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“You play ball like a girl!” this famous quote from The Sandlot shows how baseball and softball players are always arguing which sport is harder than the other and the difference between the two sports. Even though both are nearly identical in some ways, each sport has gear, popularity, and field they play on, that have an importance that makes each sport what it is and separates the two. Gear in baseball is one of the most needed items, if not the most needed. In baseball you need cleats for…

Yellowstone national park is considered to be one of the most beautiful places in the United States. Beautiful landscape, incredible creatures, and home to amazing geysers. Despite all that beauty, Yellowstone has the potential to be a catastrophic killer. What could make Yellowstone National Park a threat lies beneath the all the beauty on the surface. Yellowstone is home to a massive super volcano. Super volcanos sound frightening but that makes one wonder. What exactly is a super volcano?…

Thought his image and emotion filled work, percy shelley expresses his inner battles and thoughts to his audience through his deep poetry. Shelly had a challenging life from the start.At the age of ten,shelly olef the secutity of his home inorder to pursue diffrent aspects of his life.When this wasnt wnough for him,he deciede to enroll at eton where he was physcaly and mentaly bulied.Percy was out cased for his belifs of atheism,free love,polital radicalism and vegitarianism,becuase his family…

Bertilak is a beautiful women who many men could have trouble trying to resist but Gawain did so. She also seems to be a pretty convincing and a sexually pleasing women as the author stated she “rose from her bed quickly and hastened there In a charming mantle reaching to the ground, That was richly lined with well-trimmed furs: No modest coif on her head, but skilfully cut gems Arranged about her hair-fret in clusters of twenty; Her lovely face and throat displayed uncovered, Her breast was…

George Bernard Shaw is certainly one of the major playwrights in the history of English literature. Shaw’s Arms and the Man, is one of the most popular plays in English literature. Arms and the Man is a thought-provoking, anti-romantic and anti-war play. “Arms and the Man is a fitting entry-point into Shaw’s career, which goes on to encompass many more plays investigating the nature of relationships between men and women.”1 The play satirizes the social issues of the day by highlighting and…

Japanese history. The earthquake erupted along a subduction zone, this is where two tectonic plates meet and collide (convergent) with each other. Subduction is a process where one of the two plates slides underneath the other plate melting into the mantle, this builds up stress between the two plates and is released as an earthquake, the two plates that performed this subduction were the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The plate that subducted was the Pacific Plate. Location the location…

Essay Title: The modern and the traditional as depicted in So long a Letter. “So long a letter” as a piece of contemporary African women’s literature highlights the religious, social and other aspects of an African country passing into independence. When I understood the cultural and contextual background of “So long a letter”, I came across many aspects, but the theme of tradition and modernity fascinated me. Ramatoulaye, the protagonist is undergoing trauma following her husband Modou’s death…

The Tenant Museum My fascinating visit to The Tenement Museum, located in the lower Eastside of Manhattan. My first visit to the museum was via Web. I surfed the site in hopes purchasing my ticket before my class site visit for Saturday. As I searched for a ticket, it allowed me an opportunity to check out the tours and find out what the museum was all about. When I entered the date of my upcoming class visit, most tours were already sold out. There are three ways to visit…

The story of the Lady of Guadalupe starts off in a time where religious preachers tried to get the Native population to convert to the Christian faith. A very poor Indian man, named Juan Diego was one of the very few converts. He was taking care of his sick and dying uncle, when suddenly, in Tepeyac Hill country, he saw a very beautiful woman, encircled in a very bright ball of of light. The lady introduced herself as “...the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who gives life and maintains…

During my time in the United States Marine Corps, one of my immediate superiors was a Staff Sergeant by the name of Sensing. The Corps is composed of roughly 95% males and 5% females, so having a female Staff NCO was statistically unusual. When we first received word of a new SNCO coming to our shop and that she was female, there was a small amount of apprehension. Once we saw her and had spoken with her, the apprehension went away. While she was a female on a biological level, she looked and…