...Personal Narrative My blue soccer cleats gleamed in the sun as they pounded the grass down. We were warming up at tryouts, eager to see who was going to make the Texas Spurs 2015-2016 team. I didn’t know why I was at tryouts. I didn’t want to be at tryouts, that’s for sure. After my FC Dallas coach cut me, I felt shattered, and I had decided that I didn’t want to play soccer anymore. My dad persuaded me to find the courage to go to the Texas Spurs’ tryouts. After all, they needed a defender to join their team. It took a lot of fighting, but eventually I gave in and agreed to give them a chance. My heart was beating as fast as a race car, trying to win the World Cup. As we walked onto the field, my nerves were overflowing. I felt as if everyone’s eyes were burning into my back....
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...For my personal project, I decided I wanted to learn the sport of soccer. Not only did I want to learn everything about it, but I always wanted to make the schools’ soccer team. I wanted to do this because I personally love the sport of soccer but learning a sport and being on a high school team can give you more of a well-rounded student look. Not only that but learning sports plus having good grades is very beneficial for when I need to look at colleges and the different types of scholarships. For this project I practiced hard and was very eager to learn new skills and have an understanding of soccer. I am very impressed of how much I have gotten done as means to skill. I had a lot of fun doing my project but, I made the team, which was one of my main goals. I...
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...Soccer is a sport that, well, everyone can play it! Usually sports like basketball or football needs certain people like, Tall people, Strong people, Buff people, and Fast people, but soccer can have all this people including smaller people. That’s why it’s my favorite sport, and it could be everyone’s too. People think that soccer is all about kicking a ball into a goal but its way more than that. It’s all about teamwork and working together to do this very little thing but you still have to remember that you have to work together in order to do it. Soccer has different age units until 18. This makes it fair for people to go against each other because in these different age variety, the balls are bigger and smaller, the goals are bigger and...
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...school soccer team had advanced to the State Tournament the summer of my junior year. I was the starting right defender. In the morning, my stomach churned. Many players on our team had never played in an athletic event at the state level. This was the first time in our school history soccer made the State Tournament. Our inexperience worried me. I focused on doing my job without mistakes. I prayed that our team would play an excellent game as our bus pulled into Cownie Soccer Complex. Warmups went by faster than they ever had. When the referee blew the whistle my panic faded. I observed from my defensive position as our offense quickly scored goal after goal. I quickly realized that our opponent was not on our level. It was a boring game for the defenders on our...
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...This topic interests me because soccer is my favorite sport, so soccer is my passion. So i like to watch all the games in fifa because i like to keep up with the teams and check out the competition. My team is U.S., and so far their in the top of group D with 4 points. The last time U.S. won fifa women's world cup was 1999, so its been a while, but i have a lot of faith that they will do really good and win this years women's world cup. The US is trying to make up for the loss in 2011 world cup from germany. So they have more determination than any other team. I think US will win this year because they have great forwards that love to shot the ball and score, and they have a great keeper(Hope Solo). Personally i think she is the best goalkeeper...
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...It was Friday night on the field and I was playing football. Where at the Palm Desert soccer park. There were a lot of fields, it is also a great park for kids. It was about 6:00 p.m so it was nice weather and the sun was barely out. That was the first time this season we were on field one. I was hoping we were going to play well this game. We always did good though, because we had one of the best players in the league on our team. We were winning by some points, I don't remember for sure. It was my second season playing football. I was an okay player on all my teams. The plays that we were doing were not so complex, unlike the NFL’s plays. Since they were so easy, I understood them well. This was the play when I caught the ball in the endzone. We ran halfway down the field to the end zone while I was one of the players who ran all the way to the end zone. There were so many smells like the green grass, the sweat on our team and the other team....
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...It all started on a dark, cold, early Monday morning at the moist and cold soccer field for my first high school practice. Soccer was always my favorite sport even though I was better at other sports. Soccer was always more enjoyable because my teammates were so much fun to be around and it was physical, my favorite part. Both my mom and my sister always told me that you can never be too prepared for something challenging. The rest of my teammates had already started running months earlier and I haven't even ran a mile since eighth grade. I especially thought it was going to be easy when I found out that my coach was also my youth leader at church. He was super nice and never raised his voice or got frustrated. At this point in my life I thought...
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...“Welcome to the Byron Center Soccer Camp. I am Mr. Bogaart and these are your coaches.” Mr. Bogaart put his big hand out to show us our coaches. At least 6 High school girls stood in front of us as they waved. “These two days this week, the coaches and I will pick 3 girls two go to Nationals in Indianapolis.” All of a sudden, my jaw dropped. I walked into the soccer field. The green grass shined with dew. The smells of freshly cut grass drifted through the air. I took a big deep breath and opened my eyes. Finally, soccer. The best sport in the world. A nice lady with wavy brown hair smiled at me as she sat behind the tan desk. I looked behind me and saw a school. A big light brown school. Nickels Intermediate. It felt weird that in the summer...
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...After one day of soccer camp, I started towards my dad’s orange Ford. I took my phone out to see who had texted me while I was working hard during soccer camp. I was scrolling down and I saw a text message from Joe Cappadona that read, “Do you like roller coasters?” My immediate reply was, “Oh yeah, why?” Joe told me that he was going to Cedar Point in Ohio in a few weeks and wanted to know if I wanted to go. Of course I had to ask my parents if I could go before I told Joe I could go with him. As I was getting in the car, I told my dad what Joe had told me, and his reply was, “Mom and I will have to think about it.” I was stoked. I thought to myself, “This could be the first time I go out of the state without my parents.” Later that day, my parents and I went to my grandparent’s house for dinner. The food was delectable as usual, but that was not the part I was worried about. I knew they were going to excuse me from the dinner table and talk about me going or not going to Ohio with Joe. They called me back in, and as I anxiously sat down, my mom told me I could stay with Joe and his family at Cedar Point. Filled with joy, I took out my phone and told Joe I could go to Cedar Point....
