Homeworks

HOMEWORK #1 TITLE: FUGEES SOCCER TEAM
A few years ago, I read a series of articles in The New York Times written by Warren St. John, regarding a Soccer Program in Clarkston, GA, a small town 20 minutes from Atlanta. I contacted Coach Luma Mufleh and offered to help her players find Soccer Scholarships. Since that initial contact, I helped three ofplayers, knowing that they had little or no money, living in Clarkston, a refugee settlement.
My big moment came when I received a phone call from Coach Luma asking me if I would like to come down and meet the players, especially those in 10th, 11th and 12th grade so that I could work with them and help them find college opportunities through Soccer. She said I would come during their "Boot Camp"which I thought was like a Soccer Camp but I was wrong. I arrived to find that "Boot Camp" meant a six-week academic program or Literacy Boot Camp, where approximately seventy-five Fugees would travel each day by bicycle or walk to Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, about five miles. I arrived at Agnes Scott College to find a beautiful campus and the Fugues and their teachers hard at work. They werelearning English, Math and SAT Prep with not a Soccer Ball to be seen.
I went to a teachers' meeting early Monday morning, July 13th, 2009 listened and took a few notes. I discovered that try-outs were held a few months earlier and that in order to be selected to the team, each player made a promise to attend "Boot Camp" at Agnes Scott College, for six weeks. If a player was absent three timesor received five red dots, which I assumed were demerits, they were cut from the team. This was serious business. The faculty consisted of teachers from Agnes Scott College, local teachers and recent college graduates from Vista (like the Peace Corps but in America)
I shadowed a VISTA Volunteer named Allison, a Duke University Graduate and Scholarship Recipient for Fencing. The first class wasintermediate English where I met Solomon from Liberia, Mohamed from Iraq, Samuel from Sudan, Eric from Burundi, Abeneezer from Ethiopia, Mafoday from Gambia and Kalabe from Ethiopia. I later found out that Kalabe would be one of the three 12th graders that I would be working with one-on-one.

HOMEWORK #2 TITLE: MLB
MAJOR LEAGUEBASEBALL
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of professional baseball in the world, consisting of teams that play in the American League and the National League. The two leagues merged in 2000 into a single MLB organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball, after 100 years as separate legal entities.
MLB constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of the UnitedStates and Canada. It is composed of 30 teams — 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. With the International Baseball Federation, MLB also manages the World Baseball Classic. With an average attendance of 30,352 people per game, Major League Baseball has the fifth highest average attendance of any sports league behind the NFL, Bundesliga, AFL, and Premier League.
MLB is governed by the Major LeagueBaseball Constitution that has undergone several incarnations since 1875 with the most recent revisions being made in 2005. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball (currently Bud Selig), Major League Baseball hires and maintains the sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts.
Major League Baseball maintains a unique, controlling relationshipover the sport, including most aspects of minor league baseball. This is due in large part to a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Federal Baseball Club v. National League, which held that baseball is not interstate commerce and therefore not subject to federal antitrust law. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years.
Although there were several challenges to Major League...