Essays on Baseball

Describe how NBC’s programming, economic incentives, business strategies, foreign and domestic distribution, and use of technology changed from 1980-2010.

Introduction – Boom of Television
The 1970’s was the era of exploration, but then in the 1980’s a boom of television began. The cable television gave replaced the limited amount of traditional channels and brought out more channels. The three channels were replaced with sixty and later two hundred channels. The rapid growth of the channels compelled the channel owners to think hard about what they were going to show to the people, as television was gaining immense attention of the audience on a daily basis . Their main purpose had to be to show something so engaging that Continue reading...

Texas is the second biggest state in the United States of America. There are a lot of different sports that are very popular in Texas. Also, in Texas there are a lot of different teams playing in top professional leagues of different sports. It is not a surprise that Texas is one of the most sport-oriented states in the United States of America. It is the homeland of Texas Rangers, Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Cowboys. The most popular sports in this state are football, baseball and basketball.
Football. There is no one who can disagree that football is the Continue reading...

Sociologically, there is a reciprocal relationship between self and society. The things that we do and our immediate environment remarkably determine our identity. Our actions influence the society leading to the creation of institutions, groups, and organizations. Reciprocally, the society influences our identity through shared meanings and languages that enable us to take the role of the others, our own roles, and position in the society as well as engaging in complete and ingenuous social interactions (Berreby 127). The process of reflexivity establishes the central of selfhood. Although our neighborhoods are becoming evermore detached and anonymous, losing our identity Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Amphetamines
History: According to an article published in American Journal of Bioethics the history of amphetamines began in 1887 in Germany . It was created by Lazar, Edeleanu, a German scientist. During WWII, amphetamines were used to enhance performance but by 1965, were outlawed by the USFDA, when abuse became extensive after the war (2013). Today it is most commonly used, illegally, be baseball players to enhance performance much like it did for the soldiers of WWII. Known as “greenies” the substance has been outlawed in sports but players continue to abuse it (2013).
Pharmacokinetics: “Toxicity of Amphetamines: An Update” Continue reading...

John G. Roberts Jr.: Chief Justice of the United States

Many Americans of this day and age are relatively uneducated about different facets of government. They know there are a president, a vice president, a secretary of state, and other cabinet members. Some can name the three branches of government. Others understand the ins and outs of the voting process or the part different government officials play in politics. However, there are some facets of the government, specifically within the judiciary branch, that are not well known. The Supreme Court is a well-known phrase, and many people know what Continue reading...

Every individual has two lives, the life we live, and the life we live after that. Nobody is perfect, but if one works hard enough, he/she can stay away from failure. The Natural is a novel written by Bernard Malamud. It is Bernard Malamud’s first novel that initially received mixed reactions, but afterwards, it was regarded as an outstanding piece of literature. It is a story about Roy Hobbs who, after making mistakes in his life, he returns the bribery money and is left with self-hatred for mistakes he has done. Hobbs was a baseball player who aspired Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of this experiment was to verify Newton’s second law of motion. The force and acceleration data was collected by Logger Pro for a cart moved back and forth. This data was used to analyse the relationship between force, acceleration and mass. It was hypothesised that the acceleration would directly be proportional to applied force but inversely proportional to the mass of the cart.

- When you push on an object, how does the magnitude of the forces affect its motion? If you push harder, is the change in motion smaller or larger? Do you think is Continue reading...

Introduction

This research will use the coverage that the televisions and other audiovisual devices had to analyze the 2012 presidential elections. In essence, the United States of America’s election in the year 2012 was the 57th presidential elections in the history of the nation. The contestants included the Democrat’s Barack Obama, with Joe Biden as his running mate and Republican’s Mitt Romney, with Paul Ryan being his running mate. The election was closely contested and for the first time, it became difficult to predict the course of the results. Both candidates seemed strong and were backed by Continue reading...

Globally, the strategies, technologies and tactics used to carry out campaign politics have greatly evolved. The American presidential debate in 2008 carried a sizeable impact of prompt communication to engage the audience and establish a proper political support. During this initial Super Bowel broadcast, an hour campaign debate left great footage of the candidates outstretched to a number of audiences. According to political analysts, this first presidential debate marked a historical event to create the current positions of the two candidates. Around the clock, all media stations appeared midway to accelerate and prove the torrent success of the debate Continue reading...

Compare The Hobbit to The Natural, in terms of a main character’s journey from the start of the novel to the end. Both Roy Hobbs and Bilbo Baggins have their “heroic” moments, and both experience quite a different end to their respective journeys. Analyse the two characters in a comparison/contrast, argumentative discussion of where their respective paths diverge.

Introduction

The Hobbit and The Natural are both excellent novels in their own right, and that treat broadly similar themes. Both characters are on a life journey of sorts, Bilbo Baggins is in search of a share of the treasure while Continue reading...

