Announcer

because I couldn’t feel my hands and I was about to shake to death. As we were walking into the stadium the adrenaline stared rushing through my veins. You could hear the crowd shouting and yelling. As we walked in the stadium and got to our spots the announcer said “ Oxford take the field for competition.” That is when the crowd went dead silent. All I knew then was to march and march only. Our show would last for seven minutes and forty five seconds, but to us this only felt like three…

Two authors, William Moller and Maya Angelou, both have similar themes throughout their narratives. Moller expresses his disagreement with stereotyping athletes in modern American sports such as baseball. Angelou concentrates on the bias and stereotyping of different races in modern sports. Both authors have comparable views on sports with common themes such as stereotyping, respect towards athletes, and viewing an athlete as a hero. William Moller opens his short story “We, the Public, Place…

gender differences are displayed in Jones and Greer’s article, “Go ‘Heavy’ or Go Home: An Examination of Audience Attitudes and Their Relationship to Gender Cues in the 2010 Olympic Snowboarding Coverage” (2012). This study examined both how sports announcers described male and female snowboarders in the Olympics, and how spectators reacted to the athletes. It was found that female snowboarders had more comments made on their appearance and gracefulness, while male snowboarders had more…

The media is a tool used to brainwash its viewers. Throughout the book, Fahrenheit 451, people how signs of being manipulated by the media. The media uses its entertainment to send subliminal messages to its viewers and keep them happy and mindless. To be happy is a blessing, but it is also a curse in disguise. The masses’ thoughts are kept under lock and key, only given the freedom to think what the media wants them to think. These effects are shown in scenes of the book such as the parlor…

There are many aspects in life that makes up each human being. Every human being is made up of many elements that make them unique and special in their own way. Many feelings blend together to create an abstract personality. Everyone has many different parts in them that make them unique, but something everyone is endowed with fondness and affection for someone else. That is called friendship. Everyone is probably apprised by the meaning of friendship. Everyone was probably in one at some point.…

In the ending of Boys on the Bus the dad talks to his son Noah about his feelings about going to the game and he thinks that is not really terrible or disrespectful because fans were enjoying the game and enjoy coming together and showed the cared to their kids, their families and their country. Baumeister wrote an article named “The Self and Society: Changes, Problems, and Opportunities” about the individual self and the society react and respond to universal experiences. Baumeister writes…

The smell of hairspray, hair wax, and burning hair at 4:30 AM isn’t pleasant to most people but to me, it’s one of my favorite things to wake-up to. We had already made it through semi-finals and now we are in about to preform in finals. Only 8 teams make it to finals, and currently, we are in 7th. Smearing on foundation, patting on the blush, and bronzer, layering on the sparkly eyeshadow. Oh, and who could forget about the intensely bright red lipstick? We basically looked like clowns up…

Although storming the court is a popular thing to do in college basketball, especially if it's a scenario of beating a number one ranked team. Placed in this situation can be tricky. Even if you want to avoid student from storming the court, there may not be enough personnel to do so. There are too many risks involved for students to storm the court. The players, students, and anyone else involved all have risk of injury. Fights between player and fan is a possibility, in addition to players of…

onto the field—it’s our turn to preform our show for the judges. I walk onto the field anxiously feeling the first break of nervous sweat drip down my face. I scan the field- there are judges everywhere, I become very aware of what’s happening. The announcer comes over the speaker and says, “Welcome the Pride of the Dutchmen marching band from Orange City, Iowa- are you ready to preform your 2014 show named The Flying Dutchmen?” Our conductor raises her hands and the next thing I know I’m…

Iva Toguri D’Aquino was born on Independence Day, July fourth in 1916. She was born in Los Angeles, California to parents Jun Toguri and Fumi Toguri. Her parents heavily believed in assimilation for their daughter and encouraged her to adopt American culture and customs. He discouraged teaching his children to read and write Japanese, and rarely took them to Japanese cultural gathering. When Ida graduated, she was allowed to visit her sickly aunt in Japan as a graduation gift from her parents.…