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Moneyball details the story of a change in how Major League Baseball (MLB) players were scouted and recruited (Palmer et al., 2016). Traditionally, MLB used highly knowledgeable scouts to recruit talent based upon future performance indicators, however Billy Beane and Peter Brand leveraged a statistical approach named sabermetrics which determined the best recruits based upon statistical analysis of their past performance (Palmer et al., 2016). Sabermetrics was met with change resistance from…

Marilyn Monroe Biography Early life: Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, as the third child of Gladys Pearl Monroe, a negative cutter at Columbia Pictures. However, Gladys was mentally and financially unprepared for a child, so she place Monroe with Albert and Ida Bolender in Hawthorne, California for several years. In the year of 1938, Monroe attended Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles, where she wrote for the school's newspaper. In late 1944, Monroe met…

Marilyn Monroe, born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, was an iconic actress and one of the most enduring sex symbols known. Marilyn led an astonishing career even in her short life, starting as a model and making her way towards the film business, she dazzled the public with her beauty and charm. To Marilyn, her refusing happiness was a massive quest for love and a sense of belonging. Looking back at her short career, one would think that Marilyn had not only achieved fame by her films but also with…

by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim has been through a life that no other human can imagine. With several themes built into this novel, Billy shows his growth within himself as a character. As Billy flashes back and forth from being in the army in Dresden, being captured on the planet of Tralfamadore, and his relationship with his fiancé, Billy gives an idea about his post-traumatic disorder. While working in Dresden, Billy begins his journey at a not so very serious approach. Billy takes the…

Every hero needs a first-rate, old-fashion villain. In fact, the greater or more powerful the hero, the more despicable must be the villain, for the sweetness of victory lies in its difficulty. The question must then be asked: Can villainous victories taste as sweet? Could an audience of normal, decent human beings really find it in themselves to take joy in the victory of, say, a manipulative, power-hungry murderer? In his play Richard III, Shakespeare puts this idea to the test, not only by…

Film in the 1940’s focused on lying, crime, and mystery. This particular style of film is now known as Film Noir, which focused on the dark side of humanity. Certain elements are needed to properly display a true film noir film. Double Indemnity (1944) is a film that focuses on insurance agent Walter Neff. Due to the dark events that take place throughout the film, several elements of film noir were used in the filming of this movie. Double Indemnity utilized film noir by setting a dark mood,…

Kurt Vonnegut's historical science-fiction novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, recounts Billy Pilgrim’s life as a former U.S. soldier who was a Prisoner of War during World War Two. The Tralfamadorians, an alien race from the planet Tralfamadore, abduct Billy and put him on display in their zoo. While there, Billy not only learns about Tralfamadorians views on death but also their perception of time. Vonnegut wrote the novel with a scrambled timeline, meaning the events of Pilgrims life are out of order…

The book Slaughterhouse Five and the poem “Requiem”,both by Kurt Vonnegut feature the destructiveness of war as a prevalent theme. Both works address this theme in different ways. It is addressed more literally and explored more in depth in Slaughterhouse Five due to the nature of it being a book and having more length to explore its themes. In “Requiem” the theme is addressed more metaphorically and in ways that are more open to interpretation. In addition to this, the way the theme is…

Have you ever dreamed of becoming one of the world’s biggest icon for decades? Even after you were no longer around? Before I jump to far ahead there are a couple things most people do not know about the all-time famous “Marilyn Monroe”. For starters her real name was Norma Jeane Mortensen born in California who grew up with a very rough and unstable childhood. Marilyn Monroe died at a very young age, 36 years old. Marilyn Monroe had to use perseverance, passion, and creavity just to survive her…

The project that choose to do was a softball field how I am going to make this project is by having the, Nucleus be in charge of the manger for the softball field and if the manager left then we would have nobody in charge because tectonically we don’t need a manger for that time period of the games because everyone would be doing there own thing at their field so we really don’t need a manager at the field.The Mitochondria will be in control of the lights so that when it gets dark the lights…