...years old, stepping on to the lacrosse field for the first, my white Nike cleats strung tight, and my light blue stick gripped firmly in my hands. I had little knowledge of how the game worked except I felt like I belonged on the large field of dried grass. I belonged in between the two orange poles of the goalie net. I had such a homey feeling since I am kinesthetic learner. I learn best when I am moving my body. Therefore, the drills would come naturally to me just by trying them out. For the first few years I played lacrosse I considered it to be only an after school activity at which I accelerated. It was not until my sophomore year in high school, when I began to struggle in math that I realized lacrosse means so much to me....
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...Two things didn't mix well in my life. One was being a full time student and the other an athlete. It was great not having parents around telling you to do your homework or to go to class, of which I never did. I had a choice, which was more important, playing lacrosse or studying. Like any first year college student I picked lacrosse. At that point I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Who at that age would know either? My worst nightmare came true in the summer of 1989. I was academically dismissed from the university. I thought to myself "no way, this could never happen to me, I played lacrosse, had a girlfriend, and I was popular, how could this have happened". The worst part of the whole experience was the car ride home from the post office. The feeling of emptiness overwhelmed me, I felt as if I had nothing inside my body. I thought, "what am I going to do?" Then I had to face my parents, boy was I scared. What was I going to tell them? Sorry mom and dad but I wasted your money; I had no excuses so I told them the truth. What happened after that changed my life forever. It was either the military or go to a community college and try to redeem myself. I wanted to do neither, but I had to choose. The military was off my list and going to a community college sounded o.k. So I registered and the rest of that summer I had to deal with the fact that I had not accomplished anything in the past...
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...Historical Film Prompt: Miracle The film Miracle is about the U.S men’s ice hockey team winning the 1980 gold metal for the Winter Olympics, led by head coach Herb Brooks. Miracle was fairly accurate with its historic content during the course of the movie. The director Gavin O’Connor did a good job tying in historical and political background that brought the film together, which made it unique to other sport films. In the beginning of the film there was a sequence highlighting the historical events that lead up to the 1980 Winter Olympics. Miracle specifically opened up with the historical footage against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Our country endured the time where it was divided because of the support of the Vietnam War. To make things worst, the 1970’s was also a hard time for the United States. The United States had to deal President Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal during the year of 1974. A scene in the movie showed a headline saying “5 were arrested in connection to GOP.” Later stating that President Richard Nixon had resigned from office, making him the first president to step down. And the following years lead up to another problem known as the hostage crisis in Iran during 1979 to the 80’s. The film also accurately portrayed the oil crises in the film multiple times. The oil crisis was mentioned early on in the film and in the middle when the coaches were at a gas station filling up their bus. At the gas station there was a sign that announced that the gas station...
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...Scott, I know you have a lot on your plate with play offs. Let me start by saying I am not trying to stir up crap and feel that the head coach has made a good impact on game play, leading to a great season. My concern is with other part of being a coach (and what we have had problems with that lead to other staff being removed) that someone needs to mentor him on, which is the part of being a role model, mentor and leading young men to become good student athletes and citizens. Just a couple items… I know I sent you a text about it, but just to provide more fidelity. Originally, Trevor was going to try and meet coach Wolkoff on Saturday prior to practice, but practice was cancelled. So Trevor sent coach a text Friday about meeting with...
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...High school is a very important time in teenager's lives. They have many things going on and important decisions to make. I know this because I'm a teenager. To start an hour later would be great, but at the same time would cause too many problems. That is why I believe high school shouldn't start an hour later. However, starting school at our normal time is harming students. According to sleep experts, "[t]ypical sleep cycles begin around 11 PM for teenagers and continue through 8 AM "(Start School Later, Inc). This means that students only get around six or seven hours of sleep per school night and wakes students up in the middle of deep sleep. In contrast, parents oppose teens to start later. Mary Carskadon, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior stated, "parents are often reluctant to have teens start later, because they rely on having older children at home in the afternoons to take care of their younger siblings "(Richmond). This is because many...
