Back to Serve, by Cesare Giannetti U.S. Army (Ret.), is a fictional novel about Nico Corretti. After a successful military career, Nico is stepping into a civilian life, and he is set to enjoy his new life with his family. Before now, on his trip to out-process from the military, he meets a young Russian woman, who informs him that his life is in danger. Afterward, he seeks a job, and fortunately, he gets a temporary military intelligence job. Eventually, he and other operatives are sent to Budapest in Hungary for a counter-terrorism mission.
Set in America, Hungary, and the Middle East, this narrative is about terrorism and the efforts the United States government makes to end such evil. I commend the author for his ability to vividly describe places and the weather. This arouses the interest of a reader. Included in the book are some beautiful photographs of some places, statues, and structures. For example, one of the Angel statues at Kerepesi cemetery in Budapest and the Tigris-Euphrates valley in the northern part of Baghdad. Nico is a lover of baseball. Hence, the better part of the narration focuses on baseball players and events.
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However, the narrative is vague, and it reads like a documentary. It has a slow-paced beginning, and I read the greater part of it before I saw an intriguing scene, which is not common in the novel. Besides, the dialogues are few, and the events are not related to each other in sequence. The protagonist keeps telling about his military experience, family, friends, and enthusiasm for baseball in no organized form. Sometimes, this occurs when an author chooses to tell a real experience as a fictional
For a 12-year-old Cuban boy living in the Bronx, baseball is his family's only way out and means a better tomorrow. In the novel, Heat by Mike Lupica, baseball represents a way out and a better tomorrow. He loves baseball and idolizes the Yankees pitcher El Grande, who was also Cuban-born. Michael Arroyo is a young boy who has reasons to distrust the representatives of the state must figure out how to continue life on his own terms while navigating the adult world and avoiding both the well-meaning and the badly-intentioned interference of grown-ups. Michael is also the best baseball pitcher on his South Bronx all-star team. Michael's arm is so good, that a rival Little League coach begins requesting proof that he's only 12 and eligible to play. They ask for his father but, recently, his father took a trip to Florida and had a heart attack, killing him. Michael and his 17-year-old brother Carlos, are trying to avoid Child Protective Services until Carlos turns 18.
This passage is important because Michael is ineligible to play because he doesn’t have a birth certificate so he coaches 3rd base. That reflects the theme because he finds a way to stick with baseball, even though he is not allowed to play. It might not seem like it, but this play won the game. The bottom of the lineup was up and everyone thought they would lose the game. The head coach told Bobby to just hit, but Michael gave him a different sign, he told him to bunt down the third base line. Everybody thought the game was over and the chances of going to Williamsport ( Little League World Series) was over. Bobby missed the first two times. Cory Allen, the pitcher thought he couldn’t touch the ball so he lobbed it in as soft as he could. Now instead of bunting Bobby was swinging as hard as he could. The ball didn’t even get past the infield, but he still had a chance. Bobby was running faster than he ever has when the shortstop threw the ball it was wild and it went over the first basebmen, which ment Bobby was
In the sports novel The Batboy by Mike Lupica Brian is the batboy for a Major League Baseball team. During the season he meets his idol, Hank Bishop, who is not who Brian thought it would be. The theme of the the book is to never give up, which is expressed by both of the main characters in the book.
The most recent edition to the Brooklyn Dodgers, a young farm boy from Connecticut named Roy Tucker (The Kid), becomes a phenom in the League with his brilliant pitching. But a freak accident ends his pitching career, forcing Tucker to find a new place on the team. John Tunis’s work resembles the story of current Major League outfielder Rick Ankiel. Ankiel is a star pitcher-turned outfielder, same as The Kid was. Although Ankiel’s heart-warming comeback story took many years longer, the similarities are still there. Both had to face the hard fact that they just were not going to pitch in the Majors ever again. Ankiel and Roy Tucker also had to have incredible perseverance and self-confidence to reach the Majors again, as outfielders. Tunis
The book has to deal with baseball scouts looking for talented players. There are three good players on the Rosemont Rockets, Dave, Glen and Roberto. They try to focus on the game throughout the story, basically. The main characters are of course, Dave, Glen, and Roberto. They are the people in the story that has the front row seat, the ones that the book is based off of, so yeah. I would say, their conflicts are mainly just trying to focus on the game of baseball. Having school or any other outside of baseball activity can sometimes slow down or take their mind off of their main goal. They do play baseball but at the same time, they do have a life so they aren't able to
first person about his struggles in the beginning of his baseball career, and how he miraculously turns his
Having recently recovered from a life threatening illness, twenty-four year old Sean Troy is unsure of how to move forward with his life. In the days that follow, guided by his tremendous appetites—for food, for booze, for sexual gratification—he loses himself in the two great loves of his life: baseball and Elissa, the object of his unrequited affections in high school. With the Sox poised to make a historic run at baseball immortality and the girl of his dreams madly in love with him, Sean’s life couldn’t be better. But dark secrets from Elissa’s recent past and Sean’s discovery that he has room in his heart for baseball and baseball alone
Driven by his passion for baseball, Cotter takes the initiative of sneaking into the stadium by jumping over the gate, “...even though he knows they will be after him the second he touches ground, even though he’ll be in danger for the next several hours - watching left and right - there is less fear in him now” (DeLillo 13). Once inside the stadium walls, Cotter’s worries and fears seem to melt away completely, for he is now where he wants to be most. By breaking the rules, risking punishment and ignoring all the legitimate reasons that would prevent him from attending the game, Cotter shows how strong his passion is for baseball. What influences his passion is that Cotter believes the game of baseball contains magical aspects unlike anything else.
