Yankee

The voiceover opening narration in Match Point refers to, the man who said, "I'd rather be lucky than good", is in fact, a quote from baseball player, Lefty Gomez, a 1930’s Yankee. What role does luck play in the film? Luck is depicted in the film Match Point through director Woody Allen’s story characters and the lines, which reference the upper class, have a life of luck. Director Woody Allen uses chance to depict characters luck to a Match Point tennis ball moving toward, and lingering…

forgiveness. Ray Aleman has been the best friend a guy could ask for. We had many great times playing sports together and I hope we will get together and relive some of them in the near future. Jack Massucci is another lifelong pal and confidant who was part of our community band of brothers. As youngsters, he and I were inseparable and I am blessed to still count him among my good friends. Nonetheless, I am deeply saddened by the loss of my dear friend, Ron Moreland. Ron, who was one of…

In the case of Twain, his works have aged quite well and continue to be read today. However certain parts (“Tom Sawyer” for example) are generally harder to read with the mindset which readers have today. By learning about his life, understanding his work becomes easier. Ultimately, whether people know the writer as Mark Twain or Samuel L. Clemens, his humor is still appreciated today, but fully understanding his work requires understanding his life. Twain’s early life affected his later…

The author uses drama to describe irony for example “...Homer Barron, a Yankee--a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face..Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer”(293). The drama behind this quote is that the father of Emily did not want her to be with a yankee and since the town would always talk about her they said just because she has money they said that she would never be with…

The characters in William Faulkner’s writings were affected by the Southern social classes. “Faulkner’s story, the one story he has to tell, is the his-story of the South into which he was born and which, in turn, has lived in his bones and words.” (Friedman) Old, new and reconstructed South; if it had anything to do about the South, Faulkner would write about it. Not many other writers understood the Southern social class like Faulkner did. When reading William Faulkner’s writings you most…

Joe DiMaggio or Joseph Paul DiMaggio was an American professional baseball player in the 1940s. People also called him Joltin’ Joe or the Yankee Clipper. He was born on November 25th, 1914 and died on March 8th, 1999. As a baseball player he was a fielder and hitter. DiMaggio was one of the best players in the history of the baseball game and also be the Most Valuable Player award in 1939, 1941, and 1947 for the American League. He retired being a professional in 1951 and in 1955, he elected to…

My southern roots run deep. My daddy was the son of sharecroppers from Pulaski, Tennessee and my mamma the daughter of oystermen from Gloucester, Virginia. One side of my family tree witness the birth of the original KKK and the other the surrender of Cornwallis. I was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia were is was considered a capital offence if you did not say yes ma’am or no ma’am or yes sir or no sir when addressing your elders. Oh How I miss those days. I moved up north when I was…

disliked by the American public. Anti-Nazi protesters picketed Schmeling's hotel in the days before the fight. On the night of June 22, 1938, Louis and Schmeling met for the second time in the boxing ring. A crowd of 70,043 people saw the fight in Yankee Stadium. Radio broadcasted it to millions of listeners throughout the world. The fight lasted two…

the King and his policies. Lot's of these people were opulent, land owners or had been chosen by the King to accommodate in regime positions. Patriots were people who fortified the cause of American individualism, the loyalists named these people Yankee Doodles (a very negative term back then). These were people homogeneous to Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and John Adams. The key issue was taxation. The British parliment, throughout the 1760s passed a number of tax measures/programs to pay out…

On a blistering cold Saturday morning in November, my parents and I traveled north to see the 150th meeting between Lehigh and Lafayette at Yankee Stadium. My sister, a Lehigh freshman at the time and already in The Big Apple for the weekend, was texting pictures of the excitement. The NYSE, the Empire State Building, and the subway crowds all sporting brown and white. How could this small university from Bethlehem capture the attention of the greatest city in the world? Then it hit me… it was…