Character & Role in The Sandlot Sandlot is a film directed by David Mickey Evans released in 1993, which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. The story revolves around a boy named Scotty Smalls, who is a reserved fifth grader. The film begins with Scotty and his parents moving to the San Fernando Valley. Scotty has difficulty making friends in the new town. He struggles to be a part of a group of boys who play baseball in a local sandlot. However, as he is not good at catching and throwing a baseball, he gets embarrassed at his first attempt. Nevertheless, Scotty is invited to join the baseball team by their best player and leader, Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar), who decides to mentor him. The team plays a night game on the fourth of July. Scotty observes that even though baseball is just a game to the rest, it is Benny’s real passion. One day, while they were playing baseball, Benny hits the ball so hard that he blows its cover…
Meaning of the number 23 Do you know what the number twenty-three means? The number 23 for many will have no meaning, but for others as scientists, researchers, and sports enthusiasts (basketball), it has a meaning. If we focus on numerology, it should be noted that 23 is a mystical number that belongs to Kabbalistic numbers (which have a mysterious or secret meaning) and that I will now expose you. What does 23 mean in numerology Within the science of numerology, the number 23 is related to changes, travel, movements, action, and freedom. If we reduce to a single digit, twenty-three gives us a 5, a number that symbolizes vitality, freedom, adventure, controversy, and controversy. Meaning of 23 in the Bible The Bible does not escape the digit 23 and appears several times. His first appearance was in the Old Testament, where it is believed that Adam and Eve had a total of 23 daughters. Another apparition is in verse 23 of the first chapter of Genesis, where the death of Sarah, Abraham’s wife, is explained. The Psalms are a…
Socrates V. Leo Tolstoy on the Meaning of Life Much of what philosophy stands for can be captured in Socrates’ proclamation that an “Unexamined life is not worth living”. Any thinker who has followed since Plato’s teacher can be judged, in part, by their fidelity to this simple yet powerfully compelling creed. Leo Tolstoy’s life can stand as the perfect exemplar of Socrates’ life-guiding principle. To do so, this paper shows that the seemingly contradictory mechanisms used in each of their searches for truth: Socrates running toward reason and Tolstoy away from it, are compatible approaches to examining life’s meaning. Tolstoy is not so much abandoning reason as he is transcending it, a difference that dissolves the seeming paradox. Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher who is credited with laying the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy. He is known for creating Socratic irony and the Socratic Method (elenchus) (Famakinwa, 2012). He has had a profound influence on Western philosophy, along with his students Plato and Aristotle. It is also argued that Socrates believed “ideals belong in a world…
Conceptual Art Conceptualism, also described as conceptual art, is a form of skill in which the ideas and concepts involved in the work are take superiority over technical, traditional aesthetic, and material concerns. Various works of conceptual art that are sometimes referred to as installations are constructed and developed by one following the set of written instructions (Kosuth, 2019). In conceptual art, the concept or the artist’s idea is the most significant aspect of the work. When an artist uses the conceptual technique of creating art, all the decisions and planning are made beforehand, and the execution is considered as a perfunctory affair. The idea or concept is perceived as the machine that makes the art. Some examples of conceptual art include Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymade” and John Cage’s composition. This prompt will evaluate whether these examples can be described as art. After looking closely at these two examples, it is right to say that they are art. They belong to the category of conceptual art. This is because the concepts or ideas behind these two examples are more significant…
Do we have a moral obligation to value and respect human life? Introduction Respect for life principle postulate that all living things are accorded moral status and on that basis should not be harmed or killed without good reason or rather without a valid justification.[1] The principle suggests that living things are moral agents who have moral responsibilities to protect other living things from harm. Moral agents, of course, have continued to harm and kill all the time all the living beings. When they harm or kill, do they feel guilty about it? What are their grounds for harming or killing? Thereby failing to respect and value something that is alive? These fundamental questions have left scholars groping for answers both in real-time and more specifically over time. The respect for life principle as advanced by warren seems to suggest that there is no wrongdoing to those who failed to protect life when there are morally good reasons that support the act. The principle, at the same time, fails to explain what constitutes sufficient grounds to harm or kill another…
