...It all started my sophomore year. I was young, undersized and hadn’t gotten the chance to make a name for myself yet. I remember it like it was yesterday, the first meeting we had with the varsity football coach. The first time he would be able to get a look at all the sophomores moving up and give his input on what he thought would develop us into a varsity football player. I was sitting kind of in the back and he had gone through several players telling them what he thought and finally got to me asked my name and position I gave him my name and said “quarterback and defensive back” for my positions and he just looked at me for a second, almost looking right past me like I wasn‘t going to be able to contribute anything the team and said “You need to get in the weight room and get bigger and stronger. You’ll never physically make it through a varsity football season at your size.” I don’t know how this would make other people feel, but I am not the kind of person who likes to be told that I can’t do something for any reason, especially because I’m not big or strong enough. By that statement, my coach lit a fire inside me and made me angry. The next Monday after the meeting with coach I was in the weight room working out, going at least three days a week and continued to do so throughout the school year and even through the summer. Me, not being the strongest kid ever, there were a couple players who were approaching their senior season who started working out with me, which...
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...The Perks of Being A Wallflower Setting Although Charlie never said where he lived evidence reveals that Charlie lives in Pittsburgh in 1991. Plot Charlie is a 15 year old boy starting his sophomore year in high school. Charlie is a very smart sophomore and loves music. His English teacher often gives him books to read because he believes that he is smarter than most kids. In this novel letters are sent to an unknown person describing Charlie’s experiences. The letters talk about friends and family. His parents are complete opposites, His mother is shy while his father is very strong and stubborn. Charlie’s brother is away at Penn State and is a football player. Charlie and his brother only meet when the family has big events and him and his sister never got along. His sister is a senior in high...
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...During my sophomore year of high school, I applied for the Van Meter National Honor Society (NHS). In order to be accepted into NHS, you must possess the qualities of character, leadership, service, and scholarship with a requirement a 3.5 GPA. I felt I met all of these requirements and thoroughly wrote the letter of application. I submitted it to the teacher committee, and in return I got a letter saying that I did not meet their standards. This was a very humbling experience for me. I felt like I should have been accepted, so when I received the letter I felt like I failed. The committee's reasons to dismiss me were that I did not show above average leadership in all of my classes, and I was not serving my community as much as they would like an NHS member to do. They also recommended to get more involved with school...
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...Rock River Jamaica. As a child I always had a big head and a skinny body, but I always participated in various sports such as soccer, flag football, and baseball. I was never athletic so it was hard for me to flourish in soccer. It took me 3 years to score 1 goal for the team I played for but I was a pretty good defender when it came down to it. As a child I always liked watching TV, my favorite cartoon was and still is Tom and Jerry. Even though none of the characters spoke a single word I found very funny. I would sit in front of the TV for hours with my legs folded and my mom would get mad that I was sitting so close to the TV. Eventually all that close TV watching caught up to me because now my eyes are messed up to the point where I can’t see anything from far away. In middle school, I got a little taller but I looked like a stick figure with long limbs. As I grew physically my athletic ability turned for the good. When I played flag football, I became one of the top players in that organization. I had my own little fan club from opposing teams. Their parents would yell out “watch out for number 38” and it always me made smile. It made me feel like I was doing this sport as a job, like Dwayne wade when he plays the Chicago Bulls. 12 pounds later, my dad finally thought it was time for me to play tackle football. I was probably the most underweight player on the team at the time. I had a passion for dressing up in the uniform, it made me feel so good...
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...Abstract Richard Grube, an athletically inclined senior at Freedom High School in the Bethlehem Area School District, played football his freshman, sophomore, and junior years. Prior to the start of the football season in his senior year, the district claimed Richard was ineligible to play on the basis that Richard only had one kidney. Richard and his family filed a preliminary injunction against the school district claiming the district violated Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Grube v Bethlehem, 1982) According to the United States Department of Education (2011), Section 504 states that, “no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in…any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance”. As a result, the court ruled in favor of Richard Grube. Case and Law Review Richard Wallace Grube et al. v. Bethlehem Area School District Legal Research In 1982, Richard Grube, a senior at Freedom High School was declared ineligible to play football because he only had one kidney. Richard and his family filed a preliminary injunction based on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states that, no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits...
