Author: Elijah Heredia

coffee house #5

April 26, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 0 Comments

“7 time management tips for online students” by Kelsey Miller on April 28, 2020, is an article written about 7 steps you can take to better manage your time. Miller speaks on the importance of time management and how this is a key skill that all students need. Miller explains 7 steps that you should follow one plan ahead, two do not multitask, three set up a virtual office, four block out distractions, five reward yourself, six create a balance, and seven get a good night’s sleep. All these steps according to miller will create a healthy balance and manage your time well to succeed. Miller closes by saying you need to take charge of your education.

“It’s called languishing” is an article written by Adam Grant on April 19, 2021, about this feeling of lack of exciment about life that causes laziness, this feeling is called languishing. Grant explains what this feeling is and how it may be a big issue because many would not even know that they are languishing, grant also explains how the first step to finding a cure to this is to simply name the feeling and understand that you are languishing instead of being in denial.

The second & third annotation draft

April 12, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 0 Comments

Annotation 2

TouchEmAllBaseball. “Top 10 Unwritten Rules In Baseball.” YouTube, YouTube, 19 Feb. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmV90dgn1wQ&t=881s.

former professional baseball player and now a professional coach Matt Antonelli made a youtube video titled “top 10 unwritten rules in baseball” this video is actually made as a part two to another video of his with the same title two years ago, this “part two” video was made February 19, 2021. Matt’s whole video explains many unwritten rules in baseball today and gives a few examples of the rules being broken and his opinion on each rule. One of the rules he speaks on is a rule on not swinging the bat when your team is up and the pitch count is 3-0 meaning 3 balls and 0 strikes. Matt explains how he thinks the rule is “silly” because players should not have to try to get out to protect the pitcher’s “feelings”, matt actually says “ if you don’t want me to swing 3-0 don’t go 3-0 throw a strike”. Matt brings up a moment where a player name Fernando Tatis jr hit a grand slam on a 3-0 count and his team was already up by 7 going into the 8th inning and how it sparked controversy with a lot of baseball players and baseball fans because people felt like he was disrespectful. Another rule he spoke about was a rule on how a player is not allowed to pimp a home run which means to celebrate a home run by throwing or flipping a bat or showboating in any way. Matt first talks about how the younger generation is trying to end this unwritten rule because in baseball today players actually pimp home runs often, matt also talks about how back when he played and was growing up players would take their jog around the bases to avoid getting pitchers mad. Matt then explains how he never liked the rule because he felt like it was not fair that he was not allowed to get excited about his accomplishment but a pitcher could strike him out and get excited and showboat towards him. Matt goes on to say he likes players being able to celebrate their home runs and how he believes it is good for the sport. The third and final rule I will bring up from the video is a rule on how a player should bunt during a no-hitter. Matt brings up how he witnessed this happen in triple-A (minor league baseball) and how the player got screamed at by everyone saying you do not do that. He then goes on to say “ if a guy got a no-hitter in the ninth inning and it’s 7-0 I’m not gonna try to bunt” but then he explains if it is a close game he feels like you should be able to bunt because that is in effort to win whereas when you are down by a lot it is just to mess up the no-hitter which would be deemed disrespectful if you did not get a real hit by swinging, so basically his opinion was that it is not allowed when losing by a lot late in the game. Matt discussed other rules but these were the 3 he mainly spent time discussing. Matts whole video just explains rules and his opinion but the conclusion was basically that these rules are used to form a sort of gentleman agreement in baseball and create mutual respect between players.

In my opinion, matt made a great video explaining the unwritten rules of baseball and giving them explanations that showed me the importance of unwritten rules in baseball even though he does not really outright say why they are needed.

Matt Antonelli is a great source because he fits every category, he was a former pro player in the MLB, he is a coach in college and he makes videos on youtube every day about the sport. The purpose of his videos is just to give an inside look at the sport. He is credible because not only is he a player but he is a coach, he is an analyst and a fan of baseball.

The genre of this source is a youtube video and is a good source because it connects to my research question.

The key quote I got from the video was “unwritten rule is just kind of common courtesy in baseball” this quote was key to me because it allowed me to come up with the conclusion to his video being that these rules whether you like them or not are there for players to have common ground and have mutual respect/understanding of each other.

Annotation 3

Kilgore, Adam. “Baseball’s unwritten rules may be softening, but they haven’t gone away.” Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2020. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A633253629/ITOF?u=cuny_nytc&sid=ITOF&xid=a1ab2707.

