perfect warrior. Here stands baseball's perfect knight." That was what commissioner Ford Frick’s opinion was about Stan Musial but his opinion was far from the rest of the countries opinion. Musial was not your “ideal” star. He didn’t marry Marilyn Monroe or hit in 56 straight games like Joe DiMaggio. Musial didn’t resemble youth like Willie Mays or tape-measure home runs like Mickey Mantle. Stan the Man instead to be preferred to be known for his coiled, wacky batting stance, his service in the military
Stan Musial was one of the most talented baseball players to ever play the game. He was nicknamed ¨Stan The Man” because of the way he dominated the game. He played in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. He had a great baseball career, getting named the most valuable player three times, being in the 3,000 hit club and making it to the Hall of Fame. Stan played 21 years of Major League baseball. He played all 21 years with the St. Louis Cardinals. (Baseball Almanac) In “Historic Missourians,” “Musial wrote
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religion in the world. This vulgarity and intolerance is most notable in the character Cartman, who is extremely offensive in his thoughts, ideas, and actions. The show does, however, provide a balance to Cartman’s antics through his co-stars Stan and Kyle. Stan, and Kyle almost always stand up to Cartman and ridicule his intolerance, thereby creating a view of intolerance for intolerance. This intolerance for intolerance is the part of the show which redeems it, and should silence the critics. Unfortunately
Comic book readers worldwide are often divided into very distinct factions, Team Marvel or Team DC. Many debates have transpired that pitted the roster of superheroes for each company against one another. With very distinct characters, storylines, and visual presentation, both Marvel and DC Comics have found a way to coexist and come to dominate the comic book industry. Both the Marvel and DC comics are industry titans that have enjoyed unparalleled sales and success both domestically and internationally
Throughout history the human race has sought forms of entertainment. Whether it be in the form of a simple game, a grandiose tournament or a simple play production, we have always sought to entertain ourselves. In recent years as the film industry has continued to grow and evolve a new genre has emerged the mainstream popular culture. One big idea changed the course of a genre and an entire Industry. That would be comic book movies. The first moderately successful Marvel film was X-Men, this was
We are currently living in the Golden Age of Superheroes. They dominate our cultural life, and have become seemingly permanent fixtures in modern media. Since X-Men burst onto the screen fifteen years ago, we have witnessed the release of over forty superhero movies. By 2020 we will have seen the release of more than twenty-five more. Today, the much anticipated film Superman vs. Batman has come to theaters. Though a plethora of superhero movies have been released, it is to the dissatisfaction of
The critically acclaimed and commercially successful film, Spiderman 2, was hailed as a landmark film that illustrated the unfamiliar concept of a hero with an underlying humanity. Throughout the film, Peter Parker demonstrates a remarkable, organic character that makes him and his alter ego, Spiderman, accessible to a wide audience, allowing various age groups to easily identify and connect with him. This action-packed clip is no exception to the fundamental theme of the sequel to the 2002 film
was. During the 1940’s DC Comics was America’s top mark in the comic industry with the creation of original superheroes and plots, such as Superman. However Marvel was not so easily crushed, thanks to one man’s dream of creating his own characters. Stan Lee was born during the Depression, a time in which many were struggling to pull through. “My earliest recoll... ... middle of paper ... ...he most durable of men, but was the most caring and courageous. Like the plot of the X-Men; those with the
In today’s world there has been huge increases in violent acts being done. Kids are turning into to bullies, murders, thieves and more. This can be happening for many different reasons. One could say it is the way the children are raised, what they see going on in their neighborhoods, what they are watching on television, seeing online, or on their video games. Everyone reacts to things differently and the violent media kids see can have different effects on each of them. According to the article
Many people believe that Batman is the world’s greatest made up hero and detective, he only does things that will help the world. People loved the comics of Batman so much, they turned it into many serious of movies. Batman is a modern day hero, however back in the 7th century the poem Beowulf was the world’s greatest made up hero. Beowulf was originally an epic poem, then turned into a novel Beowulf a New Telling by Robert Nye. Beowulf was the first English Literature to be written, written around
The Walking Dead has a passionate fan base; season after season their viewership continues to grow by the millions. It's one of the biggest shows on TV and it is praised for having great character arcs and high-tech zombie makeup, which is why it's such a surprise that the Governor, Philip Blake, fell flat. This is what happened with the Governor, the fans were expecting a character that had the depth that was created in the Comics and Books. But the Governor was dissected into the cookie cutter
Intermission Riff The song that I chose to write about is Intermission Riff composed by Ray Wetzel and originally recorded by Stan Kenton and his Orchestra. I have chosen three of my favorites versions and performances of this song. The first one is an original recording by Stan Kenton and his orchestra performing live in London in 1972. Another version is specifically on of my favorites because it incorporates voices and lyrics to the song. The final version I will discuss is one played by a
Anti-Communism within Comic Books in the Mid-1950s Superhero comic books post World War Two began to rapidly decline because the enemy within all of the storylines were Nazis and with the Nazi defeat, there was no enemy left. This left a void to be filled with many superhero comic books in the late 1940s and early 1950s moving towards anti-communism and the defeating of the Soviet Union. However, they had marginal success in this period, since the youth of America understood the soviets had gained
Next on the list of heroes to analyze is Dr. Bruce Banner or, as he is called when in hero form, The Incredible Hulk. Dr. Banner is a man victimized by something living in his own psyche. He has a monster that his must mentally, and often times physically, control; otherwise it will escape and wreak havoc on anything or anyone nearby and pave a path of destruction in its wake. Whether one uses the comics, the TV show, or the movies, the back-story is always the same. Dr. Banner has a lab accident
It is surely undeniable that the Star Wars movies have had one of the biggest impacts of all time on sci-fi film and more importantly on pop culture. The six films combined with the countless remediations, such as toys, video games, and spin-off shows, have made the Star Wars franchise a holder of the Guinness World Records title “World’s most successful film merchandising franchise”. So what exactly made these movies so wildly successful and loved by all that they spawned this huge amount of remediations
Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Captain America, and Thor these are some of the biggest and most popular names in comic book history. Years of popularity have made these heroes some of the most well-known characters in pop culture. Ask any man woman or child to name a hero and chances are one of these heroes will be the one that comes to mind. These characters once defined what people thought superheroes were and for a long time, nearly every other superhero was just like them. For years comic books
The True Heros In The Outsiders Everyone should know what a hero is. Most people would think a man or a woman in a cool suit and had super strength. But that is not what we are talking about today we are talking about 3 people in one book called the outsiders. And the heroes in this don't have superpowers they are just brave. And they are Greasers Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally. Dally is a man that just doesn't care about what he does. Johnny is just a sixteen year old that just gets pushed around too
Since Sony received the rights to the Spider-Man franchise they have gone on to produce two different versions of the wall crawler, Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man. Spider-man directed by Sam Raimi was released in 2002 and fans instantly were glued to watching the hero on the big screen for the very first time. Critics loved it like The New York Daily quote “Spider-Man is an almost-perfect extension of the experience of reading comic-book adventures.”Due to its success Sony went on to produce
The nineteenth instalment in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War represents the ambitious culmination of this franchise to date. It’s a sprawling epic which finally unites nearly all of the MCU’s note-worthy characters and pays off lingering subplots, making it a pivotal moment that fans have long been anticipating. Happily, the movie is in safe hands with the Russo Brothers at the helm, working from a screenplay by Captain America trilogy scribes Christopher