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Definition Argument- Beyonce1234

What’s the Difference?

Sports can bring all kinds of people together. There can be many individuals on one team, or a sport can even be played with just one person, like tennis for example. The Olympics bring hundreds of countries together to see which is better at playing games than others. People all over the world play many different kinds of sports. Running, balls, nets, balls, keeping score,  courts, and fields are just a few aspects all sports have. Some sports are very similar to each other too, like softball and baseball or tennis and badminton. Sports like tennis and badminton are also a pair of sports that are modified towards each other. They both have the same concept, but many differences. Softball and baseball both have the same general rules, like needing to get three outs and using a ball to pitch to a batter. They both have a first, second, and third base that runners run to so they can score. Though these basic and simple rules are a few aspects what these sports have in common, their differences are increased.

When baseball is compared to baseball, the obvious difference is the gender of each sport. Baseball has boys on the field and softball has girls. There is no actual law that says girls can’t play baseball and boys can’t play softball, but this is mainly just how it is. Another difference is the size of the field. Both sports have dirt and grass, but the softball field is smaller than the baseball field. In baseball, the standard base distance is 90 feet from base to base, but in softball they are 60 feet apart. The fence in softball are usually about 220 feet or so. Baseball’s fence is about 400 feet from home plate. The pitching distance from home plate is also different. They softball mound is only 43 feet from home, and the baseball mound is 60 feet. The baseball mound is also higher because of the extra dirt under the mound, where as in softball it is flat. This effects each sport’s pitching as well.

The size of the balls are a big difference as well. The baseball is only 9 inches in circumference , and the softball is 12 inches and it is yellow too. This effects the weight of each ball. The bats that each sport uses also have differences. Maximum bats for softball are 34 inched long and weigh 24 ounces. Baseball bats have the maximum length of 34 inches and weigh 32 ounces. Though the length is the same, the weight is an important factor.

Even though there is are many differences in baseball and softball, there are also many differences in tennis and badminton. These two pairs of sports are both very similar, but require different skill levels. There is also a huge difference between the sports tennis and badminton. These sports are very similar to softball and baseball because they both are sports with the same aspect, but with different difficulty levels. Tennis and badminton are both played with a racket. Though tennis is played on a 78 feet long court, while badminton’s court is only 44 feet long, they are very different.

Tennis rackets are much heavier than a badminton racket. A tennis racket may weigh about three quarters of a pound; while a badminton racket is only just a quarter of a pound. This difference might change that athlete’s need for strength in their arms. To say that one sport is harder than the other is very difficult. A tennis player having to play a badminton match will have difficulty and vise versa.

Overall, for softball and baseball, the pitching makes the most difference. The elevated mound in baseball makes the pitch have to move downward to get into the strike zone. The baseball pitch also is thrown with an overhand motion. Softball pitching is completely different. This kind of pitching is thrown with the windmill, underhand motion. The mound is not elevated in softball. Because it is a flat surface and the ball is released low, the ball must go upward to make it into the strike zone.

All of these factors are important in playing the game. These are also important to take into when a batter is up to bat. Though these sports have big differences, they have the same concepts. Due to this amount of differences, there must also be different difficulty levels as well. This would make one sport more difficult than the other.

Works Citied

CK”s Baseball 4U, B. C. (2014, February 27). What’s the Difference between Baseball and Softball? Retrieved October 30, 2016.

H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016

Mann, B. A. (2011, September 30). Baseball vs. Softball. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

The Difference Between Baseball & Softball | iSport.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2016.

White Paper- Beyonce1234

Practice Opening:

“You play ball like a girl!” This used to be one of the worst insults of all time. In today’s day, it is quite a complement. Softball seemed as only the girl version of baseball. The girl’s who couldn’t compete with “the big guys,” played softball. That underhand pitch, the size of the field, how much bigger the ball is, seems easy. In reality, it just makes it harder. Recent studies shown us how much harder hitting a softball is than hitting an over-hand pitch of a baseball. The angle, speed, distance, and spin are just a few aspects of the windmill pitch’s difficulty. In reality, hitting a 95 mph, over-hand baseball pitch from 60 feet away is more difficult than hitting a 65 mph, windmill softball pitch from 43 feet away.

Practice Opening:

Has anyone ever really heard of a famous fast-pitch softball hitter? We hear about baseball homers all the time. The reason we don’t know about quality softball hitters is because there aren’t any. There are many more aspects about the windmill pitch that make it much more difficult than hitting an over-hand baseball pitch. The angle, speed, distance, and spin of the ball coming to the batter is completely different than baseball. The only true similarity of the two sports are the rules. Though people think softball is the easier version of baseball, it is not.

Purposeful Summary: Baseball vs. Softball: Which is Harder to Hit? by Kyle Odegard

We all know that softball is simply the “girl version” of baseball. The field is smaller, the ball is bigger, and the uniforms are quite different. Most believe that because of some of the few differences, this would make playing the game much easier. Girls are underestimated pretty often, but when it comes to softball, there is much empowerment. When baseball and softball get compared, most would always go into saying how much baseball is harder. The field is big, the ball is small and white, and the pitching is faster. All these descriptions are true, but it doesn’t make the sport any harder than softball.

Softball will never be harder than baseball, though the differences are important. Focusing on just the pitching, there are major aspects that make each sport unique. Baseball’s pitching style is an over hand throw to the strike zone. Due to this, the ball travels on a downward angle. The diameter of the ball is just under three inches. The distance from the pitching mound and home plate is 60 feet.

In softball the ball is much bigger. It is about three and a half inches in diameter. The pitcher’s mound is only 43 feet from home plate. Softball pitchers are known for their lever of an arm. They swing their arm over their head and flick the ball at their hip as fast as they can. Because of the low release point, the ball must travel up to past the strike zone.

The significance of these differences is how it changes the difficulty level. Due to the softball rise ball, and the batter natural movement of dropping the bat when swinging makes the batters percentage of hitting the ball productively go down tremendously. In softball, not only does the pitch rise, but it is also pitched at the distance of only 43 feet. That is only where the mound is placed. After the big leap off the mound and the intimidating windmill, the pitcher ends up about 38 feet away from the batter. This makes the reaction time to see the ball and to hit it super short.

Baseball’s pitching has only a few difficulties, but the main one is a size of the ball. Because of it’s small shape, the ball has a better chance of having movement. The pitcher can hold the ball a curtain way, and can make the ball do some crazy movements while approaching  the strike zone. This makes the batter have to make sure the ball won’t be out of the strike zone by the time it gets there.

Quote Collection: 

“From a physics point of view they differ only in details.” Alan Nathan, physics professor at Illinois.

“If you drop your hands to ht it, game over.” Tony Scoglio, professional baseball baseball/softball instructor.

“The best way to hit a rise ball is to take it.” Kyle Odegard

Purposeful Summary: The Great Debate: Baseball vs. Softball, Jen Yee

Hitting a ball coming at the strike zone at 65 mph causes the batter to see the ball so quickly that they need to have amazing hand-eye coordination. The ciliary muscles in the eye takes time to contract and relax to see an object far, to close. During a baseball or softball game, this has to happen super fast. Though that takes time, finding the ball in the air takes time too. During both kind of pitching, the ball is blocked by the pitchers body, therefor, the batter can’t see the ball until it is already in the air. This makes the eye muscles have to work even faster to see the ball and see it come closer.

To make this process quicker, the batter has to focus on a point in space that they assume the ball will come from. It can be easier to look at the pitchers release point. In baseball, this might be easier because the release point in next to their head, but in softball, the release point is by their hip.

Purposeful Summary: The Softer They Come. Why is it so hard to hit a softball? Rob Neyer

When focusing on the history of these sports, there are easy way to distinguish why softball can be harder. While comparing the sports in the Olympics, baseball teams score an average of 7.65 runs per game, while the softball team would score only an average of 3.8 runs. This could mean that the batters were unable to produce more solid hits of the pitchers to score more runs.

Softball pitchers like Jennie Finch and Lisa Fernandez are complete power players. Their 70 mph fastballs are as equal to mid 90s fastballs are in baseball. Both of these pitchers have a history of facing power MLB hitters. They both have almost a 100% success rate on striking them out. Of course baseball coaches had their players try to use the effective windmill pitching, but when they read to rule book, it is illegal in baseball. Softball is the only sport with this kind of motion.

Quotation Collection:

“When great players face off, softball is clearly a pitcher’s game.” Rob Neyer

“In softball, there are no famous hitters, only famous pitchers.” Rob Neyer

“1905 World Series, New York Giants legend Christy Mathewson tossed 3 shutouts allowing only 14 hits in 27 innings. That’s roughly what Finch, Fernandez and Osterman did these two weeks.” Rob Neyer

Purposeful Summary: Throw like a girl, Jennie Finch, pages 166-168.

While Major league is all professional and high tech, softball pitching effects baseball batters way differently than their average overhand throw. Jennie Finch is the most famous softball player in the world. She is a gold medalist and named Athlete of the Year in 2010.

She was asked to co-host Major League Baseball’s weekly show, “This Week in Baseball.” She was on the segment called Pinch, Hit, and Run with Jennie Finch. During this, she was challenged to pitch against a several dozen of major league batters. She has struck out over 35 hitter, including Mike Piazza and Albert Pujols. She could have faced more batters but they rather protect their reputation than get shown off by a girl. They didn’t want to go through that shame.

Purposeful Summary: Softball Pitch vs. Baseball Pitch (Youtube Video) by Egreensoftball

This video shows some test that were done to compare which kind of pitch has more force and difficulty level. The first test was to have one softball pitcher and one baseball pitcher to throw the ball at scientific gear that measures the ball’s impact. Baseball pitcher, Adam Jorgenson, pitched first. His 95 mph faseball created 2,411 pounds of force. Next was softball pitcher, Jennie Finch. Her 70 mph softball created the scientific gear to shatter and completely break the machine. This makes her pitch unmeasurable. In this first test, softball would be the winner here.

The next test was to pitch against a professional batter. Batter, Brain Byrne, hit 95 mph fastballs with no problem, though when it comes to the windmill fast pitch softball, it can’t be touched. This proves that even professionals have trouble with hitting a softball.

Next, they scientist went back to the computers. The measured all aspects of the baseball and softball pitches. From the distance, the speed, and the angle, the studied which pitch is harder to hit. After the measuring and the math, they stated that a baseball batter has .395 milliseconds to react to the pitch, while a softball batter has .350 milliseconds to react. This makes the softball batter have less time to think about the pitch, making it more difficult to make contact with the ball.

Lastly, Jennie Finch was tested in how she throws her pitches. She was decked up in motion capture technology to measure her movements. The state that her arm acts a 3 foot leaver for the ball. Because the ball is released at her hip, the ball must go high. This makes it harder for a batter to hit. Overall, these studies indicate that softball is the harder ball to hit.

Working Hypothesis: 

A softball pitcher is harder to hit than hitting a baseball pitcher.

Working Hypothesis:

The aspects of hitting a softball are more difficult than hitting a baseball.

Counter Arguments: 

  • Professional baseball hitters are professional for a reason, they are supposed to know how to hit a 95 mph baseball pitcher. Because they have difficult hitting a softball, is because they don’t practice that as much as baseball. If they practiced hitting a softball the same amount of time they do to hit a baseball, their percentages of hitting the softball would go up.
  • Hitting a softball and baseball are only harder when they are faster pitched. It makes hitting any ball harder when they are pitched over 95 and 65 mph.
  • All players hit and see the ball differently, and that is hard to measure.

Polio Notes-Beyonce1234

  • Children, ages between 0-5 years, are more exposed to polio because of their active curiosity to feel turds.
  • They are exposed to other toddlers as well, therefor, polio exposer.
  • Cases can be tracked to someone local, and new people coming in can catch polio.
  • We are at the least amount of polio cases in the world right now, but can never get to zero.
  • These cases can be compared to small pox, and this illness is basically gone.
  • Because we do not see cases of small pox now-a-days, doctors tend to not focus on the illness that can possibly come back.
  • In Nigeria, it was rumored that the muslims couldn’t take the vaccination because it would be against there religion.
  • Nigeria is one of the few places in the world where polio exist.
  • If there isn’t polio all around the world, and there is people that has never heard of such an illness, why should they take the vaccination?
  • The vaccine is a liquid that is placed of a child’s tongue. The vaccine will go into the body and attack bad bacteria, and taking it about three times, will make it 100% effective.
  • Giving these vaccinations to every child in one country, three times, is extremely difficult to keep track of.
  • Even though there are not many with this disease, millions of children can easily catch the illness without notice.
  • January, 2015, someone spent a day at Disneyland with measles, and then thousands of people captured that same illness. This then spread throughout the world.
  • Because there hasn’t been measles for years and years, doctors don’t know what it looks like. This just spreads it even more, and now millions of people are ill.
  • If people cared more about getting vaccines, these diseases will not spread as fast. There needs to more effort for this not to happen again.
  • The only way it could be completely inactivated, is if we spent more money for the more effective vaccine and gave it to every one in the world.
  • Some also believe that the vaccines may cause autism.

Practice Opening

While the children around the world, are just being kids, they are also just being exposed to diseases. Vaccines for diseases have a high percentage of satisfactory. Living in a world with many illnesses and diseases, it seems simple to make sure we are healthy and doing what we can to prevent becoming ill. However, every day people walk out of restrooms without cleansing their hands. This seems like the most simple task to prevent germs and the common cold, though, people choose not to take that one minute out of their day. Putting a few drops on a child’s tongue a few times to prevent polio seems reasonable, though parents choose not to do so. Just because polio is not common, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care. We hear every where we go to “think of the children” “it is all about the children,” though, adults lack protecting them from illness by providing a simple vaccine. If adults put the extra, quick and easy step, our children will always be protected from this paralyzing disease.

Safer Saws-Beyonce1234

1A: Clint DeBoer states, in his Bosch Tools SawStop Lawsuit summary that, “The Power Tool Institute (made up of many of the major tool manufacturers) takes strong offense to the concept of making safety devices like this mandatory on products like table saws.”

1B: This quote states, the company isn’t for having the SawStop safety involved with power tools.

1c: This is an evaluation claim because there is a judgement about strongly the company feels about having to deal with adding the SawStop technology. This can not be measured nor assessed. This convinces readers to believe that because they are offended about the idea.

1d: The claim makes the issue of not wanting the SawStop technology personal. People get offended because of something they are against or hurt by something. It seems that they are offended by even having the SawStop invented was hurtful to them. As if Steve Gass should have thought about the issues the Power Tool Institute will have.

2a: From a customers who has bought and used the SawStop, “The purchase of this saw has raised the bar on all my other shop tools.”

2b: The customer is clearly satisfied with their purchase of SawStop. They believe that if the other tools do not have this technology, then they will probably not by it.

2c: This is a opinion claim. The customer made their opinion that SawStop is better than other tools because of its stop technology. Though this person believes that it is better, others might not.

2d: The claim states that the customer believes that this is the most effective tool they now have, compared to the other tools. They have some sort of tool standard and the SawStop is now their best tool. All their other tools do not compare to how good the SawStop is.

3a: In Clint DeBoer’s lawsuit article, he states: “Mr. Schiech indicated that if the Commission issued a mandatory rule it would be extremely difficult for the industry to comply because of patent restrictions on sensor technology.”

3b: If the safety invention had to be used in all tools, it would be hard for companies because of the few rights given for this kind of technology.

3c: This is a evaluation claim. We do not know for sure that it would be difficult, but evidence can back up predictions.

3d: The claim here states that their are issues when it comes to sensor technology. The issues are not listened so we don’t know what they are. It is too hard for the industry to make this rule mandatory because of these issues.

4a: In the small article on NCL states,”The benefits of improving table saw safety clearly outweigh the cost.”

4b: The cost of putting the SawStop technology is better than getting a finger amputated.

4c: This can be a factual claim because paying more money to be safe is, in fact, better than dealing with a lost finger, hospital bills, etc. It would not make sense if someone would say that they rather lose a finger than pay an extra $100.

4d: This claim states that there is obvious reasons to improve the safety of table tools, and that they are more reasonable than worrying about money and other issues. Safety first.

5a: A quote from The Courthouse News Service: “Wec says his permanent and “traumatic injury” could have been prevented if Bosch and its competitors had not rejected and fought against the safety technology.”

5b: If the mandatory rule to add SawStop to all table saw were not vanished, this injury would not have happened.

5c: This is a proposal claim because Wec is trying to tell Bosch that he still should accept the safety technology. He is using himself as a real example to Bosch, and he his saying that it is Bosch’s fault.

5d: This claim states that table saw injuries are caused from lack of safety technology. If Bosch did not reject the rule to use the technology in table saws, Wec’s injury would not have happened. If the technology was being used, then there would be no injuries.

6a: The Courthouse News Service also states: “Wec demands more than $30,000 from Bosch for negligence, breach of warranty and product liability. He is represented by Michael Cushing.”

6b: Wec is suing Bosch for their carelessness. He also has a lawyer.

6c: This is a factual claim because all parts are true and can be proven so.

6d: Because Wec was injured from actions of Bosch, Wec decides to take action to court, making it a judges decision on who is to blame for table saw injuries. Michael Cushing will also be defending Wec.

7a: The Bosch Tool SawStop lawsuit states, “By agreeing not [to] employ such safer alternatives, defendant and its competitors attempted to assure that those alternatives would not become ‘state of the art,’ thereby attempting to insulate themselves from liability for placing a defective product on the market.”

7b: SawStop can be too much of a scientific invention, and there might be risk of this not working. If one product isn’t made properly, then there could be injuries.

7c: This is a proposal claim because it is saying if the invention is on the market it could cause defects in the way it’s supposed to work. This is saying what way something should be and giving a reason.

7d: The claim states that there could be issues regarding how reliable the product would be on the market. There could be that one in thousands of working SawStops that doesn’t stop when touched by a finger. It is too much of a “high tech” invention to be reliable.

8a: News reporter Chris Arnold states: “I found out that table saws cause thousands of these really horrible injuries every year.”

8b: Chris Arnold went into research and saw who severe and often saw accidents really are.

8c: This is a factual claim because Arnold researched a fact that he saw surprising. It is true that thousands of table saw accidents happen every year. It is a fact that he didn’t know this before and now he does.

8d: This claims that the injures of table saws are often and severe. This also claims that Arnold must have done research to find this fact because he said “I found out.”

9a: After trying the invention on himself, Steve Gass described the SawStop as, “It felt a little like a buzz or a tickle almost.”

9b: This states that his invention does work and he only felt just a small cut instead of major injury. By putting his own finger to the saw, it didn’t hurt him.  He describes what it felt like to touch the spinning blade for a thousands of a second.

9c: This is a factual claim because it is true that Gass did not get injured by the saw stopping when he touched it. This proves that his invented works and is successful.

9d: There is only one small injury with no emergency situation. It seems silly to describe a cut caused by a table saw as just a little tickle, but this just proves that his own invention works and is reliable.

Visual Rewrite- Beyonce1234

Donate To Food Banks

0:00- There is a boy, assuming to be about nine or ten years old. This boy has short light brown hair with white skin. He is wearing a light blue shirt and looks like he is walking somewhere on a sidewalk. He is also wearing a grey backpack which can be assumed that he goes to school and is either walking home or to school. The setting looks like a sunny day in the suburbs. There is a street with no cars, though maybe there are vehicles down the street but who knows. The background is unclear because the camera is focused on the back side of this boy’s head. We can see that he is also walking on the right side of the street.

0:01- The camera angle is still focused on the back of the boy’s head, but now angled more on the right side of him. There is yet to see this boy’s face. In this shot, there is now a fence in the background with some bushes. It looks like he is entering a yard, opening the gate. The fence isn’t wood or brick, but only thin wire.

0:02-0:03- The boy now enters a house, assuming it is his parents’ or guardian’s. We now see his body from the knees down. He is wearing average jeans with average tennis shoes. The door is light blue, and the floors are tile.

0:04- The boy enters a kitchen while ripping off his backpack, assuming after a long day at school. The clock in the back read 3:35, so this theory can be assumed. The camera is placed in a room next to the kitchen but as if the audience is watching the child from inside that room. The kitchen is average as well. There is a table with chairs in the center, and a counter and sink in the back with a big window above. There is also a silver, two-door refrigerator. The floor is black and white tile. In the room we are watching from, there is a painting of hand prints on the wall. Maybe it is one of each children living in that house, therefor six children living there, or the one child’s hand several times, in several colors. It is hard to tell, but the hands are all the same size. Beside the picture, there are some color pencils of some sort, assuming the boy likes to draw or color often. There is also some counters and cabinet space in this room as well.

0:05-0:06- The boy then opens one side of the refrigerator. We can now see that there is some art work that has been attached with magnets. We can assume that the boy might have made them in school. From the new angle of the camera, from a floor view, we can see that the table only has two chairs. This could indicate there are only two people living in that house, and the boy might have just one parent.

0:07- We can now see what is inside of the refrigerator and it’s not much at all. There are three containers of some sort of left over food. There is one container of a dip perhaps. One jar of salsa and a box filled with some substance that is unknown because of the angle of it. We can also see a part of the back of the boy’s head, and we can tell he is looking at the same things we are.

0:08-0:09- Here the audience can see the boys face through the opening between the door of the refrigerator and the side of the refrigerator. His face looks disappointed at what he sees. His eyes are looking down and his face, as a whole, doesn’t look pleased.

0:10- 0:11- The camera changes again to a view of the whole refrigerator, and we can now see some condiments on the door. The boy looks over at them and back quickly. We can now see another shelf in the refrigerator that has three more little containers with some sort of left over food. Over all, the refrigerator doesn’t look very appetizing.

0:12- The boy then steps upon one of the wooden chairs that he placed in front of the counter and some of the cabinets. We can assume he has closed the refrigerator door and moved the chair to see what other kinds of food are in the cabinet. The camera is back to just about where it was when it was in the other room, next to the kitchen. We can see more of a child’s art work on the front of the refrigerator too.

0:13-0:14- Now, the boy opens up the cabinet door. We can see what’s inside because the camera is now behind the boy’s head, but it is focused on the cabinet itself. We can see some flour and spice on two shelves in the cabinet. There might be some sugar and meat seasoning, but there’s not much, or at least not many items a child around nine or ten can put together for a snack.

0:15- The new camera angle points right into the face of disappointment. His hazel/green eyes still looking into that cabinet, waiting for his favorite snack to magically appear. His lips not looking like they are going to smile anytime soon.

0:16-0:17- We are back to the camera angle in the next room looking into the kitchen. The boys seems to have just gotten down from the chair and starts to head out of the room from where he came in the first place. We can still see the disappointment on his face as well. The audience can tell that he knows that there is nothing to eat, but it seems like he is used to it. He might be leaving because there is no more hope for anything good to happen in that room. It seems like the boy accepts the fact that there is no food, and he will have to wait until later to eat. The boy might be finding something else to do with his free time he has since eating is out of the picture.

0:18- This is a new angle of the boy walking out of the room. It is closer to his face, and the audience can now see only his upper body. Here, we see the boy taking one last, quick look at the refrigerator while leaving. He looks at it up to down, looking very disappointed and scared because of not knowing when he will eat. The boy then walks out of view.

0:19-0:24- The commercial then cuts to an older lady, around 30, facing the camera. She is standing in that same kitchen, speaking to the camera. She has short blonde hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a shirt with a pink pattern and a navy blue blazer. In the corner of the screen, there are the words “Feeding America” in orange and green writing. The lady then talks to the camera for about five seconds.

0:25-0:30- For the rest of the commercial, the logo of the organization is presented in large words. It says “Feeding America” with their website “FeedingAmerica.org” underneath. The audience can assume that the people of the commercial would like the audience to visit the website and find out more about this organization.

This commercial clearly indicates that there is an issue with hunger. Children come home hungry from a long day of school and have very little to eat or no food at all. This commercial is an advertisement for an organization that feeds the hungry. By the title of the video, we know that the boy could not find food because there is no food at the local food banks. Because of that, the woman at the end was most likely saying something along the lines as to why people should donate, most likely with a depressing fact about child hunger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlbyVF3q88

Open Strong- Beyonce1234

“You play ball like a girl!” This used to be one of the worst insults of all time. In today’s day, it is quite a complement. Softball seemed as only the girl version of baseball. The girl’s who couldn’t compete with “the big guys,” played softball. That underhand pitch, the size of the field, how much bigger the ball is, seems easy. In reality, it just makes it harder. Recent studies shown us how much harder hitting a softball is than hitting an over-hand pitch of a baseball. The angle, speed, distance, and spin are just a few aspects of the windmill pitch’s difficulty. In reality, hitting a 95 mph, over-hand baseball pitch from 60 feet away is more difficult than hitting a 65 mph, windmill softball pitch from 43 feet away.

Has anyone ever really heard of a famous fast-pitch softball hitter? We hear about baseball homers all the time. The reason we don’t know about quality softball hitters is because there aren’t any. There are many more aspects about the windmill pitch that make it much more difficult than hitting an over-hand baseball pitch. The angle, speed, distance, and spin of the ball coming to the batter is completely different than baseball. The only true similarity of the two sports are the rules. Though people think softball is the easier version of baseball, it is not.

Missing Dollar-Beyonce1234

Since each lady gave $10, which makes $30 total, the waiter only took $5, to make $25 for the total of the bill. Which means he can only take two dollars from two of the $10 and one from the other $10. Which makes one lady paid $9 and the others $8. 9+8+8= 25. The other $2 kind of went has a tip. Thinking as if only two of the ladies gave a $1 tip. Since each lady received a dollar back, then one lady paid $9 for her food, and two ladies paid $8 for their food, and $1 for a tip. 9+8+8+1+1=27. The other three dollars have been distributed equally back to the ladies.

