Josh Hamilton the Baseball Player Essay -- biographies bio biography

â€Å"I'll never forget Opening Day in Cincinnati. When they called my name during introductions and a sellout crowd stood and cheered, I looked into the stands and saw Katie and our two kids, Sierra who's nearly 2, and my 6-year-old stepdaughter, Julia, and my parents and Katie's parents. I had to swallow hard to keep from breaking down right there. They were all crying, but I had to at least try to keep it together†(Tim Keown). This is a reaction that nearly passed by All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers. Josh Hamilton grew up knowing and loving only two things in his life, his family and baseball. With a steady head throughout high school Hamilton earned success on the baseball diamond. Attaining such honors as being named Baseball America’s High School Player of the Year, USA Baseball’s Amateur Player of the Year, and twice chosen as North Carolinas Gatorade High School Player of the Year (Josh Hamilton). "I guess not going No. 1 wouldn't have totally destroyed me, but there's prestige going No. 1, and I'm certainly happy to be No. 1.† Said Hamilton after being drafted number one overall on June 2, 1999 in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft (My Josh!). Things would soon become more daunting for the young 18 year old. After a Spring Training game in 2000 Hamilton and his parents were involved in an automobile accident. His parents departed for Raleigh soon after to recover, yet Hamilton was left alone to rehab on his own. â€Å"I'd been the Devil Rays' No. 1 pick in the 1999 draft, supposedly a five-tool prospect. I was a big, strong man, and I was supposed to be able to handle my problems myself† (Tim Keown). Imagine having to stay away from the one thing that brings you enjoyment for an extended amount o... ...>. Hamilton, Josh. "Josh Hamilton - I am second." Interview. Youtube.com. 22 Jan. 2009 . Hamilton, Josh. "Josh Hamilton." Interview. Youtube.com. 22 Jan. 2009 . "Josh Hamilton Larry King Live." Interview with Larry King. Youtube.com. 22 Jan. 2009 . "Josh Hamilton." Player Info. MLB. 22 Jan. 2009 . "My Josh." Sports Illustrated 2 June 1999. 22 Jan. 2009 . Ray, James L. "Josh Hamilton comes back to life." Suite101.com. 3 June 2008. 22 Jan. 2009 . Josh Hamilton the Baseball Player Essay -- biographies bio biography â€Å"I'll never forget Opening Day in Cincinnati. When they called my name during introductions and a sellout crowd stood and cheered, I looked into the stands and saw Katie and our two kids, Sierra who's nearly 2, and my 6-year-old stepdaughter, Julia, and my parents and Katie's parents. I had to swallow hard to keep from breaking down right there. They were all crying, but I had to at least try to keep it together†(Tim Keown). This is a reaction that nearly passed by All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers. Josh Hamilton grew up knowing and loving only two things in his life, his family and baseball. With a steady head throughout high school Hamilton earned success on the baseball diamond. Attaining such honors as being named Baseball America’s High School Player of the Year, USA Baseball’s Amateur Player of the Year, and twice chosen as North Carolinas Gatorade High School Player of the Year (Josh Hamilton). "I guess not going No. 1 wouldn't have totally destroyed me, but there's prestige going No. 1, and I'm certainly happy to be No. 1.† Said Hamilton after being drafted number one overall on June 2, 1999 in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft (My Josh!). Things would soon become more daunting for the young 18 year old. After a Spring Training game in 2000 Hamilton and his parents were involved in an automobile accident. His parents departed for Raleigh soon after to recover, yet Hamilton was left alone to rehab on his own. â€Å"I'd been the Devil Rays' No. 1 pick in the 1999 draft, supposedly a five-tool prospect. I was a big, strong man, and I was supposed to be able to handle my problems myself† (Tim Keown). Imagine having to stay away from the one thing that brings you enjoyment for an extended amount o... ...>. Hamilton, Josh. "Josh Hamilton - I am second." Interview. Youtube.com. 22 Jan. 2009 . Hamilton, Josh. "Josh Hamilton." Interview. Youtube.com. 22 Jan. 2009 . "Josh Hamilton Larry King Live." Interview with Larry King. Youtube.com. 22 Jan. 2009 . "Josh Hamilton." Player Info. MLB. 22 Jan. 2009 . "My Josh." Sports Illustrated 2 June 1999. 22 Jan. 2009 . Ray, James L. "Josh Hamilton comes back to life." Suite101.com. 3 June 2008. 22 Jan. 2009 .

