Essays Tagged: "pastime"
Genesis and Creation in Love
easy as it looks. I seem to do nothing but read and read, and what used to be a favorite childhood pastime has becoa nightmarish journey to paper cuts and bifocals. The saving grace, as I see it, is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Television Violence and it's effect on Children
hree to five hours of television a day! (Neilson 1993). Listening to music is also a time consuming pastime among children. With all of that exposure, one might pose the question, 'How can seeing so m ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
"The difference between baseball and softball?" It shows some of the major differences between baseball and softball within a creative writing style.
the swirling of the dust, and the crack of the bat that all signal the start of America's favorite pastime, baseball. Even with the popularity of baseball, girls' fast pitch softball has competitivel ... amples of how the rules in baseball and softball differ.Although baseball may be America's favorite pastime, girls' fast pitch softball is growing largely well known. Both sports, which most people vi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Smoking - an essay on the history and hazards of smoking.
, car accidents, homicides, suicides, illegal drugs and fires combined. Smoking is an extremely bad pastime, practiced for centuries, for an individual's health and those surrounding him/her. People s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The effects of Gambling and what it can do to your life.
money and therefore creates a higher crime rate.A Quick History of Gambling.Gambling was a popular pastime in North America long before there was ever a United States. Playing cards and dice were bro ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
This is an essay discussing conflict theory in sport.
Americas favorite pastime is sport. Millions and millions of dollars have been spent publicizing sport, and on the sam ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Baseball is in Dire Need of Changes Talks about revenue sharing, salary cap, playoff system, expansion, and realignment
Baseball is America's pastime and a game that most of us love. However, baseball has hit a crossroads and there are some s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
The "Baseball Salary Cap" and why we should have one.
Baseball Salary CapBaseball. America's most passionate sport and pastime. But is it really what it used to be? Time and time again, we've heard the rumors about the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Baseball: Then and Now This is an essay that contrasts the game of baseball today to the game at its origin in the 1800s.
is a game which is peculiarly suited to the American temperament and disposition:... in short, the pastime suits the people, and the people suit the pastime"(Charles Peverelly, 1866). Although baseba ... he people suit the pastime"(Charles Peverelly, 1866). Although baseball is still America's favorite pastime, the way it is played has changed greatly since it's founding in the 1800's. Baseball was or ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
A brief overview (1368 words) of the Salem Witch Trials. Very informative.
the devil. Because of these restrictions, the girls spent most of their free time reading.A popular pastime during the winter months was to read. That winter, there was much interest in books about pr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"The excess in Keats' work detracts from the effectiveness of his ideas.
experiences good and bad, transient and eternal. He believed his work should not be read as a quiet pastime, but instead, indulged in as an experience of such intensity, that the reader imagined his w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Gambling in Canada.
Gambling is as old as human history. Gambling was a popular pastime in North America long before there was ever a United States. Playing cards and dice were bro ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Baseball.
Baseball is arguably Americas favorite pastime. There is more history in baseball than in any other sport. The great players that have grac ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
This essay is about the drug ecstacy and why people use it
Pure EcstasyThe use of drugs for recreational purposes has been a popular pastime of many cultures for thousands of years. When narcotics where related to "religious customs ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. Informal writing assignment relating an American superstition to the superstitions of the Ibo people.
g would happen. This superstition serves as a way for kids to scare themselves-- a commonly enjoyed pastime. It also serves as a way to sate their curiosity.The Ibo take their superstition regarding e ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
The life of Richard the III of England, and a defense of his so-called "crimes" as accused by Shakespeare and the Tudor/Lancasters. With footnotes and bibliography.
Elizabeth of York. The best way to reunite the country after years of bloody internal strife was a pastime enjoyed by people all over the world: slandering former public officials. Almost overnight, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
"America's Pastime" expostiory essay on how to grow "flowers" College writing 121
America's PastimeSome People might think that is difficult to grow a flower. Actually, it's not, it's just as ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
Humourous Story by Wafa Nurdin called The Mallow Men.
The Mallow MenBy Wafa NurdinProcrastination's a favourite pastime of mine, along with being lazy and slacking off. I don't blame myself for these dastardly wa ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
Television Violence and Its Effect on Children
three to five hours of television a day! (Neilson 1993). Listening to music isalso a time consuming pastime among children. With all of that exposure, onemight pose the question, "How can seeing so mu ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Grief
en I feel fear, pain, loneliness, desolation. Then I cry until I am too numbed to feel. Interesting pastime.' (Peter McWillians, How to Survive the Loss of a Love). Grief is an inevitable part of life ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology