A Man for All Seasons

carry life-altering physical and mental burdens with them for the duration of their lives because of playing football. With these risks in mind, it can be a challenge to maintain love for sport as harmful and hazardous as football; yet, I have seen all the good that this game can provide. Football can provide purpose and structure to those who need it most in their lives. The right team can set young athletes on a path of personal and emotional success. Finally, as you will see in my own story,…

110 Freeway and seven miles west on the 105 Freeway in L.A. you’ll reach the Los Angeles International Airport; the OKC Thunder will have something to say about who walks away as the Western Conference Championship this season. Kobe Bryant erupted for 31 points (matching his season-high), five assists and three rebounds in Denver, his 427th career 30-point game, helped the Lakers overcome a 21 point first half deficit (the lead was cut to 13 by…

In Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, he describes how natures changes. He shows this through symbolism, imagery, and allusion. In his poem he supports a message that all beautiful things eventually fade. Frost has a tone in his poem that as time goes on it brings a certain type of grief. Frost’s poem uses nature symbolically that nothing good that happens will last. He describes how children are born with this type of innocence by saying “Nature’s first green is gold”,…

it wasn’t for one man, his name was James Naismith. James was born on November 6, 1861 in Ontario, Canada. He was born to the parents of John and Margaret Naismith. When James was only nine years old both of his parents had died, leaving James an orphan. This was a very rough time in James’ life. After becoming an orphan, he was raised by his very strict grandmother for a little bit, and then his bachelor uncle. While growing up James enjoyed hunting, the outdoors, and most of all, he loved…

Walter White exhibits these characteristics in trying to accomplish his glory. Virtù manifests itself in season 1 episode 1 as Walt discovers that he has Lung Cancer. The discovery that he has lung cancer despite not ever smoking in his entire life and that his family would not be able to survive financially became a worry for him so making sure that his family…

today's NBA.Also he finished his basketball career with the Laker. He played power forward and he went to college at North Carolina. Also he won three NBA championships, also made the all rookie team in 1977. In college he ACC player of the year in 1976 ,which was the year he also went to the draft. He…

happy points. But the person who shares these feelings or for whom they have feelings for is gonna pick them up and keep them going through all of the hard times. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and e.e cummings, author of Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town convey similar themes of love. Both selections reveal that sometimes love can trump all things but not always, through the use of diction, imagery, and symbolism. In The Great Gatsby there is a lot of symbolism that deals with…

famous because he was the first African American baseball player in the mlb. Jackie Robinson some will argue had the biggest break through of all-time in sports. Many did not like Jackie coming into the league he had fans scream hurtful things , pitchers throw at his head, and even had a player step on his had when he slid into first base. But through all of the hate Jackie never gave up. Jack Roosevelt was born on January 31 1919 in Cairo Georiga. Jackie robinson was a major league second…

the year 2016 and understand what the culture and society was like by watching a television show that aired in that year. For this assignment, I decided to evaluate the television show, New Girl. In the year 2016, the comedy series was in its fifth season on the television network, FOX. The show is about an eccentric young woman, Jess who after a bad break-up has to move into a loft with three single men she’s never met. The first roommate is Nick, who is a law-school dropout that prefers to be…

Carolina, Puerto Rico is home to a man named Roberto Clemente, who lived there for eighteen years. After high school, he said goodbye to this town and moved on to the United States. In the US Roberto Clemente signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who gave him a 10,000 dollar signing bonus, which was very high. After some technicalities, the Dodgers lost Roberto Clemente to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished in last place the previous season. Roberto Clemente was a very successful player. Roberto…