Dugout

rare disease usually showing up in young kids. All my life I had participated in baseball. During a game, I was running down the baseline when parents from my team noticed I was limping. They informed my mother who waited for me to come back to the dugout. She asked me if I was hurting at all and I told her no which worried her. She later scheduled me an appointment with the doctor who referred us to a specialist. It took a few weeks for an availability with a specialist. During that time the…

with his not so tiny friend, Tiny Cooper, and Jane, the three of them always have something happening, usually involving Tiny’s love life. The three of them more specifically have significant events happen in their school’s auditorium, a baseball dugout, each of the character’s houses, and a few concert locations. The book also tends to take place in the other Will’s (Naperville) school and house. The last important place in the story that is present in both of the Will’s lives is the…

The crisp breeze rustled my hair as I walked out of my house on the fall September day with my dad drilling instructions into my head. It was my first Little League baseball game ever, and my dad wanted to make sure it wasn’t my last. Being seven years old and never touching a baseball was something that had scared me; a lot. I had no idea what to think about this foreign, petrifying, game could possibly be about. The car ride from my house was only a few minutes away from the fields where I…

Within Ernest Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical fiction A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s ironic devices and tone maintain a particular consistency throughout the novel. Hemingway’s writing style is very straightforward, constantly leaning away from being ambiguous, though there is still a sense of situational irony, coupled with a straightforward tone constantly found within the story’s plotline. Painstakingly simple and general, Hemingway does little to embellish and cover-up the brutalities of…

Imagine leaving your home to fight in the war, and then having to go on a long journey to return back home. Imagine that you are being welcomed by strangers in many different places and environments. Imagine that you have to experience hunger and fear while trying to reach a destination. Odysseus and Inman are both very smart individuals who go on a journey to return back home. They both have a destination and approach it with confidence. They are helped and sheltered by people on the way, while…

fence and I stood there in shock, I didn't know what to do. The coach was screaming "RUN" and I ran the bases, the other team kept over throwing the ball to the bases to get me out. I made it to home plate, it was a home run. Everyone ran out of the dugout chanting and congratulating me. I looked around and there was a smile on everyone's face, I made everyone happy. I play softball till this day because it's something that makes everyone happy. It gives people something to chant about. It's a…

The Unfairness of Seniority “Freshman duties! Grab a bag and take it to the field.” It was the first day of soccer practice and I was already annoyed with the upperclassmen. This was the exact opposite of how I intended practice would be. During my entire childhood, I was told that sports provide you with the most important and exciting memories in your life. However, this practice was making me feel as if I was lied too because this practice was the worst. As I thought deeply about it, I…

In northeast Finney County, 27 miles from Garden City, sits a house with wooden siding and a stone shed with a metal roof. To those that passing by it is a common scene in western Kansas. Though the house is fairly new, this shed is nearly one hundred and thirty years old. Though now it is used as a place for storing and repairing farm equipment, it was once a schoolhouse for the town of Eminence. Not only is the town of Eminence gone but also is the county it was a part of. Both are now…

“Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. As of 2012, there were 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide” (Cancer Statistics, National Cancer Institute). Cancer was a very widespread disease during World War I due to the use of mustard gas. Mustard gas was a common war weapon, for it was very cruel and had a high fatality rate; this gas is extremely poisonous and caused a cancer epidemic due to the way it attacked the respiratory system. Exposure to…

In this T.E.K, we will cover information about the Native Tribes that lived in the Gulf Coastal and Central Plains. We will also go over the housing that they had and the modifications they had to make to live in their set areas. For all the Glossary words for the T.E.K continue reading until you get to the Glossary. In the Gulf Coastal plains, there were two different Native American Tribes: the Karankawa and the Coahuiltecan. Karankawa: The Karankawa were a Native American Tribe that lived…