Bud Bowl

The player that I think has the most team-friendly contract is Edwin Encarnacion. This last off-season he left the Blue Jays to sign with the Indians for a 3 year 60-million-dollar contract. While it is a big contract one thing that makes this unique and beneficial to the team is the Indians have a 4th year option to keep him if they wanted to and having that kind of long term flexibility is an advantage every team can use. His last 5 season with Toronto make him worth his contract. Each year he…

Football is one of the most prevalent sports in the United states today. With billions of viewers watching the super bowl every year it is easy to say that these players are living their dreams with no struggles or downfalls. Behind the hidden doors of football, many of these players are facing a trauma that is not easy to resolve, mental health. This trauma does not only come from concussions and physical discomfort, but also through mental instability. The problem today is that numerous…

The initial paragraphs of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men introduce Lennie and George, two migrant workers in search of a job. They dream of owning a posh ranch and tending to rabbits, in order to achieve this dream they are dependent on each other. However, they soon realize that attempting to achieve their dream will be strenuous and laborious. George takes care of Lennie, who is mentally challenged, while Lennie provides company to George. They continue to go after the dream, without…

Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath provides an extraordinary view of the American dream. The American dream, as perceived by the people in Steinbeck’s time, was going from a poor lifestyle to a stable and luxurious one. However, in reality very few achieved that. The Grapes of Wrath focuses on both sides of the American dream’s perception versus it’s reality. Ultimately, in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s analysis of the struggles and positives of the Joads’ journey presents an intriguing…

Football is one of the most popular and electrifying sporting events in the world! According to Nolan Feeney, “A total of 114.4 million people watched the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24”. The championship game, known as the Super Bowl, has broken a majority of the records in television views in the United States. However, football has come a long away. Many people in the United States did not always like the game of football. In the beginning of the origin of the sport the…

In John Steinbeck’s book, The Grapes of Wrath, he uses many themes in order to progress his story that shares just how difficult surviving in the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl was for many. One of the many themes that are apparent in the novel is community, which is present not just in the Joad family, but in the “Okies” as well. In the Joad family, it was the need for unity that kept it in tact when times got hard, such as when morale was low as they neared California. Although the family…

Status is a curious thing. It is so often set in a way that cannot be controlled, and there is not much one can do to change it. Even though all men are supposed to be equal, there are still clear lines of status: wealth, popularity, intellect, and ability being some. And those with higher status almost universally have more power over those “below” them. The beloved novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tale of two wandering ranch workers named George Milton and Lennie Small. The…

Namely, the Dust Bowl was the major one which forced the immigration of many farmers from the southern plains to the ‘land of milk and honey,’ California. John Steinbeck’s book “Grapes of Wrath provides its readers with a clear understanding of the trials of this journey…

The difference between being a Vagina and being a boy, boys would always be superior. There is a dominance hierarchy in society where men dominate woman. When you’re born with a Vagina you receive a pink blanket when you’re a boy you receive a blue one. Women are always getting judged based on appearance rather than ability. We are also born to behave how society expects a girl and a boy to behave, having a color-coded gender labels. As we grow up both sexes show a constant pressure from the…

In the opening chapter of one through eleven of “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbach, tells of the Dust Bowl drought that swept through Oklahoma and how it affected the homes and livelihood of the sharecroppers (Steinbach 2-4). Tom Joad, in chapter two, finds himself riding with a truck driver after having served four years in prison at a place called McAlester. He had been locked up after being in a drunken brawl and killing a man (Steinbach 4-12). Chapter three tell of a turtle crossing the…