Bud Bowl

Syndesmosis: A review of an American Football player On a fresh, Spring afternoon, an American football game was taking place in Berlin, Germany. The competition was between Berlin Rebels and Frankfurt Universe. The quarterback for the visiting team, Mike, had passed the ball when suddenly he was tackled, illegally. As he was being pulled towards the ground, his defender grabbed hold of his right ankle and twisted it outwards. Not once, but twice. Mike, laying on the ground in sheer agony, was…

Mother Teresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” A recurring presence in Of Mice and Men, loneliness is an inevitable suffering all characters in the novella experience, some more than others. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck successfully portrays the most terrible poverty Mother Teresa describes in the era of the Great Depression among farm workers. George Milton, the protagonist, is a short, intelligent man who takes care of his…

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is set in Northern California during the Great Depression, around 1930’s. The main characters, George and Lennie, illustrate the American struggles throughout the great Depression, financially, socially but mostly discrimination. While focusing on the struggles of these times, the theme of this book consists from an exaggeration of total inequality of power between race, with Crooks being segregated and being treated differently because of his skin color, age,…

There are some in this world who are considered outcasts, the wallflowers of society, to whom we neglect, vilify and abuse. And just as the poor mouse portrayed in the poem ‘To a Mouse,’ written by Robert Burns, was bothered by the outside world, the character Lennie, from the book ‘Of Mice and Men,” was also regarded with similar contempt and scorn, from those of society. In the poem ‘To a Mouse,’ the mouse represents Lennie from the book “Of Mice and Men.” As was the narrator, or speaker in…

Captains of Premier League Teams 2015-16: Captain is the one of most important player on any sporting field. The role of Captain is crucial, and Football is no exception. Potentially Captain is the most challenging position in the Football. The job of the Captain is to organize his team and act as a real leader on the pitch and in dressing room. Here is the complete list of Captains of Premier League Teams 2015-16: 1-Team: Arsenal Arsenal Captain: Mikel Arteta Mikal Arteta was appointed…

emotions that were abundant during a particular time frame. Alexandre Hogue depicted rural farming through the lense of the Dust Bowl, a natural disaster that affected the Midwestern states in the 1930’s. In contrast to tragedy, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses since she started her career at age 78, portrayed…

Americans as a society have developed a habit or a tradition of idolizing sporting events. More specifically, The Super Bowl. One part that Americans look forward to, the commercials. Some might not believe that these commercials impact our lives, but they give us a look into how others perceive each other. When companies use celebrities in their commercials, they try to attract those who idolize these people and their lifestyle. Other companies play on the viewers' humor to try to sell their…

Black Blizzard Summary A “black blizzard” seen by the families daughter caused the parents to prepare for a tragic disaster by stuffing wet towels under doors and windows. Wildlife is scrambling to run away and the disaster covers the house in dirt. The daughter says she can taste and feel the dirt in her mouth and teeth despite the wet towel over her face while awaiting the storm to end. This disaster is called a Dust Storm, In the 1930’s many midwestern states had hundreds of these storms…

It was the playoffs and we were playing the lions at mills football field.It was me number 22, Luke number 19, Cam number 8, and Brady number 7 playing as the captains and the leaders.If we won we kept playing and went to the semifinals against the bandits. It was the day. The day that we were going to play the rivals in football the lions. The Lions are a team that we have never beaten and we all believed that this was going to be the first time we would beat them.…

decline since the farmers were buying fewer good and services due to rising prices, stagnant wages, and an unbalanced distribution of income. Numerous farmers decided to move to California in an act of desperation because they were avoiding the dust bowl (severely dry land and erosion caused dust to fly everywhere ruining farms and homes) and many were so poor that they lived in shacks. In another act of desperation many farmers kept the farm but bought new machines in hopes of getting some work…