Before the Game

Ralph Ellison was a man with a love of individuality. He was a man of vision and a radical thinker. His novel, Invisible Man, rattled the confining prison bars of racism and prejudice. Through his narrator, the Invisible Man, Ellison guides the reader on a path of tribulations. His labyrinthine story shows readers the untold truths of racism, and the blindness caused by the corrupt power structure of society. The cryptic journey of the invisible man leads the readers, to a ubiquitous message…

While it adds a new voice to the discussion about African American indiscernibility in America since 1945. Ralph Ellison wrote an inspirational novel that dealt with the full range of black experience. "Invisible Man" is important in the literature world for its inspired style. His invisibility is not literally a physical condition, but is rather the result of others refusing to acknowledge him. The story is of a man in New York City who, after his experiences growing up and living as a model…

The Comeback I have won so many times before in my life, but bad will always come before the good. For instance, look at a rainbow. The nasty, disgusting storm comes before the majestic, beautiful rainbow. Like I stated, failure comes before success and well…. Let me begin. We were a solid team and had a decent record. Although we believed we were pretty good, we had to play the number one team in the league. My team knew it’d be difficult, and that it was. It was very muddy, making the ball…

Today is the big game, as I’m sitting in class thinking how important this game is to the whole school. Even though I was not going to play because I’m the backup goalkeeper I was still excited to be part of the team. This is my senior year and I hoped to have memorable moments. “Let’s all support the boys and girls soccer team in today’s game versus Leuzinger at 7 o clock. Go Cougars!” The principle, Mr. Newell seem extremely excited over the announcements for tonight’s game against our…

winning states, I became driven to do it again. Going into my senior year, I expected our season to go the way it always had; we make it into playoffs seeded high in our conference. After our first few games, I realized that it was not going to be a season like the seasons before. We were losing games, we didn’t know how to work together, and we were getting frustrated with each other…

wanted to host our second annual powder puff football game. First we had to find a cause to hold the game in honor of. We figured Cystic Fibrosis was the perfect disease to try to inform our community about in a fun and interesting way. We have a student in our school district with this deadly disease and wanted to help her spread awareness. Our first decision to make was where to host this event. We knew from the previous year that hosting the game on our own high school football field…

A few simple words can change a person’s life forever. “You can’t play basketball for six months.” These were the words that changed mine. As far back as my memory reaches, I’ve played the game of basketball. A game introduced to me by my dad, and played throughout my family for ages. Playing basketball was truly something I was passionate about. Nothing could have prepared me for the pain I endured both physically and mentally. The summer basketball season was rolling to an end, but one more…

At the end of the school day Bobby and I were heading home to play Xbox live together. “Let’s play that new game that you just got Jazzy.” Bobby exclaimed. I had just gotten a new game called Survival. “Hey Bobby” I said, “Want to meet me at the barnyard on level two?” “Sure” Bobby called back right before he got into his mom's car. When I got home I grabbed my everyday snack a gogurt and some leftover mac and cheese and then I turned on my Xbox live and then everything went black. After a…

played the Richmond Giants we were winning but I was mad because of what had happened the night before. That game I had 7 tackles because I was aggravated at the dilemma from the night before. My mind was all over the place it was hard to stay focus at the task at hand. The most important moment of my life is when I got 7 tackles in one game this important to me because I was passionate about the game because I had a motive, a plan, and the power of prayer. Get busy living or get busy…

hockey has had on me cannot be described simply as activity on a college application nor in the statement that I am only a hockey player. Hockey has sculpted me into the developing human being I am today. Throughout the 13 years I have played this game it has been full of highs and lows. The highs being when things are going your way but what truly defines you is the ability rebound when you are at your lowest point. My lowest point of my hockey career happened during minor hockey while trying…