How I Learned To Pitch

Taylor Ramsden
English p. 1
10-17-07

1. Bryan Price got the author to stop over thinking by telling him to have a quiet mind
2. Bryan wanted to teach the author a change up first because it was the first step that separated the regular throwers from the pitchers.
3. To throw a change up you but your fingers in an “OK” sign around then ball. Then when you throw the ball, you throw it just as hard as you would throw a fastball.
4. Because of the finger placement on the ball it makes the ball come out of you’re had slower then it would for a fastball. That small speed difference makes the batter think the ball is coming in faster than it really is, making him swing to early.
5. A good pitching coach is someone that can look at a pitcher and see the small little mistakes and tweaks that the pitcher could change and also make the pitcher his own self- coach by making him know what he needs to do to be constant.

Thoughtful Questions

1. I think what you can learn in school from how Bryan Price taught pitching is that you should be able to teach your self in a way that if you get something wrong or didn’t study for a test enough, you should know that you have to go back and read over the topic or section that you got wrong or need to know more about. Therefore making yourself kind of like a self-coach,
2. A change up is equal to whatever each one person thinks. Maybe for someone it would be a poem. After writing a bunch of big essays and papers, you right a poem or something you enjoy to get your mind off big assignments; so then you can focus on the next one.
3. What I think the author means by that is if a pitcher is really focused and doing really good, he needs to keep a “quiet mind” so he doesn’t break down and start making mistakes.

Is dance more important than math?

Is dance more important than math?


I think that dance in some cases is more important than math. It all depends on the person. Like in the movie some people had to move around to think and couldn’t sit still, for that person dance would be more important than math and it would more enjoying for them because they aren’t forced to move around. But on the other hand if someone didn’t have to move around to think and enjoyed sitting down and learning math for them math would be more important than dance. So I think that people should take not just dance but some subject that is creative and allows them to think creatively, unlike math that you have to think how everyone else thinks in order to get the right answer.

50 years from now

The U.S. in 50 years is going to be very different. It is going to be completely different than it is now. If you look back on how much the U.S. has changed in the past 50 years, computers have been invented and made to do many tasks. Just think of what they are going to be able to do in 50 years, they could do anything. Another example is cars. Cars have come a long way from when they first were invented with an engine in them. Now there are cars that are going 200 mph and cost thousands and thousands of dollars. In 50 years the cars could be going 500 mph and you can fly in them and hold 100 people in comfort. If we ran out of oil, we would probably by then found something that could replace oil.

Anthem & Farenheit 451 essay quiz

In Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem there are some similarities and differences. The plot of both stories are based in the future, but Ray Bradbury’s and Ayn Rand’s idea of the future in their books are very different. In Fahrenheit 451, all the people are a lot less social, and in Anthem the people are social and interact like normal people do today. In Fahrenheit 451 people have “real names” and are themselves. In Anthem the people have weird names with numbers and everyone doesn’t call themselves “I,” they say always say “we.” Both books have a government that doesn’t want the people to think for themselves so they take away the things that would let everyone to think freely.

I think the endings of Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem are have some similarities. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag overcomes the restrictions of the government and was running away from the government because he killed Beatty. In Anthem, Equality is running from The Council of World Scholars because he escaped from jail. So he goes out to the Uncharted Forest where no one really goes. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets a group of old men and he stayed with them. Equality did a similar thing; he met the Golden One in the forest. After Montag meets up with the group he realizes all the things he has been doing and changes his ways. Equality does the same and he starts to say “I” instead of just “we.”