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A person’s past creates them. The events that layer one’s history shapes their beliefs, attitudes, and values. What becomes of a person in present day is directly due to how the past has reshaped them. In August Wilson’s Fences, Troy Maxson’s past experiences with the sport of baseball reveal its negative effect on his personal attitudes, which uncovers his unrewarding relationship with the past and reveals the underlying theme that a person’s perspective of the world is formed in the wake of…

When Justin Turner smacked the game-winning home run for the Dodgers on Sunday night, announcers, sportswriters, bloggers and fans all called it the same thing: a “walk-off.” Unknown as recently as the 1970s and 1980s, the term “walk-off” for a game-ending hit has become as comfortable a part of the baseball lexicon as “balls” and “strikes.” And it’s spreading. The term’s first published citation was in July 1988, according to William Safire, who was The New York Times’s longtime language…

Description of the remaining publicly available datasets is given in Table 5.1. The Conficker P2P botnet dataset contains data from the UCSD Network Telescope for three days between November 2008 and January 2009. The first day, 21st November 2008 data, covers the onset of the Conficker A infection. On the second day, 21st December 2008, only Conficker A was active and during the third day both Conficker A and B were active. This dataset contains 68 compressed pcap files each containing one hour…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

Strike Three! At ninety-eight miles per hour, Jennie Finch pitches all strikes for every game. But that is what you may have seen if you had been lucky enough to witness one of the games that Finch was the pitcher in: She stunned the softball world with her amazing performance. At age five Jennie Finch started playing softball, and became a pitcher at eight years old(Team). She played for the Arizona Wildcats, and the Chicago Bandits, and she has won two Olympic medals and seven world…

7 percent filling the 25-man lists, as indicated by a later USA Today study. In any case, one of Selig's most uplifting choices as the commissioner has been to resign the No. 42 association wide and, basically, make Jackie Robinson Day a kind of national occasion inside baseball. in 2007 Ken Griffey Jr. created the possibility of a player wearing No. 42 on April 15, first consciously looking for the endorsement of Rachel Robinson and after that acquiring Selig's favoring. Moving not just as a…

After watching Moneyball and reading the articles, I think that statistical analysis hinders the fun of sports. I feel that sports are not always about the statistics; I feel it is about the players. Because you could be the worst batter but then be the best fielder on your team. I feel numbers are just numbers they change all the time so I personally don’t think you can see how good an athlete is by statistics. Just like one of the guys said at the end of the movie that hit home and took the…

PEDs has always been in the mix when it comes to professional sports. Many athletes go to extreme levels to maximize their performance. The fans go to a sporting event to see an amazing home run, an incredible football tackle or the fastest sprinter in the world. One of the main reasons why PEDs are prohibited in professional sports is due to the fact that it's going to create an unfair advantage over the opponent. In my opinion, I think most athletes will use PEDs if they can get away with it.…

Edward Snowden was a former Contractor of the National Security Agency. The National Security Agency (NSA) monitors electronic communications of private citizens. The scope of what the NSA does is vast and includes monitoring the internet, text messages and phone calls. The NSA exists because of the Fourth Amendment. Within the law the NSA can collect data with probable cause. Snowden outed the NSA for collecting information or data without probable cause. I think that Snowden made the…

Do you know what's so important about 1839? It was the year that America’s pastime was created. That's right we're talking about baseball! “Little is known about the origin of baseball, the subject of considerable debate and controversy for more than 100 years” (“B-R Bullpen” 1). With all of this debate surrounding baseball’s creation, the sport has changed over the time. Baseball’s history is a bit scattered. We don’t technically who the original creator was but one rumor that was floating…