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Three criterions for the term football are, dangerous sport, a fun sport, and finally, soccer. First an example for the first criterion is getting tackled. For example when you have the ball there is always that chance that you will get dog piled. There is also always a chance you will get injured. Next, another example for the second criterion is having adrenaline run through your blood. For example when you have the ball you try to avoid getting tackled so your in the moment of…

Chase Cummings ET Essay Thoreau and Emerson, a group of transcendentalist who brought great ideals with them, through a time of struggle in the mid 1800’s. The NFL, or National Football League, where stars can shine doing what they love for millions of fans. Just as Emerson and Thoreau present their ideas in Civil Disobedience, the players in the NFL still emulate their ideas, maybe not all of the ideals, but they all feel they consist of a “majority of one.” A first example of an NFL player…

Being grateful is not just learned as a child, being grateful can be learned at any age. My family has taught me to be grateful throughout my life, and I continue to learn it every day. They teach me to be grateful three ways, first going around the table at thanksgiving and saying what you are grateful for, second my grandpa teaching me to be patriotic, and third my parents making me work for what I want. The first way my family has taught me to be thankful is, on my dad’s side of the family,…

Alex Tizon born in the the Philippines immigrated to the United States with his family at a young age of four. Tizon faced many different changes like the things he did for fun, the way he looked and how he acted growing up in the United States as a child. Tizon later took these extreme ideals, which changed his view of the world and wrote “Land of Giants”, which uses emotion and stories about that time period in order to show how his family had to go through many different changes in order to…

We Kneel to Stand Rosa Parks once said, “you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” One of the most controversial topics in America today is Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling during the national anthem. Colin Kaepernick was a quarterback in the National Football League. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is now thirty years old. In college, he attended the University of Nevada, where he set numerous records. In 2011, the San Francisco 49ers drafted him, and he led the…

Colin Kaepernick came back into national attention in the preseason of the 2016 season for the first time since he helped the San Francisco 49ers go to the SuperBowl in 2012 by kneeling during the United States National Anthem to protest racial inequality, police brutality, and then Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s views on minorities especially African Americas and Latinos. The first two weeks of the preseason he went unnoticed while sitting on the bench during the Anthem. Week 3 of the…

Reasons Civil Disobedience Should Be Justified I’m sure you’ve watched the news and heard of the many things that occurred around the world during 2017. A mass majority of people decided that it was their year to take a stand for what they believed in by protesting against their government. An example of civil disobedience was the march in London by Muslims protesting against ISIS in October. The protesting muslims were not happy with the rules and regulations that ISIS was setting forth to them…

Protesting is one of our rights, but is it right to do it how the NFL players have been doing it? I believe that everyone should stand for the pledge as everyone who fought for our country. They do have the right to protest but taking a knee during the National Anthem is very disrespectful. Taking a knee during the anthem is very rude. Many soldiers who fought for our freedom and their lives stand for it but why can’t NFL players. Tom Goldman has recently stated that “The anthem issue, with…

In an act of protest, some American citizens have chosen to kneel during the national anthem. The media has been consumed by this controversy. NFL players on the biggest platform, national television, have chosen to partake in the protests. No American should protest the flag and the national anthem because, the anthem and flag are the one thing that all Americans share, it sets a bad example for youth, and it disrespects our troops and veterans. By protesting the flag and anthem, Americans…

Responsibilities to America “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” - Eleanor Roosevelt. I feel Eleanor Roosevelt's’ quote really ties together the point of having responsibility. The moment in our lives when we take responsibility is the moment when we can mold our future. We argue with ourselves everyday about our obligations and we will until we die but ultimately…