Joe Mauer Thesis Paper

Joe Mauer, Is a Shy quite guy but on the feild he is A potential MVP Catcher. Joe Mauer Is one of the twins leaders, and without Justin Mornoue thier star First basemen thier going to need to have Joe Mauer Step up to the plate. So far in the Series against the Yankees thier 0-2 and Joe Mauer is not doing his share of the team overal his overal statictics are 2-9 with 3 stickouts. That is not how the Twins are going to win a world series the twins are in the time of need headed to New york. Thus if Twins even want a shot to get past the Yankees to go on and play the Devil Rays or Rangers thier going to have to see a Better proformance from Joe Mauer. Joe Currently has a .327 Batting average 3rd best in the Major leagues. Although the Twins have many other players carrying thier weight including Young, Cuddyer, Span who of those 3 are awarded, Span tied for secound with with 10 triples. Young with is tied secound with doubles with 46. Young also is RBI's in 5th place with 112 RBI's. Although his team is doing fine the Twins are in need of a Captian. And Joe Mauer is the one thats needs to step up. His Regular season is fine but now is where all that hard work is shown. After losing the first two games in the season and going to the Bronx for another 3rd game.

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My Opinion Paper on The Death Penalty

      Is the death penalty right to carry out in the 34 states that have it? Me personally I think the Death Penalty should not exist because of these main topics that I have came up with.
First, Executions cost more then prison an average person in prison will add up to approximately $500,000 After  food expenses, lawyers, electrical, Employment of workers. Which comes out of state taxes which could go to other things. On the Other hand Executions take up to $2,000,000 After all of expenses dealing with the overall uses of the prisoner (free counsel for defense, for appeals, maximum security (their own death row wing). This is just one of my many reasons why the Death Penalty should not be used. Secondly, Innocent people may be killed. Since 1976 82 death row inmates where freed due to advanced technology which proved their innocence and they were sent free! So for every seven inmates convicted one of those seven where innocent. This is my second reason that I do not agree with the Death Penalty. My Third, and final reason for not having the death penalty is Forgiveness/Remorse. For this I mean that the person that is put to life is prison has a chance to make things right and really think about what happened when they murdered someone. Thus they have to live with that for the rest of their life then say the "easy" way out of it.  Money, Innocent killings, and Forgiveness/Remorse are just three of my reasons why I think the Death Penalty is wrong and should be changed in those 34 states. Thank you Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty) for some of this information.

Geoffrey Fisher
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