Series Essays

Was The 1972 Summit Series More Than Just A Game? Undoubtedly, a heated competition can be very enjoyable. The 1972 Summit Series however, turned a heated hockey competition into a war on ice. Canada’s and Russia’s differentiating views on the supremacy of Democracy versus Communism caused many fans to feel that the tournament was not just a game. The teams embodied the spirits of the fans bringing fierce competition with them to the ice. The 1972 Summit Series between Canada and Russia was more

In a series that pits two teams with displeasing histories, the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets begin their World Series matchup on Tuesday. Following Kansas City’s World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1986, the Royals failed to return to the MLB post season until its World Series run a season ago. For those counting, that’s a 28-year playoff drought that lasted from 1986-2014. Meanwhile, the Mets have always had the reputation as the Yankees’ little brother in New York, a distinction

Houston Astros player proposed to his girlfriend after winning the World Series (-- removed HTML --) If someone asks Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa what he did that night, he’ll probably say, “We beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Seven of a gruelling World Series…oh, and I proposed to my girlfriend!” What!? That’s right! In a post-game interview after winning the World Series, Correa took the plunge and proposed to girlfriend Daniella Rodriguez on national television. “It’s everything

In the 2017 World Series in games 5 and 7 the Astros, Dodgers and George Springer set records. The Astros and Dodgers combined for a total of 31 runs in both games! The MVP of the world series, George Springer produced four of those 31 runs. This 2017 World Series was one to never forget, thanks to the Dodgers, Astros and George Springer! Games 5 and 7 of the 2017 World Series were electrifying. In both games, the Dodgers scored 13 runs and the Astros scored a whopping 18. Game 5 was the most exciting

How the 1919 World Series Effected Life In The 20s The 1920s was a rough era for America. It had many events and things that made it a rough time in history and difficult to live in that day and age. One of the major events that set off the 1920s depression era was the 1919 World Series. For many reasons it did not help find happiness inside the 1920s. This essay will show how the 1919 World Series began the difficult One of the major ways the 1919 World Series affected life in the 20s

The 1919 World Series was very interesting to say the least. Some of the White Sox players wanted some extra money, and some bookies wanted to make big bucks off of the series. I believe that this series is one of, if not the darkest chapter in Major League Baseball’s history. About a week before the World Series had even begun, the two teams were set. The Cincinnati Reds were going to take on the Chicago White Sox in the 1919 World Series. There were many bookies wanting to make lots of money off

The 1903 World Series was one of the greatest world series in MLB history. This game established many new standards in baseball, including the splitting of the league. This game brought up the idea of splitting the league into two different leagues. The names of those league are the American League and the National League. This game created a whole new world for sports in America(1903). The 1903 World Series was played at Huntington Avenue Grounds located in Boston, Massachusetts. This stadium would

a few upsets and fanatical fan bases, an unbelievable World Series came to an end on Wednesday. The high number of postseason home runs kept leaving parks in a Series packed with crazy comebacks, high and low scoring games, stolen bases for tacos and even a marriage proposal. With all that wackiness, did this year’s World Series featuring the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers somehow surpass the drama from last year’s World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs? Some fans and

Why did the Chicago Cubs win the World Series??? The MLB team Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series this years. Because they had a really young team and a lot of talent. The Cubs also had a great pitching staff. Chicago hasn’t won a World Series since 1908. But that has all changed in 2016. They broke the curse. The cubs finished the season 103-58. The best record in the MLB. The Cubs have a chance to go back to the World Series next year and win it. If the team stays together. The Cubs has

The Big Bankroll rigs the 1919 World Series The year is 1919, shock runs through the streets as the Cincinnati Reds have just beat the Chicago White Sox and won the World Series. Throughout the series, rumors of the games being rigged spread which lead to one certain man. Arnold Rothstein, one of the most notorious mob bosses of the 20th century rigged the 1919 World Series. Known as the “Black Box Scandal” the 1919 World Series began October 1st, 1919 , and ended on October 9th, 1919. Before even

them are overly sweet and happy. He also thinks many of them are unrealistic and misleading. He believes children enjoy stories in which something scary or unfortunate occurs.” Daniel Handler also known as Lemony Snicket is the famous author of A Series Of Unfortunate Events. As a child he was bullied and mistreated. This influenced his writing because he writes stories with tragic endings and terrible disasters. Daniel Handler's life stories might have been difficult then but they made him into

better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” This is the first thing you read when you open up A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, a thirteen book series that essentially changed my life. The year was either 2007 or 2008. It’s hard to remember specifics. I was in the third grade at Hildebran Elementary School. I absolutely adored my homeroom. My teacher was

The Chicago White Sox almost ruined baseball after fixing the 1919 World Series, but Babe Ruth and commissioner Kenesaw Landis saved it. It all went downhill when the 1919 Chicago White Sox decided to throw the World Series. Many people were angry and did not like baseball because of it. After the Series, someone confessed and they eventually got banned for life, two years after they confessed. Then came a rising star from Baltimore who changed the game forever and made people think differently about

Serial is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, narrating a nonfiction story over multiple episodes. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder and developed by This American Life. It takes an unorthodox approaches to storytelling that its creator Sarah Koenig employs, and, given the podcast’s massive success, it seems that the public is hungry for these new kinds of narratives. Serial and podcasts are growing in population because of its access

The Magisterium Series is a series of young adult fantasy novels written by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black. The first novel of the series was The Iron Trial that the duo wrote in 2014. The novel achieved much success and critical acclaim and made the New York Times bestselling list. Set in an underground school that trains apprentice mages, the lead character of the series is Callum Hunt a twelve year old child who was under the tutelage of her father Alastair Hunt a former mage. After the death

The V series are a series of contemporary and historical romances by the prolific and popular British American writer Jane Feather. Initially intended to be a standalone novel, the first book in the V series was the highly popular, Venus first published in 1988.While initially intended to be free standing novels, the first novel in the series was so popular that Feather went on to write six more V series titles between 1993 and 1994. Most of the novels in the series are set in the latter period of

The next installment of the Divergent series; set two years before Beatrice Prior makes the fateful switch to the Dauntless faction. Here, we follow Tobias Eaton and his side of the story. The journey is split into four parts, the first two describing Four's background and story behind who he is as a person, before Dauntless and Tris. It starts with Four's aptitude test and the Choosing Ceremony. It then continues onto the second part of the story where Four becomes a true Dauntless member. Next

The Nicholas Bracewell Series alternatively referred to as An Elizabethan Mystery is a series of detective mystery novels by Edward Marston. The first novel of the series was The Queen’s Head that was first published in 1988 to much critical acclaim to be followed by more than ten titles in the series. The lead character in the Nicholas Bracewell series is Nicholas Bracewell the bookholder of a popular theater company. Set in an alternative Shakespearean universe, the series of novels are a look into

For most sequences at position 4 and 5 we observe only the nucleotides G and T, respectively. There may be rare cases where other nucleotides may also be found. To consider such observations, we need to do a process called additive smoothing or Laplace smoothing to smooth the categorical data. [9] In this case, we add 4 sequences: AAAAAAAAA, CCCCCCCCC, GGGGGGGG, TTTTTTTTT. These sequences would give us a pseudocount of 1 at each position called the Laplace pseudocount. fA,1 = (3+1)/(10+4)

The Selection series is about the life of America Singer, a normal girl living in Carolina, 300 years in the future. America grew up in a fairly poor family, as she was in the fifth caste. The castes are different levels of society, based on wealth and jobs, one is the highest and most wealthy, and eight is the lowest and with the least amount of money. People are born into these based on what their parents are, and if you are a woman you are married off to a possible different caste. America