A teacher is a person who helps students to learn concepts through the learning process. Mom once asked me what I wanted to be in future. This was when I was 12 years old. We were having dinner at home. This question took me by utter surprise because I did not have the answer. That was when it dawned to me that I had to discover what I had to be in future. At that time, mum used to help me with my homework. However, mathematics always gave her problems. She often said that she hoped that I would Continue reading...

Introduction:

A wealth of historians have written on baseball and football during the World War II era. However, there is precious little devoted to the political complexities between the Roosevelt Administration, Major League Baseball, and to a lesser extent the National Football League. Patriotism was good for business, however loosing players to the war effort was not, nor were direct financial contributions to the war effort. Major league sports teams are businesses and have to attend to maintaining a financial bottom line in order to remain viable. Little has been done to examine if Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Continue reading...

I remember the first professional baseball game I attended and the important lesson I learned from my father.
As a child I loved the summer. School could not deter me from riding bikes and playing baseball. I loved the summer sun drenching my body in warmth, and the same cool breeze that tousled my hair also carried a baseball into the outfield.
So when I attended my first real baseball game, my excitement was palpable. I wore my favorite T-shirt from my little league team with the number seven on the back, and I grabbed my worn, brown leather Continue reading...

As baseball owners and agents discuss salaries, organization of events and performances, economists watch and analyze the benefits of the event organizers and players. Baseball is a rich field for the study and analysis of basic economic concepts. Baseball outcomes connect economic theory to human behavior in several ways. The performance of a player can be measured and used to analyze how individual employees contribute to the total revenues of the company. In baseball, the relationship between individual performances (input) and winning percentage (output) is highly predictable and directly related. Additionally, the effects of the decisions of Major League Continue reading...

Michael Nelson Trout was born in Millville, New Jersey on August 7, 1991 (“Mike Trout Biography,” n.d). He is currently 23 years old. His parents are Jeff and Debbie who are middle class earners. His father who was a baseball star in Millville and in the University of Delaware influenced Mike’s prowess in baseball. He has two siblings who are older than him- a brother Tyler and a sister Teal. He attended school at the Lakeside Middle School and later the Millville Senior High School where he graduated in 2009. Mike’s journey in baseball began while he Continue reading...

Kings Park Psychiatric Center was established in the year 1885 as an extension of the Brooklyn County Hospital so as to help combat the increasing number of mentally ill patients. Kings Park became prosperous and in 1986, it was closed down marking its end of 111 years of operation.
The hospital was established prior to the Kings County, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, and the State Island came together to form the modern New York. Ten years later the institution began to receive complaints from its staff and the general public about patronage and wastage of resources. Consequently, the New Continue reading...

Questions:

1). Based on the “Billy Beane: Changing the Game” case, explain how and why the Oakland A’s economic situation after 1995 shaped its:
a) Compensation strategies:
Oakland A’s disobeyed the laws of baseball economics in the world of most important league baseball. There was an expense of only $34 million by the team and they won 102 games and loss 21 only, in 2001. Moreover, they were the first ones to finish in their division and made the matches. The chief baseball teams preferred to hire players from high school rather than players from college. As a Continue reading...

Introduction

Obesity in the United States is an ongoing battle and it has been for the last 30 years, parents in the nation were first concerned about their teens becoming obese or giving into obesity; it has been argued that their concerns in this regard were completely legitimate. Nowadays, parents are standing idly by while their children live sedentary lifestyles that put them on the trail to obesity and in so doing, they are destroying their bodies which is having detrimental effects on their ability to be active. Exercise is instrumental in cheating and completely escaping obesity because it gives Continue reading...

Yankee Stadium (1923)

Introduction

In terms of art and architecture, few stadiums can compete with Yankee stadium. Opened in 1923, the stadium has remained an iconic figure in any work of architecture drawing no comparisons. Currently, the stadium acts as the home-ground for the New York Yankees, a club participating in the Major League Baseball. There are suggestions that the stadium will also serve as the home-ground for New York City FC, a football club participating in the Major League Soccer. Over the years, the New York Yankee stadium has undergone some renovations in order to ensure it meets the Continue reading...

Synopsis

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, is a nonfiction book written by John Grisham in 2006 telling the false arrest story of a former minor league baseball player, Ronald ‘Ron’ Keith Williamson from Ada, Oklahoma . He was falsely convicted in 1988 for murdering and raping Debra ‘Debby’ Sue Carter in Ada and sentenced to death. After serving for 11 years in prison as a convict on death row, he was found not guilty after new technology DNA tests were done and other materials introduced by Innocence Project in 1999.Before Debra’s death Ron Williamson had Continue reading...