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...Letter of Recommendation March 10, 2015 Dear Admissions, Its my great honor to write this recommendation letter for my stand-out student Ao Liu as part of his application process to your esteemed and highly sought-after university. I know for a fact that Mr. Liu, who goes by the English name of Axel, considers your institution to be his dream university. Your acceptance would mean a lot to the impressionable young man. I have been working with Axel for over two years now in our English Academic Writing class at China Agricultural University (CAU). I have rarely found such an enthusiastic and independent youngster that classmates look up to as Axel. I have always known him to make efforts to rise above his cohort and he shines brilliantly in the process. He has shown improvement in writing skills through my course and can always hit the top 10 percentile when he puts forth efforts. Both his current IELTS score and GPA prove this point well. Axel is currently sitting at 13.30/16.00 in GPA and his total IELTS band score as of this writing is 6.0. As his English writing teacher, I know Axel's strong point in language is writing, but I have heard from other faculty about his successful conquests in math and finance as well. Axel's work on the homework shows an enthusiastic and adventurous spirit. I also know that he is a very outgoing and creative youngster as his hobbies and interests point out. As his school club choice and private hobbies show, Axel is interested in outdoor...
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...and I loved to eat. When I would go home, I would get snack food and eat it before dinner so that I would be full. I didn’t like having to go any period of time being hungry. This type of behavior had its consequences, though. My size made people always comment to me about how big or fat I was. I especially hated it when people would laugh when I walked into a room because I knew it was about my weight. I decided that I was going to play football my sophomore year of high school. All of my friends told me that I would be good because I was so big. I liked this plan because it meant I didn’t have to watch what I ate at all and I could be in a sport. I had wanted to play football for a while, but it seemed like it was too much work my freshman year. I am very glad that I ultimately decided to play. That year, I was able to get some playing time on our goal line defense because I was so big that I could plug up any holes that the offense was trying to run through. I ended up having a very fun time that year, and I received a major letter for the playing time that I got. At the end of the season, I decided that I wanted to get very strong for my junior year. I started lifting weights during the week, and I ended up putting on quite a bit of muscle. The bad thing that came out of this was that I gained...
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...Brennan). Those who do decide to tell someone, are often just recorded and no further action is done. It seems to be the most drastic cases that action is ever taken. For example, some big cases in the past ten years are the Stanford swimmer case, the Vanderbilt football players, and the Beckett Brennan case. Each case all very similar, but different outcomes amongst all three. In the earliest case, a student at the University of Pacific named Beckett Brennan was raped while under the influence of alcohol. She didn’t want to file criminal charges with the system, so she decided to go to the university’s judicial review. At the hearing, “Brennan said the board’s questions made her feel like the case had suddenly become less about the basketball players, and more about her behavior that night,”(The Case of Beckett Brennan). One was expelled, the other two suspended.“Steffan Johnson, three months after he was expelled from the university for sexual assault, he was given a full scholarship to the University of Idaho,”(The Case of Beckett Brennan). Even with proof, the sentencing was very little. There is no reason for it. Beckett ended up leaving in fall of her sophomore year. The next case was with four Vanderbilt football players. She was told she had been taken care of by her boyfriend’s friend, while she was unconscious. She had no reason not to believe them. However, a few days later police told her she had been raped. “At first, the victim denied that she’d been raped,”(Oliver)...
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...Case for chapter 5: Personality and Value The Situation The Allen Company had just recruited and hired six people for production supervisors from various universities in the Midwest. Ron and Bill were told to take three a piece for assignment into their departments. The men have seen these new employees for only thirty minutes during their company interview visits. Ron and Bill now have to give their recommendation to human resources from placement. Ron thinking it would nice to work directly with Bill on this issue called for a meeting. The meeting was set for Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 and the human resources department needed the final recommendations by Friday at noon. The new people were going to report to human resources on Monday. The Decision Makers Ron, a white male, grew up in an affluent neighborhood in the western Chicago suburbs. He attended private schools including the finest prep school in the area. After prep school, he was accepted at an Ivy League school. He was a member of a top fraternity on campus and was joking referred to as the big man on campus. He graduated near the top of his business school class. After college, he married an eastern socialite from a campus sorority. They have one infant child. This is his first job since graduating from college and he is viewed by the company as a fast tracker and a keeper. His job as production supervisor can be viewed as a temporary assignment on his way to the top. Bill, an African-American...
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...black player. “He received numerous amounts of threatening letters, was segregated from his team in cities they had to stay over night in, and when they finally started playing in the season, he was harassed more than any other player. When he reached the actual major leagues and played for the Dodgers in 1947, while he was fielding, players slid into base and tried to puncture his leg with their spikes. On several occasions he was severely spiked to where his leg was bloody and was knocked to the ground” (Life is the Greatest Teacher). He was a good man that knew how to take adversity and make the best of it every time which influenced other black athletes; and showed them that anything is possible, and you don’t have to retaliate to negativity, you can just kill them with kindness. He changed the game in many ways. The 6-foot, 195-pound Robinson was the Rookie of the Year and two years later he was MVP. His lifetime average was .311 and he was voted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. He opened the door for people of color to go into the major leagues. Not only baseball or sports in general but he opened the door and gave African Americans confidence to step out of their comfort zone and accomplish what they want to do in life. Jackie had stated, "A life is not important," he said, "except in the impact it has on other lives” (ESPN). Another Icon “Ernie Davis” changed the game of football forever. Of course being the first African American to do something...
