Eric Wright Miss Royse English 4 8 April 2015 Tuesday Night Fight: Koufax vs. Johnson Two pitchers so great at what they do that tens of thousands would flock just to watch their artistic play. Although, Koufax was more of an art while Johnson’s was more of brutish force. They could never be compared on the field due to them playing 20 years apart. However, I will use statistics and sport analysts to show how Sandy really was the superior baseball pitcher.
Guillame de Machaut, unlike John Dowland, has a well-known composition called Agnus Dei, and it is a prayer for mercy and peace. Machaut created music for the church and was the first to do in a polyphonic approach. Agnus Dei became a staple in the mass ordinary, as it referred to “speaking of christ”. This song was meant to appeal to the mind and not so much the ears, it was a revamp on the Middle Age Gregorian chant. John Dowland was from 1563-1626, so he is from the late Renaissance period in which he primarily wrote melancholy songs based off of popular consort songs and dance music from that time period.
INTRODUCTION In “Baseball Magic”, Gmelch explores how baseball players perform rituals in order to receive good luck during their tournament. Gmelch compares the rituals of American baseball players to those of the Trobriand Islanders. The baseball players use magic, specifically rituals, taboos and fetishes to control their fear of failure. These rituals are primarily focused on players who pitch or hit since their positions in the game allow one to score points for their team (1).
Michaela Cullington, author of “Does Texting Affect Writing,” declares texting does not affect students writing. Cullington uses facts to support her overall claim, and gets many teachers’ opinions on the subject. The author did not use valuable sources, which questioned her overall purpose. Cullington used a lot of her own opinion throughout the text, but lacked supporting facts. The story has many flaws, making Cullington argument on how texting is not affecting students writing, not reliable.
John Colter and Tom Murphy are the two explorers that discovered the same land that is now called "Yellow Stone National Park". John Colter had gone by himself in 1808. He had discovered hot springs, bubbling mud pots, and exploding geysers. But when he told people no one believed him and no one else went because they called it "Colter 's Hell". In 1986 Tom Murphy decided to go there and look at it and some photographs, when he got there he saw wild life and everything John Colter had seen almost one century ago.
The two excerpts from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks made me have many tangential thoughts about William, his thinking, and his identity. Who is he? Who does he think he is? Can he actively think? However, in the spirit of our class, I re-read the passage several times to understand what kinds of readings are taking place.
Quincy and Biddy, two 18 year old Special Education students who have just graduated from High School, and are relocated to an elderly woman’s house who they call Miss Lizzie and Lizbeth. While they live there they both have jobs, Biddy is Miss Lizzie 's house keeper and Quincy is an employee at a grocery store down the street. Biddy’s mental disabilities came from not having enough oxygen in the womb, she was abandoned by her mother to be raised by her cruel grandmother who didn 't think well of Biddy. When Quincy was 6 years old she received a head trauma wound from her mother 's abusive boyfriend, and since then she bounced around the foster care system ever since then.
The poem "A Simile" by N. Scott Momaday is a good example of mostly that, a simile. With very few lines in the poem, only a few lines make up the simile portion. The first line says what is actuality happening, the more important parts to the meaning of the poem is the first part which reads, "What did we say to each other (Line1) ". This tells reader something important was said between the two people. The rest of the poem tells the readers what was said caused a conflict.
“The Chilling truth is that his story could have been mine, the tragedy is that my story could have been his”. This was a quote from the author Wes Moore about the lives of both Wes Moores. The author Wes Moore was brought up with significantly more support than the other Wes Moore, the support that eventually will change his life for the better. The author Wes Moore is currently a free man with a prosperous life while the other Wes Moore is in Jessup Prison, serving a life sentence. The cause for this was the support each man had when they were being brought up in life.
Such wording invokes curiosity in the reader, making the author’s argument more
Her article focuses on helping the audience improve their writing and making them more comfortable with the idea of a real writing process. I think this concept was helpful to me because it made me look at writer’s block from a different perspective. She makes the reader believe that ‘perfect writers’ do not exist due to the fact that all good writers work hard in order to achieve what writing piece they are looking for. In the article, “What Is Academic Writing,” L. Lennie Irvin discusses the importance of understanding the material the audience is reading in order to write or reflect upon it. I think this is a good point because in my opinion, people need to understand what they are reading in order to use the main points in their future writing.
Cootie Williams was an iconic trumpet player during the swing era as he was part of Duke Ellington’s Orchestra and then later branched off. He has conducted a terrific form of rhythm and beat when it comes to the swing format. When looking further into his style you can notice the pattern of consistent swing like tone. For example, when listening to Juice Head Baby (1945), you can notice how sets off the song with the swing like tone and continues with melody, and during the vocals section you can notice how the tone drops but still continuing the sense of swing in the song. Swing is truly an artistic form of jazz as it gives the audience some ideas of being spontaneous and feeling ambitious.
When you must do the sense-making, you learn better.? Even Irish novelist
FACT: You’ll be hard pressed to identify two bigger (figuratively speaking) and brighter stars than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart. For two decades, Johnson has made a name for himself inside and outside of the squared circle of the WWE, gradually transferring his immeasurable charisma and smackdown skills to both the big and small screens. While once identified as the Scorpion King (or any number of his in-ring nicknames), Johnson has now suppressed that label and replaced it with Luke Hobbs from the Fast & Furious franchise and super sports agent, Spencer Strasmore, from HBO’s Ballers. While The Rock was on the rise, so was comedian Kevin Hart - bringing crowds to tears with some of the funniest comedy of the modern era.
My AP English teacher taught me what it means to read and analyze work to not just overlook what the author has written. One context of the passage embodies an entire different meaning than what the speaker states. Of course writing does play a role