In What Ways Did Sport Reflect Amercian Society in the 19th Century

In what ways did sport reflect American society? This essay will concentrate on looking at the ethnic and class divide within the sports subculture of American society, and how it reflects American Society as a whole. When examining any society there is a always a broad area to cover, while looking at America’s society I will be looking at the arguments that it is the ‘land of the free’ a ‘new nation’ which immigrants flocked to start a new life in a country of much ‘opportunity’. I will be using the sport in the 19th century to examine just how much America was a land of opportunity and of the free, and whether it differed from the attitudes in countries from around the rest of the world. When looking at sport in American society in the 19th century, first we must look at the origins of the sport and games that were played, to see how they were seen within a new growing society. Before the birth of the American colonies, it has been argued that sport in America was a cultural practice for the most part associated with Native American ceremonies and religion, colonisation brought the idea of sport and games for leisure. The English brought with them recreational ideologies, it was not just the particular games and sports but the attitudes and practices in which leisure activities were rooted. The Native Americans had many sports/games similar to that of Europeans before colonisation but they had independent cultural contexts that gave them different meanings. Often the activities accompanied fertility ceremonies, burial rites, healing practices, and attempts to control the weather. It was reported in the American Anthropologist (1890) by James Mooney that Cherokees who played stickball (Also known as Lacrosse) must not engage in intercourse for a month before a game. Also, prior to games they would build fires and dance to the sound of drums, rattles and sacred chants. Players were prepared before games with prayer’s, pipe smoking, body painting and many other rituals designed more to enhance spirituality rather than to ensure them victory. Participation in these games was not voluntary as the reasons they were played were for crucial tribal concerns. Indeed, the English who came and colonised America also played games for similar cultural reasons, though these reasons were not as crucial of a concern for the whole nation, but for smaller areas of society. In general, the British played for leisure, in Europe this formed the counterpoint to the necessity of daily labour, and the ideal of playing sport for leisure is still very strong today all over the world. The English leisure ethic more so than its work ethic became idealised by Virginian plantation owners. They acted like English gentlemen, followed English press, fashion and played English sports such as Cricket, they did this in search of a class distinction. It was mainly for this reason that sporting displays became a big preoccupation among the Virginian gentry; they were some of the few that had the time and money to occupy themselves with such tasks. Due to this, leisure became a very class restricting custom, and the English educated gentry endeavoured to keep it this way. One such example of the class distinctions at this time within American society is that of James Bullocke who was a tailor, he defeated Mathew Slader a ‘gentleman’ in a 1674 horse race on which each man had placed a bet of two thousand pounds of tobacco. However, after this victory the county court told the men that it was â€Å"contrary to law for a labourer to make a race being a sport for Gentlemen†, and fined him one hundred pounds of tobacco. The court also confined Slader (the gentleman) to the stocks for an hour for his loss to a working man. A leading factor in the pursuit of leisure for whites was that slavery made it difficult for them to value hard work, and easy for them to appreciate sport and games. The logic of this was simple, if enslaved blacks had to work; play was proof of freedom and elevated social status. Labour was a burden of blackness, leisure was the prerogative of whiteness. The institution of slavery, in fact, compelled the vast majority of African Americans to â€Å"steal† time for leisure and recreation, just as they stole a certain kind of knowledge when they learned to read and write. The civil war however painful it was, had a good side to it as well, this being that it helped to bring a stop to slavery. This meant freedom, citizenship, and constitutional protections from the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, however this did not mean too much to America’s black population. The good that came from the end of slavery was overshadowed by institutionalised racial segregation and repression that treated African American’s as second-class citizens. Many African Americans turned to sport and leisure to help cope with the racial discrimination, however this was not as easy as one may think it to be. Sport was used as a point of interest that brought many blacks together, Baseball was one of the most unifying of sports for African Americans with many early Black baseball teams, one of the earliest being the Pythian Baseball Club of Philadelphia, they consisted of four teams with players coming from the higher ranks of Black society. The Pythian's played other black teams from around Philadelphia, including one of the most famous, the Excelsiors (the oldest black team in the city). The Pythian’s played for the unofficial â€Å"Colored Championship of the United States† in 1871, they carried a race’s pride when they played all be it separating themselves from the lower and middle classes in the African American society. This showing that although it became more acceptable for black players to play white sports, they were separated out from the white’s and class was still a divisive factor amongst players. So, ‘land of the free’ of ‘opportunity’ it does not look like it, when we see the divide between the players of this sport. Black athletes were involved in almost every sport by the end of the nineteenth century, however, boxing was one they had a larger representation and became most prominent in. Black athletes were more acceptable in boxing as it was believed that it was more suitable to the black athlete’s abilities and there was also a negative stigma attached to the sport. While in baseball black players were cultivating themselves a separate coloured league, boxing was a predominantly white organised sport and black boxers suffered the wrath of much of the white population as well as some from the black population too. A successful and controversial figure in boxing was Jack Johnson, the first American black heavyweight boxing champion, from a white point of view he showed many of the personal qualities disliked of blacks, Johnson was defiant, ill-mannered and incorrigible. Also, he married three white women and he was successful capturing the symbolism of Anglo-Saxon white superiority, the heavyweight boxing crown. Johnson was not just disliked by the whites for his behaviour, many in the black community thought that his actions hindered the progress of the race. He was a hero to many, but also was considered an embarrassment as he refused to act subservient. The way Johnson lived his life could be argued that he was a true pioneer of the ‘American dream’, an operator in the ‘land of the free’ that has taken the opportunity given to him and made it work. His boxing career was a quest for freedom, he formed his own unique style of fighting and his success gained him many of the material things many blacks craved but they would never achieve. Examining boxing, one could argue that this sport showed a truer interpretation of American Society than any of the others, America was supposed to be a ‘land of opportunity’ where people could emigrate, to achieve things that they would not be able to do in their homeland. However, was this sport mirroring American society or one of very few things that actually fell in line with the belief of the ‘American dream’? This being the story of one man, who ac hieved his own dream, at the cost of being disliked by many, surely a ‘land of the free’ would encourage his success. In conclusion, it is hard to fully understand American society from how it affected sport, whether it be racism, gender or class distinctions. One thing that is obvious to any historian looking at this subject, it is that these problems, however much people believe them to no longer be a problem in society, they still are. Class is no longer much of a problem within sport anymore, unless it is stopping you from joining the prestigious tennis of golf club, though these days money will buy you whatever class status you want. However, whether it is gender arguments such as prize funds at competitions such as Wimbledon, or the racism provided by fans to players of all different sports around the world, these problems will never go away. So is it wrong to judge America for its sporting/sociological crimes of the past? When looking at American society now it is still divided between sports which are seen as black and white, white sports such as ice hockey played in the northern states, and NASCAR in the southern states, black players are few and far between while Basketball is predominantly filled with black players. The truth is sport will always divide, the most recent divide in sport has come with homosexuality, David Kopay, was one of the only American Footballers to come out as gay in 1975. After he retired he was considered for many top coaching roles though he believes he never landed one because of his sexuality. Kopay is now on the board of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Association, an organisation whose purpose is to increase acceptance and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender athletes in the professional, amateur, and recreational athletics communities. You could use this argument to show that sport does not reflect society as whole but more secular groupings. Modern day racism, homophobia, sexism are all hot topics but society overall is not reflected as any of these things, yet sport still is. To say that trends in sport reflect overall society can be strongly refuted, such as in the army, police force and many working environments these problems have become institutionalised and are a representation of a few minds, not a whole society. However much sport in American society separated and segregated people, the fact is that it has eventually brought everyone together to provide a more sturdy society. America proved itself for a small period of time to be a ‘land of the free’ a ‘new nation’ in which if an athlete was good at a sport it didn’t matter if he was different, the opportunity was still there. It may have taken over a hundred years but the class divide has gone and the divide between race and gender is being depleted. Sport is a catalyst for cohesiveness, and it has helped in the development and the creation of American society as we see it today. Bibliography Books Jable, J. Thomas. Sport in Philadelphia’s African American Community, 1865-1900. Eisen, G. ; Wiggins, D. (1994) Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture. Praeger Publishers. Gorn, E. ; Goldstein, W. (1993) A Brief History of American Sports. University of Illinois Press. Chicago. Wiggins, D. ; Miller, P. (2003) The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary of the African American Experience in Sport. University of Illinois Press. Chicago. Vincent, T. (1981) The Rise ; Fall of American Sport: Mudville’s Revenge. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. Wiggins, D. (1995) Sport in America: From Wicked Amusement to National Obsession. Websites http://www. glaf. org ——————————————– [ 1 ]. Pg6. Gorn [ 2 ]. Pg5. Gorn [ 3 ]. Pg5. Gorn [ 4 ]. Pg22. Gorn [ 5 ]. Pg21. Gorn [ 6 ]. Pg 7 Wiggins and Miller [ 7 ]. 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Depression and Nazis Essay - 536 Words

