...Derek Jeter " I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong." - Derek Jeter. This is why Derek Jeter is loved by many. In sports there are hero's. In football many look at Brett Favre. Some believe Lebron James is the best athlete ever. I think baseball players are the most fun to talk about. I am going to tell everyone about Derek Jeter's achievements, personal life, early childhood, endorsements, and his professional baseball career. I am going to start off talking about Jeter's achievements. Derek Jeter was awarded many trophies over his 20 seasons in the majors. Jeter won one of the best trophies in baseball, the World Series trophy. Derek won that trophy 5 times and even own World Series MVP in 2000. Derek...
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...murder of a police officer. Derek Bentley, 19, and Christopher Craig, 16, never thought they would get to a point where one of them had to kill someone when breaking and entering into a warehouse. In the film Derek and Christopher plan to rob a storehouse; the plan to do so this with two other members of their little gang. This occurs after Christopher’s brother Niven Craig is sent down for 12 years a crimes he has committed. Some may say the robbery was done out of spite, a vengeance for Christopher with Derek’s idea. Before the actual crime the small gang met to go over their plan, however it does not go to plan as two members decide to back out and not do it. So it was just Christopher and Derek on the job. On the roof Derek was telling Chris to let the policeman have the gun by saying “Let him have it Chris” however this could be interpreted into let him have the shot as he was intruding their crime or let him have the gun. On the other hand Derek being epileptic and severely retarded; this is seen as a way of him wanting Chris to shoot him. But before Derek had said “let him have it Chris” the police man had asked Chris to give him the gun “give that thing to me”, the statement from Derek, could be seen as the answer being rebellious. In this scene where Christopher shoots the policeman, the policeman automatically blames Derek for the shot that was fired. Thinking he has a gun on his person. When the policeman held him up to the wall Derek is holding the weapon that...
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...Derek Bok Summary In the beginning of this article Derek Bok talks about how some colleges across the United States have problems with freedom of speech and racial tension. He begins to tell about how to students at Harvard University hung up two confederate flags on campus. Some students took that as offensive and racist. After that situation happened, a third student hung up a swastika to protest. A portion of the Harvard students urged to take the offensive symbols down, others wanted them to stay because they believed that it was free speech. Some universities came up with a code that makes these symbols banned because it hurts the feelings of others in the community. Bok claims that we should be able to tell the difference between what hurts our feelings and what is protected under the First Amendment. He says that even though speech is protected under the First Amendment does not mean it is right in any form or fashion. Bok says “I am sure that the vast majority of Harvard students believe that hanging a Confederate Flag in public view—or displaying a swastika—is insensitive and unwise”(p.70) Bok believes that these actions were insensitive. He thinks that just because we do not like a certain form of communication does not mean that we have the right to get rid of it. Cities do have the option to limit their amount of communication in the form of graffiti and too much noise, but confederate flags and swastikas are not under that category. Bok says “If we begin to...
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...MEMORABILIA STORE- AFTERNOON Jake, mid-thirties, tall and good looking, enters the store. A few other customers are milling about. Jake glances at a few of the glass encased showcases. He makes his way over to the cash register where Louie, mid-fifties, overweight, balding and wearing a worn Yankees cap sits behind the counter. He is flipping through an issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. JAKE Excuse me. Louie continues to flip through the magazine. LOUIE Yeah, what can I do you for? JAKE I’m looking for a Derek Jeter rookie card. Louie looks up from the magazine. LOUIE Jeter you say? JAKE Yes. Louie removes his cap and scratches his head, thinking a moment. LOUIE Oh yeah, Jeter. Sold my last rookie card this morning. A look of disappointment comes across Jake’s face. JAKE No. Don’t tell me that. LOUIE It is what it is, Pal. Sold it this morning. JAKE You don’t understand. I have to find that card. My son, Michael, the only thing he wants for Christmas is a Derek Jeter rookie card. LOUIE Two days before Christmas. Looks like he may have to wait until next year. JAKE He may not have a next year. One of the customers, a man in his late forties looks over at the counter. JAKE (cont’d) He’s very sick...Leukemia. They don’t know if he’s going to make it. It’s bad enough he’ll be spending Christmas at St. Mary’s. LOUIE Gee, Pal. I’m sorry to hear that. But I don’ have the card. Jake grabs one of the store’s business cards sitting on the counter and jots down...
