The parents decision to move from Houston to Tangerine made Paul Fisher more of an outsider. They moved there because his father had just accepted a position as county engineer and where his older brother, Erik, a talented placekicker, can pursue options for scholarships in a state fanatic about football, Paul does not easily fit in.This decision was mostly one sided as they overlooked Paul’s future as a soccer player and focused on his brother's football “Dream”. When Paul was in Houston he was the starting goalkeeper and the star on his school soccer team and had enough potential to become a very good soccer player but…
Isaac Ibarra is a senior at Chino Hills High School. Isaac has participated in many programs at CHHS. Isaac played two sports through his high school career. He played for the varsity football team as the kicker his junior year, and he also played soccer. When he played football, he earned his varsity letter and was a part of what many people think is the best football team who has ever been through Chino Hills High. That year the team was 5-0 league champions, and made it to the semifinals of the CIF playoffs. After his lone season as a football player Isaac decided to start playing soccer again. He had played soccer before high school since he was four, but he decided to take a break and focus on his studies during his first two years of…
Carli Lloyd, professional soccer player of the United States Women’s Soccer Team (USWNT), talks about her ups and downs of her journey to the top of women’s soccer. She starts with when she was little and how she started out playing on the local teams, then growing up to playing on club teams and her high school team. After graduating high school she went on to college a Rutgers and playing soccer their. She also played on the U-21 US team but was kicked off because her coach thought she was ready. Heartbroken by that she was ready to quit till her dad told her to call a James Galanis, head soccer trainer at Universal Soccer Academy. After calling him and deciding that she would train with him she got back on the U-23 US team and made her way…
There she was twice named the girls' High School Player of the Year by the Philadelphia Inquirer. As a high school athlete, she was known for her exceptional ball control and skill at distributing the ball from the midfield. During her senior year, she scored 26 goals and served eight assists She played on numerous club teams before her high school career. Through playing club soccer, Carli developed skills that would help her succeed in what she hoped would. She was named to the Star-Ledger All-State First Team twice. She was named the Courier-Post Player of the Year and the South Jersey Soccer Coaches Association Midfielder of the Year. After graduating high school, she moved to Rutgers University. There becoming the university's all-time leading scorer and the first player in school history to earn first-team all-conference honors for four consecutive years. Being the first athlete to do so at Rutgers, she was named First-Team All-Big East for four straight years. She ended her collegiate career as the school's all-time leader in points (117), goals (50), and shots. During her high school years, she started being rewarded for her hard work. She also played for the Medford Strikers club team as a teenager and helped them win back-to-back state cups. The Medford strikers team is very highly reputable club team when she played in still is to this day. When carli was on the Medford…
The first film of the Indiana Jones quadrilogy, created by Spielberg and Lucas, the greatest filmmakers of their generation. A timeless piece of the very best entertainment. This is a typical Hero’s Journey and an excellent starting point for screen story study.…
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The book, “Watership Down,” written by English Author Richard Adams, tells an unusual story about a group of talking rabbits in a warner. One of these strange talking rabbits has a vision of the warner be destroyed by something. He apparently has a rabbit brother and they both go talk to the chief rabbit about evacuating from the warner. Their efforts are shortened and fail as the chief is unwilling to listen. The two unusual talking rabbits decide to set out on their own with a small band of rabbits to search for a new home. They travel through dangerous territories until finding a new place to settle. Even though the story line is a little strange the book in all was meaningful and there are many lessons to be learned. The first lesson is to trust and believe in others. The second lesson is that anyone can be a leader. The third lesson is that there is good in all bad. Here let me explain some more.…
The soccer goalkeeper is one of the most forgotten and unappreciated positions in the sport. The majority of people are afraid to play it or watch their kids play it; the few who do decide it is their spot, are marked off and placed in the goal. With youth players, it is usually the one or two kids that do not completely hate goal that end up being put there. This lack of interest and focus on the position is why creating an opportunity that solely focuses on the goalkeeper is needed among youth soccer clubs. These opportunities will give many young players a chance to get a full grasp on their feelings for the position, may it be love or hate. Clinics also provide an easy way…
