Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC. In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team to never win a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are one of…

Paul is lives in Pittsburgh, and it it is very clear to see he is dissatisfied with his environment. He describes the the homes and people as very boring, and all the same. The one thing that he finds excitement in is his job as an usher at Carnegie Hall. While there he is able to bask in the lifestyle he feels he belongs in. Whenever he had time he would sneak of to the theater until his Father found out. After being banned from everything he loved Paul made a plan to run off to New York with…

Michael Chabon’s novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, illustrates about a college student by the name of Art Bechstein who finishes college and has the whole summer off for him to be free and experience what’s in store for him. When I picked this pick for me to read, I didn’t know what I was about to read. When I looked at several ratings from other reviewers on the novel without reading their reviews, it was about an average of 3.6. It doesn’t sound that bad, but more will be explained as I…

The ballpark opened in the spring of 2001 and has a capacity of 38,496 (PNC Park Overview, 2014). According to the Pirates, PNC Park combines the best features from historic ballparks with latest amenities and comforts for both players and fans. With its two-deck design, the furthest seat from the field is only 88 feet away (PNC Park Overview, 2014). The Pirates sell tickets through several different locations. The have a box office that is open daily at the ballpark and also opened before all…

Allegheny Cemetery is my place of choice for this essay. The cemetery was incorporated in 1844 and is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in America. It encompasses 300 acres of luscious Allegheny County land. This hilly landscape is the essence of Pittsburgh. The landscape is naturally groomed by a multitude of deer and wildlife that graze the territory. The multiple ponds and innumerable trees just add to the picturesque landscape that so many…

The Pittsburgh Zoo is only one of six combinations of a zoo and an aquarium in the United States. It displays an impressive “400 different species of animals, some of which are threatened or endangered” (USNews.com). Nonetheless, the Pittsburgh Zoo strives to fashion optimistic, lifelong relations between animals and people, and this goal is evident throughout the Zoo’s walkways and exhibits. As I walked throughout the Zoo, I noticed that the animal’s exhibits closely resembled their natural…

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warm Tampa Bay evening on February 1st, 2009. Most people would recall it as any ordinary day, but it was the game of the year for football fans – super bowl XLII. One night, one game, in one neutral stadium between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers to ultimately decide who takes home the Lombardi trophy. The Steelers were leading at the start of the fourth quarter, but Arizona answered by scoring sixteen points straight, taking the lead and momentum away from the Steelers.…

Although he is a prominent figure in the history of Pittsburgh, the life of Jonas Edward Salk did not begin in Pittsburgh. Jonas Salk, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City. It was in New York City that he became the first member of his family to attend college by attending New York University and earning his medical degree in 1939. The next stop on Jonas Salk’s journey to Pittsburgh was at the University of Michigan. At the…

Aside from its importance to me, the terrible towel has a rich history that makes it important to every person who is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the city. This importance begins with the towel’s creation in the mid-1970’s. The Pittsburgh Steelers played the Baltimore Colts in 1975 for the divisional championship game. It was a home game for the Steelers and Myron Cope met with WTAE, Pittsburgh’s main radio station, to voice his opinion about promoting an object that would raise…