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“America’s pastime.” For centuries, fans of all ages and races have come together to enjoy a leisurely afternoon at the ballpark with friends, family, or by themselves. However, there have been a number of growing concerns about fan safety measures at games because of the number of fan injuries in the past year. Major League Baseball needs to increase safety measures for fans by putting up more safety netting because the number of injuries has gone up from the 1750 fans injured in 2014(no exact…

Above is the a quote from Fan Xi’s interview at the “Questions for May 17th Discussion.” As an contemporary artist raised and born in mainland China, Fan Xi has been dedicated into photography that reveals the reality of society. Her work mostly associated with females, females’ identities and personal identities’ formation and development under current Chinese society. The essay will mainly be discussing Fan’s latest work Up Front to further engage this identity issue existing in contemporary…

A Creative Fan Reflection: Gaming in a Straight Man’s World For my creative fan reflection, I have decided to make a Twine text-based dating simulator that critiques both the inferior treatment of consumers who falls outside the accepted straight-white male demographic as well as the structures of heteronormativity that have become so pervasive and normalized within the framework of the current videogames industry. To address this message, I have attempted to design a medium that possesses the…

Can Cath make it through college without Wren holding her hand? For the past few weeks I have been reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and I am on page 310. Fangirl takes place all throughout the state of Nebraska. The main character, Cather, who goes by Cath, attends college in Lincoln with her twin sister Wren. Cath and her sister have been best friends all throughout high school. If you saw Wren in the halls, Cath would be right next to her. Cath and her new roommate, Reagan, get off to a…

Fanatics The world consists of many different types of fans. Baseball, hockey, basketball, volleyball, softball, wrestling, cross country, track, tennis, racing, and many more. However, football fans happen to be the most entertaining to watch and interesting to know. Football is a roller coaster of a sport and it brings its fans along for the ride. The best fans are the die-hard fans, the jaded fans, and the band-wagon fans. Die-hard fans make football games entertaining because of their…

have become fans of American football. However, like any fan base you're always going to find a few bad apples that seem to ruin the whole bunch. Since there are so many different types of annoying fans, we'll have to only cover the four most annoying types of fans. The four most annoying types of NFL fans are: the band wagoner, the “we won this many championships back in the day” guy, the “die-hard” who doesn’t know anything about their team, and super pessimist. The first type of fan we’ll…

that is used in popular culture today. Subcultures are very important in popular culture, as it helps categorize people’s ideas and opinions on certain interests and events. In addition, whether it’s a famous movie series such as: Harry Potter or a fan base for an artist like Eminem, we are categorized and separated by what we like and what we dislike. However, youth more importantly in this digital revolution use social media and the internet to create and maintain a certain identity in…

sea of blue, as fans poured into the arena. As my beloved Rangers started to fall behind to the Penguins, (in an eventual 6-1 drubbing) I started to exercise my sociological imagination, wondering how these disparate 18,000+ individuals came together to witness a mundane hockey game, and in essence create a social structure like no other. The first sociological term that sprung to mind when pondering this mystery of sports fans is the idea of a subculture present between fans of similar teams…

least 73 people died in a fight between fans of rival teams at a soccer match. Security at the gates were questioned as fans used knives, clubs and other weapons in the brawl. (http://www.infoplease.com/ ). They also say that the most common sport to start a riot is soccer and this happens in other countries other than the United States. This shows that sport fans go way too far with sports, because people were angry and furious with the other team's fans that became into a very bad fight where…

Not knowing any better because I am only given a snippet from Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, I have to think that is a revolutionary feminist play. Wilde reveals the silent hardships of women in the most mundane way: letting people talk in a room. The scene begins with everybody (Lord Darlington, Duchess of Berwick, and Lady Windermere) meeting each other. The interesting aspect to this beginning is that the Duchess of Berwick, not Lord Darlington controls the room's conversation.…