Like many, but not all, classes at Carolina JOMC 050 requires students to do work. This page is dedicated to a research project that we completed, called a "treasure hunt." Using the internet and the information sources available through it, each student compiled information on a subject of his/her choosing and then composed a mini-essay on a popular internet topic. Being the baseball fan that I am, I elected to do my research on...

The History of the New York Mets

My mini-essay will most likely appeal to a broader audience - as it deals with...

PORN
...and the internet

Alright calm down now! I know you're excited, so here's the goods.

 

Jason R. Hernández
Lab #404 2:00 PM – 3:50 PM Fri.

Title: The History of the New York Mets

 

Section 1:

 

I have been a life-long baseball fan and an even bigger New York Mets fan. I’ve followed the team for as long as I can remember but I’ve failed to learn the history of the club. The word Mets is short for the word Metropolitans and was decided on as the name of the club when it joined the National League in 1962. The team’s worst season in history was its inaugural season in 1962, but seven years later the team won its first of two World Series in 1969. The second championship came for the team in 1986. In the past few years critics have labeled the team as being older and a disappointment considering the large payroll and lackluster performance. Through my research I will discover what contribution Mets players have made to baseball and I will cover the successes and triumphs of the organization since its conception. My intended audience will be sports fans in general; most specifically baseball fans, and tailored to a national sports magazine audience.

Section 1b:

 

UNC Library catalog:
New York AND Mets AND History
Sports AND Baseball AND New York

Academic Universe Lexis-Nexis:
Mets AND History
Mets AND Anniversary

MetaCrawler
Mets AND Baseball AND History
Baseball AND Mets

 

Section 2:

 

Print Sources

Golenbock. Peter. Amazin’: The Miraculous History of New York's Most Beloved
Baseball Team. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002 Call Number: GV875.N45 G64 2002.

Honig, Donald. 1986. The New York Mets: The First Quarter Century. New York:
Crown, 1986 Call Number: GV875.N45 H66 1986.

Non-Print Source

Banker, Stephen. Black Diamonds: An Oral History of Negro Baseball. Visual Education
Corporation, 1978. Cassette. Call Number: 65-CA676

 

Section 3:

 

Caldera, Pete. (2002, August 16). Amazin', Mess; From the Miracle to the Misery, Shea
Has Seen Its Ups and Downs. The Record (Bergen County, NJ), [online], 34 paragraphs. Available: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002, September 10].

Harper, John. (2002, April 1). Good Ol' Days for N.Y. Baseball Fifty Years Later,
City Teams Build an Other Golden Era for America's Game. Daily News (New York), [online], 41 paragraphs. Available: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002, September 10].

Hermoso, Rafael. (2002, September 5). The Mets are Beginning A Streak of Intrigue. The
New York Times, [online], 20 paragraphs. Available. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002 September 12].

Lukas, Paul. (2002, May 7). Colorful Histories. The Village Voice, [online], 4 paragraphs.
Available. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002, September 13].

Lupica, Mike. (2002, April 1). Mets Can’t Escape Yanks’ Shadow. Daily News (New
York), [online], 16 paragraphs. Available: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002, September 13].

Sherman, Joel. (2002, August 18). Worst Team Money Can Buy: Part II. The New York
Post [online], 16 paragraphs. Available: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002, September 10].

Section 4:

Title: New York Mets History
Web Address: http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nym/history/nym_history_timeline.jsp
Brief Description: A straightforward history of the team from the club’s official website. The site includes an informative timeline, all-time roster, hall of fame, and a roster of the All-Amazin’ team: an all-star roster of the team’s best players since its inaugural year.
Source: The New York Mets

Title: New York Mets
Web Address: http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/baseball/mlb/teams/NYM/history.htm
Brief Description: A quick reference stat sheet of what the Mets have accomplished in their forty years. The sheet contains the number of championships and a basic history through a record of managers, presidents, and season records.
Source: CBS Sportsline

Title: The New York Mets Encyclopedia
Web Address: http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/excerpts/mets_encyclopedia.stm
Brief Description: This is a detailed biography of the team sorted by eras of the team’s history; however, it is an excerpt of a book by the above title.
Source: Idea Logical Company through baseballlibrary.com

Title: Ultimate Mets Database
Web Address: http://ultimatemets.com/
Brief Description: This database has practically every piece of statistical information about the club one can think of, including a record of every game from 1962 to 2001. The site also has record of transactions, all-stars, uniforms, broadcasters and more.
Source: ultimatemets.com

Title: Major League Baseball
Web Address: http://www.mlb.com
Brief Description: Information on all baseball teams current and historical. This is the official site of Major League Baseball. This site also provides a link to the official New York Mets website.
Source: Major League Baseball

 

Section 5:

The Growth of the Internet and Pornography: Why the Positive Correlation?

As the internet grows larger by the day, it also seems pornography and the number of easily accessible websites that contain pornography grow with it. Sex sells. It always has and always will, and web entrepreneurs know it. Americans spend between $1 billion and $2 billion a year on Internet pornography services (2), and the pornography business as a whole takes in about $10 billion to $14 billion a year – more than the NFL, MLB, and NBA combined. In January of this year alone, 27.5 million Americans ventured to sites that contained pornographic material and of those, 28 percent were women (3).

The growth of pornography on the Internet isn’t just in the United States however. According to the New Straits Times of Malaysia, the Asian population is logging on to pornographic sites more than ever before. Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan all report an increase of between 30 and 40 percent in the number of hits on pornographic websites (1).

In 2001, the number of pornographic websites reached the 300,000 mark and estimates show that 3,000 new sites pop up each week (3). Pornography on paper faces heavy censorship from the federal government, but with no worldwide or federal gatekeeper on the Internet to regulate pornography it has found its home in cyberspace.
With some services charging $2.99 a minute for live video of nude girls, a website, and the performer, can make tons of money. One woman reported making $2,000 a night while doing online performances – and that’s counting the share the owner of the site takes for his or herself (2).

The Internet, and ways to make money on it, are constantly growing. As long as men and women want sex, and there’s no one to regulate the industry, the supply will always meet the demand.

 

NOTES:

(1) Kushairi, Ahmad. (2002, May 13). Internet Population and the Porn Factor. New Straits Times (Malaysia), [online], 8 paragraphs. Available. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002 September 14].

(2) Lomartire, Paul. (2002, August 14). It's a Dirty Business. (And You'd be Surprised Who's in it). Cox News Service, [online], 90 paragraphs. Available. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002 September 14].

(3) White, Amy. (2002, June 20). Surfing for Barbie Can Send You Riding an X-Rated Wave. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, [online], 13 paragraphs. Available. LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe [2002, September 14].

WEB SITES:

Title: Reasons Why Porn is Bad
Web Address: http://www.porn-free.org/porn_is_bad.htm
Brief Description: This is a Christian website that lists a lot of common reasons why people think pornography is bad. This is one of many points of view people take on the pornography business and its morality, or lack thereof.
Source: Porn-Free

Title: Hacking Away at Kiddie Porn
Web Address: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/18/childporn.idg/
Brief Description: One article about another aspect of pornography: child pornography. This of course is illegal, but it also has a tremendous black market. This is another interesting aspect of pornography on the internet.
Source: CNN

Title: To: Porn ‘Spammers’ From: E-mail Users
Web Address: http://www.jsonline.com/bym/tech/news/feb02/20988.asp
Brief Description: This is one of the ways many porn websites get as many customers as they do – by sending out mass emails about their websites to random or purchased email addresses. Few people may appreciate this sort of direct advertising, but most people can do without it. This article provides a few examples of people affected by spam.
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online

 

 

 

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