Curveball

Bottom of the ninth. Two outs, nobody on. Lucas Giles, senior superstar at Richmond High School, peered into his catcher and took the sign to throw his dominating two strike curveball, buried in the dirt. The opposing batter took a big hack but came up three feet short. The Lions piled out of the dugout and rushed to the mound to celebrate a feat they hadn’t accomplished in nearly two decades, winning the New York state championship. Growing up in the Queens, Lucas was born into a life of…

J.D. Salinger uses this first example of imagery in The Catcher in the Rye to show that the things we see in the world can change how we view the world and the people in it. “There didn't look like there was anything in the park except dog crap and globs of spit and cigar butts from old men, and the benches all looked like they'd be wet if you sat down on them” (Salinger 124). Using the park, Salinger uses imagery to show the way Holden sees the world. Through Holden’s sense of sight, he sees…

From Fiction to Facts: The Story of 9/11 September 11, 2001, a day that went from a normal day in the United States to an event that shakes America to its core. Four planes that were hijacked from airlines across the east coast turned into weapons and threatened America’s sense of security and air travel. The end result brought forth a death toll mounting approximately three thousand, a government placed on the hot seat, and question after question asking “ Is America no longer safe?” It is…

Since Darwin’s Theory first began global circulation, ongoing debate over “Creationism versus Evolutionism” has tested the minds of philosophers, theologians, and every-day people. In postmodern times, this debate is often discussed in terms of how public schools should properly approach origin in their science classrooms. When scientists can confirm a proposed hypothesis through repeated experimentation and observation, this becomes known to the scientific community as a valid theory, which is…

What this is describing is that people that are going through constant tough times to the point that they are dealing with pains that are unimaginable should have the freedom to choose whether they would like to live or not. Sometimes life throws curveballs at the most unexpected moments, but when they are constant, people begin to let pain and despair takes control of how they live. In another article entitled, “Suicide Can Be Morally Acceptable,” it discusses the philosophical viewpoints, the…

the Prices. In 1959, the Prices move from their home in Georgia to a village named Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, a colony of Belgium. Their story, is told through multiple female narrators. The narrator's, being female gives the story a feminine curveball as most epics of survival are told through a man’s point of view. The story is told through the Prices female characters. Their names are as follow: Orleanna, wife of the Nathan whom sent the price family on the baptize mission trip. Their…

Culture can mean many different things to many different people. Some people may have traditions, different recipes, or religions that they identify with. Others may categorize themselves based on where they grew up or where their ancestors are from. My family is christian and my ancestors are from Germany. However, I do not identify my culture in this way because I do not practice religion or the German culture. The culture that best betrays me are the characteristics in my everyday existence…

in America with substantial heritability of IQ in family lines within each group, permits no automatic conclusion that truly equal opportunity might not raise the black average enough to equal or surpass the white mean” (Stephen Jay Gould (1995) “Curveball,” in Steven Fraser, Ed. The Bell Curve Wars: race, Intelligence, and the Future of America [NY: Basic Books], pp. 11-22). Robert J. Sternberg furthers Gould’s scenario. Sternberg describes a scenario of if higher education, such as colleges…

yourself or emotionally accept yourself, lying in a hospital bed unable to convey that you wouldn 't want to live this life anymore? Instead, maybe you are able to portray what you want in life but life has made things complicated by throwing you a curveball of irreversible brain cancer or any terminal illness for that matter. Would you be willing to end your life if you had the chance to live a life pain-free or the life you previously lived before? Through the decades of political proceedings,…

All About Me Then it hit me, I would be off to college in a matter of months. All these years of school, preparing me for this big moment and I had no idea what I want to do with my life. There are so many decisions, such as which colleges to apply to, which colleges do I thing will actually accept me, what do I want to do when I am older. Also Colleges not only look at your application, they look at what you have done. They look at if you will help their college look better with your personal…