English Composition 1301 26 May 2012 Lou Gehrig’s Farewell Speech Analysis Imagine a young boy and his father going to the New York Yankees ballpark on a warm sunny day. The date is July 4‚ 1939 and it is Lou Gehrig appreciation day at the ballpark. Lou Gehrig had been playing major league baseball for seventeen years and is one of the most well thought of players in the game. When the boy and his father arrive at the ballpark‚ Lou walks to a podium and begins to talk. Without any prior warning
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Many of us don’t know how deadly it can be sometimes! ALS which is short of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is not the disease you want to catch. Well known as the Lou Gehrig it’s a fatal disease that on average people live two to five years. The Effects of ALS often times can not be the most pleasant and affects the body quickly. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend and was one of first famous people back in the day to get the disease. It’s a deadly disease! When a person gets diagnosed with ALS on average
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Lou Holtz guided 6 programs to a bowl game‚ and 4 of those teams were in the final top twenty rankings. It’s easy to tell the impact he made on these teams and the great leader Lou Holtz actually was. There are many examples in his life and in the lives of many others on how to become the best leader you can be. Great leaders are people who show outstanding qualities in what they do‚ and would do anything and everything to help someone. Some of these outstanding qualities would be strong‚ trustworthy
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS for short‚ is a progressive degeneration of the motor neurons of the central nervous system‚ leading to wasting of the muscles and paralysis. It is called Lou Gehrig’s disease because it wasn ’t really heard of until the famous baseball player of the New York Yankees made his speech about how he had been diagnosed with ALS. ALS can be deceiving when it comes to it’s symptoms.
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about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth” (Speech 1). Lou Gehrig‚ went from being a big time baseball player to receiving ALS‚ he rose above it and became one of the most inspirational people in the world. Lou is also a very heroic figure because of his baseball career‚ being diagnosed with ALS‚ and his long lasting legacy. During Lou Gehrig’s career‚ he was a dominant baseball player and an influential figure. Also During his career‚ he was
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Lou Gehrig Baseball Legend Lou Gehrig‚ one of the greatest players of all time‚ struggled to make it in the big leagues. Although he did grow up in a normal family‚ the beginning of his career was rough. As he settled into the MLB‚ his career was one to remember. He really gave New York something to brag about. Towards the end of his career‚ an untimely sickness affected his life in the worst way possible. Lou Gehrig was born in Yorkville‚ Manhattan in 1903. His parents both emigrated from
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Even a marriage that is sensibly built to last cannot endure. The story begins with a beautiful and intelligent Mr. Matthew and a well matched Ms. Susan. They are both hardworking‚ wait until their late twenties to marry‚ and once fully committed only make wise decisions in an effort to save their marriage from ever failing as others do. While reading the first few pages I see that Lessing is showing an all too perfect situation. “Everything right…what everyone would wish for‚ if they could
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For example a customer could object‚ “This is a really nice jacket‚ I’ll come back later‚” an appropriate response from a salesperson from Lychee Lou would be‚ “This one has been one of our best sellers‚ we’ve sold out of it once already and I foresee it selling out again‚” this statement encourages the customer to buy the jacket because now he/she is convinced it may go out of stock. It is important to listen carefully to the customer’s complaints so the customer feels as though he/she is being
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Lou Reed was many things‚ a visionary‚ a musician‚ a revolutionary‚ and a beacon of hope to outcasts everywhere‚ but much of this was masked in an image that he created for fans of a hardcore‚ off-the-rails rocker. He was the first to make the image of an urban New Yorker cool. The creation of this image came from a culmination of bits and pieces of every place he went and every person he met. Much this inspiration was drawn from where he grew up in Brooklyn‚ Syracuse University‚ Andy Warhol‚ and
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ALS short for Lou Gehrig’s is a disease that connects to the muscle it slowly takes away walking‚ to dress‚ speak‚ breath and shortening the life span. It’s like when it gets attached to you it never stops it progresses like its nothing That you can do because it’s gone take control over the body and eats it like it never goes away until you kill it. Although mo treatment slows or contains the progression of ALS‚ to help control symptoms and make living with the disease easier. A common drug that
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