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...I grew up in a small close knit farm town, know as Marcellus, New York. There is really nothing too special about it, it was a one horse town with the closest supermarket being 15 minutes away. Did I mention that my backyard was a corn field? Well, it was and being from a small town I definitely learned a lot through my education and community involvement. I lived in Marcellus my whole life and attended school there from kindergarten through my senior year. The school was small, everyone knew everybody, and you basically stayed friends with the same people from kindergarten. All the way through school I struggled academically, mathematics and science just wasn’t my thing. I tried to get involved in reading and writing but I found that I really wasn’t good at those either. I had math support, AIS writing, AIS social studies, tutors, and almost every other possible service in the book that I could have without being given an IEP or 504 plan. I used to think to myself how am I going to make it in college and be a good teacher if I am struggling just to make it in high school. What I found was that it wasn’t that I didn’t know the material, I lacked the confidence in myself to know that not everything had to be perfect. Growing up I went through a lot, I wasn’t mature enough to realize and understand what was going on until I was in high school, and by that time it was just a matter of hiding it because I didn’t want people to know what was going on and the cards that I had been...
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...Southern. FUTURE PLANS: 1. Intended major? How sure are you about this choice? What lead you to this choice? I’m a Nursing major, I thought it would be a good choice to help people and get a high paying job. 2. What plans do you have for after graduating college (definite or tentative)? Tentative, I am very unsure what I want to do after college. 3. What is your intended career? How sure are you about this choice? What lead you to this choice? A full time nursing career is what I’m striving for. Although I am very unsure about this choice. PERSONAL ABILITIES, ACHIEVEMENTS & DISTINCTIVE QUALITIES: 1. What are you really good at? My strong suit is history, it comes much more easily to me. What comes easily or naturally to you? Sports especially football and lacrosse. 2. What is your greatest accomplishment or achievement? Getting awarded 2 sports awards at my senior awards night. 3. What three words do you think best describe you? Loyal, Hardworking, and friendly 4. What would your best friends say is your most likeable quality? Reliable...
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...Although I am unaware of the schools I want to apply to, I know I definitely want to go to a bigger university no closer than three hours. My ideal colleges are closer to the south, where it is a lot warmer ( just so you know a general location ) Have you selected a college major? Why are you interested in this field? What profession do you anticipate pursuing? Although I am aware that knowing my major would help a lot in the letter, but unfortunately I have no clue. I think that if I really can not choose something I will fall back on a business major but for now I am undecided. Another Option I have been exploring is psychology and behavioral sciences. This field intrigues me because there is still so much humans do not know about animals and our own mind’s and deviant behaviors. I genuinely know that this is something I would love to do, and providing articles and research to further the facts we know about living beings. The only thing I worry about is there is limited jobs for this major, and once I leave college I want to be able to start my career right away and not have to wait a few months or even years for a job in that field. What are 5...
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...Name: Institution: Date: Title: Organ Donation – the life saver. Topic: Most of the times people face challenges with their body organs and yet most of us die with our organs which can be used to save a life. Purpose statement: to persuade the Red Cross club members in becoming organ donors and to act upon their decision to donate. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention Getter: What is the feeling of having to wait long for something that you really need? How do you feel when it’s something you can’t do without? Many years back, one of my best friends in primary school was diagnosed with a kidney failure. He was around seven years when the wait for a new kidney began. Two years later, he had been called thrice informing him that there was still no match for him. Fortunately for him, a young adult involved in a bad accident agreed to donate his organs after death. His kidney was the match that my friend needed. Similarly, most people would want to be able to say that they have saved a life? What other selfless way than becoming an organ donor? B. Tie to the audience: You never know whether one of the people on the waiting list would be you or somebody you know. C. Thesis statement: There is a growing need for organ donors and it is becoming a donor after death is a lifesaving decision. D. Thesis and Preview: I’d like to talk to you about the need for organ donors, how to become one after death and how it benefits both your family and the organ recipients. However, there...
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...English See No Evil In the chapter “See No Evil” in the book The Flight of the Iguana the author, David Quammen makes an important statement when he says, “ I do not trust any animal with more than six legs and two eyes”(Quammen 40). I find this statement to be so important because here we have David Quammen an author with a true love for nature and he struggles with his personal bias against animals. It is in this facet of the chapter in which I am able to connect my personal struggle with a bias. When walking into my first day of high school I was extremely nervous, not knowing exactly what to expect I didn’t go into the situation with an open mind. As I sat down for my first math class a foreign boy entered the room gazing for a seat. I remember vividly, for some reason not wanting the boy to sit next to me so I stared down at the desk, refusing to look up. Starring down at the desk I heard as the foot steps became louder and louder. Finally looking up I watched the foreign looking student sit down directly next to. After an awkward 15 minutes of no conversation the student turned to me and introduced him self saying his name was Egzon and that he was from Albania. Class after class we would have small conversations and I would do my best to seem uninterested. It was not only until our fifth class together till I realized how ignorant I was being. As I thought more about my situation going into high school, I soon observed that Egzon was the only kid that had made an effort...
