I chose to do my art discovery paper on the Nittany Lion Shrine. This well known and highly respected piece of artwork was created by Heinz Warneke. The completion of the shrine was in October of 1942 after a few months of chiseling and carving the 13-ton block of limestone into the masterpiece its known as today. It’s located in State College, PA but more specifically University Park. The shrine was created to represent the Pennsylvania State University mascot, and to also commemorate the senior
with an adequate education. Penn State and Virginia Tech will both provide me with that education, which is why I narrowed my options down to those two. I have always favored Penn State because it runs in my blood, but now my loyalty to the nittany lions has been weakened by the hokies of Virginia Tech. Penn State is probably at the top of my list when I take into account the campus, the quality of education, and my family. But the tuition factor is what makes Penn State a dream school for me
Out of all the recent moments that have occurred in my life there is one that sticks out the most to me. This moment would be when my football coach took me to the Penn State versus Ohio State football game last year. The feeling of being able to see a big college football game was incredible. One day after high school football practice my coach had come up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a football game with him. Of course, I said yes, but it did not cross my mind of what game I was going
movie Happy Valley, I think there were many factors that caused the Jerry Sandusky scandal to go unpunished and unnoticed when the whole community knew. I think the obvious and most prevalent reasons we saw was the success of the program, the Nittany Lion Pride, and as well as the total stigma around Joe Paterno. To Happy Valley, football was life, the players and the coaches, as well as the community lived and died by the wins and losses of the program. Hearing the testimony of a young male who
Penn State Needs to End Paterno’s Time in Power Joe Paterno has been at the helm of Penn State football since 1966. In the world of intercollegiate sports it’s hard to find a coach that has a tenure with the same institution for more than ten years. In the past 37 seasons, Coach Paterno has won an astonishing 336 games, breaking Paul “Bear” Bryant’s record of 323 set at the University of Alabama. Besides obtaining the most wins in NCAA Division 1-A football, Paterno has two national championships
It was the winter of 1972 and Joe Pa and his Nittany Lions were in New Orleans, getting ready for the Sugar Bowl. Joe asked his brother George to come for a walk with him one night while in New Orleans. Joe told George that a man named Billy Sullivan, from the New England patriots, had offered him a long-term
The purpose of this memo is to provide insight into the July 2012 “Report of the Special Investigative Counsel regarding the actions of the Pennsylvania State University related to the Child Sexual Abuse Committed by Gerald A. Sandusky” which is referred to as the “Freeh Report.” In this memo I will focus on the significant breakdowns in leadership at Penn State and the failure of the board to exercise oversight which created an environment where ethical negligence and misconduct occurred. The
The Importance of Confidence Most of life's situations are learning experiences. People can learn what activities are right or wrong for them by experiences these emotions in different situations. These learning experiences can take place at home, school, the workplace, or anywhere else. The three major experiences that have given me confidence in my ability to learn have all taken place at Penn State University. One experience that, in the end, gave me confidence was my first semester of
According to the Pennsylvania law during the time of the investigation, state employees who were given information about child abuse were required to report to their immediate supervisors (Ganim, 2012). McQueary was responsible for reporting the case of Sandusky showering with a minor in 2002 to Paterno. Paterno later reported the incident to his supervisor Curley, who then reported the incident to Schultz. Schultz was Curley's supervisor, and he should have taken the initiative to report the allegations
In 2011, a Penn State scandal was released to the public and baffled sports fans. In Frank Deford’s “Joe Paterno’s Legacy: Protect Players At All costs,”Deford questions Joe Paterno’s legacy because JoePa did not report Jerry Sandusky’s pedophilia to authorities. In Katha Pollitt’s “Penn State’s Patriarchal Pastimes,” she writes about the unfairness in athlete’s education and how far coaches will go to keep their players playing on the football field. Katha Pollitt and Frank Deford have completely