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Media Is Always On Verge Of Transformationâ€Myassignmenthelp.Com

Question: Discuss About The Media Is Always On Verge Of Transformation? Answer: Introducation Media is always on verge of transformation and hence it becomes very important to have the knowledge of the terminology of the multiple platforms that media possess. This situation is often known as forms of media convergence (Schivinski and Dabrowski 2016). While discussing about cross media one more form that needs consideration is Transmedia as they both are two important platforms of media. The real idea about the duo is unknown to many. Kevin Moloney defined the duo as, Cross media has many channels but focuses on one main story and Transmedia too has one story but has the story in many forms, which makes it many stories and covers many channels. About cross media a specific quote can be stated which is narrated by Monique de Haas. In his words, cross media is a communication in which a storyline guides the recipient from one medium to the other. This means that in case of cross media the user finds out a way to cover the diverse media platforms and obtain the relevant information about the content. The difference of cross media with Transmedia is that Transmedia has entrance to many channels offering a unique way to summarize and gather information. Transmedia is a form of rich media that provides its content on various Business platforms and comes up with a new story. Each of the medium or channel it covers updates and expands the narration in a broader and unique way providing the audience with the opportunity for exploring the story. However, Cross media does not expand the narration but it provides the same information about the story in different forms. This is a form of adapting the same to a new platform by not changing its meaning (Klastrup and Tosca 2015). Media is a form of storyteller and includes the application of pictures, images, audios, graphic and illustration and many others. The channels that it uses are radio, television, newspaper, websites and recently the mobile websites. As there are many channels of media cross media implements the use of those forms in different aspects. Cross media depicts its originality from the advertising industry and what it implies is the narration of the same information in the various channels of media. Journalism has many examples of cross media since its beginning. In the year of 1970, Coke first initiated the aspect of cross media ownership in television (Swart, Peters and Broersma 2016). The first agencies of journalism like the Reuters and the associated press is still seen following the cross media aspect by narrating the same story to the world in different forms. The story in all the channels remain the same but what changes is the form of the narration including more photos, graphics and illustration. Many agencies perform the same cross media factor on a regional level and in this form they are able to distribute the aspect of investigative journalism in a more wider way. Cross media utilizes the different channels in different way but for the same story. Cross media uses channels to, directly reach to the audience about the story in a broader way. Cross media along with Transmedia and the other forms of media provides the journalism of the present world with the flexibility of using many channels to cover one story (Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Neiger 2015). Cross media is actually the use of the same media in a new and innovative way and is not only dependant on the advertising sector but also aims to reach directly to the audience. This sector introduces many multimedia services such as radio, television, and internet and in the recent context the mobile application. In the present technological era, the audiences are seen to control the media (Swart, Peters and Broersma 2016). They are the one to choose which content they want to see and get the information from and the cross media takes the chance of this opportunity and visualize or narrate the content in various channels so that they can have the audience in every channel. It is obvious that every channel has their target audience and cross media uses every channel in a different form (Franklin 2014). Cooperation among the channels and the specialist is also an integral part of the cross media. Innovation and technology are two main tool used by cross media and cross media allows t he distribution of the content of one story in a form of multi channeling. Presently the media channels identify the content and then chose the definite media that will be appropriate for the story (Nielsen and Schrder 2014). Cross media is not directly linked to the technical concept but it has relevance to the technical concept. Cross media is an effective means to accomplish communication goals but it also works as an implication of the communication goal in a required channel (Bjur et al. 2014). The advantages of cross media are that it increases the efficiency of the story, news or information and it strings many channels along with each other. Cross media takes care that the utilization of the different channels is done based on its qualities. These increase the domain of the information and maximize the impact of the same in the target audience. However, it must be noted that in every case the use of many media channels does not imply cross media concept but it is only under the cross media concept when the media are used keeping their qualities in mind along with the participatory attitude from the audience. The