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    Experiencing African Arts Festival African Art Festival is a St. Louis tradition in the city. It’s sponsored by Washington University, Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis Art Museum, Office of Minority Health, and Recycling on the Go organization. The festival was located in Forest Park in St. Louis. Over half of the park was filled with African artists, vendors, and african musicians and dancers. The festival was a three day long event. May 28th - until May 30th. Each day the event started at 10 and…

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    “There is time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go” Tennessee williams. Tennessee Williams was a famous writer, playwright, dramatist. Thomas Lanier Williams better known as Tennessee Williams was born March, 26 , 1914 in the citie of the Columbus(Tennessee Williams 3). His childhood was not good, he had 2 brothers, he was the second of the three…

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    a way that had never been done before (Westphal baseball). These people could all talk about the game as if they had been there themselves, feeling as if they were there while listening “to these fabulous sounds from the Old Sportsman’s park in St. Louis, or sometimes from… Shibe Park or Wrigley Field in the afternoons, or the Polo Grounds” (Morris Baseball). Baseball became so popular on the radio that it became “part of the background music of America” (McDowell Baseball). Baseball games…

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    released from teams in the NFL it can be a way into the NFL. After college and a player does not have NFL interest, he can sign in any of the professional leagues. Once you start playing you can work your way up from Arena football league (AFL) to the Canadian football league (CFL) and then to the National Football League (NFL). Many successful NFL careers started off like this, Kurt Warner a former star NFL Quarterback played college at the University of Northern Iowa. He was undrafted in the…

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    recognition, published it on her own. She was well organized and determined in this endeavor. Her records indicate that she sent two hundred and fifty copies to a distributor and numerous copies to libraries and editors of magazines and newspapers in St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston, and New York.” (Larrabee, Denise) At Fault takes place at a Louisiana plantation, in the novel Chopin wrote about love, obstacles, freedom and the reuniting the country. The characters in the novel, like many of the…

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    Denton "Cy" Young lived from 1867-1955 and played professional baseball for five different teams throughout his career. He is arguably the best pitcher ever to play the game of baseball, being the only pitcher ever to win 500 games (Baseball Reference). In 1937, Young was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (Baseball Almanac). Cy Young's tombstone effectively uses both ethos and logos through statistics to convey the message of his credibility in the game of baseball as one of the top…

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    Gianlorenzo Bernini’s David is a historical piece of marble art that shows great emotion and engages the viewers in action. Bernini’s David could possibly be mistaken as a major league pitcher throwing a 95 mile an hour fastball. He gathers all his strength for each one of his pitches and puts all his effort into it. But this specific life size piece of marble sculpture has a different meaning to it. Some may not know exactly, but the emotion in Davids face tells a whole different story. The one…

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    “42” is a film that came out on April 12, 2013 written and directed by Brian Helgeland and produced by Thomas Tull. “42” takes place in 1940s when Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American baseball player in the Major League by signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The manager at the time for the Brooklyn Dodgers which was Branch Rickey decides it is time to bring in a black baseball player into the Major Leagues.he acknowledges that there is talent in the black leagues and wants to find…

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    Giannetti defines ideology as, “a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture” (448). A film’s purpose is often reflected through the ideology it possesses and in this case, the ideology expresses the treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A League of their Own, The Perfect Game, and 42 all contain an explicit sense of ideology with a thematic orientation towards teaching people about treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A…

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    Kaden Cox Mrs. Wells 14 October, 2017 English Composition 101 Juiced: Jose Canseco Introductory Paragraph This book was written by Jose Canseco, a former MLB player who was caught using steroids. Canseco was onto a promising start to his baseball career when he was caught using PEDs. He won Rookie of the Year, MVP, and was a multiple time All Star before he was caught using the banned substance. Along with many other MLB players, his greatness on the field may be overshadowed by the fact that…

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