Americanization is the United States’ influence on other countries’ cultures. The world’s culture will eventually turn out to have its reference on the American culture. Practically, the world’s business practices, cuisine, and even the political techniques tend to approach that of the American culture. The American media, art, fashion and education system have become adopted by many countries of the world.
The American entertainment culture is very wide. It ranges from television programs, music, writing and other forms of art. The TV listings, radio presentations and the videos playing in the local cinemas are mostly American regardless Continue reading...

The paper is based on few terminologies related to sports. The aim of this paper is to give a brief on salary cap and luxury tax. In this paper we will discuss about the salary cap for 2014 – 2015 season and Larry Bird Exception. The difference between salary cap and luxury tax will also be determined .
A limit of amount spent on player’s contract which binds a team to spend more is called a salary cap. Salary cap is implied to have a competitive balance in the teams participating in the league. The salary cap and luxury tax Continue reading...

Paying college athletes is one of much debated issues of current times. There are a number of people who believe that paying college students for playing games is not justified. There are various aspects of the issue which affects students, schools and the American society in a larger context. College athletes who bring in the most attraction getting paid would cause problems to those athletes who don’t bring in the most attraction. If they are getting paid should they still get a scholarship to attend college, and would it be right for them to get a profit for Continue reading...

Procedures.

Warm Up (5 minutes).
The teacher asks students about differents kind of sports they know:
- what kind of sports do you like?
- have you tried all those sports?
- do you enjoy watching championships?
- do you know some kind of weird sports from other countries?
- are there some kinds of sports you would like to try?
- why haven't you tried it yet?

Development.

The teachers tells about national sports of different countries.
A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be an inside part of the culture of Continue reading...

Interstellar: Film Cuts

For those who have seen Interstellar it is a cinematic adventure only matched by the amount of plot holes found throughout its story. The viewer is taken on a whirlwind celestial journey through space, and time, as relativity and our imaginations are warped. There is so much happening in the 2:49:00 movie, small cinematic gestures, such as film cuts, got lost in the grandeur. However, several scenes with three in particular, allowed film cuts to be noticed for the tools they are.
Well into the film, after the explorers had landed on their first planet, an ‘after action’ cut Continue reading...

The Wall Street Journal has prepared this year’s Major League Baseball Hateability Index. The teams have been rated and given points based on the their mal-practices exercised by them. Higher points here on the index suggest greater more hateability. That is, the more points a team secures, the more it becomes a is a subject of scorn and disgust. Points are allotted to the erring teams have based on malpractices, includingbeen given on issues such as suspension for drug abuses, having keeping funny beards, opponent battering, and alsoeven for winning too much. This year the number of criteria Continue reading...

Increasing the Popularity of Major League Baseball among Children and Teens in Wichita, Kansas

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Summary

Wichita, Kansas has a minor league baseball team, the Wichita Wingnuts which plays in the AA League. The Commissioner of Major League Baseball would like to increase popularity of the game among children and young adults through a marketing program. The nearest MLB team is the Kansas Royals based in Kansas City. In addition, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma is looking to host a Major League Baseball team as well, and currently has a minor league baseball team, the Redhawks, which is the AAA affiliate of the LA Dodgers.
Given the proximity and presence of all these baseball Continue reading...

Jim Crow laws were segregation laws about racism. These laws were enacted in the Southern United States of America after the time of reconstruction. The Jim Crow laws lead to the racial segregation in most public facilities. The Jim Crow laws officially segregated the Americans by race. The narratives from the people who lived during Jim Crow’s time can be used to describe the segregation institutions and how Jim Crow’s laws were practiced in the society. Two narratives, one from the state of Florida and another from the state of Georgia can be used to discuss the Continue reading...

Introduction

The use of sport enhancing drugs among college students is not a new matter; however, the number of the students using the drugs is alarming and troubling. This paper discusses the increase in usage of sport enhancing drugs among college students. The use of drugs to help in enhancing sports performance is dangerous, and many college students understand the risks and potential of chronic diseases that may occur as a result of the drugs (Gardner, 2012). Many college students are ready to use sport enhancing drugs to help them to achieve the goal in fitness in sports. Additionally, it Continue reading...

Sports are an important factor in the culture of the United States of America. Numerous US sports franchises exist as part of developing the sports sector of the country. Indeed, quite a number of American sports franchises have already succeeded in the global scene, as others are following suit. In planning to venture into the global scene, a US franchise ought to consider various factors relevant to the local culture. This involves the clientele that you have got as well as the cultural differences that exist between the American culture and the culture of the country where the franchise Continue reading...

Every four years, during the World Cup, soccer becomes a hot topic in the United States. Everyone is either watching it, talking about why they hate it, or debating about why it is not as popular as American football. A recent Freakonomics podcast rolled out the usual statistics, comparing soccer to football. Five times more Americans watched the Superbowl than the finals of the 2014 World Cup (Rosalsky). However, ten times more people in the world watched the World Cup than the Superbowl, making it the most popular sport on Earth. There seems to be some economic reasons behind Continue reading...