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...secret to getting ahead is getting started – Mark Twain “If you’re going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill “Quality is not an act, it is a habit” – Aristotle “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up” – Babe Ruth “Deserve your dream” – Octavio Paz "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." --Mark Caine "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Bear Bryant “You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose.” – Gordie Howe “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar Dream big and dare to fail – Norman Vaughan The only thing you control...
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...emotion are those such as hate, fear, and lust and these are easy to interpret and most people know them. Some higher levels of emotions are ambivalence, angst, and confusion. The third standard category is moral, the ability to infer the values underlying the messages. Moral is concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character. Lastly, the final standard category is aesthetic, which is the ability to enjoy and appreciate from the artistic point of view. Antwone Fisher is an autobiographical drama written by the real life Antwone Fisher. Denzel Washington makes his triumphant directorial debut, and also introducing actor Derek Luke. This film won a few awards including Black Reel Awards, such as best breakthrough performance and best actor won by Derek Luke, and also best director by Denzel Washington. This film is about a young man who is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins. Antwone Fisher is a young man who is serving in the U.S Navy, having a troubled past he has quite a temper and doesn’t know how to socialize very well. His father was killed by an ex-girlfriend before he was born, and his mother...
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...differentiate between the history of a place, the lives – the feelings, everyday happenings of the people – and the History of the place, that is to say the history that is imposed on the people? This is a problem when discussing places that have been colonized. The history of the people is assumed to be the History – the histories of the colonizers. The lives of the colonizers are projected onto the colonized – their religion, their rites, their businesses. The actual lives of the people are forgotten . The lives of the ingenious people are forgotten. And in places where slavery and indentured servitude was a practice, the original and true histories of those people are forgotten. This is a phenomenon that West Indian author and poet Derek Walcott addresses in his insightful and touched the Nobel Prize Lecture delivered after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He begins his lecture describing a performance that takes place on the island of Trinidad, every year by the East Indian population of the town Felicity. The performance is a dramatization of the Hindu epic Ramayana, a major representation of their original history and presentation of their identities. Walcott talks about the simplifying of these identities and how that translates to the view of the Caribbean as a whole: These purists look upon such ceremonies as grammarians look at a dialect, as cities look on provinces and empires look upon their colonies. Memory that yearns to the join the...
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...FOR ANYBODY THAT DOESN’T KNOW ME, IM KYLE, ONE OF NANAS 6 GRANDCHILDREN. AS MOST OF YOU KNOW NANA WAS AN AMAZING WOMAN. FAMILY ALWAYS CAME FIRST WHEN IT CAME TO HER. NOTHING MADE HER HAPPIER THAN HAVING HER FAMILY OVER FOR PASTA AND HER FAMOUS MEATBALLS. MEATBALLS WERE JUST ONE OF HER COOKING SPECIALTIES HOWEVER. SHE ALSO MADE AMAZING HOMEMADE WEDDING SOUP AND EVERY CHRISTMAS SHE BAKED ENOUGH COOKIES TO FEED A SMALL ARMY. IF THERE WERE TWO RULES TO FOLLOW AT NANAS I WOULD SAY NEVER SAY NO WHEN SHE OFFERS A SECOND PLATE OF FOOD, AND NEVER EVVVVVERRRR SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE NEW YORK YANKEES OR DEREK JETER. OR AS NANA LIKED TO CALL HIM DEREK JETERS. ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM CHILDHOOD WITH NANA WAS A WEEKEND WHEN SHE WATCHED ME AND TWO OF MY COUSINS JOHNNY AND ALEX. ONE OF THE AFTERNOONS SHE WALKED US TO MCDONALDS FOR HAPPY MEALS AND MILKSHAKES. THIS MIGHT NOT SOUND LIKE MUCH BUT WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT 8 YEARS OLD IT DOESN’T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. OUR HERO NANA WAS THE ONE WHO MADE IT HAPPEN. SHE WAS THE TYPE OF WOMAN I HOPE MY 6 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER GROWS UP TO BE LIKE. SHE CHOSE TO SEE THE GOOD IN PEOPLE. IF YOU ASKED HER ABOUT ANY OF HER FRIENDS OR MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY THEY WERE PERFECT IN HER EYES. SHE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US. I FOUND OUT ONLY 1% OF PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER LIVE FOR 10 YEARS OR MORE. NANA IS PART OF THAT 1%. WE WERE TRULY BLESSED TO SHARE THE PAST 10 YEARS WITH HER. SHE WAS THE STEREOTYPICAL STUBBORN ITALIAN GRANDMA, AND SHE WASN’T...