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...high school, I had to make a decision about what sports I was going to play since it was harder to do all of them, therefore I chose soccer. Playing soccer has been a challenge because of some difficulties, but it has also taught me so much. When I was in Matamoros I wasn’t able to join a soccer team because our financial status, but I would play with my cousins and also I would watch the soccer games on TV. It has been a tradition for the family to get together when a main soccer game is going on, especially if the national team is going to play. Also for main tournaments like the champions, the Olympics, the world cup, between...
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...My soccer team A horror dream come to life It was 2015 in Oklahoma, Oklahoma city. We were in a game rounding up to a tie where we were 12 to 11. Our team were amazing but the other team came to a tie after an accident happened that could've been avoided. What happened was that the other team were playing all fair and stuff at the beginning but when we got at least 10 goals that's where stuff got interesting. The other team started playing rough were they would push us a lot trying to get the ball but didn’t succeed. So what the other team wanted to do is punch this kid who’s name was Richard, the best in our team and so they did, referee came and called foul as he went to Richard and saw a big bruise in his face but he was determined, he...
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...To me, being a team player is recognizing the full value and capabilities of each member of the team. I began to develop a mature understanding of this my Senior year of high school when I was I was co-captain of the Varsity soccer team. From the outside, the Wilson Memorial High School girls’ soccer team looked powerful and sound. Externally, we appeared to be a cohesive group, a successful group, even a happy group. But on the inside, we were weak, broken, and exclusive. Though we were successful as players on the field, we failed as teammates and supporters of each other. Increased intensity, comparison, and jealousy stole our collectiveness and joy. Playing more out of fear of the disapproval of others than pure love of the game, we suffered silently. And no one...
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...Another Form of Narrative Mise-en-scène is everything that is shown on camera. However, mise-en- scène is more than just the staging of scenes. The important functions of mise-en- scène are shown in the film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), directed by Juan José Campanella. Without a good mise-en- scène, it would be more difficult for the film to narrate the story and highlight the theme; this is because mise-en- scène plays an important role in the development of narrative, upgrading of dramatic effects, and the presentation of theme. By unfolding the contents of narration, the setting, one of the components of mise-en- scène, helps the viewers’ understanding of the narrative. The old-school objects and items, such as the characters’ costumes, the vehicles, and the black-and-white photos, in The Secret in Their Eyes, told the audience that the story was taking place in an earlier time. According to David Bordwell, a famous film theorist, and his wife Kristin Thompson, the combination of setting and costumes would “reinforce narrative and thematic patterns”. One of the important settings in the movie was the soccer stadium, where Benjamin and Pablo captured Gomez. The size of the crowd and the stadium allowed Campanella to show the viewers how challenging it was to spot and capture Gomez. In addition, the loudness of the noise at the stadium was effective for intensifying the dramatic effect during the chase scene, or in this case, the climax. Lighting is also crucial...
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...context of the film when it is analysed through its cinematic coding. Ana’s Playground, 2009 is a short film about a group of young children playing a game of soccer on the streets in a war-torn country. When their ball is kicked over a fence, Ana is faced to risk her life in a challenge to retrieve the soccer ball whilst a sniper is shooting at her. Violence is the main thematic value within Ana’s Playground as it is present throughout the whole film.The film gives us an insight of how children live and experience the violence that occurs within war-torn countries. The four children seen within this film is Ana, what appears to be her little sister, and two other boys. When Ana is chosen through the use of coin flipping, to retrieve the ball from over the fence, the audience would expect one of the boys to replace this life risking duty as this is a gender expectation from the audience. This shows that the female gender is represented as being obedient but also very vulnerable. From the very moment Ana is chosen to retrieve the ball, is a representation of her innocence and naivety being lost. The Cabin in the Woods, 2011 is a recent Hollywood comedy horror film about five friends that go on a holiday to a remote cabin in the woods and unknowingly are being observed and become victims for a ritual. The narrative codes within these films make the stories easily comprehensible to the audience. The title Ana’s Playground suggests to the audience that this...
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...Haris Rehan Ms. Zeldon ENG 4UV-06 July 07, 2016 Active Reading Journal – Chart Cues: Credibility of the NarratorLines (Quotes) | Reflections / Reactions | Conclusion: Do these lines enhance or detract from the credibility of the narrative voice. | “Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team. It vanished quickly and quietly.” (p.1) | * The narrator is explaining how his novel had failed * Metaphor used was well thought out * Sounds like he is very disheartened and frustrated | Detracts: 1. His book was a failure, this in it self degrades his credibility 2. His negative outlook on the situation will also impact himEnhances: 1. His use of the metaphor enhances his creditably, shows his skills | “I had visions of myself sitting at a table on a large veranda, my notes spread out in front of me next to a steaming cup of tea…” (p.1) | * Using his current setting and his inferential skills, successfully creating a detailed description of his ideal workplace | Enhances: 1. This skill shows that he has the skills of a pro author to create ideal settings based on his needs | “Unfortunately, the novel sputtered, coughed and died.” (p.1) | * He seems to again struggle with his novel * Unable to grasp the design of his novel | Detracts: 1. His continued failure detracts from his credibility | “But it all adds up to nothing…...
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