Patriots head coach Bill Belichick for fifteen season over three different teams. Together they went to three Super Bowls and won two championships. 7.Mike Woicik- Is a strength and conditioning coach who originally found his way in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys in 1990. In his seven season with Dallas, the team had a 89-38 record which included 12 playoff victories and three Super Bowls. He then went on to work for the Patriots for ten years before returning to Dallas in…
In the Grapes of Wrath, a heartfelt book full of attachable characters, a storyline that makes you feel as if you were with the Joads through the whole story. With many roadblocks to come, you are almost immersed with the same decisions as they were. This story has many motifs, but at first, they aren’t visible, they may take two or more times to find. The first motif that has been found is strength of the family, and it says on page 6 “And the women came out of the houses to stand beside…
The Super Bowl is the most iconic sporting venue to take place in North America every year. The Super Bowl always brings in the disgusting amount of money, and people all over the world watch the big game. Even though it’s a well-known event, there are a plenty of facts about it that aren’t known by the average citizen. Here is the 3rd part of "20 things you didn’t know about NFL and Super Bowl". Fact 10: Stock up on food Super Bowl Sundays are known for bringing food to people’s tables. A…
How is having a good and plentiful harvest related to a drought? Or, what is significant about having a first born son rather than a girl? Both of these examples show that in anybody’s life, no matter the location or person, miracles and tragedies will be experienced. The Good Earth, a novel written by Pearl S. Buck, demonstrates how an average man’s life can be suddenly filled with tragedy and miracles. Wang Lung, a poor farmer, suddenly has good luck brought him because of his bride, Olan.…
The sport we in the United States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the…
NBC Sunday Night Football has been a growing tradition for NFL fans over the past 10 years. NBC offers primetime games every sunday night usually featuring marquee teams and a great broadcasting crew. The NFL even offers flex scheduling between weeks 5-17 to ensure quality matchups. In turn, NBC usually pulls in between 20-25 million viewers per game, ranking them in the top 2 most viewed game per week. In light of this, I decided to watch a Sunday Night Football game as part of my media…
The Carolina Panthers are enjoying their bye week in the best position possible at 4-0. The last time this team was undefeated was 2003; when we made it to the Super Bowl I'd say that is good karma. Many around the league have called us “the worst undefeated team due to the lack of competition we faced early in the year. My response to that is we don't make the schedule and the reality is in any sport anyone can win on any day. I will echo head coach Ron Rivera's sentiments when he said we are…
Behind every great story or movie, there is a basis from which it came from, be it an event that happened in the director's or author's life, or the time era in which it was written or produced. The Grapes of Wrath basis is from John Steinbeck's time era which was during the Great Depression. You can tell while watching the film how the plot resembles problems that people were facing in real life because of the depression. The Grapes of Wrath was first a political, drama novel written by John…
For a team nicknamed the Ramblin’ Wreck, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets sure do live up to the mantra. That may not sure this season, but the Yellow Jackets have wrecked the Pitt Panthers in their last two meetings. Two seasons ago, quarterback Tom Savage was terrorized by a Tech defense that dominated the Panthers in a 21-10 stomping at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Last season’s matchup was marred by the worst first quarter in Pitt history. Five fumbles in consecutive drives doomed the Panthers…
The Great Literature Debate John Steinbeck uses repetition and accents making the language emphasizing the great depression and the Dustbowl era, the struggles the Joad family had gone through and the goals they’ve created in order to find work and settle down, to express the time period before to modern day, marking this book as a classic novel. Repetition and accents emphasizing old times (Language): A) “Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears …Listen to the pounding…