This source is a news article from the Washington Post from August 22, 2020, throughout this article Kilgore mostly focuses on the Fernando Tatis jr dilemma where he swung on 3-0 and hit a grand slam while already being up 10-3, and some of the statements from multiple people on both sides of the argument. Kilgore hints at his main idea being that the unwritten rules or as he said “codes” are changing when he writes

The avalanche of opinion and discussion, which included a wave of 30- and 40-something managers and current players chiming in on social media, revealed the degree to which baseball’s codes are evolving and perhaps fraying

Kilgore continued to speak about statements made by coaches and players that backed up the idea that these rules were evolving into something new. Kilgore brings up tony la Russa who has been a manager for many years and is considered to be one of the people who strictly believes in these older unwritten rules, Kilgore writes about a lot of quotes from la Russa who mostly says how these rules are there to create sportsmanship between players and how tatis was wrong for swinging. Kilgore then goes on to speak about how he believes tatis was not wrong for swinging and explains a few reasons why. one reason he mentions is how MLB contracts warrant players getting certain stats to get more money Kilgore says

Tatis is a superstar making the league minimum whose salary in two years will be decided, through arbitration, by his performance. Taking a pitch rather than swinging away would have meant prioritizing Nicasio’s and Gibaut’s feelings over his own financial incentives.

This basically meant that tatis was not aiming to be unsportsmanlike or break any rule but simply just do his job and what he needed to do to earn a better contract. The next reason Kilgore gave was that big comebacks have become common in baseball, he mentions how just three days later the blue jays made a 7 run comeback on the Phillies which was exactly the lead Tatis’s padres had in their game prior to his grand slam. To conclude his article Kilgore writes about eric Hosmer another player and says how Hosmer wants to protect the older rules but not uphold them which goes back to his point on how the rules are evolving.

In my opinion, this was another great source because it helps better understand what the importance of unwritten rules is and it gave me a view from the older side of baseball who heavily believed in these rules.

Adam Kilgore is a writer for the Washington Post who covers national sports and has been a renowned writer for many years including winning a Pulitzer Prize with a team in 2007. His style of writing was one where the reader could have read the article in reverse and still came to the same conclusion. His purpose is just to create a message from his writing to readers that allow you to understand him and the topic of unwritten rules. I believe this source is credible because adam has been writing for years and is well acclaimed.

The genre of this source is a newspaper article. This genre is a good source because newspapers tend to have strong arguments and counters in their articles.

The key quote from this article is “The enforcement of baseball’s unwritten rules helps explain their staying power. Baseball is the only sport that has no unsportsmanlike conduct penalty or some analog thereof. In place of that, the sport polices itself through injurious practices”. The importance of this is it again answers my question on what is the importance of unwritten rules because it explains exactly what they are in the sport for without any bias towards either side.

first annotation a.b

April 5, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 1 Comment

Now in baseball, there are so many unwritten rules that most people when they hear the phrase think baseball or MLB. The source I have chosen to discuss this is a youtube video from a former MLB player on his opinion named Matt Antonelli. In this video titled “top 10 unwritten rules in baseball,” this actually part two to another video of his with the same title he gives an opinion from a former play and a new fan which is giving you an opinion from both sides of the argument. Throughout the video, he touches on many of baseball’s unwritten rules, and the first I would like to discuss is the rule on not swing when the pitch count is 3-0 meaning 3 balls and 0 strikes. Matt brings up a moment where a player name Fernando Tatis jr hit a grand slam on a 3-0 count and how it sparked controversy with a lot of baseball players and baseball fans. Now, this also ties in with another rule about not running up the score in baseball because the score prior to this was 10-3 with Tatis team the padres being in the lead, Matt goes on to say how the rule is “silly” because it is not Fernando’s fault the pitcher let the bases get loaded nor was it his fault that the pitcher threw a fastball down the middle of the plate, matt also says that it is an MLB players job to hit the ball and how it is an important goal for a player to hit a home run whenever they can. Matt then explains how players, analysts, and even the coach of the padres were upset about the grand slam but they should not be. I agree with Matt on this because you can not be mad at a player for scoring in this situation because regardless if he hit the ball or got walked a run would have come in and raised the score and the batter is not supposed to just stand there and let you strike him out just because his team is winning. Another rule he speaks about is a rule about not bunting during a no-hitter. A no-hitter is when a pitcher or pitchers have not given up a hit all game, now matt does not agree or disagree with this rule instead he speaks about it being situational saying “if a guy has a no-hitter and your down 7 you can’t bunt, but if you are a regular bunter and the scores within 1-4 runs then you can”. Matt explains how this is the only time it should be accepted but most players still frown upon it no matter what the score is. I agree with matt because earlier in the video he discussed another rule about bunting when up or down by a lot and he spoke about how a player should just not give up which is why I agree because 1-4 runs can easily be scored in a game at any moment and this has happened on several occasions during a baseball game, teams have come back from higher deficits so it is unfair to get mad at someone for not giving up and trying whatever tactic to win or get on base but if the lead is much higher than 4 it is disrespectful to try and mess up someone’s no-hitter with a bunt because it is not a respectable way to get a hit and you should just swing. The final rule that he brought up that I wanna discuss is the rule on not “pimping” a home run. pimping a home run is when a player flips their bat or showboats after hitting a home run. Matt speaks about how doing this can lead to retaliation from players causing a fight or getting hit by a pitch next at-bat or next game all because it is deemed to be disrespectful. Matt also explains how he does not like the rule because he feels like a player should be able to show excitement for his home run because again this is a goal for players and that it is not fair that a pitcher can showboat after striking someone out. I agree with Matt here because in recent years this so-called pimping has brought back excitement and personality to baseball and it has become popular with many younger fans and players.