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...and what happens when a traumatic event disturbs the chemical balance or calibration of its functions. The writings of Nadia Harris and Adam Piore (2013) explore these questions by studying and observing the journey of Derek Amato an individual that had unique adverse effects following a brain injury, in this case a concussion. The work of John Powell (2001) aids this exploration by defining and describing symptoms, treatment and other effects of concussions. This paper goes over the origins of Amato’s accident, the preceding symptoms, the after effects, the treatment and the successful nature of such things. This paper also discusses the region of the brain affected loosely, while bringing up...
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...Why professional athletes deserve what they are being paid Professional Athletes Salaries I have developed a love for baseball and have done a lot of research to understand and to defend my position on the topic of their salaries. I have engaged in surveys with sports fans and non sports fans. I have had extensive conversations with people that I consider experts on the subject of sports and salaries, in addition to an enormous amount of web surfing. I am not here to change your mind and get you to believe only me, but to entice you to make a new decision based on new information. I completely understand the position that individuals take on the enormous salaries that professional athletes make. However, I ask a few minutes of your time to “walk a mile in their shoes” (Kirby/Goodpaster, 2007) from my perspective and that of many others. I would like to talk with you what is takes to become a major leaguer, the logic behind their enormous salaries and where that money is generated and about the personal dedication and contribution to society that these players provide on a daily basis. Let’s discover the whole story and see where this leads us. Let me ask you a couple of questions to ponder first as you listen to my story. If your child had a natural ability whether it was sports, numbers, or debating would you do all that you could do to inspire and encourage a pursuit in that career field or put a cap on potential earnings? As a professional Sports player...
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...To me it is much more than that, its where I was born, first went to school, and went to my first baseball with my dad. As we were pulling up to Yankee Stadium for the first time I remember the smell of peanuts and ho dogs. The entrance was flooded with people. After what seemed an eternity we finally got in the stadium. The sound of people chanting “Yankees, Yankees, Yankees” Still goes through my head every time I think of Yankee Stadium. To my left was the entrance to an endless amount of food stands, and to my right was the gift shop and restrooms. We walked straight ahead through a tunnel that led to the field. When we got to the end all you could see is the field, thousands and thousands of people. The Jumbotron was focused on Derek Jeter, and all I could think was that I wanted to be on that field one day. People chanting and you could the feel the energy flowing through your blood. My face lit up like a kid's when they see their presents Christmas morning. In front of me all I could see was an a continuous row of seat filled with people. We walked down all the way down to the first row right on top of the dug out. The players were on the field some were stretching, other were running, and a few were throwing. You could smell the sunflower seed in the dug out. We watched the whole game the Yankees ended up beating the Mariners 8-2. That was the day I feel in love with baseball. Picture a three story arcade filled with every game you can think off, a buffet of pizza...
