1980s, the term “walk-off” for a game-ending hit has become as comfortable a part of the baseball lexicon as “balls” and “strikes.” And it’s spreading. The term’s first published citation was in July 1988, according to William Safire, who was The New York Times’s longtime language maven and who wrote about it a decade ago. The Gannett News Service wrote: “In Dennis Eckersley’s colorful vocabulary, a walk-off piece is a home run that wins the game and the pitcher walks off the mound.” Yes, the…
Food from home played a big part in her life. Kothari was born in New York City, to parents who held strongly to their Indian roots. As a child, Kothari longed to become more like her American friends, “I want to eat what the kids at school eat; bologna, hot dogs, salami - food my parents find reputant” (Kothari 172). As…
The Great Fire of Chicago Have you ever thought about how terrifying that nice, warm fire, in your house could actually be? The Chicago Fire was a very tragic event that happened in October of 1871. The Chicago Fire killed up to 300 people and also left around 100,000 people homeless. The fire had took down everything engulfing anything that it had touched. Every Single house, all the streets, and the sidewalks were all made up of wood and the fact that Chicago was super dry did not help at all.…
Tien Walker Bob Conrad, PhD, APR “Dr. Conrad” Marketing Principles 210 April 4, 2017 Targeting, Segmenting and Positioning Dillard’s and Macy’s have the same kind of retail business in the USA. Macy's and Dillard's, have staged impressive comebacks recently. Macy's and Dillard's are renewing their success in the retailing market. They have the same kind of promotion such as Coupons, improving social media for shopping and many kinds of customer's service policy for their customers "Macy's and…
A name is a designation of importance, whether that is positive or negative. When a discovery of new land is made a new name typically goes along with it. When a child is born they receive a name as a symbol of their parents commitment and love. Like a contract, a name seals the connection between the person who gives it and the person or place that is the recipient of it. Names can also be classifications which can elevate a person's status or take that status away. In Toni Morrison's novels…
Carol Burris from the Washington Post writes in the article “How Many Students Are Refusing to Take Common Core Tests This Year” that “New York State rocked the world of test based reform last year when nearly a quarter of a million students opted out of the Grades 3-8 Common Core tests” (Burris 1). Parents opted their kids out of state testing, because they disapproved of Common Core Standards. For people who are not aware of what Common Core Standards are, they are a set of national…
Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…
actor, director, and playwright in New York City. During this time, I focused on creating art that addressed various social justice issues; for instance, I wrote and produced three independent short films on the ways in which women and the LGBTQ community are uniquely affected by poverty in New York. I worked as a playwright and performer for an avant-garde theater company based in the West Village, in addition to performing in several plays throughout the New York metropolitan area. Once I…
Downtown Worcester is comprised of office buildings, clothing stores, restaurants, small cafes, and governmental offices such as City hall and Worcester Federal building. The common oval serves as the center location for big events that takes place throughout the year. Few weeks ago, Worcester held their first Pow Wow event at the common oval, where artist from all over the world came to display their artwork. During our walk, we saw few of the murals on the street that was painted during the…
effects of media, some of the more popular include moral panics, hypodermic needle theory, the limited effects model, and mean world syndrome. The Warriors (1979) is an American film directed by Walter Hill. This movie is a drama centered around a New York City gang,…