Babe Ruth

                                                The legend continues

“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can” –Babe Ruth

George Herman Ruth better known as Babe Ruth was the first superstar in sports. Some say he could have been the world’s greatest left hand pitcher but instead he became the world’s greatest hitter. His famous Rookie card is soled for 500,000 dollars and that was back in 2008. His baseball bat is sold for 1.3 million dollars! Now that’s a lot of money to spend, but that’s how much money you need to spent in order to own a legend’s historical artifacts.

Babe Ruth was often referred as the world’s best baseball player who ever lived. In 22 seasons he hit 714 homeruns. So he mainly was known as the home-run hitter. In 1927 he set the record for hitting 60 homeruns in 154 games, a major league record that stood until 1961. Babe Ruth was one of the only two people to ever hit a homerun in the World’s Series Games. He also became part of the Hall of Fame.  At the age of fifthteen he was playing both catcher and pitcher for St. Mary’s varsity team.

            At the age of 19 he was discover by Jack Dunn, who signed him to a professional contract but couldn’t because Ruth was under the school custody so, Ruth had to remain in school. That led to some difficulty, and that lead Dunn to adopt Ruth to be able to go play baseball. People thought it was way funny that at the age of 19 Ruth was adopted and was Dunns’s baby! That’s how he got his nickname Babe Ruth. He started to play in a small team Dunn wasn’t making any money and so he and two other players were going to get traded but Ruth didn’t wanted to but he still got traded so then he play for the Boston, Red sox where he became known as the best player later on he got traded for the New York, Yankees for twice the amount of a regular trade off.

He faced a lot of taught challenges. He’s a great example of over coming adversity. He came from a family of eight children but only him and his sister Mimie survived infancy. At the age of seven his parents give up custody to St. Mary’s industrial school. He hated how they treated and the strict rules but, he did what he thought was the best. He soon learned that that was the best decision he ever made because there is where he learned to play baseball, the game that lead him to success.

            In conclusion, Babe Ruth was a great man who over came adversity and never give up even when things got tough. Coming from a family with nothing he still made a difference in he’s life. He didn’t let things get to him and kept studying in school and played the game he loved and because he stayed in school he got to live the dream he never even imagine. More than seventy years has passed since Babe Ruth passed away but, he is still remains like The Best Baseball Player.

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Tears of despair

Tears of despair
They say real man don’t cry
But he’s heart had died
He felt everyone had lied
Trying to comfort him I sat by his side
It turns out a chick he once had
Left him feeling sad
“I love her” he said
“It’d be easier to put the gun to my head,
We spent so much time together but it was never enough
She made realize that I’m not that taught
She made me stop dealing cocaine
I was ready to give her my last name
There’s no one better than her
She so real and so pure.”
“I’m sorry” was my respond
“Even though you think I don’t”
Remember you can talk to me when you’re feeling down
The sun always rises the world goes around
I’m here like the very first day
Just promise me that you’ll never go away.”
But he didn’t stay
That night he pulled the trigger to his head
Tears of despair I cried,
Trying to understand why?
He laid in a puddle of blood
I knew nothing would ever be the same
I saw a note that read my name
“You were always there lil’ lady
You’re the best don’t act shady,
I know you could never be replaced
You helped me get through the struggles I faced,
You’re my best friend my right hand, I’m sorry I left you I hope you understand.
But no matter the situation my always there
This world can be wonderful and unfair.
But don’t screw up, don’t let me down
Just like angel I’m always around.

Our hearts will come closer

I keep going back to you I don’t know why
I forget about you, and again you show up,
Myspace txt and in my dreams there you always are
I want to fall in love with you, share tears and laughter with you
So the says go on and all I do I think of you
After a while I forget your name
But feelings remain the same
I seem to move on until I hear something about you
Like where you got caught and where you are now at
I think about you that smile on your face
Then I see a massage from you on Myspace
Telling me that you here, to protect me from my fears
And wipe away my precious tears
And I believe we’re meant to be
Happiness is all I can see
But I don’t know whether I should try
Cause I don’t want our friendship to be jeopardize
I believe in destiny and fate
Then you do something stupid, get locked up
Making it harder to communicate.

Fahrenheit 451 Final

Ray Bradbury gives good examples in the book Fahrenheit 451 of people becoming complacent. For example Mildred, she was what he consider numb, meaning she was there but she wasn’t really there. Mildred would refer to the parlor as her family. All she did was watch TV and never acknowledge her husband Montag when he needed her the most.

Another example is when Montag was on the bus with a book in hands and everyone stared at him with they’re seashell in they’re ears thinking “what the heck is he doing!” they were thinking there was something wrong with Montag when really there was something wrong with them, but they’re so out of it they don’t even notice the changes they are making.

Today we can see things like this happen all the time. I ride the bus every morning to get to school and as I looked around I saw that many kids were lessening to they’re iPods rather than reading a book or finishing homework. That’s when I noticed that things have defiantly changed just like Ray Bradbury had predicted. Everyone owns a TV and almost everyone has a internet access at home and families don’t notice that its tearing them apart. Instead of going on a walk they stay home and watch TV, play video games or play games in the computer. And they stop communicating and doing things together.

All this new technology is not making things easer but making thing a lot more complicated. Society thinks we need all this high tec. when truth is we don’t! Half of the things we don’t need nor use in our daily lives. In my family we only have TVs in the family rooms but not in our rooms because if we were to have them in our rooms all me and my sisters would do is stay in our rooms watching TV. If things are going bad now think how much worst is going to be in the future?

Censorship

It is ok to use censorship in schools to keep students from reading things they aren’t ready to read about. Reading books that talk about sex and drugs at the age of 12 is not ok. Because you aren’t ready to be expose to such things. That’s where censorship kicks in and helps out. The parents have the ok to approve the books read in school, which is completely natural, because they pay for everything the schools has.

We all grow up in different environments. Therefore we have different perspectives on different things. For example I’ve read books with some intense violence, but I don’t go around hurting the ones around me.

Censorship is a great thing, don’t get me wrong! But I think that there should be a limit to where it should stop or a grade where the use of censorship is banished. It’s understandable that student aren’t always mature enough to read a book that involves drugs, violence, and sex, but there are those who do take things serious and actually want to learn from the book. So why not make a class with students whose parents have agreed to let them read the book. The parent can decide weather the student can or cannot read the book, if we had they’re ok then student could read any type of genre.

Censorship in Schools

Today a lot of schools use Censorship. When I use to go to school in Park City we read a book in which talked about sex, but the teachers blacked out words and phrases making the book kind of boring because in some parts you didn’t understand what had happened why were people all the sudden mad? Why did they brake up? Personally I believe that teachers should be able to teach whatever book they want to teach, if it relates to our topic or if it’s a good lesson that will teach us some important characters we need in life. Books can teach us a lot of things, and seen things happen to others decreases the chances of teens doing such things because they don t like the consequences that they read happened to the character in the book.

Another reason it’s because in high school students should be mature enough to get through the book without making comments or jokes. I feel that the censorship has to do a lot with that. Those students don’t take books serious sometimes. I remember this one kid in class kept laughing at things that were not funny. Like when a Character in the book would hit or call the other character mean names he would laugh, so he got kicked out out of class. I remember talking to him about it and he said that he didn’t laugh he chuckled still laughing about the situation. But he should have known better to have more respect not just for the teacher but for all the other students that are actually trying to understand the meaning of the book.

Teachers are smart enough to not read a book that talks about sex and drugs to a 3rd class. Parents should know that books like Breathing Under Water or Heroine the Road to Hell aren’t about drugs, sex or violence, because these thing happen in the real world they’re about the reasons behind them, the lesson that it has taught you about the consequences.