Pierre de Ronsard

Bliss Bergmark Ms. Laura Randazzo Freshmen Honors English 27 January 2015 Hate the Player, Not the Game Broken world records, last second shots, and Hail Mary’s consume the media and stay fresh in the minds of fans everywhere. Lurking in the world of sports, however, is a darker side to these accomplishments. Today, it is all too common to watch once­celebrated athletes fall from grace by committing crimes. Yet, after these athletes complete their punishments, they are welcomed back into their sport with arms wide open. From baseball to football, all professional athletes who break the law, in addition to doing time in jail, must be banned from their sport. By banning criminal­athletes, they are forced to take responsibility for their actions, their negative influence toward the public will not be spread, and their leagues will not reinforce bad behavior. To begin with, it is necessary for athletes to admit fault and receive penalty for their wrongdoings. For example, Pete Rose, arguably one of baseball’s most celebrated batters, was also a notorious gambler in the league. Rose was banned from baseball for life, and lost the opportunity to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame because he gambled on baseball games while still employed in the MLB. An article on Rose’s ban by Rick Weinberg, a writer from the sporting network of ESPN, states, “R ose had bet $8,000 to $16,000 daily on baseball games during the 1987 season.” Nevertheless, Rose continues to try to have the…

The modern revival of the Olympic Games is often credited by many to be due to Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s hard work. However, it is known that there was numerous more players in the execution of bringing the Games back. There is no doubt that all five men deserve credit for helping revive the Games, however the one that deserves the most credit is not de Coubertin, although he is typically credited by a large portion of the population. Similar to the luck-filled, improbable revival of the…

football game. Lefty calmly goes to his parents’ bedroom, retrieves a gun from his father’s bedstand, and walks out to the living room [p. 43]. Surprisingly, Boyle has fine comedic timing. I value a writer who can draw me into a tumble of humor. That he can see and respond to comedy in the deeply broken lives of the barrio is both remarkable and refreshing and provides needed balance and release. I laughed aloud often, and I wept. There are ample depictions of tragedy in Tattoos, but Boyle…

weapon used to replace the Avro Arrow after Diefenbaker had cancelled its project. In 1958, in association with NORAD, Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker agreed with the US to deploy 56 American Bomarc missiles along the Canadian – American Border in order to protect North America against any nuclear attacks by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Diefenbaker could not decide whether they should fit the missiles with nuclear warheads and they called for an election in 1963 where the…

Multiculturalism is another huge factor which changed Canada and became part of its identity. Multiculturalism can be referred to as, “ an ideological aspiration celebrating diversity”(Hyman, Meinhard & Shields, 2011, pg.3). Globalization played a huge role in establishing Canada as a sovereign multicultural state. Canada can be considered to be cultural mosaic as it is home to variety of cultures and religions from across the globe. However, colonization of Canada resulted in formation of a…

Have you ever wondered why Canada is so great? Or why Canada has free healthcare, social security, or unemployment insurance? Well, the answer is because our great prime ministers. Canada has had several great prime ministers. Great prime ministers that Canada has had include William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lester B Pearson, and Pierre Trudeau. Canada has had several great prime ministers. Another great prime minister of Canada is Lester B Pearson. Lester B Pearson is a politician, statesman,…

The craze of Trudeaumania is making a comeback since way back in 1968. Canada’s current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is currently the headline for many newspapers all throughout Canada. However, the man whose footsteps Trudeau followed were his father’s, who was also Canada 's fifteenth Prime Minister. Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was an extremely well known Prime Minister for Canada. He inspired many Canadians and rebuilt the nation. Trudeau has greatly impacted Canada during…

Society is defined as an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another. Citizens within a society must learn to navigate the social world and decided how to perceive it. However, certain groups with power can influence the way members view society. Sociologists, Pierre Bourdieu and Charles Tilly present different yet similar ways of defining how members within a state can shape a society. In both cases,…

In 2015 the Liberals engineered one of the greatest political comebacks of a generation going from thirty-four seats in parliament to a stunning one hundred and eight four, despite the fact they were trailing in third place when the campaign began (Andrew-Gee, 2015). A victory of this margin deserves to be analyzed if for the mere fact that the Liberal Party will use the victory as a mandate to enact their agenda. This paper will argue that the Liberal Party’s victory was the result of a adept…

Similarly, advertisements work to attract the viewer into buying said product to make his or her life better if this product were to be purchased. With this in mind, Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and Novelist John Berger have correlating opinions on advertising as a whole. With Bourdieu, he talks about how cultural capital can be drawn from one’s background, such as character, way of thinking, gender, or race. He also claims cultural capital as to having three separate parts: Embodied state,…