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Who will win the series? Who will be the World Champions between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox? Everyone is stuck on the upcoming event, World Series baseball. There will on only be one team that will go home as World Champions, but who will it be? Chicago White Sox is known to be great hitters, infielders, pitchers, a smarter team overall. White Sox expected to take the W Who has a greater chance in winning the World Championship? White Sox are more likely to win. Based on…

Why Baseball is a Classic Pastime. Obviously, baseball is a classic pastime in America. But, i am going to tell you why it is. It has a little backstory that virtually no one knows about. Between the K.G.B. and the mind control hotdogs and brainwash soda, it's pretty crazy. So, one day, the U.S.S.R. Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности agents were bored and they had there beating sticks, grenades, and they had there s.w.a.t gloves, so they decided to hit grenades and catch them with their…

Joe Maddon Some people heard of the Cubs winning the World Series but didn’t know much about them, how they made it to the Word Series point, and who taught them. Joe Maddon is the whole reason the Cubs won. He is a special manager with a special talent, finding new ways.(Joe Maddon-Overview, 2016) He lets his team play freely and is not a “crackdown” type of manager. Joe Maddon created a World Series winning baseball team, applied his past knowledge to spur his team to conquer their flaws, and…

Cyberattacks have become one of the biggest threats facing the United States today. Although Bill Clinton, George Bush, and President Obama have passed laws and put forward executive orders; cybercrime is still a prominent threat to our country. Obama further extended Bush’s Patriot Act through executive orders, improving the security to sixteen sectors by providing more in order to prevent future breaches and threats. Cybersecurity has become a prominent issue in politics and how our…

Sony Picture Entertainment was hacked by a group that calls themselves the Guardians of Peace. At the beginning of the case, no clear evidence about who were the attackers and what their motives are, but after digging deeper in the case and collecting pieces of evidence, someone can say for sure that these hackers are working for the North Korean government. The attackers “GOP” focused on stealing information and implanting malware to use them as a threat and revenge for SPE for producing a…

What do writers John Updike and Robert Penn Warren have in common. Well among other things to each other in a poem about baseball. John Updike who has written other sports related literature wrote the poem Tao in Yankee stadium bleachers and Robert Penn Warren wrote the poem He Was Formidable. Both of these poems appear in the book “Hummers, Knuckles, and Slow Curves, Contemporary Baseball Poems” [University of Illinois Press; Urbana and Chicago, 1991.] an anthology. For people who thought…

The Role of Statistics. A game of numbers, the Moneyball effect is considered start of professional baseball statistics. Statistics play the main role in baseball. It’s made a huge change in the way baseball runs and how players are evaluated and could be rated to be drafted. Every team uses statistics and it is not an even playing field. There are high salary cap teams and there are low salary cap teams. When statistic first became a huge role in baseball because low salary cap teams…

United States government’s largest contractor, which make them a target for terrorists, or foreign governments that want to gain access to need-to-know information on weapons, communications, and aerospace systems which could cause grave danger to national security. With the types of data held on Lockheed servers and amounts of data, if compromised there may be a vested interest in possibly researching other remote technologies with hardened security measures to protect its information.…

Advancement of the Bat: Changing the Game “It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.”(Pete Rose) The evolution of the bat has changed the game dramatically from the wood bat to the medal. Baseball is one of America’s greatest past times since 1846, because of all of the drama and excitement. There have been a lot of changes since the first game from the awkward shaped wood bats, to the metal bats that fall apart, to the perfected bats. (The Evolution of Baseball Bats)…

Crowdsourcing is one of the most significant and controversial developments in Web 2.0 (Hakley, M., 2009). Crowdsourcing pulls data from many sources such as social media, personal geographic data, or surveys (Goranson, C, et al and Sui D. Z. et al, 2011). The new use of crowdsourced data, the rise of social networking, and use of GIS has transformed rapid responses to political unrest and natural disasters has shaped how data privacy and ethical uses of data is used (Raymond, N, et al, 2012).…