TouchEmAllBaseball. “Top 10 Unwritten Rules In Baseball.” YouTube, YouTube, 19 Feb. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmV90dgn1wQ&t=881s.

coffee house 4

March 22, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 1 Comment

impact of video games on youth
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coffee house 3

March 15, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 1 Comment

Research papers are often the hardest thing for me to do as a writer because I just can never fully understand how to do them it is not as simple as reading a book or articles and writing about them. The first thing I learned was in the wiki article where they showed how research papers vary depending on what topic you are researching, there are different steps or points you have to discuss. The second thing I learned in the same article is there is qualitative research and quantitive research which are two methods used for research papers one is about collecting information in form of words by others whereas the other is about collecting numerical information finally the last thing I learned was there should not be generalization in a research paper because it is meant to narrow down your focus on a topic. Now in the second article by Alexandria Lockett, a lot of topics came up mostly being about the difficulty of writing a research paper. The first thing I learned was that it is very common for writers today to not understand how to connect the articles for a research paper to an argument which is one of my biggest struggles. The second thing I learned is the system set in place for plagiarism is sort of outdated due to the way research is done today through the internet. The final thing i learned was that most research paper writers are forced to come up with a paper that is hard to make original because there is a abundance of articles written on the same exact topics across the internet which is why the author believes that research papers should have a different approach taken to complete them, so that the student and the teachers cand better understand them.

intellectual home draft

March 3, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 1 Comment

Elijah Heredia

March 1, 2021

English composition 1

Intellectual home

Design thinking

What is my intellectual? Well first let me explain what an intellectual home is, an intellectual home is the people, places, and/or process you need to help you do your best academic work. This question is hard for me to answer because I do not have a straight answer, my intellectual home is a very contextual process for me. My intellectual home depends on a lot of things how I am feeling, what assignment I am doing, the class, who is around me. If I am not feeling in a good mood I won’t be able to get any work done because too many thoughts may be in my head. If the assignment is something intriguing to me or not matters because if I feel like the assignment is not interesting I won’t try as much whereas on an assignment that catches my mind more I give full effort. The class and or professor can also change how I get my best academic work done because if they do not have me engaged or if they treat me a certain way I will want to do their work more and ask for their help more. And finally whoever is around me can impact me too because if I am around unmotivated people or people who make lose focus or motivation I tend to get distracted or if I am around friends sometimes I will goof off too much, but sometimes working with others or friends really helps me it just depends on if they are trying to get their work done too. For me, my intellectual home probably can just be summed up to where I feel most comfortable and motivated.

One reading that has helped me better understand my intellectual home is Salvatore Scibona’s “where I learned to read” written in the new yorker on June 13, 2011. Salvatore explains his story of growing up not wanting to be in his hometown, how he did not enjoy school especially when they gave him something to read. Salvatore goes onto explain how he did like reading even tho he fully did not understand how to read, but only when he chose the reading himself you see this when he says “As long as nobody had assigned the book, I could stick with it.” in line 11 of paragraph 3. Later on in his essay, Salvatore chose to go to saint john’s college to continue his next level of education all because he loved how the system of the school was set up for him to read more interesting books. You can see this in the fourth paragraph in lines 8-10 “Like, you would read book books. The Great Books, so-called, though I had never heard of most of them.” this shows you how he was fascinated by the idea of just reading books even if he did not understand them. Eventually, Salvatore explains how all he did in college was read and how much he loved it, loved his friends and teachers who would just read with him and discuss the readings. Throughout his story, you see him from someone who could not read, was not happy with the school, and was uncomfortable where he was at, to being someone who loved education, someone who could read at a great rate, and most importantly he was happy and comfortable where he was at, This was his intellectual home.

