Today, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are two major candidates for the greatest players in NBA history. Each have put up substantial stats and have turned their teams around single handedly. Although it’s hard to say just one player is the greatest of all time, it is clear that James fits the “greatest of all time” persona more than Bryant. James and Bryant came from two distinctly different backgrounds. Bryant’s youth consisted of traveling between the U.S. and Italy because of his father.
Paul W. Bryant After reading Paul Bryant’s book "-On Winning" I've learned lots about a great man. Who I previously knew nothing about. Paul lived an extraordinary life and fulfilled his goals. He lead multiple teams into winning streaks and may have even revolutionized the game of football. Paul Bryant is a man amongst men.
This builds up a snobbish character, since he wants everyone to know that he has achieved a grand position in Lady Catherine’s De Bourgh live. Furthermore, his father “had given him great humility of manner” (p.130), as “the greatest part of his life [has] been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father”. (pg.130) Though, by the time he had the chance to be near to Lady Catherine’s side he changed and become too proud and continually arrogant of himself. Moreover, one can see that Mr. Collins has a high regard for himself since, he considers that he is “more fitted by education and habitual study” (p.182) and also the fact that he introduces himself to Mr. Darcy, with the pretending reason that he knows his aunt Lady Catherine, and believes that he would pay attention at him after the warnings of Ms. Elizabeth Bennet as it was inappropriate to present yourself to an unknown person unless a mutual friend introduces you makes him a foolish and too proud for himself. However, Mr. Darcy “was eyeing him with unrestrained wonder” (p.182)Similarly, Austen manages to make Mr. Collins a ridiculous character once more, since Elizabeth rejects his proposal by saying that he “could never make [her] happy” and that she is “convinced that she is the last woman in the world who would make [him] happy” (p.200).
There is the emotion of heroism. My father loved Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, and he wasn't alone. They were icons of an era. After Louis defeated Primo Carnera in 1935, a writer for The Los Angeles Times gushed: ''The colored race couldn't have chosen two more remarkable men than Jesse Owens and Joe Louis to be its outstanding representatives. Owens is being hailed as the greatest track and field athlete of all time, same thing goes for 'Dead Pan' Joe Louis, whose decisive defeat of Carnera has sent the scribes scurrying to the dictionaries seeking superlatives of greater scope than any they've used before.''
Whether by chance or by fate, this policeman, Joe Martin, turned out to be a youth boxing trainer and he took young Clay under his wing. Over the next six years, Clay would win six Kentucky Golden Gloves championships, two national Golden Gloves titles, and two AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) crowns. Joe Martin himself once said “He was a kid willing to make any sacrifice to achieve something worthwhile in sports. It was impossible to discourage him”. Ali’s work ethic and determination is something that I truly admire and value.
In the movie Rudy, Rudy wants nothing more then a chance to be in the football game to make his parents proud. It’s his senior year when he finally gets a chance to play. Even though it wasn’t that long he is ecstatic because he overcame years of just practicing and finally made his parents proud. Not only were his parents happy for him but his teammates were ecstatic. The underdog is someone who makes everyone stronger, by proving that hard work does pay off.
Also since the NFL is becoming more popular, and the teams are developing a sense of style, the demand for more teams was high. During the 1950's the average paid attendance per game ranged anywhere from 25,000 to 43,000. In the 50's the NFL or rather any football league, they had leather helmets without a facemask, and they really didnt do much to help protect your head. It was unlikely for a lot of head injuries to occur. They also didn't have the pad quality like there is today, the NFL in the 50's didn't even have shoulder pads for their players.
Blue Rice 2/16/11 Things Fall Apart In the early days of the Ibo culture, they were happy and satisfied with their way of living. Sadly this all changed when Western ideas started showing up in their villages and changing the lives of many, one of which was already confused about who he was. In Things Fall Apart a young man named Nwoye is the son of one of the greatest men in his village of Umofia. His father, Okonkwo, was such a great leader and warrior. He was an all-around successful man in his culture.
Because of those Napoleon can be seen as one of the greatest Generals that ever lived. If you look at the historical meaning, I think it it more debatable. Napoleon is without doubt one of the greatest leaders in military history, his skill as a general both tactically and strategically is without question, his rise to power astounding. Few men in history have had such an impact on world history and he easily ranks along side such leaders as Alexander the Great and Hannibal. Like those leaders he was an authoritarian leader and a dictator whose skill was matched by his ambition, one of those who did not know when the possible ended and the impossible began.
This gives us the impression that the narrator feels like his father is very strong and experienced at his job. This is stressed by the fact that a lot of positive adjectives about his father’s body are used. An example is that he describes his shadow as ‘broad’ and his shoulders as ‘globed’, which both give us the feeling that he has a very big build and is very strong. We perhaps get the feeling that the father is amazing at what he does due to the fact that the narrator describes what he used to be like and then what his father used to be like. It’s as if he is saying that he was useless and always relied on his dad, whereas his father was doing a great deal of work while maintaining his role of a father.