Ruth Handler

I have learned so much about Babe Ruth throughout my life. My grandfather has been a huge Babe Ruth fan ever since he watched him play as a kid. He would tell me stories about how he would go and watch Babe Ruth play in Yankees stadium. He told me that one time while he was at a game, Ruth asked the hotdog vender to bring him a hotdog to the dugout. My grandfather has thoroughly convinced me through stories and statistics that Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player ever. Both Sports…

Barry Bonds (Noun) holds the single-season Homerun record. A-Rod has over 3,000 hits and is a 14-time All Star. David Ortiz is a 3-time world series champ. Jose Canseco is the first player to hit the 40-40 mark. (Simple Sentence) 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in (prepositional) a single season. Ivan Rodriguez has the most home runs as a catcher. All of these MLB players have an asterisk next to their name on the lineup card. The asterisk does not mean that they are an all star; it means that…

The Book of Ruth is a refreshing story after the Book of Judges, as it ends with the 25th verse of 21st chapter: ”In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes”. But, the book of Ruth shows God’s perfect plan of redemption. The story has been set in a dark time of Israel’s history. The main characters are ‘Elimelech’ meaning ‘My God is King’, ‘Naomi’ which means ‘Pleasant’, ‘Mahlon’ which means ‘Sick’, ‘Unhealthy’. ‘Chilion’ means ‘puny’, ‘pining’,…

Life As An All-Star Yogi Berra was one of the best baseball Hall of Fame catchers of all time. I am going to tell you how great of a husband, father, and baseball player he really was during his 90 years of living in St. Louis Missouri with his wife, Carmen Berra and their three children, Dale, Tim, and Larry. Yogi Berra was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925. One of the quotes that he came up with was, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The sayings and quotes that Yogi Berra came up with are…

The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony.…

There is currently a great debate in our nation about the necessity of Voter ID laws and the impact they will have on our democracy. It is with clear distinction that the Voter ID laws recently passed in various states, noted by right wing support, are a clear infringement on the ideals of a collective and openly participatory democracy. Voter ID laws, which in their inception are supposedly to protect democratic thought, would be a noble effort if they were implemented without malicious…

G. Roberts Jr. (LIPTAK, A.). He basically said that its not and issue and it shouldn’t be an issue as long as congress remedy the problem. Two of the opponents were President Obama and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Obama had said that he was “deeply disappointed in the ruling” (LIPTAK, A.), and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had disagreed with the decision, “disserved by todays decision”, because she believes that it took away what Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for which was equality among…

Facts: Petitioner Dennys Rodriguez was pulled over on March 27, 2012, for swerving onto the shoulder of the Nebraska State Highway 275. K-9 officer Struble, from the Valley Police Department approached the vehicle where he saw Dennys Rodriguez sitting on the driver seat and Scott Pollman on the passenger seat. Officer Struble proceeded with the traffic stop and verified Dennys’s license, registration, and proof of insurance. After everything checked out, officer Struble returned to the vehicle…

to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment. However, the case was not finalized yet as the Supreme Court would hear the case. On March 9t, 2009, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on Vermont vs. Brillon. A majority opinion was authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The majority found that Brillon’s Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was not violated. The Court took into account Barker vs. Wingo which declared that the right to a speedy trail relied on both the actions of both the…

who is a possible candidate for canonization. She fulfills most of the requirements: (1) She’s dead. (2) She demonstrated heroic virtue. (3) Cults have been formed around her work. (4) Her invention is considered by many to be a miracle. The woman: Ruth Graves Wakefield. Her contribution to the world: the chocolate chip cookie. One day in the 1930s, Mrs. Wakefield, an owner of the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Mass., 23 miles south of Boston, was busy baking in her kitchen. Depending on which of…