and wish on it, they actually silently speak to a chunk of ice, dirt or sp...

POLITICAL SCIENCE 240: TAKE HOME EXAM – QUESTION TWO Magic realism is a term represented in the works of various authors, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to W.P. Kinsella. It is hard to define, but can, in its simplest terms, be described as a "critical ontology of ourselves." Mag...

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...

Faye Marshall January 14th 2002 Assignment Paper 9 (Alternating Mode) English 110 Q AUGUSTA GEORGIA -VS- BREA CALIFORNIA There are many different opinions and beliefs about all the States in the U.S.A. I myself have had the experience of living in both Georgia and California. I lived in...

Controversy has been swirling for a quite a while now over schools and professional teams with nicknames and mascots related to Native Americans. All over the country schools have team names likeRedskins,?Indians,?Apaches,? andChiefs.? However, schools with nicknames like these are now facing cri...

Part 1 The first inhabitants to occupy the Americas were Europeans from Spain and England. These settlers had the greatest deal of diversity spread through cultures and over the land. Each in itself created its\' own powerful empire and ruled and governed its people. These two groups also fought for...

We should look at the differences of the world and try to learn from them. All people have their good points and bad points. We live in a world that is not all white, all black, or not even all yellow. We live in a world where all races interact among themselves. The university in the United St...

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:...

Should there be gun control? Do we the people need help from the government to set guidelines and bans out to keep us safe? If we did, would the prices we pay surmount the desired results. No, gun control is not a constitutionally sound device nor does it protect us. Gun control is not...

Opening a Business: Communism A sudden change in Fidel Castro's heart opened a whole new ball game for the economy. He decided to let trade run free between Cuba and the United States. Being a businessman, I quickly jumped on the opportunity. I decided to open up a sporting goods store, whi...

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...

Economic Effects of the NBA Lockout The National Basketball Players Association lockout greatly affected the United States economy. Greedy team owners and greedy players fighting over large amounts of money caused the lockout. In March of 1998, team owners felt that they were paying players t...

Steroids And Athletes What kind of role model is Mark McGwire? Many people are familiar with his seventy homeruns in one season, but do they know that he has been using androstenedione, a type of steroid that boosts testosterone levels? While it is perfectly legal in the Unit...

...And the "Home of the brave." As the man slowly puts his hat back on his head he wipes a tear from his eye. Thinking how lucky he is to be an American he remembers the day of the 9-11 attack and the horrible things other countries do to others; clearly that states that their land was not founde...