As there are many who invest in athletic events, the ability to better predict attendance to such events, such as the Detroit Tigers games, could benefit many. The benefits include being able to better stock concessions stands, allocate advertising budgets, and staff security. Therefore, the aim of our study was better explain the variation in attendance to the Detroit Tigers home games. The variables we used included:…
In the 2001 sport documentary "Go Tigers!", Massillon Tiger high school, located in a small town, that bases its identity off the game of football shows the inner working of what it takes for football players to be apart of a high competing team. Discussed in the movie trailer the high schools, "breed boys to play football". The students who foresee a future in football and want to pursue one are held back in middle school so that they will be bigger and more equipped for the days they play in high school football. By doing this, the film further proves that schools are valuing wins in the athletics department rather than the academics. Schools such as Massillon high would rather hold back their students grade levels for the benefits of their…
It’s the 1940’s; 1944 to be exact. You’ve been drifting in and out of a variety of camps, struggling to stay as alive and hopeful as possible. The days and nights are starting to blend together into a gray smudge, and your will to live is beginning to dissipate. This was the constant struggle of the Jewish people during the second World War. Every waking moment was spent in constant fear and misery, Now, does that compare to being taken from your home and having to pursue your own entertainment? Two children, Elie and Shorty, survived these trials and lived to tell the tale. In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, and “Baseball Saved Us”, by Ken Mochizuki, both of the main characters experienced things that changed the way they viewed a variety of subjects.…
They are both excited that they can go out of the country together while her sister works. The story is written is first-person point of view. I don’t think there is any symbolism in this story particularly. The imagery in this story has to be the women bringing out the tigers and having the sister sew together their strips, which doesn’t make any sense because how would a tiger lose its strips and get them sewn back? The very skilled sister once was enrolled in med school to be a surgeon, but soon stop attending because she decided that is not what she wants to do. She doesn’t want to do it anymore, because her parents both died because of a surgeon, so by this happening it motivated her to stop going to med school and pick up something else she was skilled in. The title is very significant in this story, because mending the Tiger’s strips back together is what the sister is asked to do for the women.…
Donna Cooner’s Can’t Look Away projects that popularity can take a hard hit on how person can act. Everyone needs friends in their life that are going to have their backs and to be supportive, and that is what Torrey needs through this hard time. Many people struggle to see past popularity and to truly understand what’s important in life. Hubert H. Humphrey once said, “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”…
Lou Gehrig, shortly after learning of a deathly disease that he had acquired, said his final goodbye to professional baseball on July 4th, 1939 during Lou Gehric appreciation day in Yankee Staduim in a short and simple speech that conveyed to the audience his feelings of awe towards what he had been able to do and with whom and luck with what he still had, while simultaneously inspiring his listeners to appreciate what they had by using the rhetorical devices of ethos, pathos, and parallel structure.…
The saying we are one but we are many means that us Australians are one but coming from variety of nations, cultures and traditions even though the country was bought up by aboriginals, the country is now in peace and harmony.…
Annemarie Powell’s article “Get in the Game: Encouraging Play and Game Creation to Develop New Literacies in the Library” discusses the ways in which play allows children to develop fundamental skills such as new literacies, competencies, and deeper relationships and understandings of the subject material (Powell, 2013, p. 836). Importantly, Powell articulates the necessity of integrating games and playtime with curriculums so that children can better learn and connect with the subject material. In order to demonstrate the importance of pretend play and video games when teaching children, Powell discussed a strategy game that was utilized…
The Tigers quickly set the pace and led the Magicians 42-31 at halftime and held the Magicians to 37 percent field goal shootings. The Tigers won the first half battle with 48 percent, 15 of 31 shots, from the field, which was led by junior Jahmal Lane with 12 points.…
The song that I chose for this project was “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The 1966 song is a wonderful representation of the combination of R&B/Soul that created the division of Motown. This song has been reprised over the years but none could come close to the original sound, it truly commands respect for the complexity hidden behind simplicity. On that note I wanted to create an experience that was visually simple but extremely elegant and smooth to pay homage to not only one of my favorite songs but one of the best songs from the 60’s. The song is such a powerful song on its own that I did not want to dishonor it by creating a distracting light show, I wanted it to reflect what a concert would have looked like at the time period.…
Capitalism is the root of exploitation all around the world especially the colonized countries. Domitila Barrios De Chungara, a Bolivian woman, along with Moema Viezzer wrote the book Let Me Speak to illustrate and provide a deep understanding of the revolution and the living conditions of the miners and their family in Bolivia. Capitalism is an economic and political system which is central to modernism and ruled the countries that depended on industrialized countries like the United States. Domitila Barrios De Chungara is a courageous woman who sacrifices so much in the struggle to better the condition of the poor working class. Chungara despises the exploitative and repressive aspect of capitalism and unites her compañeras and their compañeros…
“Erik died April 21, 2010 from the Choking Game. He was a normal, healthy 6th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, California - an "A" student, avid athlete and boy scout. His dream was to go to West Point, enter the military and then law enforcement. He was the opposite of a youth "at risk". Credible evidence indicates that Erik's first exposure to the choking game was during school the day before he tried it at home and died” (Erik's Cause, 2012). This unfortunately is the story of many kids who have died or suffered any trauma from playing this “game”. The statistics are there, the real life stories are all around. All we need to do is sit down and teach the students that it is a scary world but we make the decision in this scary world.…
Another meaning the title of Sharon M. Draper`s Tears of a Tiger can have is Andy`s feeling of being trapped in a “white man`s world”. Andy is just like the tiger, which is trapped in a cage in the zoo. One does not know how a tiger feels when it is trapped in a cage. One can only guess that the tiger is happy and satisfied living in a cage. Andy in this situation is just like the tiger. He is trapped and everyone guesses…
The book The White Tiger is by Avarind Adiga. This book is about a man named Munna, which translates to “boy,” who takes on the name Balram, which is given to him by one of his teachers. He tells his story to the Chinese Premiere, Wen Jiabao over the course of seven nights via email. His story is that he wants to make a lot more money than he does working in the family tea shop, which is what his caste, the Halwai, does. He overhears two men taking about how much money that drivers make while he is working at the tea shop. He immediately goes out and learns how to drive and gets a job from a man named Ashok, who is the local landlord, the Stork’s, son. They all move to Delhi for Ashok’s job. While Balram is working for Ashok, he struggles eternally with how the caste system works and how servants are not treated as human beings. After struggling for a long time with this, Balram decides to kill his boss and to create a driving company and make more money than he ever has before. This book was very well written and I do not see any way that I would have changed it. This book had a little bit of everything. Balram would talk about the chandelier in his office while writing the emails, which made it seem like a real conversation with Wen Jiabao.…
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He was born in Madras on 23rd October 1974. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salaman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.He began his journalistic career as a financial journalist, interning at the Financial Times. He was subsequently hired by TIME, where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During his freelance period he wrote The White Tiger.…