Classic English literature

The term positive perspective in the simplest and most basic sense refers to the aspect where a person in the society looks for the best of the circumstances and situation despite them happening contrary to their wishes. It would also refer to the notion where one goes through hardships and strives to seek for pleasure and satisfaction from self, and struggle not to hurt the feelings of the other people. Conversely, this essay will discuss and demonstrate how the books, or texts, Uncle Rock, Love in L.A and How Books Bounce by Dagoberto Gilb show the aspect of positive Continue reading...

Speech about Omaha City in Nebraska, USA

Specific Purpose: After my speech, the audience will know how to make a trip to Omaha City in Nebraska more interesting.

Intended Audience:
Introduction
- Attention Getting Device: "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware, (Hobo Traveler)" even in the City of Omaha in the State of Nebraska. Most people come to Omaha for its many sports events to experience the rush, the excitement, and energy of cheering and jeering fans in one of its large stadiums. Nevertheless, not everyone would stay longer to go around and get a feel of the city, which boasts Continue reading...

The advert titled “Mitt Romney: Be Not Afraid” by Mitt Romney during the 2012 elections has significant lessons in political communication.

Ethical issues in this ad
This ad amounts to “misrepresentation of the opponent’s messages” and mudslinging. The Romney ad stated that the Obama administration had declared “war on religion” (usatoday.com). It took advantage of the opinion in the San Antonio Express- News that had the following words “Obama’s Insurance Direction Declares War on Religion” (usatoday.com). As such, the ad was blowing a newspaper opinion out of proportion and misrepresenting facts. In actual sense, the Obama administration had required employers to provide health insurance that is inclusive of free contraception (usatoday.com). Since Catholics and conservatives are opposed to Continue reading...

Summary of “Cheating and CHEATING”

Joe Posnanski is a fan of baseball. And in his essay “Cheating and CHEATING” he wants baseball fans to be clear, at any point in the history of baseball, there was a lot of cheating an money grabbing happening at all levels of baseball. From people taking amphetamines, to stealing signs, to fixing games, baseball has its heroes, but it demonize for cheating, since it was a baseball proverb of the time that “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” (Posnanski, 556). Joe Posnanski believes that he and Pete Hamill believe in baseball, but they have different Continue reading...

The Wall Street Journal has prepared this year’s Major League Baseball Hateability Index. The teams have been given points on their mal-practices. Higher points here suggest more hateability. That is, more points a team secures more it is a subject of scorn. Points have been given on issues such as suspension for drug abuses, having funny beards and even for winning too much. This year the number of criteria for constructing the index has been increased.
St. Louis Cardinals has topped the list this year. The NL Central champs have secured 12.7 points, a little more than the Continue reading...

Marlowe’s Doctor Faust had its fair share of popularity when it was first staged. However, the popularity gradually waned and by the end of the 17th Century; the play was barely known. The late 18th Century was characterized by a revival of the play. In fact, during the Victorian era, Doctor Faust provoked many critical and literary responses as theatre enthusiasts started appreciating the brilliance of the play more. The 20th Century also brought out heightened interest in the play. It was sought after by a lot of performers, and many scrambled to perform the titular role. It Continue reading...

Thesis statement:

‘Fences’ is a play full of allegorical allusions and deals with the problems faced by African Americans in society with the production seen at the Duchess Theatre in London particularly enticing and compelling especially with the great Larry Henry in the title role.

Overview:

- The full name of the play is ‘Fences’
- The theatre company presenting the production is the London Theatre Company
- The physical theatre is the Duchess Theatre in London
- I saw the show on the 21st August 2013 at 8pm
- The ticket cost GBP 20 and was made online.
- The exact Continue reading...

Business Global Market Place

What cultural factors must U.S. sports franchises overcome to increase popularity abroad? Why?
United States has a whole different culture of sports and it has been a part of the country since the dawn of the day. Expanding a certain sport to other countries is difficult, because every country has their own culture and it takes time for them to accept a completely new sport in their lives. Baseball is widely played in America and people follow it religiously; while in Asian countries, baseball is not that popular and is not thought of an important game. It is not Continue reading...

The Housekeeper and the Professor is a novel written by Yoko Ogawa, and published in 2003. The story is about a mathematician who is the professor in the story. The novel focuses on a warm relationship and caring attitudes towards other people. The Housekeeper was caring towards the professor despite the fact that, he suffered from a brain damage after a tragic traffic road accident, and he can only produce 80 minutes worth of memories. In return, the professor also became caring and loving towards her, and her son, and this made her son become a mathematics teacher, thanks Continue reading...