Hank Aaron

Anabolic Steroids On August 7, 2007, Barry Bonds stepped into the left side of the batter’s box. Every person rose to their feet to watch history happen. They sat in awe, waiting for him to surpass Hank Aaron on the career home runs list. On a count of two balls and two strikes, he hit his 756th career home run. He now stood alone as the greatest home run hitter of all time. Four years and two months later, Barry Bonds was indicted on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of…

History of baseball This popular sport was given the name “America’s past time” through the years even though there has been debate for centuries of which land invented this game. The game of baseball has been seen back through history all the way back to 1600s. Abner Doubleday has been said to be the inventor of America’s pastime, but has never been credited with it. He never knew he created this game either because he was killed in the civil war before recongnition. Back then they called…

Before Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Reggie Jackson, and all of the other African American baseball stars, every ball player had one thing in common: they were all white. But it wasn’t till 1947, when one player stood up for his rights and changed the world of sports forever. His name was Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was born into a poor family on January 31, 1919. His hometown was Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children and was raised by a single mother. Six months after…

The 1970’s was a strange and growing time. Music continued to explode with new genres of music such as disco, hip-hop, punk rock, and heavy metal. Some bands and music artist that emerged popular in the 70’s were David Bowie, the Bee Gees, Queen, James Brown, as well as Creedence Clearwater Revival (Peoples Hist.). The fashion was an ever changing thing of the 70’s. Some fashion trends that occurred in the 70’s were bellbottoms, tie dye shirts, flower power, and mod clothing. It was quite the…

Before I was even born it seemed it was in my destiny to be a basketball player. My mom won a high school state championship and was some kind of legend in town. When she first signed me up to play in our town rec league, all of the men who ran the league couldn’t believe she didn’t sign up to coach. One of the guys at the table then turned to me and told me he was there when my mom scored the winning basket at the Boston Garden to take the team to the state championship game. When we got…

Fences by August Wilson is a play that follows the lives of one African American family in the sixties and it illustrates how challenging everyday tasks can be. When analyzed from a reader response perspective, it shows how irresponsible choices and not so perfect past can affect the present relationship’s that are presented in the play. Wilson reveals true motives of certain characters like Troy Maxson, who hinders his son’s football dream simply because he was not able to fulfill his own…

In Sherman Alexie’s “The Approximate Size of my Favorite Tumour”, the author uses humour to illustrate allusions of stereotypes in regards to the Indigenous people, based on ideology in North American society. Alexie uses metaphoric imagery to connect the main character coming to terms with his cancer diagnosis, and to magnify how behaviours caused by stereotypes can be detrimental to a person’s self-worth or identity. The story is told in first person narrative, which is being expressed by the…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…