cross media concept also entails the brand awareness factor and intensifies the experience of the audiences by placing the same product in a different context. There are four levels of cross media; firstly, it provides the same information on diverse platforms. management, it has an original content along with the production. Thirdly, this aims at increasing the awareness of the audience towards a single story. Lastly, it creates an environment for the audience so that they can visualize or hear the same thing over many channels and help them create their own way of experience among the other ways (Watson and Hill 2015) References: Bjur, J., Schrder, K., Hasebrink, U., Courtois, C., Adoni, H. and Nossek, H., 2014. Cross-media use: unfolding complexities in contemporary audiencehood. InAudience transformations: Shifting audience positions in late modernity(pp. 15-29). Routledge. Franklin, B., 2014. The Future of Journalism: In an age of digital media and economic uncertainty. Klastrup, L. and Tosca, S.P., 2015. Cross-Media Analysis: An Experience-Centered Approach. InUsers Across Media. Nielsen, R.K. and Schrder, K.C., 2014. 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Name And Type Essays - Software, Amiga Software, WordPerfect

Name and Type: -Microsot Word 2000 -Word Processor Producer/Maker: -Microsoft Corporation -The creator of the popular Windows operating system founded by Bill Gates. Price: (http://www.microsoft.com/office/order/pricing.htm, 2000) Microsoft Word 2000 is generally purchased as a part of the Office 2000 package. The New User/Retail Upgrade Price when purchased with the: -Premium Package (including: Word, Excel, Outlook, - -Publisher, Small Business Tools, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage and PhotoDraw) - $1,299/$699 CAN -Professional Package (including: Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, Small Business Tools, Access and PowerPoint) - $929/$539 CAN -Small Business Package (including: Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher and Small Business Tools) - $769/$389 CAN -Standard Package (including: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) - $769/$389 CAN -The New User/Retail Upgrade Price when purchased alone: $519/$139 CAN Specialties: (http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/Introduction.htm, http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/Streamline.htm, 2000) -Combines word processing with the Web (eg. documents can be sent by e-mail with the click of an icon or make it a Web page with a click of the mouse). -Integrated with all Office 2000 programs allowing for top-quality documents, presentations, Web pages, etc. -Proofing tools (AutoCorrect, Spelling and Grammar) available in English, French and Spanish. -Documents can be created and edited in just about any language as long as you have the font installed on your computer. Features: (http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/Streamline.htm, 2000) -WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) Font Menu: Gives you a preview of font styles before they are chosen. -You no longer have to press TAB or ENTER to get where you want to start with the new Click and Type feature. -Collect and Paste: Allows you to store up to 12 cut or copied items and insert them all at once or individually. -Improved Table Flexibility allows you to easily automatically wrap text around a table and make documents containing floating tables. -Updated Table Tool: Makes it easier to draw and edit tables. Cells can and lines can be added or deleted individually or many at once and can be split diagonally. -Hundreds of new clip-art images that can be dragged in to a document. Sound and video can also be added. -Start from a blank document or a pre-made template (eg. Resumes, Web pages...) -Proofing tools (AutoCorrect, Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Hyphenation) -Easy to create links to other Web pages or documents with improved hyperlinks. -Easy and fun-to-use help with animated character. Purposes: (http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/Manage.htm, 2000) -To be user-friendly and make it very easy to use and understand; perform tasks with a click of the mouse. -To create professional quality documents, Web pages, etc. with ease. -To attract people of all ages with ready-made templates to animated characters. -Now for more than just word processing but image-editing, Web page creating/editing, e-mails, etc. Hardware Needed(/Recommended): (http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/SysReqs.htm, 2000) -PC with a Pentium 75 MHz+ processor -For Windows 95/98: 16 MB of RAM for the operating system, plus an additional 4 MB of RAM for Word -For Windows NT Workstation: 32 MB of RAM for the operating system, plus an additional 4 MB of RAM for Word -147 MB of space for typical installation (+/- 147 MB when customized) -CD-ROM Drive -VGA or higher-resolution monitor; Super VGA recommended -Mouse -Modem/LAN internet connection (Recommended) Other Information: -Microsoft Word's main competitor is Corel WordPerfect. They are both two very well done programs, but in my opinion Microsoft is a more experienced company and produces many more software programs than Corel. Overall I would say Word is a better program than WordPerfect due to its extras. Word comes with many extras such as French and Spanish Proofing Tools, and Converters. I find these converters very useful considering the fact that WordPerfect is used at school and I use Word at home. These converters transform files for intended for different word processing programs to a .doc so it can be viewed and edited with Word. The same goes for some other Office 2000 programs that are as well integrated with Word. Bibliography All information was obtained from the Microsoft Word Web site at: http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/.