Since only about twenty girls wanted to play, everyone who tried out made the team. One of the girls who joined the team that year was Laudan Hatami. “I heard about the formation of the team during a school assembly,” says Hatami. She said, the coach had made an announcement that if anyone was interested in joining the first Tahlequah Middle School soccer team to stay after the assembly and sign up. She admitted she had never played for a soccer team before, but she was interested because she had always bonded with her father when kicking a soccer ball around. Hatami has now been playing soccer for Tahlequah Public Schools for six years now, and says being a part of the Tahlequah High School team has changed many things in her life. She has “learned about different muscle groups how to strengthen and stretch them, also how important your health and staying active can be.” She said being in soccer has helped her selflessness, sportsmanship, confidence, and…
Now? Now when I run into Chris Petruelli, I tell him he’s the guy who helped save my career” (Lloyd and Coffey ix). She used the coaches that cut her from teams and didn’t believe in her as motivation for her to improve her skills. Carli Lloyd’s soccer career wasn’t perfect; she went through ups and downs, but always remembered the feeling when she first kicked a soccer…
The TV show Lost is a story about a group of people who survive a plane crash and end up on a mysterious island. Beyond the premise of the show there are deeper themes that run through out the show. While the first season may have been primarily about the survivors realizing that help isn’t exactly on the way and that they must band together to survive. From the very beginning we begin to see conflicts arise when matters of trust are involved. As the survivors begin to know one another better the skeletons in the closet for everyone are eventually revealed. Examples include when Jack Sheppard, the de facto leader of the group of survivors, found a mug shot of one of the other passengers who was being escorted by a US marshal. Kate was wanted for the murder of her father. Sayid Jarrah, another survivor, was previously a torturer for the Iraqi Republican Guard. James “Sawyer Ford” was a conman who conned couples out of their money; he also left behind a daughter whom he refused to accept in to his life. Needless to say this caused a major point of contention in the aftermath of the crash as many erroneously thought he had something to do with it. Not all of the passengers’ past is as dark though. John Locke was paralyzed from the waist down before the crash on the island. Mr. Eko was a reformed Nigerian gangster turned priest after an accident killed his brother. One thing all these characters have in common is their general path once they get on the island and how these characters’ development portrays the larger theme of redemption.…
Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 1981 and was one of many great films with the acting role for Harrison Ford. This thrillingly comical adventure film where Dr. Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford (aka Han Solo) is a professor of archaeology and expert in ancient artifacts. He is hired by the American Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, Germans located the site of the ark of the covenant, thinking it to contain a vast amount of destructive power which Hitler wants to use to pursue his goal of global conquest. After receiving the help from Marion Ravenwood (played by Karen Allen), an old girlfriend in Nepal, Indiana Jones heads to Cairo where the digging is taking place.…
This literary analysis will evaluate “The Kite Runner”, directed by Marc Foster and based on the novel “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini. The movie contains many universal themes however the symbolism and significance of the pomegranate tree often represents and supports the nature of Hassan and Amir’s friendship as the story progresses.…
Traveling to another country, and being situated in some dangerous situations opens ones eyes and helps ones gain experience. In the book Forbidden City by William Bell, Alexander jackson is a seventeen year old boy that travels with his father Ted who is a camera man that works for CBC news. In this novel Alexander Jackson goes from innocence to experience. He developes as a caring, responsible human being and grows up through his experience in China. Alex before his journey to China is a typical teenager. Therefore he gets some experiences that change his point of view during the journey. After his journey he returns to Canada ;however, he is not a typical teenager anymore.…
Some Americans remember where they came from; others don’t. That’s the case in Daniel Chacon’s story “The Biggest City in the World”. It is a story about Harvey Gomez who is a Mexican American young man whose grandparents migrated to the Unites States from Mexico. Harvey has only been to Mexico once in his entire life and neither of his parents has ever been there before. Therefore he doesn’t know anything about his native culture or language. In this story Harvey travels deep inside of Mexico for the first time with his Mexican history Professor David P. Rogstart and gets exposed to its culture and language. On the contrary, Carolina Hospital’s poem “Finding Home” is about Mexicans who were born in Mexico and later migrated to America.…