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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.** POST PARAGRAPHS HERE George (Babe) Herman Ruth Jr. was born February 6, 1895 and died August 16, 1948. He is most known as a baseball player who played Major League Baseball from 1914-1935. Babe today is argued to be the best baseball player who ever played the game. "Known the world over, even in foreign lands where baseball is never played, as the Babe, he was the boy who rose from the obscurity of a charitable institution in Baltimore to a position as the leading figure in professional baseball (Schumach)." Some of Babe’s achievements include “7 World Series championships and two time all-star” (Baseball Hall of Fame). He changed the game of baseball and glorified the Yankees, the team he played for. "For more than any other man, Babe Ruth transcended sports, moved far beyond the artificial limits of baselines and outfield fences and sports pages"(ESPN.com). Babe was significant in the 1920’s because back then everyone loved baseball so in turn everyone thought a good baseball player is like a celebrity, much like today.
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"The house that Ruth Built" is referring to Yankee stadium and how good the Yankees were with Babe. Babe came to the Yankees in 1920 but it was not until “1923 that the House That Ruth Built came to be, meaning the great Yankee Stadium with is seating capacity of more than 70,000”(New York Times). Also with Babe Yankee stadiums “right-field bleachers became known as Ruthville (Baseball Hall Of Fame).” The stadium was a symbol of the Yankees success and dominance. Fans of baseball knew about Yankee stadium because of there dominance over the league with Babe leading the way. “Yankee Stadium was dubbed the House that Ruth Built, but with its short right field porch, a more appropriate title might be the House Built for Ruth”(sabr). Babe’s popularity made the Yankees more mythical with Yankee stadium being the stage for the show.

__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">POST PARAGRAPHS HERE Babe Ruth today is still one of the most recognizable athletes in the world of sports. In the baseball Hall of Fame out of all the players to ever play the sport Babe has "One of only two exhibits in the Museum honoring a single player. [The Babe Ruth Room] looks at the game's most recognizable star"(National Baseball Hall of Fame and museum). So, back in the 1920's Babe was a national celebrity and “everyone knew his name and face”(ESPN.com). In the 1920’s baseball was more popular then it is today and almost everyone enjoyed it. Its popularity was like all of college sports, the National Football League and any other major sport mixed into one league. The national baseball hall of fame also called Babe "baseball's first great slugger and the most celebrated athlete of his time"(National Baseball Hall of Fame). ESPN has Babe as the second greatest athlete ever behind Michael Jordan today. Ruth’s legacy is almost unmatched by another athlete “With Ruth it's often difficult to separate truth from legend”(sabr). He was so good that he became almost unreal. Being better then any other player in his day.

The change endured or stimulated by Babe was that he took on the face of baseball and is still today know as one of its biggest stars. Boys growing up no longer wanted to be a player in the league but instead they wanted to become Babe. The sports aspect of society was influenced the most. People now especially wanted the closest baseball game just to see Babe. One of Babe’s teammates once said "Sometimes I still can't believe what I saw…[Ruth] only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over… I saw a man transformed into something pretty close to a god" (outfielder Harry Hooper/ESPN.com). Ruth changed all of society slightly by tremendously impacting one of Americas greatest pass times.

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources. <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">POST PARAGRAPHS HERE The media and Americas love for baseball achieved Babe Ruth’s popularity. “Everyone loved Baseball it was Americas favorite pass time”(NY Times). With out the media and the love for baseball no one would have cared about Babe or the Yankees. The driving forces behind the society's reaction was how good Babe was and society enjoys seeing a star shin above the rest. A teammate of Babe said "Sometimes I still can't believe what I saw…[Ruth] only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over… I saw a man transformed into something pretty close to a god" (outfielder Harry Hooper/ESPN.com). Baseball was already very popular Babe was just a player who stuck out among the rest because he was better. “Babe was a hell of a player and a hero of his time”(NY Times).

I put Babe on the continuum right in the middle between enentmaking hero and eventful hero. I would put him in the middle of both because in order to be an event making hero you must create a fork in the road and create a new path for people to follow society, which Babe did. He set records and did better then anyone during his time and made a path for future players to fallow and be like Babe. Babe also fits under eventful hero because someone else created the fork in the road and the path for this person to go down. This individual leads people down a path that has already been created before them. This person is a leader because society was ready for a change and ready for a new leader. Baseball was already around and popular and Babe was drafted into the Yankees giving him the chance to shine. The reason he fits both is because the path was there for him but only he could achieve greatness for himself.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">Great Man Continuum <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Great ---Event Making --<span style="background-color: #ff80e6; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-BABE- -Eventful -Social <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Men --Hero --<span style="background-color: #ff80e6; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-RUTH- --Hero ---Determinism

<span style="background-color: #7dff00; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px;">POST WORKS CITED HERE

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Schwartz, Larry. "ESPN.com: Lovable Ruth Was Everyone's Babe." //ESPN: The Worldwide Leader In Sports//. ESPN. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://espn.go.com>.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Babe Ruth | SABR." //Society for American Baseball Research | SABR//. SABR. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://sabr.org>.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Ruth, Babe | Baseball Hall of Fame." //Baseball Hall of Fame |//. Baseball Hall of Fame. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://baseballhall.org>.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Schumach, Murray. "Babe Ruth, Baseball's Great Star and Idol of Children, Had a Career Both Dramatic and Bizarre." //The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia//. The New York Times, 17 Aug. 1948. Web. 15 Feb. 2012.<http://www.nytimes.com>.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Babe Ruth Biography - Life, Children, Wife, School, Young, Book, Information, Born, Contract, Time." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://www.notablebiographies.com>.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cohen, Charles. "In Baltimore, a House That Ruth Bought (and May Save) - New York Times." //The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia//. The New York Times, 20 May 2004. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com>.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kaplan, Jim. "VIEWS OF SPORT; 40 Years Later, Long Lives the Babe - New York Times." //The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia//. The New York Times, 14 Aug. 1988. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com>.

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">power paragraph f ormat with each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement,<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;"> internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum; <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;"> Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.