The Sandlot is an iconic story about growing up and facing your fears in a tale that combines the idea of friendship and baseball. A boy named Scotty Smalls moves into a new neighborhood and has trouble fitting in. He sees his opportunity for making friends by being the ninth player on a baseball team, however, he does not know how to play. He asks his stepfather to teach him how to play but over time, his stepfather finds himself too busy to teach young Scotty. His plan to make friends seems doomed until one of the best players of this baseball team, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, helps teach Scotty the ins and outs of how to play baseball.
On September 11, 2001, a series of terrorist attacks were directed for the United States by means of four hijacked planes. Two of which hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense, and the fourth crashed in a field near Pittsburg after it was meant to hit the White House. The terror spread in the United States and brought concern and fear to the citizens. The impact of these terrorist attacks caused serious and detrimental damages within the country, and their result on the people were enormous; insecurity, helplessness, and susceptibility spread. Especially after the release of a videotape in which Osama Bin Laden, head of Al-Qaeda, admitted that he was responsible for the terrorist attacks. Hence, President George W, Bush declared the “war on terror” against all terrorists in the Arab world, specifically Afghanistan and Iraq. In the following paper, we will be discussing how the war on terror was waged, its effects on the target countries, and how it was perceived by political thinkers, where some saw it as a conspiracy theory against the Arab countries, and others believed the USA was the victim.
Call of the Wild A major theme in The Call of The Wild is that one must adapt to survive, which buck does throughout the entire book. At the beginning of the book, Buck sees he needs to begin to assimilate to his surroundings. First, Buck learns, not everything is perfect, nor is everyone. For example, he sees that Manuel isn’t perfect when he steals and sells him so he can have money for the Chinese Lottery.
Is Hazing something that’s important to you ? What about Black Greek Letter Associations ? Hazing is the imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiation. Hazing is illegal if you didnt know. According to Lawyers.com- In many
Foreign and domestic policies are not linear, rather the policies are connected in a circle, with each policy reinforcing the values of another. Domestic American terrorism in the prison and detention systems and governmental reforms are influenced by the mobilization and ethnocentrism abroad. The militarization internationally is justified by the domestic handling of the same cultural issues within the United State borders. The United States has strangely used a near Catch-22 to handle dilemmas. The United States has allowed perspective to become reality, whether with oneself or regarding issues abroad, specifically in the Middle East. Terrorism is the use or threat of fear for political or economical gain. An internal characteristic of terrorism is how dependent it is of perspective, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. To understand “terrorism,” a focus must be applied to the history, what drove an organization to commit such acts. Respectively, the Middle East has been a hotbed for the key word “terrorism,” especially because of 9/11. Subsequently, Muslims have been stigmatized by the United States as terrorists. The consequences spawned because of 9/11 require a look to the past to understand the present.
Movies tend to pick the same position time and time again and therefore many movies have similar stories and tones. To change this, I want to focus on another key element in baseball that audiences sometimes overlook; the back catcher. The back catcher will allow for a fresh look into the baseball franchise and will allow viewers better understand their role to the game. For instance, the connection between back catcher and pitcher is key to the overall impact of a game. When they are on the same page, the flow of the game is quicker and more impactful. This will relate to the dynamic duo of Brett and Ross, since their characters have grown up together both in reality and the virtual reality they have a strong connection. The connection between real life and the video game atmosphere will give a new interconnection between the audience and the characters. In the modern society today, video games are as much as an cinematic experience as movies are. This is why I believe my story of focusing on a back catcher and the use of video games will allow this film to stand by itself and capture a new
This Women’s Day advertisement inspires Women to become the person they dream of being. Alluding to the timeless fairy tale “The Frog Prince” with a toy frog wearing a crown, the ad plays on youthful innocence. The classically magical tale recounts the events of a girl who is not suited for royalty becoming a princess, which a majority of American and British women were exposed to in their youth. Therefore, the frog is a happy reference to a time period that every woman has had or will have where they relate to the girl in the story and feel capable of becoming a “princess”. Because fairy tales never follow the “prince” or “princess” in the story after becoming such the responsibilities and life is left to the interpretation of the reader. This promotes imagination in children and may nostalgically remind Women of the previous ambitious of their childhood.