The champs were on their way. Confetti rained down from the sky ahead of the caravan of floats. And as it should have been, after what ended up being his final season in pinstripes, Pat Burrell led the way pulled by Clydesdales on the Budweiser truck with Elvis by his side. He stuck with us through it all, so it was only right that he got to ride solo and opened the show. I was on the side of Broad Street the trucks were closer to and before he passed me the Budweiser truck came to a halt and Pat clenched both fists, raised them above his head, and stood up. Then he sat back down and rode off into the daylight. And just like that the era of Pat Burrell was over. In retrospect, I’m glad they put him first, because the deluge that erupted from my tear ducts as I watched him pull away was better to get over with first. My heart felt so full and empty at the same time. As always, the Phanatic was sent in right after to lighten the mood. The time to be sad was over and then it was really party…
The world is in denial, climate change is happening, and the earth is dying because people are killing it. A clear example of this denial is seen in the decline of news coverage regarding environmental change, “in 2007, the three major U.S. networks—CBS, NBC, and ABC ran 147 stories on climate change; in 2011 the networks ran just fourteen stories on the subject” (Klein, 34). People do not want to hear about climate change and decreasing natural resources. Continued denial will be the downfall…
fund. The scene of the Checkers speech can be further explored through assessing the political climate of that time period. The division between the commoners and the privileged elite had been a familiar theme in American politics. Agent Agent is the third step and it is about who is involved in the act. It identifies what company or persons are involved that is creating the conflict, and what are they doing to create it. The agent in the speech is Richard Nixon. While in other speeches, the…
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom,” (George S. Patton). We all face through hardships, failures, and cause mistakes once in a while because no one is perfect, but what makes us as success is overcoming the struggles we face. I have overcome many throughout my life, being born with a cleft palate, constantly moving, and my first year of college experience at Texas Tech University. Moving to the land of opportunity with no background or fluency of English at the age of 7,…
Through the course of this assignment transcribing and interpreting Dorothy’s diary, there was a great amount of information to be gleaned about her life. While some aspects of Dorothy’s life, such as specific details about herself, are lacking, she provides plenty of evidence from which to draw conclusions about her employment, location, age, activities she does for fun, how she travels around, and the people she teaches and with which she works, shops, and goes out. To begin, it is clear…
Pat Summitt “When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score,” said the famous Pat Summitt, as she did an interview with Oprah. One may say that Summitt is the utmost inspirational woman to walk the earth. She was an American women’s college basketball coach who, throughout her career, helped people live their dreams and impressed…
teams including NFL, basketball, baseball, and soccer. They have college football, the Nevada Wolfpack. Famous person One famous person from Nevada is Thelma Catherine Ryan also known as Pat Nixon. She was born in Ely, Nevada. Her birthdate is March 16, 1912. Her nickname is Pat because her father called her Pat when she was little. He called her Pat because she was born right before St. Patrick’s Day. Her father’s name was William Ryan, Sr. Her mom was Kate Halberstadt Ryan. Her siblings…
philosophy that the coach chooses to implement at the beginning of their career will define every way in which the team will function at practices and competitive play (Guthrie, Core Principles in Coaching). A coach’s philosophy sets a precedent of how players must act on and off the playing field (Guthrie, Core Principles in Coaching). Philostratus came up with early philosophies about how athletic training should be handled and those philosophies are seen in all the modern coaches as well.…
Abdu Lounici Mr. Grant ENG 4UI Friday December 11 2015 Lending Hand In life, many people commit actions which they later regret down the road, and in turn try changing their morals or lifestyles to compensate for their poor decision making. The novels Regeneration and Border Crossing written by Pat Barker both show that very different problems can have the same solution. In this case, Tom Seymour a child psychiatrist from the novel Border Crossing who is playing a very relatable role to that…
required” (Reisner, p. 346). This idea should have became the motto of what is yet to come. The governor of California, Pat Brown, soon became obsessed with water. He wanted to develop a new project that would create seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of usable land a year; this took twenty years to finally get authorized and built. Once this was on its way, Pat Brown decided to start a new project, Edmonton’s Water Plan. This plan was to once again, take water from places where it was an…