The name is Jimmy Crutchfield‚ a man who was an important figure in the Negro Baseball League. Today many Americans in the world never give this man the credit he deserves‚ but that’s because many didn’t know him. Jimmy Crutchfield was an All-Star baseball player who played for four major Negro Baseball Leagues‚ including the American Giants who were the most dominant team in black baseball (wiki).Jimmy Crutchfield was a huge peril on the field; controlling the ball at his own speed. According to
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awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama award and a Tony award in 1987. The playwright of Fences is August Wilson. August Wilson was born on April 27‚ 1945‚ in Pittsburgh and died on October 2‚ 2005. This play fit into his body work a lot. What he usually writes in his play is about drama. His plays that he writes about mostly takes place Pittsburgh. What Wilson mostly writes is about people’s daily lives and struggles having African American descent. The play Fences style is dramatic yet comedic. The
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NFL Revenue Sharing To many the NFL may be considered America’s greatest sports league. The league definitely has the numbers to back up this claim. The ever-growing sport has maintained keen interest from fans all across the world‚ all the while generating enormous amounts of revenue. Currently the league rakes in close to $9 billion annually. The success of the NFL is something to marvel at. Even in a shaky economy the NFL continues to flourish. What is interesting about the NFL is how the
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Dear Representative Frankel‚ My name is Kimberlee Deutsch. I am a Registered Nurse in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Writing you to request your support for Bill 476‚ Nurse Safe Staffing Legislation. Nurse staffing is a crucial health policy issue on which there is a great deal of consensus on an abstract level (that nurses are an important component of the health care delivery system and that nurse staffing has impacts on safety)‚ much less agreement on exactly what research data have and have not established
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by Jai’s choice to keep her love and her husband. Even though his health was not good enough‚ he wanted to move to Pittsburgh for his working. She couldn’t understand his decision. But she finally came back his beside. He wrote‚ “She had come to a realization: She was in love‚ after all. Once again‚ my parents had come through. Love had won out. At week’s end‚ Jai moved to Pittsburgh.”(p.79). I was impressed by a powerful lesson from her loving. Honestly if I was Jai‚ I would ban him from working
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At the end of 19th century Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata met steel makers in Pittsburgh to get the most advanced technology for his plant. It is said that he got the idea of building a steel plant when he heard Thomas Carlyle declaring that "the nation which gains control of iron soon acquires the control of gold" in a lecture in Manchester. At the turn of the twentieth century‚ Jamshetji Tata asked geologist Charles Page Perin to help him find the site to build India’s first steel plant. The search
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William M. Smith‚ Senior Director of Emergency Preparedness at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)‚ a nonprofit that operates 20 academic‚ community and specialty hospitals‚ says lives can be saved with a hospital’s emergency preparedness efforts. After a number of shooting tragedies were news headlines‚ UPMC’s CEO at that point in time decided the healthcare system needed to have a program to ensure it could respond if it ever had an active shooter in one of its facilities. In 2012
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a working boy in Pittsburgh there was a Colonel who shared his private library of books to the working boys. Andrew took every chance to further his learning and obtained most of his knowledge from the library of books. So when Carnegie was rich and ready to share it‚ he spent $60 million to create over 3‚000 public libraries throughout Scotland‚ America‚ and England. Also‚ he spent an average of $10-35 million dollars for establishing world peace‚ Carnegie institute in Pittsburgh‚ and Washington
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(Twentieth 257). To pay her way through college‚ Cather took a job with the Pittsburgh Leader. Some have speculated that this caused her to become a realist as an author (Downs 54). From 1906-1912 Cather was the managing editor of McClure ’s Magazine. According to Ida Tarbell‚ Cather didn ’t like the magazine ’s " ’muckraking ’ and crusading methods" and eventually quit (Twentieth 258). According to her obituary in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph‚ one of Cather ’s friends once said‚ "She did her work‚ did
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and Gone‚ (1986) debuted while Fences was still running on Broadway. Joe Turner‚ which is regarded as more mystical than Wilson’s other works‚ centers upon the struggles of migrants in the post-Civil War North. The play takes place in 1911 in the Pittsburgh boardinghouse owned by Seth and Bertha Holly. Following seven years of illegal bondage‚ Herald Loomis‚ a black freedman‚ travels to Pennsylvania in search of the wife who fled north during his enslavement. The critical issue of white oppression
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