People in the United States love baseball. The best baseball players are stars. Great players are heroes. They are given a place in the baseball Hall of Fame. Roberto Clemente is in the Baseball Hall of Farm. He belongs there. For eight years in a row his batting average was over 300. He was batting champion four times. He was named most valuable player in 1966. He won the 1971 World Series for his team. His average in that series was 414.

But to many people Roberto was a hero not just for his baseball playing, but for his life. He spent it helping others and he died helping others.

He was born in Puerto Rico in 1934. His family was large. His parents worked hard to give their children the things they needed. He began to play baseball when he was young. He was so good that he was a star at the age of seventeen. At nineteen he joined a team in the United States. The next year he went to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and played in that team for eighteen years.

Roberto took pride in his career. He was not easy to give up. He went on with the game and played his best even when he was hurt and was in pain. He was proud of his game. He used to say: "For me, I am the best baseball player in the world." He meant that he believed in himself.

Roberto loved to help others. He found many ways to help people, both in the United States and in Puerto Rico. Later in 1972 there was an earthquake in Nicaragua. Many people were killed and a lot more were hurt. Many were homeless and hungry. Food and clothing were badly needed. Of course Roberto was one of the first to help. He formed a group to get the things that were needed. He was on the plane that was going to deliver them.

The plane crashed in the sea near Puerto Rico. Roberto was killed, but his life still shines like a light in people's hearts. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was Roberto Clemente known for?
2. Who did he play for?
3. How long was he with them?
4. Did he receive any awards or recognition?
5. LIke what?
6. What did he achieve to be placed there?
7. Was he ever labeled as MVP?
8. When?
9. Did Clemente win a World Series?
10. When did he start playing?
11. Where did he grow up?
12. What did he do in his free time?
Answer: 1. Baseball.
2. Pittsburgh Pirates
3. eighteen years
4. Yes
5. He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
6. One thing was his batting average was over 300 for eight years.
7. Yes
8. 1966
9. Yes.
10. When he was young.
11. Puerto Rico.
12. Helped people.

Theravada (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pali Canon as its doctrinal core. The Pali canon is the only complete Buddhist canon which survives in a classical Indic Language, Pali, which serves as the sacred language and lingua franca of Theravada Buddhism. Another feature of Theravada is that it tends to be very conservative about matters of doctrine and monastic discipline. As a distinct sect, Theravada Buddhism developed in Sri Lanka and spread to the rest of Southeast Asia.

Theravada also includes a rich diversity of traditions and practices that have developed over its long history of interactions with varying cultures and religious communities. It is the dominant form of religion in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, and is practiced by minority groups in India, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, and Vietnam. In addition, the diaspora of all of these groups as well as converts around the world practice Theravada Buddhism. Contemporary expressions include Buddhist modernism, the Vipassana movement and the Thai Forest Tradition.

Theravada Buddhism is followed by countries and people around the globe, and is:

Today, Theravada Buddhists, otherwise known as Theravadins, number over 150 million worldwide, and during the past few decades Theravada Buddhism has begun to take root in the West and in the Buddhist revival in India. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was Theravada Buddhism created?
2. Where did it branch out to from there?
3. Is it a dominant form of religion anywhere?
4. Like wehre?
5. Is the religion liberal or conservative in nature?
6. Does it have a worldwide following?
7. How many followers today?
8. This part of Buddhism follows Buddha's teachings from which Canon?
9. Is it complete?
10. How many complete Buddhist Canons exist?
11. What language is it in?
12. Does it have a wide array of traditions and practices?
13. Did they stem from a long history or short?
14. Were they formed by mingling with other cultures and religious people?
15. What's an example of a newer version of this religion?
16. And another?
17. Where has this religion recently started to catch on?
18. Where else?
19. What does the word Theravada mean?
20. Is Pali a sacred language?
Answer: 1. Sri Lanka
2. The rest of Southeast Asia.
3. Yes
4. Cambodia, Laos,And Myanmar are three.
5. Conservative
6. Yes.
7. Over 150 million worldwide,
8. Pali Canon
9. Yes.
10. Only the Pali is complete.
11. Indic
12. Yes.
13. Long.
14. Yes.
15. Thai Forest Tradition.
16. Buddhist modernism
17. The West.
18. India.
19. School of the elder monks
20. Yes.

Chapter LVII

AT that moment we were interrupted by the appearance of Madame Coutras, who had been paying visits. She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets. She had a bold hooked nose and three chins. She held herself upright. She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be. She was evidently a copious talker, and now poured forth a breathless stream of anecdote and comment. She made the conversation we had just had seem far away and unreal.

Presently Dr. Coutras turned to me.

"I still have in my the picture that Strickland gave me," he said. "Would you like to see it?"

"Willingly."

We got up, and he led me on to the verandah which surrounded his house. We paused to look at the gay flowers that rioted in his garden.

"For a long time I could not get out of my head the recollection of the extraordinary decoration with which Strickland had covered the walls of his house," he said reflectively.

I had been thinking of it, too. It seemed to me that here Strickland had finally put the whole expression of himself. Working silently, knowing that it was his last chance, I fancied that here he must have said all that he knew of life and all that he divined. And I fancied that perhaps here he had at last found peace. The demon which possessed him was exorcised at last, and with the completion of the work, for which all his life had been a painful preparation, rest descended on his remote and tortured soul. He was willing to die, for he had fulfilled his purpose. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who had a part of their body that was hooked
2. What part of her body?
3. How many chins did she have
4. What is she compared to
5. Is she fat?
6. Is she short?
7. Is she a creature?
8. What kind?
9. Did she like to talk?
10. What was she wearing
11. What does the Doctor have
12. Who gave it to him
13. What is the doctors name
14. Does the narrator want to see it?
Answer:
1. Madame Coutras did
2. her nose
3. three
4. a ship in full sail
5. Yes
6. No
7. Yes
8. imposing
9. Yes
10. straight-fronted corsets
11. the picture
12. Strickland
13. Coutras
14. Yes