Salvatore’s intellectual home is a lot like mine, but we have some differences. Salvatore’s intellectual home is a place where he can read and be surrounded by people who love reading just as much as him because he feels comfortable in this place. For me, I too have an intellectual home that involves comfortability, but it does not involve reading specifically my home is more contextual a lot of things can impact how much work I get done and how comfortable I am. For me, my best work was done in my digital media classes because it felt open and free to make mistakes or ask questions it was fun for me just to start what was called a “design thinking process” in my highschool’s digital media classes. This process was all about problem-solving and going step by step. Another thing that made me love these classes was being able to do what I wanted for an assignment all though we had a guideline or overall subject to cover I was allowed to approach that in any way I wanted and really be creative in my photoshop, digital animation, or just creating something physically like when we created cars out of clay or made a 3d shoe model on adobe or when we made a skateboard and a nightlight. I was just always excited to learn in these classes I never cared for a grade I just wanted to do something new and fun every day.

Elijah Heredia coffee house #2

February 22, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 1 Comment

The biggest learning experience I have had recently was just to simply try at things and not be afraid to lose All though it seems very simple it has a deeper meaning, see when I was younger as soon as things got hard I would just give up or stick to doing things the easier way. When I felt school work was too hard I would just give up and not do an assignment or goof off in class because I did not understand the work so I did not care for it. This issue was also apparent in sports for me if the people I played with were better I would just not try even in video games I would often play on the lowest difficulty which would cause me to be frustrated when playing a friend or family member because I would lose due to them playing the game on a much higher difficulty making them better. It was not till my senior year of high school where ironically a video game I played when avoiding school work during the quarantine taught me this lesson. The game was NBA 2k20 and I always hated how much better my friends were than me till my family member who also was better told me I could never get better if I only play on rookie difficulty. So I started playing every day on the highest difficulty and started getting better and better. See I believe that subconsciously I chose to lose without trying because I was always scared to lose when trying because I did not want to feel like a loser. Even as a kid in school or most of high school I did not try because I did not want to feel dumb which caused me to always have lower grades than everyone else. After senior year finished I spent all summer trying more at whatever I did finally came my first semester of college except I had to take a math start class so I spent what should have been my first semester of college relearning work from high school because I did not try in math. I participated in every class and did not care if I got a question wrong and looked “stupid “ to others because I knew I needed to learn math which was a subject I felt I lacked in a lot and ironically I ended up knowing and understanding most of the work. I ended up passing with the highest grade and I felt like if I would have had just tried and not have been afraid to fail in high school I probably would have had the same outcome. So now entering my first official semester I know I should try and not have any fear to fail or look “stupid “ or “lose” because that is the only way to improve in school, sports, games, pretty much in life

Salvatore scibona intellectual home

February 9, 2021 / Elijah Heredia / 2 Comments

Salvatore Scibona is the author of a essay called “where I learned to read” which was posted on the new yorker june 13th, 2011. To start out the essay he goes into how he hated school and how he did not want be where he was at. you see this in the first sentence where he says “I did my best to flunk out of high school.” from the first sentence you can already see he was unhappy. Another instance where you see this state of mind he was in was when he said “It was a prudent first career in that I wanted with certainty only one thing, to get out of Ohio,”. This was the beginning of him descbing what would go on to be his intellectual home later on in the essay. The first time you get a hint of what his intellectual home is , was when he spoke about “back yard rehab “ which was when he read any book he could alone in a old shed alone, and how he liked reading when he was not forced to. Soon after this he had found out about st. john’s college,a college that did not force him to read for assignment or do anything he did not enjoy in his time in high school. This is when you start find out about his intellectual home. Salvatore starts speaking on his time in college and how everything and everyone around him made him feel immersed and happy because he could just read. This was his intellectual home a place where he felt comfortable and like himself, a place that did not force him to do anything he did not want to do , a place where everyone around him was likeminded , this is where he did his best academic work.