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...to increase their personal value in exchange for a commission. IMG has brought many individual clients enormous wealth. For example, in the two years after signing with IMG, Arnold Palmer’s salary from endorsements increased from $59,000 to more than $500,000. Clients and IMG also derive value from IMG’s training academies for athletes. Athletes benefit from the skills that they learned at these academies and IMG receives average annual revenues of $20,000 per student in return. The training academies also give IMG the advantage of being able to scope out promising athletes at a young age, increasing its chances of signing them over competitors. Many athletes that graduated from IMG Academies went on to be extremely successful, such as Derek Jeter and Andre Agassi. Over time, IMG has developed new ways to create value for itself and clients. For example, its money management division has proved to be very helpful for clients who are not educated on how to invest their money. It has also enabled IMG to be a one-stop shop for many of its clients’ needs, creating convenience for clients and profits for IMG. Through its corporate consulting arm, IMG has brought value to corporate clients by helping them to create and manage their worldwide brand and consumer-driven events,...
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...Derek Sanderson Jeter ( /ˈdʒiːtər/; born June 26, 1974) is an American baseball shortstop who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. A twelve-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, Jeter's clubhouse presence, on-field leadership, hitting ability, and baserunning have made him a central figure of the franchise during the Yankees' success of the 1990s and 2000s.[1] Due to his impact on the team, he has served as the Yankees' team captain since 2003.[2] He is regarded as a consummate professional by teammates and opponents alike,[3] and has a reputation as a reliable contributor in the postseason.[4] Jeter was drafted out of high school by the Yankees organization in 1992, and he debuted in the Major Leagues in 1995. The following year, he became the Yankees' starting shortstop and won the Rookie of the Year Award. In addition, Jeter's achievements include four Silver Slugger Awards, five Gold Glove awards, All-Star Game MVP Award, World Series MVP Award, and membership in the 3,000 hit club. Many players and coaches consider Jeter to be one of the best players of his generation.[5] He is the all-time hits leader among shortstops,[6] and his .317 career batting average through the 2009 season ranks as the fifth-highest among active players. He has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years. He is the all-time Yankees hit leader, having passed Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig in 2009...
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...The answer to the ethical question depending on the approach used in the reasoning. From the stand point of ethical egoism students acted on their best benefit by cheating on the final exam. But in a long term perspective, students failed themselves by not obtaining required knowledge for their future successful life. In other hand, according to ethical egoism Institution and teaching assistant are at fault. Compare to Penn State Child abuse example giving in the textbook, in the case of Harvard University the parties that haven’t acted on their short term benefits were teaching assistant by whistleblowing and Institution by taking the actions. The short term damage that Harvard University leaders faced was bad publicity, but actions of the students were unacceptable according to the President of Harvard University Drew Faust: “These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends” (CNN News). Even though his action wasn’t justified by the egoistic approach, it was the right thing to do according to the enlightened egoism. Assistant professor failed in a long run by misleading students on what was acceptable and what was considered as an academic misconduct. According to Dorothy L.R. Jones. Norfolk State University: “Academic integrity is a learned skill that faculty members can teach and model.” (Academic Dishonesty: Are More Students Cheating). In the long run by his actions he attracted...
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...EXTRA EXTRA! Prince Hamlet Fakes Insanity! HRH Prince Hamlet has faked insanity since the untimely passing of his father, the King of Denmark. Whilst everyone in the kingdom just thinks that Hamlet has simply gone mad, our sources reveal that this was merely just a ruse. Doting Polonius quite concerned of Hamlet and the discovery of the root to the madness states: ‘Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, tis true: tis true tis pity; And pity tis true: a foolish figure; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then: and now remains that we find out the cause of this effect; Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.” (Act 2 Scene 2 Line 44) When our affiliates tried to reach out to Hamlet, he was quite hesitant to explain to himself but he hinted at he firmly suspects that Claudius is the main reason of his father’s tragic death. Our analysts have deducted that this adds up to the overall battle/conflict to this situation. It is quite vivid that Prince Hamlet is simply trying disarray others with his wild charade. By playing this strategically, this will allow him to attack Claudius when least expected and expose to the land that he is guilty for the murder of the late King of Denmark. Many people are aroused with excitement with Prince alleged plans and believe that he should be sole ruler of Denmark and carry out his late father’s legacy. Therefore...
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