Michael P. Murphy

One arena filled to the brim of screaming fans awaiting the victory of their team. The crowd goes silent as they are being informed that a record had just been broken by Wilt Chamberlain. This was during one of Wilt Chamberlain’s best NBA seasons, but in order to get their he had to work hard. Although in order to truly understand how good Wilt Chamberlain actually was you first need to know Wilt Chamberlain’s early life, NBA career, and his impact on the NBA, twenty six years earlier. Wilt’s…

William Shakespeare’s Othello becomes a tragedy when Othello places all of his trust in his friend, Iago, who’s master plan is to destroy Othello and Othello’s lieutenant, Cassio. Iago, the manipulative villain, holds very little trust in his friends/colleagues, for he believes others act deceptively, much like Iago himself. Iago is the least trustworthy, manipulating those around him in order to obtain what he wants; in this case, he wants Cassio’s position as lieutenant. Iago, convinced that…

Jurassic Park Analysis The Jurassic Park film was released in 1993 when dinosaurs were brought back from extinction, in which turned into an amusement park. In the movie, John Hammond is fanatic about dinosaurs so much that he spends lots of his time trying to figure out how to clone them. Even though he loves dinosaurs, he wants to make a profit off of making a dinosaur park. Eventually Hammond, the owner of InGen, finds a scientist who knows how to clone dinosaurs. This ends up forming a park…

David Rosario’s men is expected to rely on the hot hands of shooting guard J.R. Pinnock and the veteran plays of 39-year-old forward Michael Hicks in this game against the 2014 Centrobasket Championship bronze medal winners. Panama is returning this year in the FIBA Americas competitions after being absent in 2013. They placed eighth in 2011 with a 2-6 win-loss slate as they were then…

In three months, we will receive our eighteen installment of NBA video game series, NBA 2k17. A lot of expectation is riding on the game since its previous installments critical acclaimed well in the recent years and NBA Live is not releasing until 2017. As there some reviews from IGN, GameInformer and Gamespot that praised the game as the "sports video game of the year", there are some reviewers (including gamers) that criticized the game for broken to the point that last year's edition looks…

was a ruse, it couldn’t possibly be true; Facebook must have it wrong. This thought looped through her mind all morning long, the possibility of it being real was in the back of her mind until the television rang out a truth she couldn’t believe. Michael Jackson was dead. “I saw something on social media, but I just assumed it was one of those hoaxes that pops up once in awhile. But then the news came on, and I heard it. And I remember being shocked. Absolutely shocked.” (Follis). He was…

New Orleans Pelicans superstar forward Anthony Davis is looking to accomplish a feat that hasn’t been done since the 1999-00 season by Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. The feat that he is trying to carry out is winning both the MVP and NBA’s scoring title as a big man. As I mentioned, Shaquille O’Neal was the last big man to win both awards in the 1999-00 season as he averaged 29.7 points, 13.6 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game. He also shot 57.4 percent from the field, including 57.5 percent on…

Each of the plays are set in Italy and during the Jacobean era in England playgoers would have viewed Italians as “vengeful, cunning and bloodthirsty.” Both the characters of Volpone and Vindice are corrupted by the end of each play, Volpone is corrupted through greed and Vindice through vengeance. Jonson and Middleton are critiquing corruption in both of these plays and we see this not only from the protagonists but also the other characters such as the men attempting to get Volpone’s will by…

PSYC 3137 Flow The aspect of positive psychology that applies to my daily life is flow. Alan Carr defines flow as “a subjective state that people report when they become engaged in controllable but challenging tasks or activities that require considerable skill and that are intrinsically motivating, such as competitive sailing, creative writing, or having a stimulating conversation” (Carr, 2011). Flow is something that comes from within whether it has to do with motivation or just simply the…

I was 17 when I had my first, and hopefully only, encounter with a member of an elite gang. They were powerful and even more so feared. Standing at about 67 inches tall, roughly 140 pounds, wearing only the most threatening pair of “Levi’s,” I have seen, he strolled over to me scowling, his eyebrows furrowed, and asked, “Do you know Joel, from Hell’s Angels?” I scanned him, looked the man straight in the eyes and said, “No,” while slowly turned to the girl next to me hoping she'd have an…