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...Personal Narrative- Track Competition The moment of truth was upon me. The official times, this includes whom qualified for finals, for the 400m relay had been posted. My eyes scanned the page for the bold letters that spell ANDERSON. As I ran my finger across the page to where the times were posted, my ears began to shut out all outside noises, leaving me alone with the thump of my heart and the inhale and exhale of my lungs. Both began to increase in speed as my eyes narrowed in on the time. My sophomore year had begun and I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to do track this year. Last year I played football in the fall and soccer in the spring. Not really enjoying it, the decision was made to play " real futbol" (soccer) in the fall, leaving the spring sports season open. My friend kept telling me how fun track was, so I decided to give it a try. As the first meet neared, things were going well. I made it onto the 4x100 team making me the third fastest kid on the team. The other members of the relay were Jason Schmidt, Jeremy Willard and Rodney Schmidt. Jason and Jeremy were both the top dogs and Rodney and I were second from the bottom of the barrel. The 400 relay was my best event. We placed in every meet and even took home some medals as the season progressed. As the track year rounded for the home stretch, we had only three more meets to compete in: the Tiger Invitational, regionals, and state. As the Tiger rolled around, there arose a question...
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...consistent rates around campuses nationwide, (committed by faculty, coaches, players, administrators, and alumni), are effectively compromising the sacred amateurism college athletics has maintained to define its culture and provide credence for its illustrious traditions for over a century. Ethical questions of this magnitude have been pondered by academics and legal stalwarts alike with great depth both at the local and global level for years. Several studies reflect that a substantial percentage of the “major” NCAA recruiting violations and cases of egregious academic misconduct occur typically at institutions where local administrators and financiers have created a “win at all costs” culture pertaining to BCS (Bowl Championship Series) football and the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. A handful of local schools sanctioned by the NCAA in the last few decades for recruiting violations and academic misconduct include the University of South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia Tech, LSU, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Each year the NCAA collects its constituents: college presidents, athletic directors, and compliance directors (among others), to discuss the current “integrity climate” of college...
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...obvious problem. In this report, I will analyze this issue by the following aspects, which includes the background of Steve Ballmer, the development of Microsoft these years and current situation about the company. Background of Steve Ballmer Ballmer, 57, who came to Microsoft in 1980 as its first business manager, was the first CEO after founder Bill Gates left the post in 2000. Steve Ballmer was born in Detroit, and he grew up in the community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1977, he graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in applied mathematics and economics. Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980, the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. During college, Ballmer had outstanding performance. He managed the football team, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as...
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...Prevention (CDC) collected data in 2012 (most recent year for which data was obtained), 40,600 suicides were reported, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. In that year someone in the United States died by suicide every 12.9 minutes. Shockingly, after cancer and heart disease, suicide accounts for more years of life lost than any other cause of death. Statistics also shows that males are twice more likely to commit suicide than females. As far as ethnicity rates, in 2012, white males were responsible for 65% of all suicides. Tesa Middlebrook, a young African American girl with a promising future decided that enough was enough. On Friday, March 2, 2012 at approximately 10:00am she hung herself at the school’s football stadium. The saddest part is that her body wasn’t discovered until eight hours after the start of the school day. And although the...
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...Benefits of Video Games English 223 D 12/5/2012 Intro I have played video games since I was five years old, they have been a huge part of my life. They have made me the person I am today for better or worse, but I believe for the better. They have helped me significantly in my social life. They helped me make friends, and have allowed me to have a common ground with people I would other wise never have anything in common with. It allows me to meet new people and keep in touch with friends in far off places. The challenges that video games have presented me have taught me how to analyze the situation quickly so I can react just as fast. Also I have learned a lot of random facts from video games about the real world. Many of the situations in video games have connections to the real world and thanks to the simulations of real life in video games I know how to react to certain situations or perform certain task appropriately with out actually ever doing them before. I believe video games have many benefits to offer everyone, they have been great to me and I am sure they can help everyone. Video games are deemed as toys with no apparent value but to waste time. This is very untrue, video games can be very beneficial if used properly. They can increase analysis and problem solving skills, they allow people the ability to keep in touch with their friends from all around the world and even make new ones because they have a shared interest, and they can...
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