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...yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs offered by the NCAA had diminished to 234 in 2005.” Schools should stop making excuses for dropping the sport and making reasons on why to add. This is exactly what the University of Utah should be doing. The University should be trying to find reasons to reintroduce the sport that all athletics were built on, wrestling. There used to be multiple Universities that had wrestling...
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...Michael Zalvin Prof. Jennifer Crane QU101 9/13/10 Creating An Identity In Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama he talks about his life experiences and how it formed him as a human being. The story also shows his interpretation of what a solid community should consist of, as well as how individuals should interact with each other within the community. Through out his life he was discovering who he was by new meeting people and trying new things. An individual’s identity is formed through life experiences and cannot be sustained because it is ever changing. A community is a group of people that are brought together by friends, family, neighbors, and people with common interests. Communities are important because it gives people a sense of belonging and being wanted. And in Dreams From My Father, those were the needs and values that Barack was searching for. Communities are sustained through shared values, trust, loyalty, and a sense of safety. In a community people have moral responsibilities to other people and the community as a whole. Communities have moral responsibilities to their individual members because they need to keep their community together. Sometimes you get put into situations where you want to look out for yourself rather than the big picture with the community. You have to be able to put others in front of you sometimes so that you can avoid these types of conflicts. My favorite excerpt from the text came when his father was insulted by...
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...Hockey has become a more expensive sport to play over the last years, and families can barely afford to keep their children in hockey anymore. People wonder why this is but there is a logical reason behind it. New technologies to improve the equipment have been invented, inflation on other things such as utilities, gas, food and salaries is the main reason for this problem. It has come to the point that families discourage their children to play ice hockey in favor of other, cheaper, sports. To buy new skates, a family is looking to invest between $500.00-$950.00 dollars, depending on the quality. Other popular sports that competes with hockey for practitioners have an massive advantage by being so much cheaper. This is a massive problem, and it has led to talented youngsters having to quit the sport they love because of their family’s financial situation. By doing research and comparing different options there might be a solution to...
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...analogy of an elephant and a rider, which symbolizes the emotional and rational sides, respectively, to all individuals and groups. As this framework is presented in this paper, I will relate the books lessons to the theories that I learned in class and to my own personal experiences to give a strong analysis of its teachings. Before digging into this view on change, I am going to define what the elephant and the rider actually is and how they affect each other in the road to change. This analogy is important to visualize because the image of a small rider and a large elephant really symbolizes how hard it is for the rational side of individuals to direct and motivate their emotional side. A few examples of the elephant overtaking the rider are when people procrastinate getting tasks done or overeating when they are trying to lose weight. These examples highlight the weaknesses of the elephant—the emphasis it places on quick payoff versus long term payoff. This is the reason why changes often fail because the rider cannot keep the elephant on the road long enough to reach its destination. When attempting to lead change both the rider and the elephant have to be reached and influenced because if you reach the riders, but not the elephant’s team members will have understanding without motivation. If it’s reversed there will be passion without direction. The elephant-rider...
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...First Year Writing Dr. Holt 11/13/2011 Second Draft Afternoon Hours Studies have shown the after school hours from three o’clock to six o’clock to be the time that teenagers partake in experimentation with drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and sex. In a controlled adult supervised environment like an after school program, teenagers are most likely to succeed in school and destroy the risk of getting influenced by bad things National support is needed to create these great after school work environments not only to help the at-risk teenagers, but also children who need academic improvement or some other sort of extracurricular activities. After school programs can help students improve their social skills, self-confidence, school attitude, and academic achievement (“Afterschool”). An after school program can be anything from a sport to a place where they can meet with other people to get work done or simply have fun. It simply needs to be something that occupies their afternoon in a positive manner. The problem is that many children in the United States are left to themselves since there are few programs available to them. Certain areas of the country, especially cities with high crime rates such as New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and many other, lack right support for children’s education in the three to six o’clock time zone. These areas happen to be some of the roughest in the country because of crime related issues, but more importantly there are not enough aftercare...
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