Pitch

it, beside them. By showing my students that I struggle to get started, or get stuck, or even make spelling or grammar mistakes when I am drafting a paper (gasp), it puts the teacher on a more even playing field with the students, making them feel more comfortable, that taking risks in my classroom is expected. Sharing something one has written can put even the most confident adults in a state of vulnerability. I make sure that I always do what I am asking my students to do, putting me in the same vulnerable state. There is something about being vulnerable together that allows us to share a bond based on trust. Trust. It is the key component that a pitcher needs with her catcher. The catcher calls for the pitch, both need to trust that the delivery will be on point, the pitch will be received with care, and when things are not going well a private conversation can be had, in an effort to win the game. More importantly in the game of life trust is crucial to a positive classroom community. My students need to trust that when I call for the delivery of an assignment, they give it their all, knowing it will be received with the respect and dignity that they deserve. One thing that I do to help build a classroom community based on trust is face to face conferencing. It is single-handedly the best thing that I can do for my students to encourage their writing and build relationships. By conferencing with students I am able to set individualized goals essentially differentiating…

the first play, ‘The Pretentious Young Ladies’, a stunning performance by P.M. Williams in the role of ‘La Grange’ overshadowed quite wonderful acts of others. The character’s charming behavior had me believe in his quest to romanticize with one of the pretentious young ladies in the play. The projection of his voice was good enough for the audience, but it is in his vocal variety and his articulation, that he shines. Every words were uttered by him quite clearly, and his variations in pitch of…

stepped in for a challenge, winning the ball, and clashing knees with my opponent. My knee began to swell and I thought it was just a typical bruise, no big deal. The game continued and I continued to push myself for the team. Moments later, it was my turn to step up for a free kick. As I planted my left leg into the turf, my quad and patellar tendon worked together and pulled in opposite directions, popping my kneecap horizontally right down the middle. I laid there for what seemed like…

 Musical Notes Can Count Jerri Pineda Abstract— The development of mathematics involves early connections with music and the basic physics of sound. Mathematics is present in the natural occurrence of the ratios and intervals found in music and modern tuning systems. As people age, their hearing becomes dull and require change in the music ratio and interval to hear the same tune as when young. In like manner, the interval increases until a perfect pitch is heard. In this paper we will examine…

As a young child, I can recall my grandparents taking me to a local ice cream parlor in Columbus, Indiana called Zaharakos. The ice cream parlor is most famous for it’s old fashioned ice cream and it’s pipe organ. While you were eating ice cream, you could sit and listen to the pipe organ play in the background on a hot, summer day. In the reading about the pipe organ, it mentions that one of the different ways it makes different sounds is through flue or reed pipes. My question would be, what…

To begin the Constant Stimuli experiment, the lab recruited three subjects including two undergraduate students from the UCI Psychology department subject pool and the author, to finish the tests. All subjects were randomly distributed for gender but most of them were aged from 19 to 21. The subjects, included the author, can be considered naïve because none of them had done similar experiments before. All subjects were informed by the researcher about the purpose of the experiment and they held…

Have you ever wondered what instruments the Greeks had? Well, here is three questions you may ask. How much is the floyera like the flute today? How were the Karamouzis made? And, What is the Daouli? The floyera is a recorder like instrument. Unlike the flute you blow out of the top like a recorder, but it still has all the keys a flute. Yes this is just a fun fact, but the floyera in Greece is also a pastry. This is because it is shaped as the instrument. The main reason why the flute is the…

This is determined by what their best pitch is or how the sequence their pitches to get hitters out. There are three main types of pitches in baseball; the fastball, the curveball, and the change-up. Knowing how pitchers use the pitches or knowing pitchers "out pitch," the pitch they use to get hitters out, can help one determine if a pitcher is an overpowering or off-speed pitcher. The Fastball According to writers for Newsday, the average fastball in the Major Leagues has been constant at 91…

Literature demonstrates that pitch types (fastball, curveball, change-up, slider) generally have similar kinematics with only minor differences in forearm and wrist action, and even less so in the elbow and shoulder(36-40). Fleisig et al demonstrated in a kinematic study involving 21 collegiate baseball pitchers that the change-up pitch is the least stressful, while the curveball and fastball have similar elbow and shoulder kinetics, with the curveball exhibiting increased forearm supination and…

when I was in sixth grade, I joined a tournament fast pitch team for the summer. I had played softball since i was four years old but this was my second year playing fast pitch. I had played in a recreational league the year before so I had a little bit of knowledge on how to play the game. The coach for the team I played for had very little experience as a coach, but had a lot of experience playing fast pitch so she knew lot about the game. She never let me play after I had went to very…