There are 1,957 four-year colleges in the United States. There are 76 with an eagle as a mascot, 46 which use the tiger, and 39 bulldogs. Yet there is only one college who has a spider as a mascot. Spiders are often popularly known as mean and scary. So why would a university choose a spider as a mascot? In researching this essay, I found that the answer lies in the history of baseball at Richmond. Apparently the term "spider" was first used to describe Puss Ellyson, a baseball pitcher in 1894 because he had "lanky arms and stretching kick" and took to the field with his teammates like a "spider in a web". In delving into this history, what most impressed me was the suggestion that, “the spider was the synonym of success, good judgment and painstaking perseverance.” This makes more sense; these characteristics are something to which every student at the University of Richmond can aspire. …show more content…
However, there are great reasons to love spiders. In the United States, only two kids of spiders are truly harmful to humans (the Brown Recluse, and the Black Widow). The remaining spider species eat other insects we don't want around anyway. They eat mosquitoes carrying malaria (the world's number one fatal disease) and flies carrying cholera. Spiders don't want to bite you. Spiders have horrific eyesight and can't even see you until you are about a foot
The greatest college mascot combines the stealthy hunters in the hawk and the noisy, quarrelsome thing in the blue jay. As a general rule college mascot must to be one of a kind and very iconic and energize the team. It is a very well know mascot because it has been diligent in the college league scene 1971 when it hatched out of a gigantic egg during the homecoming game. Furthermore, it was made by a student at KU one of the most pretty mascots in the league
One day, Jürgen Otto was walking in a forest and nearly stepped on a spider. The spider quickly jumped away and Jürgen had never seen a spider that looked like the spider Jürgen had almost stepped on. He looked on the Internet and in books but only found one picture in a book made in the 1970s. He had discovered the new species called the Peacock Spider. “Peacock Spiders are only about 3 millimeters long and are found only in Australia” (Jürgen Otto, 2005). Jürgen now spends over 40 hours a week studying these spiders Jürgen has found and learned to love Peacock Spiders and document their actions and interests. Jürgen has found over 10 new species of spiders for scientists.
The reason why a spider represents me is because a spider is a very artistic, independent, intuitive animal. I tend to be a very independent person, but sometimes I have to learn to accept help from other people. I also love art, another form of art I enjoy is music. Art is a huge part of my life that I really enjoy. Spiders are also very bold, I try to show boldness when it comes to whatever I have to do.
The University of Richmond Spiders can be traced 120 years back to a pitcher, Puss Ellyson, who resembled a spider when he was at a baseball game. The college has maintained their memorable moniker with both a sense of humor and tradition, but there's more to their mascot than just an anecdote. The Spiders possess strength, power, and commitment.
When one thinks of spiders, fury bodies, long legs and fangs comes to mind. Spiders are often characterized as a violent insect. They, however, have a deeper meaning. What you see is not always what it appears to be. The spider is an “ancient symbol of mystery, power and growth…just ask the spider weaves a web, so too must we weave our own lives” (Spider Symbol 1). The choices we make fabricate our lives; the spider chooses where to lay its web and how to connect each thread. Some of the most well-known poets, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, display the spider in this light.
The mobs that abandon the old man are very fickle. Just as fans are in reality, they desert one fad for another. The lady spider is a new fad, and the old man suddenly seems ordinary in comparison to her.
I am afraid of spiders, because when I watch them on TV and they are in people’s bed and houses and if they bite you it makes a giant bite mark as big as a your hand, its inside is blue and the outside is red.
Carlton Lassiter wasn't afraid of an itsy bitsy spider and he killed the creature in the blink of an eye. He responed the same to the second and third, but new spiders kept coming without an apparent end.
Throughout the book, we are allowed an insight to see what what Spider’s “song” is and how his nature of being develops and changes into something entirely new. His seemingly impeccable god-like appearance is only the surface of the real man that lies underneath that mask. There is a time in everyone’s life where pain and death just seem like nothing more than a myth. We believe we are invincible and therefore immune to suffering. But
Spiders are known to engage in complex rituals before mating. The courtship and mating behavior of the Latrodectus hesperus spider, most commonly known as the Black Widow or the Western Widow is particularly interesting .This type of spider earned its name due to their particularly interesting courting and mating behavior which often leads to sexual cannibalism, a rare sexual behavior in which the female feeds on the male after copulation.
This analysis will focus on the importance of mascots for the selected institutions and how they relate to the normal livelihoods of the students in both universities. The term mascot is used to refer to an animal, a person or object that is believed to bring some sense of good luck in various perspectives. It is a term and phenomenon that has been consistently used through history to relate to the success of various institutional activities, especially in the sports arena. Institutions with mascots tend to have a deep history in terms of its selection and related significance. The two selected universities in this assessment have peculiar mascot symbols that have been used for many years to derive distinct meanings that represent respective cultures.
They ensure a connection between their identities and facilitate the development in the community, often adding to it and learning from it. They provide memorable messages and have a significant influence on behavior (Miczo 91-92, 94). It is also good to note that Spider-Man’s origin differs from the Fantastic Four as it was only through the death of someone Peter cared for that becomes the catalyst needed for his transformation to set himself on the right path of a hero. His origin and trauma towards the guilt of the death of his uncle by the hands of a criminal he could have stopped (seen and revealed on also page 8 and 11 of “Amazing Fantasy”) at the time later conditioned him to be a responsible person (Miczo100-101). Therefore, these character traits illustrated by these superhero characters such as the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man only adds to the positive development of children as it nurtures and encourages the heroic narratives of justice and the benefits of
Spiders are overlooked as creepy, boring, and useless because they are found everywhere and aren’t very beneficial. “Stories in our cereal boxes. Stories in our firewood. Stories in the pockets of our coats.” However, spiders also have compelling characteristics to them such as killing and hunting down their preys.
There was a tiny home invader on my porch. I came home from school to find a very large and intimidating spider spinning a web on the side of my porch. Naturally, I quickly ran inside, i was about to get a tissue to deposit it far, far away, from anywhere near me, but I stopped. Why was there a large spider on my porch? It was just sitting along the side of it, completely exposed. It was probably a good place to catch flies since it was near the trash can, but it was left completely exposed. The side of my back porch was right by the door to go inside, Wouldn’t it build a web somewhere safer? Why here? Curious, I went out to look again, staying well apart in case it tried to jump. The web stood out, a gossamer orb against the pale yellow of my porch. In the center the spider- a she, I suppose- rested.
Spider-Man has been not just a fictional character and my favorite, but also a role model. I remember acting like him when I was a kid, and I would even try to do the heroic things he does in a way. I would even try to keep my deeds a secret, because I knew that's what Spider-Man would do. But my admiration for this