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of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. The movie “Lean on Me” is a strong movie that has a great message to it. It is about some high school students that are in a gang or associated with drugs. The cast in this movie are Morgan Freeman (Joe Clark), Beverly Todd (Ms. Levias), and Robert Guillaume (Dr. Frank Napier).…

Shaquille O'Neal is Now in the Rehab Business Shaq may have made his name and his millions on the basketball court, but he is making an even large impact on the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Newark is Shaq's hometown and he wants to increase the resident's access to construction jobs, unions, and higher pay. Project Impact Newark will help resident prepare for union entrance exams and entry into apprenticeship positions. Granted, union access and skills will not mean much if there are not…

tarnished public image for the White Sox. Management for baseball was poor in the 90s; including not enforcing enough rules against gambling. Charles Comiskey (White Sox President) had been known to break many contracts with players including “Shoeless Joe Jackson.” As Carney reveals, “The jury believed Comiskey had made and broken that promise, but it did not award Jackson any money. The foreman explained that the cause…

Critical Analysis In the book Shoeless Joe and Me, Dan Gutman talks about the old time baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson. Joe was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox. He was involved in a scandal that’ll never be forgotten. This story is about a baseball fan who has the powers to go back in the time of the year a baseball card is. He wanted to travel back in time to 1919, to find out if Shoeless Joe was really involved in this or if he was against it. He also wanted to stop it from…

Shoeless Joe Jackson has the third best batting average of all time. “ Shoeless Joe Jackson was a superb hitter whose career average of .356 is the third highest attainted in the history of baseball’’ (“Shoeless Joe Jackson”). “ Joseph Jefferson Jackson was born in poverty on July 16, 1887, in the small South Carolina town of Brandon Mills. His father was a mill worker and never received a decent salary. Joe Jackson's education ended before his twelfth birthday, and he was illiterate when he…

Between a Teacher and a Parent The Ethos and Pathos Of Joe Clark’s Speech In the Movie “Lean on Me” “This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can 't control it, how can you teach? Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!” By Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) Passion is the source which motivates the will to teach. It is clear, teachers do not step into the education field for the money. This is evident in the movie “Lean on Me” as Morgan Freeman is demoted to an elementary…

trumpet playing skills allowed him to become one of the first to acknowledge the trumpet as a solo instrument. Armstrong also was one of the first scat singers and is known for it becoming widespread. (listverse) In 1922, Armstrong was invited to join Joe “King” Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. This opportunity gave him the chance to quit his other jobs and to focus on creating music. During the early 1920’s, Chicago was booming with jazz, which allowed Armstrong to live magnificently (arm wiki).…

Joseph Jefferson Jackson was a professional baseball player, who was one of the best players of his time. However, his reputation tarnished when he, including seven other teammates were accused of losing a game in order to earn cash from gamblers; hence were banned from playing professional baseball for life. Nevertheless, I have confidence that Jackson wasn’t involved in the 1919 World Series scandal. First of all, during a game, he and his teammates were accused of participating in a fix with…

was not enough to keep his mother from participating in prostitution. Louis eventually dropped out of school at the age of eleven years old and joined a group of boys who sang on street corners for money. Louis also developed a relationship with, “Joe King Oliver” who is one of his favorite musicians during his childhood. Oliver became a mentor and a fatherly figure towards Louis especially through his troubled times and supported him greatly. Oliver was coronet players who often use to play at…

Likewise, some suggest that only a handful of the players “actually” fixed the series and the others never actually performed down or even took any extra money. As seen in the film, Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver are two of these characters that many believe were victimized. Although, it would seem true, in virtue of Joe Jackson never once having a bad game and Buck Weaver hating to lose more than anyone on the team. However, they both knew about the fix which means they were a part of the scandal…