Beyonce1234’s Proposal

For my research, I came to the conclusion that my topic will discuss how hitting a softball is different than hitting a baseball. By “different,” I mean harder. Most believe softball is a sport girls play when the can’t compete with “the big guys.” In fact, softball pitchers have much greater force than a baseball pitcher. The angle, speed, distance, and spin are just a few of the aspects of how difficult hitting a windmill pitch really is.

Most also indicate that since the ball is bigger and brighter, is must be easier, right? Wrong. Everything about softball pitching is totally different than baseball’s over hand style. The only aspect that seems to be the same is the batter standing in their same box. While researching, it has been proven over and over again how hitting a 65 mph softball is more difficult than hitting a 95 mph baseball.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/sports/article_07444756-beee-557f-9bf6-7814fdb3f653.html

The Essential Content of The Article: The point of this article is about comparing the two. Since a baseball is small, it can move more, but the softball pitch angles up and can continue to go on that up angle through the strike zone. This makes a pitch like this very difficult. The author also discusses how the distance and speeds differ. Though hitting the softball is not impossible, but getting a productive hit almost is.

What it Proves: This article proves that there are some comparisons with softball and baseball, but not many. The skills of the batter must also be in the equation as well. Their are batters at the college level hitting over .500. This can mostly be from their impressing hand-eye coordination.

http://pzoneacademy.blogspot.com/2011/10/which-is-more-challenging-task-hitting.html

The Essential Content of The Article: This author makes points that are focused on the actual eye muscles that the batter uses while waiting for the pitch. How we can’t see near and far at the same time, and how our eyes must adjust so quickly. Also, the author discusses the bats that are being used in the college level and professional.

What is Proves: This proves that the batter will have almost the same kind of aspects for hitting both baseball and softball. The difference in this is what the angle and distance of where the ball is coming from.

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2004/08/the_softer_they_come.html

The Essential Content of The Article: This author discusses the many aspects of hitting a softball, and how the pitch is really thrown. It discuss how important the pitchers are in softball. We know pitchers like Jennie Finch and Liza Fernandez because of their ability to make batters unable to hit their pitch affectively. The author also goes into an overview of some of the softball history.

What it Proves: This proves how affective a softball pitcher can be. The point with the famous pitchers is something that is never thought much of. People know great baseball hitters like Babe Ruth and Mike Trout, but when do we see outstanding softball hitters? Softball pitchers also have almost twice as many pitches as a baseball pitcher does. Which is another aspect as to why hitting this ball is so difficult. The uncertainty of where the ball is going to end up and what speed it’s going to be is extremely challenging.

http://baseballrebellion.com/cpippitt/the-myths-of-hitting-down-and-through/The Essential Content of The Article: This article talks much on how to hit the ball. The angle the batter must take to make contact at the correct position. The author also discusses different kind of bat issues. There are also some diagrams explaining the angles and contact points made in the strike zone.

What is Proves: This proves more scientifically how a batter hits the ball. This article is mostly about hitting the baseball, but softball batters make almost identical swings. Softball batters hit with a different contact point because the different angle of the ball coming in. Which is why hitting that 12″, bright yellow ball is challenging.

Throw Like A Girl by Jennie Finch (page 167)

The Essential Content of the Story: Finch discusses a part in her life when she had a job at This Week in Baseball. During this time, most of her sessions their was for proving how powerful she is. They had her pitching the incredible professional ball players, and striking most out on a daily bases. She states that most players didn’t want to face her because of the teasing they would get from their teammates.

What is Proves: This proves that a few dozen professional baseball players, who hit 95 mph fast balls almost everyday, were scared to face the great and powerful Jennie Finch. I feel like this proves that even professional baseball players can’t even come in contact with Finch’s movement and speed. Being the “best of the best” in baseball means nothing when it comes to softball.

 

E03 Critical Reading- Beyonce1234

First off, I listened to this whole article, and I now dislike the Kardashians more than ever. The author sounded like their long lost sister. I know I could’ve just read the thing myself, but that would’ve taken too long. This has nothing to do with the assignment, but I had to let you know.

Her schoolmate said something mean. Maybe. Katie doesn’t sound sure, or like she remembers exactly. One thing she’s positive of: “She just made me…so. MAD.” Brannan asks Katie to name some of the alternatives. “Walk away, get the teacher, yes ma’am, no ma’am,” Katie dutifully responds to the prompts. She looks disappointed in herself.