The books of the Bible While various religious researchers have brought different concepts when describing the Bible, history still presents the word Bible to be from a Greek word biblia, which refers to books. The Bible is, therefore, as a small library that contains different types of books written by many authors (The Learning Bible 1). On the other hand, the Bible remains to be the world’s most fascinating and best-selling book of all time. The book has seemingly been translated into various languages and remains to be the foundation of modern ethics and law. The books of the Bible seemingly have different stories about God and the relationship between God and the people we now read about in the Bible. The origin of the stories can be traced during the oral tradition when stories were passed by word of mouth (The Learning Bible 1). The stories told in the Old Testament majorly come from the period before the birth of Jesus and included the story relating to the beginning of the earth and other stories about how God interacted…
Exploring the Current Literature on Nanotechnology Part 1 Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field which is concerned with materials and processes taking place in the nanoscale. Nanotechnology utilizes scientific and technological approaches to gain understanding and control atoms and nanostructures in the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and technology. In recent years, nanotechnology has attracted a great deal of attention among scholars and international scientific organizations because of the application of nanoparticles in today’s innovation in the field of medicine and communication. Numerous nanotechnology conferences have been convened in different cities across the globe in order to enable scholars to learn more about the field and create a platform for sharing ideas and opinions that can shape nanoscience. The participants in these conferences are normally science researchers, professors, delegates, science communities, business executives, investors and students who are either exhibiting knowledge or exploring new advancements in the industry. There are many nanotechnology and nanoscience-related conferences being held across the world, which are varying in magnitude. The following are the top conferences which have been held in the recent past: Conference 1:…
E-books are better than Paper Books In the modern world, technology has replaced almost everything with an electronic form, including paper books with e-books. In my opinion, e-books have multiple features that make them readable and suitable for people, such as portability, environmental friendliness, and ease of access. At the same time, some readers think that paper books have characteristics that make them more convenient to readers than e-books, such as cost-effectiveness and durability. However, e-books have proved to offer more flexibility and unmatched convenience. First and foremost, it is clear that e-books are easily portable from one place to another. Indeed, e-books occupy far less space because they are contained in devices such as mobile phones and laptops, such that moving them around is not a cumbersome task. For example, since e-books do not require physical storage like shelves, students can have as many books as they desire in a tablet and can buy a lot of books without worrying about space. E-books are also environmentally friendly in that they are usually in soft copy form and not hard…
From your perspective, discuss the historical significance of the theme of this book? Among the main themes in the book “The Mis-education of the Negro” by Dr. Carter G. Woodson is education. Woodson is talking about African Americans getting an education to liberate themselves. He argued that during the time, black Americans were culturally indoctrinated instead of being taught in American schools. He is trying to say that lack of education made them feel inferior. Woodson states that this conditioning led the black people to become dependent and to look for inferior places in the greater society of which they are part. Although he presents the theme of education in a different way, Woodson has demonstrated it in a way that makes it historically significant- through the idea of black studies, blacks being taken as inferior, gaining education o fight for their rights, how church supported the blacks, political education and African Americans thinking for themselves. Woodson argues that African Americans had to receive education concerning their culture and the substantial accomplishments of people of African decedent. He further states…
Midterm exam Question 1 The earth is round because of gravitational force that squeezes the earth into a circular shape. Though the earth is spherical, it is not a perfect sphere. The earth bulges at the equator and flattens at the poles, making it an imperfect sphere. Bulging at the equator is caused by centrifugal force, while centripetal force causes flattening at the poles. The imperfect sphere shape of the earth is called an oblate spheroid. Question 2 Initial velocity u, = 2m/s Acceleration a, = 1 m/s/s Final speed v, = 5m/s Substitute these values using the first equation of motion V = u + at, t = time t = v-u/a t = 5-2/1 T=t = 3 seconds (b) How far did it go? To get the distance, use the third equation of motion, v = u2 + 2ad D = V2– u2/2a D = (5)2 – (2)2/2 X 1 D = 10.5 m Question 3 Newton’s law of attraction states that the force of attraction between two objects is directly proportional to the product of the masses…