Jonathan Swift

“A friend knows your stories your best friends have lived them with you.” So this journey begins during the winter break of 2012 in Pleasanton California. No one knew each other besides 3 people I have played baseball with before of my previous team Matthew,Diego,and Ricky. We started the practice and us 4 got split up into 4 groups. In my group, I had 2 younger boys by 1-year difference and I have no problem with that and one of their dads were the coach so everything was alright.a week later…

Feeling like an Outsider The 3 day basketball tryouts have begun and I see that few of my friends have showed up. The few that did were thinking about quitting. “For the love of the game,” I tell them, “keep going until the end.” But every day I see more and more dropping like flies. Many of them don’t want to feel the soreness and sweat dripping down your back. Others just felt like they sucked at basketball and weren’t good enough. As the results come in I am faced with a challenge. I find…

In Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ video “Science versus Religion,” Rabbi Sacks talks to three different atheist scientists who are working on the frontline of scientific breakthrough. He talks to them to see if science and religion can agree on certain topics or if they will forever be in conflict. (add more) Neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield was the first person Rabbi Sacks conversed with. She is a professor at Oxford, currently researching the human conscience and (attempting) to…

The motif of the sled is quite significant, not only in this sequence but throughout the course of the film. ‘Rosebud’ is Mr. Kane’s last word on his deathbed and the film’s plot is based around uncovering the meaning of this peculiar word. The mystery is finally put to rest at the end of the film when Kane’s childhood sled inscribed with the word ‘Rosebud’ is thrown into a furnace. In the ‘Thatcher taking young Charles’ scene, the sled acts as a visual metaphor of Kane’s childhood. He is seen…

I believe that hard work pays off, almost every time. Last winter, I joined my local select basketball team, Ballard select. I didn’t have to try out, the coach just saw me play and asked me to join the team. After a few months of playing with Ballard, I became very committed and grew very close to my teammates. Finally spring came, and so did try outs. My coach Taylor, and the founder of Ballard Select, Sara, had told us only eight of the twelve girls on the team were going to make the team…

What would you like people to know about you that they cannot learn simply by reviewing your high school transcripts and/or resume? Arms bleeding, legs bruised, and heart beating a million times per minute. My eyes were in excruciating pain as sweat drizzled down my forehead. It was ninety three degrees outside and the humidity was at its highest peak. A whistle blows in the distance and everyone took off in a dead sprint down the field towards the fence and back to where we all began…

Hubner in The Last Chance in Texas explains the process of resocialization in the Texas State Commission at Giddings State school for both the girls and the boys. In the book, the reader can clearly see that the process for the girls is different than the guys because the guys try to put up an act and the girls they come from their emotions. The book is structured to the boys in part one and all their process and then part two is the girls and their process and the differences between them and…

In the spring of my sophomore year I decided to rejoin the track team. After the first week, I noticed a new coach was on the far side of the football field working with a few kids teaching them to pole vault, so I went over and started to learn the basics of vaulting. A few practices went by, and my coach thought it was time for the beginners to start vaulting with a bar. My first attempt was an utter disaster; my back hit the bar and I fell straight down onto it, where it left a pretty…

Jonathan Larson, the composer of Rent and Tick, Tick....Boom! Both were musicals released in the early 2000s. The music in these musicals were not entirely an orchestra more of classic rock, which I believed made both movies even better and brought out the storyline even more. Jonathan Larson was born to a Jewish family on February 4, 1960 in White Plains, New York, USA. At a young age he was exposed to performing arts being music and theater. He was very involved in his high school arts…

In the story, Panyee Soccer Club these boys got made fun of and lost a big tournament, but pushed through and are now in a pro league. The Panyee Soccer Club short teaches me to never give up. The Panyee Soccer Club shows this through the beginning where the villager makes fun of them but they follow through with their idea and build a pitch. Another part of the Panyee Soccer Club video is in the middle, they were losing in the tournament and thought it was over, but they kept on fighting and…