  1. Katie goes to school with another girl.
  2. She is disappointed in herself, therefore she is unhappy with decisions that she didn’t understand that she was making before.
  3. It seems like she might be disappointed because she knew that is how she should’ve reacted to the situation.
  4. She doesn’t understand emotions yet because she only knows one adjective to explain her feelings.
  5. She might be experiencing symptoms from her father of PTSD.
  6. She doesn’t realize that either.

She’s never been diagnosed with anything, and Brannan prefers it that way. “I’m not for taking her somewhere and getting her labeled. I’d rather work on it in softer ways,”

  1. Katie never had any abnormalities before.
  2. Brannan believes it would be problematic if she did.
  3. Doctors only diagnose and do not actually help with the issue.
  4. If they did, it would be too harsh for his daughter.

The phone never stops ringing. If it does for 14 seconds, Brannan writes an email to help get whatever someone needs, or publishes a blog post about her own struggles.

  1. The phone rings all the time, even when someone is uses it.
  2.  It only takes 14 seconds to write an email or a blog post.
  3. She writes about her experiences.
  4. She is a very busy woman.

 

Stone Money Rewrite- Beyonce1234

I am not an expert on the concept of money, what so ever. Thinking and understanding these stories and issues are not easy. Places like Yap, with their stone money, and Brazil with their fake (now real) currency isn’t easy to understand the concept of. Being an American teenager, now a young American woman, there is very little thought about what the value of money really is. I know that one receives money and one spends the money. Only that seems relevant to me.

While studying where the concept of money came from, I realized there are more connections with different currency than none at all. People can have thousands of dollars in a bank that gives them only a number on a screen of how much money they have. People do not physically see this money, they only just assume it’s there. Though people put money into their own bank accounts, the bank then gives that same money for a loan to someone else. The Invention of Money discusses how money is only fiction and doesn’t really exists. How can that same money a person owns, go to someone else, yet each person has more than what they started with. How can that be if money was real? It can’t.

The people of Yap are doing no different than what we, Americans, are doing today. The citizens of Yap did not see the gargantuan limestone boulders, yet they knew who the owner was. “Is the one practice really more rational than the other?” Milton Friedman states in his Island of Stone Money essay. This got me thinking that, no, I don’t think that there is much of a difference. A person works all their life to make their number on the screen at the bank the highest they can possibly get. A person in Yap trade for their stone money and they work for their stone. Neither of which can carry to a store or put in ones pocket.

Brazil, on the other hand, had a different issue, though still not too different from America. Back in the day, when we used gold as the value of our money, it eventually started not to work in our favor. There was not enough to spread around to all Americans. We then came up with another plan. Something new but not unheard of, paper money. We printed them and shared with the banks to spread to the people and a new way of money was made. Brazil achieved with their new currency, using URVs. This stood for Unit of Real Value. Which, for me, seemed pretty iconic since the money wasn’t real at all until much later.

Fortunately, this worked out for them and helped their inflation problem. As discussed in the broadcast, How Fake Money Saved Brazil, this only succeed because of the people’s faith in the value of the money. People had to have faith in the concept, the progress, and the money itself. This might remind the young people of this world today of the addicting beverage of alcohol. It’s not tasty or satisfying, but people make it a necessity because how it makes them feel and act. Money can be put into similar assumptions because money is only a need because of how it makes them feel. Alcohol is not needed to have fun, but people assume that it helps. One does not need money to be rich, but it helps.

Bitcon money, on the other hand, was also very similar to URV. This digital currency was not seen, and was only to exist online. My view point with this system is that it could easily become hacked by anyone. Also, this money would not be seen by any kind of banks, and it would most likely put banks out of business. There would be no more loans, money in the banks, and there would be less money to spend. Companies borrow money from banks everyday, if that was gone, jobs would go with it. Companies will be forced to lay off and not hire. This would end up in a global depression. Anne Renaut, who seems to believe Bitcon is a reasonable concept, did not encounter these consequences. Though my views on these concepts may not be the most accurate and the money concept still does not have my full understanding, I now believe that money is not real. It is hard to think about that concept, and it is for anyone.

Works Cited

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Standford University, Feb. 1991. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Joffe-Walt, Chana. “How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR.org. 4 Oct. 2010. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

“The Invention of Money.” 423: The Invention of Stone Money. This Is American Life. WEBZ. Chicago. 7 Jan. 2011. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.

Renaut, Anne. “The bubble bursts on e-currency Bitcon.” Yahoo.com. 13 Apr. 3013. Web. 13 Sept. 2016.