Joe the Plumber

Muhammad Ali born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17 , 1942 In Louisville , Kentucky. Known all over the world for being a professional boxer and an activist. Muhammad started training amaturally at the age of 12. At the age of 18 he won his first gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics and then later that year started boxing professionally. He then went on to win the WBA, WBC, and Lineal Heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston. Mahammad then changed…

contributed to his family’s finance by working as a janitor at a nearby college. He took up boxing at the age of 12, when he found out when his bicycle got stolen. Young Clay then reported a bike theft to Joe Elsby Martin, a Louisville police officer who ran a youth program teaching boys how to box. From there, Joe Martin invited Clay to his program and soon Clay…

boy. In 2012, Calhoun was in a nursing home suffering from dementia. He was not competent enough to testify. In 2005, District Attorney Gricar disappeared and was not available to testify. On November 9, Penn State University fired long-time coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier four days after Sandusky was initially arrested. Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, school officials, resigned from their posts. They were accused of perjury and failing to report suspected child abuse. On June 22,…

On January seventeenth, 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay was born into a small family in Louisville, Kentucky. At an early age, Clay showed that he was not afraid of any fight, whether it be inside or outside of the ring. As an African American child, growing up in the South, Clay experienced first hand racial discrimination and prejudice, which most likely contributed to his childhood passion for boxing. Upon being showed the boxing ring by a town police officer, Clay worked long and hard as an…

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…

mirror and I said “M-m-maybe s-she’s right”. I decided not for her but for me that I needed to improve myself. Later on I was watching ESPN they were showing a documentary about Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. They showed his fight against Jersey Joe Walcott that won him the championship and the two punch combination that knocked out Walcott. The speed, intensity and the confidence in his ability that shone through the grainy black and white footage in my TV told me that’s what I wanted to…

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).…