Series

The “Fixed” World Series of 1919 Seated in the stadium of the White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds; the crowds are roaring, for it’s the biggest game of the 1919 season. Excitement and anxiety is contagious, as everyone waits in suspense for the first pitch to be thrown. All of America is waiting in the stadium and around their televisions for the outcome of this momentous occasion to begin. No one could guess that this event was about to be ruined by the act of eight players. As baseball and…

when he, including seven other teammates were accused of losing a game in order to earn cash from gamblers; hence were banned from playing professional baseball for life. Nevertheless, I have confidence that Jackson wasn’t involved in the 1919 World Series scandal. First of all, during a game, he and his teammates were accused of participating in a fix with gamblers. The gamblers’ deal was to make the team lose against the Cincinnati Reds. They asked Jackson, as he was considered the best on…

The 1919 World Series matched the Chicago White Sox against the Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine series . Baseball decided to try the best-of-nine format partly to increase popularity of the sport and partly to generate more revenue. The series is often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago team conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series games. The…

The Little League World Series, a kids dream to be at besides Disneyworld. Every kid that plays Little League wants to work hard to get to there. Some kids don’t even make it passed their city championships, but they set their goals so high so they can make it to Williamsport. It’s not just only in the United States, it is international. Kids around the world get to participate in it. There is so many positive influences about the Little League World Series, from the lifetime friend ships with…

The first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning is written by Lemony Snicket. The book starts out when the Baudelaire children are on Briny Beach where they receive terrible news about their parent’s death. They had to live with the Mr. Poe and his family, people they knew, until Mr. Poe found the relative they were supposed to live with when both of their parents died. The relative they stayed with had the name of Count Olaf. While living at Count Olaf’s house the children…

This journal will include many topics and connections to real life. This is the third book of the Asylum series by Madeleine Roux. A quick summary of the book would be that there are 3 characters who are spending their senior year on the road and things don’t go as planned. They start to get weird text messages from someone who had died a long time ago. They now have to find out why that’s happening and stop it. One of the three characters are named Dan and he is a very important character. He…

The arm was distorted and had a series of rectangular shapes to form the arm, which bass considered to represent drug addiction. Preminger however disagreed with Bass over which animated sequence with the arm looked the best. Bass argued that “the sequence fell flat without animation”…

by the end of my time given I have to pro duce a book report on what I have read and to also complete a creation of how i see the text. The book I have chosen for this assignment is The Morganville Vampires Series. It was written by an astounding author, Rachel Caine. The first book of the series was released on October 2006 and the most recent was released on November 5th 2013. When I was given this task i was in the middle of reading the eighth, out of fifteen books, “kiss of Death”. I have…

Pre-Lab 10 CS 122L - 5 Points Total Objectives ● Learn how to use anonymous functions ● Practice with looping intervals Deliverables ● Submit your pre-lab answers in Bblearn under the Lab 10 pre-lab assignment area. 1) The anonymous function allows us to easily create mathematical functions, and store them in variables. The documentation below provides additional details. http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/anonymous-functions.html: For example, let’s say we wanted to…

I have worked as a Team Leader in a call center, customer service environment from 2002 to now. As a Team Leader, I am responsible for managing a team of 17-23 phones specialists and supporting the department issues, should any arise day to day. I field questions and help solve issues for specialists regarding customer interactions, employee relations, and development goals. The three aspects of my role that I enjoy most are developing people to realize their full potential and achieve…