American League Championship Series

Wilson or Rawlings, the debate of the baseball world. Both have dominated competition for decades. Both are highly sought after. Best of the best gloves, so they claim. Both buying Horween Leather. But, they come from very different roots, one, an American story of brothers, the other, created by a meat company. These two companies are rivals through and through. Wilson’s headquarters is located in Chicago, IL, while Rawlings’s headquarters in located in St. Louis, MO. Wilson first provided…

The Orioles are well known for their complete and utter disinterest in using their international signing bonus pool to sign prospects from Central and South America. Baseball America claims that the Orioles spent the least of all teams in 2013 (http://www.baseballamerica.com/international/2013-international-spending-by-team/) and second lowest in 2014 (http://www.baseballamerica.com/international/2014-international-spending-team/). Orioles’ fans are concerned by this because about one-sixth of…

to find affordable players that are good enough to turn their losing team into a winning team. Beane can relate to the sport, because he was drafted right out of high school. Sadly, though he didn’t work out, because he couldn’t perform to major leagues standards. So when recruiting these new players…

The Little League World Series, a kids dream to be at besides Disneyworld. Every kid that plays Little League wants to work hard to get to there. Some kids don’t even make it passed their city championships, but they set their goals so high so they can make it to Williamsport. It’s not just only in the United States, it is international. Kids around the world get to participate in it. There is so many positive influences about the Little League World Series, from the lifetime friend ships with…

World Series Athletics have always been an important aspect of my life along with my family's life. Everyone in my family played multiple sports in elementary, middle, and high school. Our father was always pushing us to practice and play harder. My father was a very athletic man throughout his sports career. He started in high school as a baseball, track, and football star. Though he had received scholarship offers in all three, his love for football was tenacious. He went on to start as a…

Annie: Heathcliff, short, long hair, wears earring Bernard: Sherlock, tall, long hair, wears earring Carolyn: Romeo, medium, short hair, wears earring Daniel: Harry, short, long hair, doesn’t wear earring Since we know each person can be right about only 1 thing, we need to cross out similarities. Starting with Daniel, we know he has to be right about the character not wearing earrings, because he is the only student that had a different answer for that category, and the other 3 students can’t…

The stories of Richard Rodriguez and Dee shine a light on how education can change an individual perspectives on life. Alice Walker, the author of Everyday Use describes in little details on how education change Dee’s life compare to Richard Rodriguez , The Achievement of Desire; he gives more detail information on when he realize education separated him from his family life. Rodriguez refers to himself as a scholarship boy; a boy who separates the classroom from his home life. Dee story was…

In Labor of Fun by Nick Yee, he discusses the idea that interactive online games are essentially a convergence between what we do in real life and our digital world. He touches also on the idea that it odd that there is so much overlapping between the activities we do when working in comparison to what we so for fun online. Throughout is writing he compares the roles we take online in these games to the different career paths that we can take in life. He explains that at a very basic level all…

If you were an American over the summer of 2016 you most likely heard of Pokemon GO. I remember being excited for it since September 2015. And when I was on Santa Monica Pier on July 6th when the game came out I couldn't wait to play it. I downloaded it and I learned that night that the game had over 10 million downloads in its first day on the app store. And everyone was hunting for one objective that summer, one goal, to catch them all. I started right then and there and I knew one day I was…

Written Summary of Self-propelled particles that transport cargo through flowing blood and halt hemorrhage In the summer of 2005 my uncle punctured his femoral artery while on a biking trip. He was biking around a corner at a high speed and crashed over a fallen tree on the road. He landed on a piece of broken glass which cut through his thigh and perforated his femoral artery. Although bystanders wrapped his leg in gauze he bled out on the scene waiting for an ambulance to arrive. This…