He would go into every match determined not to lose and would come out victor. He would lose the first match of his tournament because of the seed he was and because he was a rookie. He prevailed over the rest of his opponents and made it to sectionals where he would go and place third to make it to districts. He lost both matches at districts where his season would end from his body being banged up with his record having 16 wins and 6 losses for his first year. He suffered from a bursa on his kneecap which is very painful from his knee hitting the mat constantly.
The expedition was no place for quitters, which is why the captains both picked specific people to perform this insane task. Ambrose’s work definitely opened my eyes to see what an undertaking it was for that time period, Lewis spent months just planning out the whole thing, and as the expedition began there were many problems encountered, but he was stubborn enough to push through them and carry out one of the greatest expeditions in U.S. history. I think its amazing what this group of mostly strangers was able to pull off, considering the times and the limited technology, this feat thought to be impossible by nearly everyone. After not hearing from the expedition for almost 2 years it was thought they were all dead, or lost in the wilderness, but on their return in September 1806, everyone on the expedition is considered a
Rudy’s chances of dressing for a game were slim to none because Devine was a harder head to crack. After two years already being on the team one of the final games were coming against Georgia Tech and Rudy still hasn’t dressed. That was than the team line up, head captains saw the dedication, motivation and spiritual mind Rudy had. Beginning with the captain entering Devine’s office saying he wants Rudy to take his spot for the final game. Devine said he lost his mind and he wouldn’t do such a thing.
Jimmy grew up having a normal childhood besides the fact that he didn’t know who his father was. He was always an athletic kid in any sport he played, but showed his talent mainly for swim. During his first season swimming he never lost making it to nationals winning every event he swam in. But that was not the weird part, the weird part was on his 13th birthday which happened to be a stormy night Jimmy and his mom were having a normal diner. When his mom got up to do the dishes she knocked over a glass of water, Jimmy tried to reach out to grab it but he could not.
He actually risked his life and tried to triple his IQ, by going through a surgery. He was also cheated and was not told that there wasn’t enough research in that area. The saddest and worst effect was that he will always remember being a brilliant genius but he will never get the chance to be on again. That is just a little bit compared to the other sad things he went through, but that is why I am against him having the
I had an answer, but I struggled terribly with putting it down on paper because I wanted this interview to “be perfect”. I was too worried about what I looked like or sounded like, so ultimately I had lost “my voice.” I went to my dad for more help. I had wasted a whole hour stressing over how to answer a few questions about myself. My dad told me something very important that day, he said, “The best way to impress someone is to be you”. After meditating on what he said to me I had at least something to put down.
It is really hard for me to contribute to my virtues because of the injury I got from football. People talk about it and saying that I have no pride, so my actions are very hard to control sometimes. Just as Ben Franklin was not morally perfect, neither was I. Many faults during the course of this experiment, but I feel they became smaller. Benjamin Franklin said “I know it was not a waste of time trying to succeed to my virtues.” I fill the same also.
The inspiration for most of his stories come from true inspired events that happened with real kids, in real life. One of Crutcher most popular books, Whale talk, was published in 2001. Its main conflict involves a black “athlete” (T.J. jones)who is good at virtually every sport, but never turns out for the team because his morals and values involving team work are not represented, and even trashed by some members of the team, especially the cocky varsity quarter back (who just happens to play every sport the school offers). It has gotten to the point where other students and even coaches persecute him for “being blessed with talent, and throwing it in the trash, selfishly only thinking of himself.” And when the only teacher who sides with him is told he must become a active coach (this is a sports school who last year barley missed it by a few points for over all state champion) in order to help the school earn more points for the state competition, he decides to put the joke on the administration and other coaches. He convinces the administration to let him start a swim team, so instead of adding a few points on another sport, he adds and entire sport to get points for.
That game was the biggest failure I have ever been a part of. We got beat by a team we were not even close to our same talent. My coach is one of the people I look up to the most. After the game, he gave me a speech about how I have to work as hard as I can so this does not happen again. What he told me really hit me because I started working as hard as I could so we did not have that feeling the next
Because of the injury I will never run, surf, stand for longer than 10 minutes, or hike again. These use to be my favorite things to do but the outcome far outweighs what would of happened if the clerk would of just filed my shot records correctly. Because of this injury it has saved my life a couple of times that I know of. The day I had my hip replacement surgery is the day that my unit left for Iraq. Of course I was upset to not be able to go and be with my brothers and sisters but the injury held me back and that’s life not much I could do about it.