Twelve months ago, Jonathan Lucroy was considered one most valuable targets at the trade deadline, before the Milwaukee Brewers dealt him to the Texas Rangers for a prospect heavy haul. Fast forward to now, and it seems like Lucroy may be hearing his name on the trade block again, very soon. According to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, Texas is open to moving Lucroy, and going forward with a catching duo of Robinson Chirinos and Brett Nicholas. Despite Lucroy being the most accomplished name in the bunch, his value has regressed significantly on both sides of the ball.…
Daniel Hale Willams By; Erica Lamb Daniel Hale Willams was a man ahead of his time. He performed the first known open heart surgery in the United States, and also founded a hospital with an interracial staff during an extremely racial time in history. Daniel Willams was born Jan. 18 1856. He was born African American.…
Bruce Swedien was born in Minneapolis Minnesota. By age 14, he was already recording and setting up his own radio station. 5 years later Bruce was working for Tommy Dorsey and using an old cinema in Minneapolis to set up his own commercial studio. Bruce then went on to record the Chicago Syphony Orchestra professionsally for RCA Victor, before the following year where he went on to Universal Studios to join Bill Putnam in his early stereo and multitrack technique experiments. Shortly after Bruce started to work with producer Quincy Jones.…
Open Hearts: The Work of Daniel Hale Williams Germs don’t discriminate, why should hospitals? Daniel Hale Williams, quite possibly the most prominent black physician of his time, sought to answer this question. Best known for performing the first successful recorded heart surgery, Williams spent his life working for the advancement of African-Americans within the medical field. Williams was born in 1856 in the town of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.…
In forensic science, there are multiple things that can point someone as a criminal. In the case of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta Child Murders, hair and fibers were used to convict Wayne Williams. A single hair can contain multiple things that can point a individual to a crime. Hair has certain characteristics that can pinpoint to whom the hair belongs to. Hair of a human will be much thinner compared to animal hair.…
Week 3 compost Karl Singletary I am proud to call Karl Singletary uncle (Bird) this is a nick name my grandfather gave him because as a little boy he wanted to fly. My grandparents didn't approve of Karl dancing, so he left home at a very young age, he danced ballet in Europe and across the USA as a young man after training for decades under the world’s greatest Russian classicists. According to PAUL A. BARRA Karl Singletary was the first African American to receive a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan. That was in 1967.…
The Family International was founded by David Brandt Berg and originally named The Children of God. Berg was a Christian missionary in 1944 and in the 1960s he began to try to appeal to the “lost and confused youth of America.” The new religions appearing at this time period were “a fusion of an evangelical Christian awakening and the youth counterculture of the 1960s.” David Berg focused his preaching on rejecting the old and accepting the new. David Berg was deemed a prophet and eventually the king on earth for God.…
Saturday night, Larry Wilmore proved exactly why he was a great choice to host President Barack Obama’s final White House Correspondents’ Dinner. President Obama, as usual, was a hard act to follow. Wilmore began by welcoming the guests. Then, he roasted Lester Holt, Brian Williams and Wolf Blitzer.…
Steve Wilstein The journalist Steve Wilstein is a great and a achieving journalist. He has had major articles dealing with any type of sport. He has made it to the Hall of Fame for his writing. To me his work is excellent and very detailed, it's interesting to read also to share with some people. I chose him as a journalist because he is realistic, known for his work, and the way he writes about sports.…
Deresiewicz believes a solution for neoliberalism is to make college a “high-quality, low- or no-cost mass public higher education” (32). Deresiewicz is clearly dismissing the fact that college is still expensive over years of debating if America should make college free or not. If higher education becomes free to all, the number of spots and quality of classes would be limited. For example, those students who get scholarships for their education still have to pay the absurd amount for supplies and transportation. The government would be spending billions of dollars on this idea of free college.…
Django sat in his dressing room, combing his abnormally large afro. He knew people were onto him. You see, Django was a secret member of a band, not just any band though, The Beatles. Django was the real guitarist of the group, but due to race issues the band members decided to keep it a secret and have John Lennon pretend to be the one on the guitar. Tonight shouldn’t be any different, except it was.…
It is Paris, October 27, 1927 and the young industrialist, Albert Champion, has returned to his birth home to receive an award for his company's part in Charles Lindbergh's historic flight across the Atlantic. It is the roaring twenties and in his short life, Albert Champion has become an international celebrity. Albert is the former bicycle racing champion of France, who went to America and became the very successful spark plug industrialist of the new automobile age. This night as the festivities begin, Albert escorts his wife to the dance floor.…
Growing up one often dreams of moving away and seeing what else the world has to offer. This dream was especially true for an African American growing up in Mississippi and other southern sates during the Civil Rights Movement. Born just before the Civil Rights Movement was being launched into full swing, Ralph Eubanks was one of these African Americans. Although Ralph Eubanks’s Civil Rights experience differed from many other African Americans’, he was still ultimately driven away from his home state due to the prejudice and stereotype of African Americans. His first years away Eubanks thought he would never come back to Mississippi.…
The political structures of Greece and Rome depended on a city-state model. Regardless, the distinction between them Greece is a mountainous landmass with a pointedly fluctuating coastline with different little islands. The nobility of every city-state protected its freedom and demoralized any endeavors to shape a monarchy. In this manner, making the association between the Greek city-states was restricted, bringing about every city-state to grow autonomously of each other.…
The city of Athens played a key role in ancient Greece. They were known for being one of the first city-states in Greece and their democracy. Even though they fought in many wars and had many different rulers, they eventually became successful. We have discussed the growth, evolution, and emergence of ancient Greece as a major power in the Mediterranean world. We have analyzed at least two interpretations of ancient Greece.…