Smokey Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it. Jackie Robinson has done a lot for baseball of all leagues. Jackie Robinson has changed Major League Baseball for the better. Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. He was raised with four other siblings in Pasadena, California by his mother and uncle. His Father left the family when Jackie was a baby. Jackie had to help his mother out by delivering…

wasting your life (Arrowood).” Jackie Robinson, a man who changed the face of American sports and freedom. Jackie Robinson was an African American baseball player in the major leagues. Before Robinson, there was no such thing as an African-American baseball player in the major leagues. Before Robinson, there was no respect for African-American athletes. If it wasn 't for Jackie Robinson, where would this world be about with racism and segregation today? Robinson made a difference in the…

An inspiring major change happened to the world when jack Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. Being an African American man he did not have as many rights or privileges as a Caucasian man would have had during that time. Mr. Jerry Robinson and Mrs. Mallie Robinson had five children, jack being the youngest. Jack r Robinson, is well known by the name of Jackie Robinson. His middle name is in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had…

The color barrier in the Major League Baseball (MLB), at the time officially known as the white man 's game, was changed in 1947 when Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt Robinson would sign with the Dodgers. He would become the first person to ever do so. Many people would not describe him only as an athlete, but a social activist and a hero. In the book Opening Day author, Jonathan Eig describes Jackie’s life prior to signing with the Dodgers, through his early career in 1947. Also, throughout the book,…

Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 18th century England. Defoe illustrates the struggles of Robinson Crusoe as he fights to survive on a deserted island for twenty four years. He writes about how a man goes out on the open seas, in search of fame and fortune, instead he escapes pirates, meets a Portuguese captain, travels the world and then becomes stranded on a deserted island. While on the island he has to find food, shelter, and water. After years in isolation he learns…

In reading both versions of Medea by Euripides, one an adaptation by Robinson Jeffers, the other translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien, it is clear there are differences that affect the reading of the drama. Euripides had a unique way to tap into and connect with the audience and the play Medea is a perfect example. Robinson Jeffers provides a refined version of the work and in his version, the rhetoric is more straightforward, being trimmed to only the essential parts. Jeffers says “Poetry is not…

Moore. This is a story that goes through all the times Larry had as a child all the way up to his years of Major League Baseball and even later in life as he gets inducted to the Hall of Fame. The author’s purpose of this book is to show that Jackie Robinson didn’t go through breaking the color barrier alone, Larry broke the barrier in the American League just 11 weeks after Jackie broke the National League barrier. This book is described in great detail and proves how hard it was for an African…

The setting The story takes place around 1940/1950 in a fishing-village on Cuba and on the sea around the island. You can tell the story takes place around that time because the old man and a boy talk about baseball and how “The great DiMaggio” is going to make the New York Yankees win, “he makes the difference”. DiMaggio was a famous baseball player who played for the New York Yankees between 1936 and 1951. You can also tell that the story takes place in that period because new technology like…

CARIBBEAN CIVILIZATION THINK PIECE The song “Chokra” is the 1996 ICC World Cup song for the Sri Lankan cricketers. “The Sri Lankans were the first host country to win the World Cup, the first country to win the World Cup batting second and it was also their first time ever winning the ICC World Cup” (espncricinfo.com). Though the song is not in English it could be seen or even gathered from the video that it was about national pride, gender and the unification of the masses. The images…

that changes the direction of a person's life, turning points can be caused by big or small events and can have negative or positive effects. The idea of people facing life changing events is shown in “I Never Had it Made” an autobiography by Jackie Robinson, the memoir “Warriors Don't Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” an article by Rebecca Maksel. The people in these stories faced life changing events and these events affected their countries. Jackie Robinson’s…