Lacrosse

A person's perspective of life is and can be affected by multiple factors. These can be experiences and life situations, the values, attitudes, and habits one has developed. Views coming from experiences with influential works and novels can have a considerable impact on one’s life. Nothing will ever come close to surpassing the knowledge and advice I have gained from Tim Tebow’s Through My Eyes and how I have a better understanding of my view of the world. The autobiography focuses on his…

While on the ice, hockey players can take a hit when they least expect it. They can be blind sided from behind or tripped with a stick at any given time. In the case of Paige Decker, the reckless behavior of another player can change not only the course of the game, but the course of a player 's life. Paige was a successful hockey player on the Yale women’s hockey team. She was in the prime of her game, and a member of the ECAC All-Academic team. She was preparing to graduate from a prestigious…

College is very important and plays a major role for anyone that attends. It is where they learn life lessons, and find out who they really are as a person. Very few people are fortunate enough to be able to go to college, much less being able to continue to play sports. College can be very expensive for some people but some can also use their talent from the sport to get scholarships. Which brings up the reason of why college athletes should be paid. Most of the athletes aren 't able to receive…

“Summer Reading Essay: Prompt 1“ In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, a teenage girl, Melinda, is starting out her freshmen year in high school but unlike everyone else, she has no friends at the beginning of the school. Melinda does not have any friends at the beginning because Melinda called the cops at the back to school year party and everyone was busted. Melinda is deemed the outcast at school. No one asks Melinda what happened at the back to school party and Melinda is terrorized at school…

It was Ellie’s and Lexi’s senior year at Birkwood High School. Both girls have been best friends since they were in third grade. As they grew up, both had different relationships, both played different sports, and both participated in different clubs, but that didn’t stop them from hanging out all the time. Lexie was always jealous at the fact that Ellie was more popular in everything she did. Ellie is a straight A student, who has a 4.5 GPA, she is a starter on the soccer team, starter on the…

One of the core competencies of human nature is the common desire to be extraordinary. The desire to be extraordinary drives most people towards their goals in life. This feeling is common throughout humans because everyone wants to be better than they actually are. It is natural for human beings not to settle for what they have and to crave for something more. The unlikeliest of human-beings to be truly satisfied with their lives stems from ambivalence toward complacency, competitive nature…

The Curse of Afterdark After Dark the old building off Lilly and Joy was set to make its reopening on that rainy night of November 2nd 2015. At 10 p.m. sharp which is when the club opened the line was already horribly long, stretching all the way to Splitz Gymnastics. Towards the front of the line was a young man named Tilly Brainor. This was the only High School Club in town and Tilly could not have been more excited. He was smart, well-mannered, and dressed very nicely, but he always seemed to…

He begins his article by addressing the type of net necessary to prevent death, “Not hoop nets, soccer nets, or lacrosse nets. Not New Jersey Nets or dot-nets or clarinets. Mosquito nets” (Reilly). Reilly lists the typical nets that come to mind as a reader of Sports Illustrated. He then draws a stark contrast to mosquito nets. This type of introduction causes the…

Hockey was also becoming popular. This was a significant event because hockey is still played/popular today. All of the sports or games being played were significant because they shaped how our society plays/follows sports. Hockey, curling, and lacrosse were really big in Canada. But most people focused on Hockey. Hockey games had huge audiences and over 1.4 million people played it (bookrags.com). A famous athlete at the time was Babe Ruth. Throughout the decade he hit the most home runs…

Throughout my life I was given the chance to be a leader many times. Whether it be from lacrosse, church activities, school clubs and AFJROTC at my school. Before going into leadership myself I thought that a leader had to be a really strong and courageous person. Although those characteristics are true, many other factors go into it as well. This past summer I was chosen to be a small group leader for a mission trip to Yucatan, Mexico with my church youth group. As a small group leader I had…