crew went ashore on the island of Aiaia hoping to find food and water. Odysseus sent twenty three men to explore the island but only one returned. As the men walked from the beach they could hear sweet singing from Circe’s home in a forest glen. Wild lions and wolves (drugged by Circe) came, wagging their tails, to greet the strangers. They were charmed by her beauty and drank the potions she offered as refreshment. As Circe’s vile drugs took effect, the once valiant men began to change shape and were
and maples making up most of the rest. We move as a group in order from tallest, dad, to smallest, Tim and me. In the middle is Charlotte taking on the role of Big Sis telling her brothers behind her where to step and warning of bears and mountain lions. It takes us two hours to cover the first mile. A good pace for small feet. We stop at a trial junction and sit on a group of large boulders. We eat lunch on what we would thereafter call the “Lunch Rocks”. As soon as our stomachs are filled we
opera. At the time, the Arena was built outside of the city walls. More than 30,000 spectators would travel to Verona to watch the ludii, or shows and games, in the Arena. The most popular of the ludii were the gladiator fights, often times against lions. Originally, the faûze was white and pink limestone from Valpolicella. During the Middles Ages, the theater lost its functionality, and people began to use it as a quarry for other buildings. It was not until the Renaissance that people began to intervene
particular afternoon, the boy left Santiago, who fell asleep. Lions immediately filled his dreams. As a boy he had sailed to Africa and had seen lions on the beaches. Now, as an old man, he constantly dreamed of the great and noble beasts. He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of Great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach ... He loved them as he loved the boy. Before
are hollow, giving extra insulation against the bitter arctic cold. It also has an extra layer of insulating fat under its skin and the hairs on the polar bear are color less, when the sun hits them they look white. Polar bears are twice as big as lions or tigers, a typical adult male weighs half a ton and is five feet high at the shoulder. His paws are a fool wide. When he stands up straight, he can look an elephant in the eye.Explain- My species was endangered bad back in 1965 with no more than
exception—the lion. Lions have captured the attention of many because of their exciting sociality. Lions are group hunters; other cats are solitary hunters. Lions live in groups; other cats live alone. In their article “The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion”, Quammen, David, and Michael Nichols explain that these cats are “the only feline that’s truly social” (60). One common movie in today’s society, “The Lion King”, portrays the lion as the “King of the Jungle.” Many humans view lions as vicious
Zebra is a mammal that belongs to the horse family. There are three main species of zebras; Mountain, Plains (Common Zebra) and Grevy’s. A zebra is generally found to live in East and South Africa, A zebra eats plants. Their natural predators are lions, hyenas and other animals. The Grevy’s zebra is the only species that exhibits unique territorial behavior. Courtship behavior is demonstrated when the male zebra displays dominance over the female. In addition, zebras exhibit unique social behavior
“Lions and tigers, oh my!” Some know animals such as these to be scary; other people understand these animals to be a beautiful creation of Earth. Whether you are afraid of mighty beasts or simply in awe of them, it astonishes many people when they realize how few of them are still alive. Rhinoceroses, elephants, leopards, tigers, African lions, and many more creatures are all considered an endangered species, and we are the reason they are deemed that way. The one element all of those animals have
All predators have different skills that help them daily. Which of those skills makes them a predator? Most animals have some kind of skill that they adapted because they had another skill that was weak. An example would be a white tiger. They are large animals so to help them hide on the Tundra, where they live, their coats adapted to being white instead of orange. Eagles have those kinds of adaptations too. One of them is their eyesight which allows them to spot prey from the air up to two miles
Lions are the only true sociable cat and have been known to live in prides consisting of up to 40 members. Within a pride are related lioness (females), offspring, and a few lions (males). The social behaviors within a pride differ by sex as lions are responsible for mating with lioness and protecting the pride’s territory while females are responsible for rearing and hunting in addition to the males’ job – protecting and defending. Unlike many other female animals, lioness display egalitarianism