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Sports is a big aspect of high school life, especially the sport of football. The films The Blind Side, Remember the Titans, and Friday Night Lights, all revolve around the sport of football and how it manages to change the lives of the athletes. Among these films, the main themes I will focus on will be on the impact of being in a team and the influence an authority figure has on the athletes’ lives. I will begin with examining the theme of being a part of a sports team and how much growth it…

This paper will attempt to further support the claim made by Tim Cook that rum was more than a drink, but a “medicine” for Canadian soldiers during the Great War. However, he asserts that prohibition was viewed as “patriotic” for those back in Canada. The dichotomous perspectives of rum and its necessity during the war is prevalent in the pieces by Cook and Thompson, as well as the primary documents consisting of letters sent home from soldiers that address and make mention of rum. The paper…

Ryan Coogler was also concerned with creating a multidimensional character when he crafted Fruitvale Station. The film tells the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a young unarmed black man who was murdered by police on New Years in 2009 at a BART station in Oakland, California. The event struck Coogler hard. He was still in college when it happened, and the shooting took place in the community he grew up in. Much like the rest of the directors, Coogler’s personal relations to the material is…

In chapter three, “Black Faces in High Places”, Taylor discusses the rise of Black political power and its consequences for the Black poor and working class. Johnson’s War on Poverty and Great Society programs, between 1965 and 1972, created many job opportunities for Black workers. African Americans became wealthy enough to “live in spacious homes, buy luxury goods, travel abroad on vacation, spoil their children- to live, in other words, just like well-to-do white folks” (81). The emergence of…

It was the playoffs and we were playing the lions at mills football field.It was me number 22, Luke number 19, Cam number 8, and Brady number 7 playing as the captains and the leaders.If we won we kept playing and went to the semifinals against the bandits. It was the day. The day that we were going to play the rivals in football the lions. The Lions are a team that we have never beaten and we all believed that this was going to be the first time we would beat them.…

Plymouth and Jamestown being one of the first colonies in America through out there way on their search for a better life many things were going on there way to their destination. As it said in the book, “Such actions have ever since the world's beginning been subject to such accidents, and everything of worth is found full of difficulties” Such as early both being englishmen and english families who traveled to be able to have a better life and a better way of living. But those to english…

How many people in the classroom have ever thrown a Football before? And if you have, do you think most of your throws consisted of perfect spirals, or tangled messes? Today, I would like to show you how to properly throw a Football. Now, you might be thinking to yourself right now, “Why would I ever need to know how to do this?” You might have friends or relatives presently, or future siblings that are, or will be, enthusiastic about Football, but they don’t know how to throw. I’ve been around…

Classification Essay There are three types of running backs that are in the NFL currently, in the past, and in the future. These running backs are known as: the power running back, the balanced running back, and the speed running back. They all have different traits that classify them into these categories: the power running back bully’s his way through the defense, the speed running back is known for his elusiveness and running past players, the balanced running back pulls together both these…

Football Field It started with a boy 15 years old named Jamarcus. He is a medium sized boy with short black hair. He is a very athletic boy, and his favorite game in the whole world was football. He had just moved to a new school in Texas. He was really excited because he knew they had a really good football program. His biggest worry about going to a new school was making friends. He wasn’t the most sociable person. He had trouble making friends in his last school. When he did start to make a…

At first, It was my team and I just sitting in our little locker room. We were banging on the lockers as hard our hands could handle. Then the music started playing. “BOOM! HERE COMES THE BOOM, I DON’T REALLY WANT IT NOW.” Then, we sprinted out of the locker rooms at full speed. The team was so intimidated by our appearance. We were screaming and yelling chants to get our team and the crowd fired up. Then, it was kickoff time. My buddy Shawn got the ball on kickoff and ran it back to the 50…